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Who I am, what I'm up to: https://dan.knauss.ca/

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Hinman, Redux | Folger Shakespeare Library Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...

How to do diffs with printed books: www.folger.edu/blogs/collat...

The Hinman Collator: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinman_...

07.03.2026 02:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for promoting Sudo! It will be great to get some user feedback and see if it changes how people think about WordPress security plugins.

25.02.2026 14:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Illich is outstanding. His type of « counterfoil research » projects are needed again.

21.02.2026 17:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A Website To End All Websites | Henry From Online How to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

I talk often about breaking out of walled gardens, that you don't have to be on corporate-web in order to be on the web.

This is a fantastic article about the problem and how to (pretty easily) fight it. Well worth reading.

Also, @strange.website is a rad human being.

henry.codes/writing/a-we...

17.02.2026 17:49 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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This Week in WordPress #366

This episode of TWiW covers the latest in WordPress, with a strong focus on AI advancements, new products, and features expected in WordPress 7. The discussion includes updates on community events, challenges with in-person meetups post-pan
wpbuilds.com/2026/02/17/t...

17.02.2026 07:25 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social) Today in InfoSec Job Security News: I was looking into an obvious ../.. vulnerability introduced into a major web framework today, and it was committed by username Claude on GitHub. Vibe coded, basic...

this is fine

https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116080909947754833

> So I started looking through Claude commits on GitHub, there’s over 2m of them and it’s about 5% of all open source code this month.

> I saw the same class of vulns being introduced over, and over, again - several a minute.

16.02.2026 15:28 πŸ‘ 80 πŸ” 32 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1

Their "more efficient" process than having writers write:

β€’Β AI identifies possible stories
β€’ Reporters do further reporting and produce notes
β€’ Another person uses AI to generate a story from the notes, then rewrites/"tweaks"
β€’ Another person fact-checks/edits
β€’ Reporter reviews

16.02.2026 15:48 πŸ‘ 688 πŸ” 174 πŸ’¬ 31 πŸ“Œ 11

Always fun and informative! We got killed at Wordly by @michellefrechette.bsky.social too. I think she got more points than all of us combined.

16.02.2026 15:51 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Long-awaited from @stewartbrand.bsky.social πŸ› οΈ

16.02.2026 00:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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International Womens Day 2026

We're looking for 15 women in tech from all over the world to interview live on International Women's Day in our livestream! Sign up on our site. Let me know if you have any questions.

www.underrepresentedintech.com/iwd26/

09.02.2026 18:01 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"Shadow work" is a great concept, not just from Jung but also Ivan Illich, who used it to refer to a major source of Big Tech's Jungian shadow: requiring more and more free labour from the consumer. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_...

31.01.2026 21:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Welcome to Tech Shadow Work Tech Shadow Work launches in 2026 as a biweekly newsletter. Each issue uses a recent moment in technology or tech policy to examine its shadow, asking what these decisions reveal about societal power ...

Subscribe to my new ~biweekly newsletter, Tech Shadow Work, where I will write about the unspoken "shadow" behind tech policy discourse: rebeccawilliams.info/welcome-to-t...

07.01.2026 14:13 πŸ‘ 42 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 3

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

25.01.2026 01:15 πŸ‘ 23336 πŸ” 11267 πŸ’¬ 440 πŸ“Œ 692

πŸ˜€ Yes! That was mainly Vahe Arabian's (SODP) work. He does a great job. I enjoy reviewing and editing every year to watch the whole thing take shape and see what trends are emerging.

22.01.2026 17:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Good! Which statement? πŸ˜€

19.01.2026 21:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

And the latest edition of the Web Almanac is out again! Always a pleasure to help out with the highly #WordPress -focused CMS chapter.

16.01.2026 20:02 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Where are the skeptics, agnostics, humanists, and atheists against the dehumanizing delusions of β€œthe singularity,”Accelerationism, and mystified computer β€œscience” converted into priestcraft? Running experiments on live human populations without consent and demanding zero regulation…

16.12.2025 00:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

All true. Nice to run into you here β€” I enjoyed your excellent vanilla JS newsletter some years back

06.12.2025 19:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is quite literally HER land. 🀬

27.11.2025 18:02 πŸ‘ 414 πŸ” 139 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 2

I had a blast giving these out at #WordCampCanada AKA #WCEH, so I'm getting another box for my Edmonton #wordpress meetup. πŸ˜€ You should do a collaboration with @scripting.com, "Why Me? XML-RPC"

28.11.2025 17:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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woman with shell necklace and a redirects belt accessory

it's happening!!!

from now until the end of the day on Friday, November 28th (if it’s Friday anywhere, the sale’s still on!), all my pdf zines are 50% off, and print zines are 30% off!

wizardzines.com

28.11.2025 12:14 πŸ‘ 90 πŸ” 47 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 3

Embrace texture.
Remove the polish.
Break the grid.
Create some patina.
Use our hands.
Be more honest.
Let people explore.
Leave the screen behind.
Vary the pace.
Embrace endings.
Reveal history.

29.10.2025 07:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Wabi Sabi Web - Branch Could the flawless digital world take inspiration from the Wabi Sabi philosophy to incorporate imperfection and impermanence into digital designs?

What if document design conventions shifted to accommodate some wabi-sabi principles? Nothing lasts, nothing is finished, nothing is perfect. δΎ˜γ³ε―‚γ³ branch.climateaction.tech/issues/issue...

29.10.2025 07:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Paratext (ISKO Encyclopedia of KO) This article presents Gerard Genette's concept of the paratext by defining the term and by describing its characteristics. The use of the concept in other disciplines than literary studies and for oth...

What if our definition of "documents" allowed for more layers of metadata? www.isko.org/cyclo/paratext

29.10.2025 07:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"Documents" have traditionally been collaborative, iterative, unfinished social texts β€” revised and overwritten, repurposed and re-presented, glossed and graffitied by many people over time.

29.10.2025 06:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The problem with these definitions is they idealize the mythical single author and exclude paratexts or treat them all as metadata at best.

29.10.2025 06:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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How Decentralized Social Platforms Grew from Identica to Modern-Day Mastodon Join Matthias Pfefferle and Evan Prodromou as they explore the evolution of decentralized social networks and the future of the Fediverse.

New in our Federated Flow series. Host @pfefferle.org chats with @evanprodromou.threads.net.ap.brid.gy

openchannels.fm/how-decentra...

07.10.2025 11:34 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A pie chart labeled "Active instances software distribution" with a breakdown of the number and total portion of fediverse servers running specified software:

- Ghost: 10,607 servers, 27.46%
- WordPress: 9,753 servers, 25.25%
- Mastodon: 9,348 servers, 24.2%
- PeerTube: 1,639 servers, 4.24%
- Misskey: 1,200 servers, 3.11%
- WriteFreely: 785 servers, 2.03%

A pie chart labeled "Active instances software distribution" with a breakdown of the number and total portion of fediverse servers running specified software: - Ghost: 10,607 servers, 27.46% - WordPress: 9,753 servers, 25.25% - Mastodon: 9,348 servers, 24.2% - PeerTube: 1,639 servers, 4.24% - Misskey: 1,200 servers, 3.11% - WriteFreely: 785 servers, 2.03%

Interesting. WordPress and Ghost now make up more than half of all fediverse servers.

https://fedi.wrm.sr

#fediverse

28.10.2025 19:12 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Working on my slides for WordCamp Canada next week.

I don't think I'll actually use the F-word in the slide. But I it makes me laugh when I see it.

It's funny because it's true. ;-)

12.10.2025 15:53 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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WordCamp Canada 2025 conferenceΒ talk Leadership in open source isn’t just about code. At WordCamp Canada 2025, I shared how project and product managers can help lead WordPress releases through coordination, communication, and glue work that keeps contributors aligned and shipping on time. Here’s a look back at the talk, key lessons from the room, and why Ottawa’s vibrant WordPress community made it one to remember, eh?

WordCamp Canada 2025 conferenceΒ talk

Leadership in open source isn’t just about code. At WordCamp Canada 2025, I shared how project and product managers can help lead WordPress releases through coordination, communication, and glue work that keeps contributors aligned and shipping on time. Here’s…

17.10.2025 04:08 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0