Following the news that one of SNL’s worst hosts bought their way into Twitter, I joined the Fosstodon instance of Mastodon last week. If you’re not familiar with Mastodon, think Twitter but user-hosted and each instance can be connected together, and users…

Search results are not helpful Searching for things on the web has steadily gotten worse12. Sites with so-called “content strategies” fill the results. And each article is a poorly researched pile of garbage, haphazardly copied from more legitimate sites.…

Since I switched to Fastmail, I’ve been making plus addresses for every site I sign up for (email+sitename@example.com) but it’s so tedious, and if I forget the exact address1 I could get locked out.
This almost became a problem with a Twitter account - I…

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Busy month! I (re)joined Mastodon, pumped out some relatively large blog posts, completed and launched two client sites, and have been juggling some challenging coursework on top of that.
Updates 🐱 Cats
Serena, pictured above in the middle, has a ringworm…

Chris Wiegman writes,
Back in 2017 I couldn’t get away from Apple products fast enough. My 2016 MacBook Pro was, to put it mildly, garbage. My iPhone 7 was, OK, but that’s about the best I could say about it. Across the board Apple’s products could be best…

I’m looking to make my bookmarks more useful, rather than sending them to die in the “Other bookmarks” folder. In this post, I outline what I like and don’t like about using Raindrop, and what I’m looking for in a bookmarking tool.
Raindrop is good, but it’s…

I’ve been playing with the new Orion browser by Kagi and wanted to jot down some thoughts. Overall I’m impressed with Orion, and would love to use it as my default browser on Mac and iPhone. It’s still in development though and isn’t quite there yet for me.…

Chris Wiegman writes,
Back in 2017 I couldn’t get away from Apple products fast enough. My 2016 MacBook Pro was, to put it mildly, garbage. My iPhone 7 was, OK, but that’s about the best I could say about it. Across the board Apple’s products could be best…

Joost de Valk writes,
There’s no more denying it: if you look at W3Techs CMS market share numbers, WordPress’ market share is shrinking, losing 0.4% market share since February.
This is a sensationalist article based on faulty stats and anecdotes, though…

Coding Fonts Following CSS Tricks’s acquisition by Digital Ocean, it seems some projects on their domain have had their DNS entries removed, including their handy Coding Fonts comparison site.
Fortunately, the site’s source is on GitHub, and I forked it under…

I bought my 2021 MacBook Pro 14" in April, and it’s been a reliable and hassle-free machine. It did develop one issue within 3 weeks – the left fan became noisy.
It sounded like a loose bearing, and I feared for the worse, but I couldn’t wait for service…

I haven’t been paying enough attention to Framer, it seems. They just released a video showing their new CMS feature:
I didn’t realize what Framer has become. I initially thought it was just an alternative to Figma, Sketch, and Adobe XD, but they are becoming…