Every six to eight weeks, go through your notes. If there’s anything in there that you haven’t looked at in the last six to eight week, delete it. Why? If you haven’t used that information already, you probably aren’t going to. Ever. The information might be out of date or you might stumble across a newer or fresher source.
You don’t want to become a digital hoarder. Why? As you collect more and more information, it becomes harder to part with it. You find ways to convince yourself that you’ll need that information for some reason. You’ll find ways to convince yourself that you’ll use it sometime in the future.
You won’t. Period.
An argument against noting everything down even if it's "just" digital and won't take up physical space.
A list of data brokers (and related places) and how to request your data be deleted/removed from them. Updated regularly.
Here is my code for changing the wallpaper of your site at night-time (7pm-5am)
Nice collection of fonts you can use on your web projects-- including fandom-specific fonts!
One of the 'problems' of the smallweb is discovering new content. Algorithms on the big 4 social media are very good at serving up an uninterrupted stream of novelty. Without that, it can be hard to discover new things, or remember them. And as you tend to stumble across independent websites in unpredictable patterns, they can be very hard to rediscover if you suddenly need them.
The solution is to use your browser bookmarks!
Turn Off AI Features lets you control AI functionality in WordPress without touching code. It hooks into the wp_supports_ai filter at priority 1000 and returns false when the option is enabled.
Salvaged.nu is a place on the internet that recovers, repairs, and reuploads Photoshop resources from lost personal blogs from the mid-2000's.
Welcome to Sigil Séance Against Space Billionaires, a protection ritual against "New Space" colonizing overlords and an exploration of peer-to-peer online gathering.
Writing about early CD-ROMs means coming across a lot of early examples of things that became famous later. Sometimes that means finding new and exciting angles on something familiar... and sometimes it means something that's only notable for being early. Today's disc is one of those.
Sadly, there’s no easy way to find ethically manufactured and eco-friendly electronics. But there are things you can do to reduce any negative impact your purchases may have. Here are a few ideas we’ve compiled, with the help of Alex Crumbie, writer and researcher at Ethical Consumer, a UK magazine that ranks brands across various categories, from environmental reporting to workers’ rights.
Access Imgur images in the UK by proxying through imgup.uk's German server. No storage, pure relay.
Microsoft’s aggressive AI push in Windows 11 through 2025 brought upon themselves the title Microslop. Unfortunately for the company, it’s everywhere on social media, and there isn’t a way to stop the spread, unless, of course, it’s their own Discord server.
Windows Latest was first to notice that the word “Microslop” was actively filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server.
lmao
You don’t need Discord for plain text chat. IRC gets the job done just fine, costs less than a “server boost” to run, and puts you firmly in the driver’s seat (especially where privacy is concerned). And you also get to run a real server, not whatever it is that Discord considers a “server”, which is definitely not a server.
There are countless reasons to run an IRC server today, ranging from having a space for casual fun chat with friends to organizing communities or collaborating on massive projects. IRC is simple, lightweight, easy to use, and completely free and open technology.
Ready to take the leap? Let’s go!
Discourse is a super nice, extremely robust, highly capable platform that can support the needs of many types of communities. You can think of it as an incredibly flexible (and infinitely customizable) forum that ships with very nice chat capabilities. It’s a compelling option for communities that can no longer tolerate Discord’s privacy or safety issues, or for those who are just tired of seeing those goddamned Nitro advertisements all over the place.
The rabid adherents of AI – not those who feel compelled to use it for work, but the ones who won’t shut the fuck up about it – are too blinkered, greedy, or ignorant to see the writing on the wall. They do not love computers; maybe they never did.
The War on Cars is is a podcast that delivers news and commentary on the latest developments in the worldwide fight to undo a century’s worth of damage wrought by the automobile, approaching the topic from all angles, from politics to pop culture.
Email's unread count means something specific: these are messages from real people who wrote to you and are, in some cases, actively waiting for your response. The number isn't neutral information. It's a measure of social debt.
But when we applied that same visual language to RSS (the unread counts, the bold text for new items, the sense of a backlog accumulating) we imported the anxiety without the cause.
However, there are also widely-used hashtags which you may not be aware of as they use unusual portmanteau words or phrases. Here is an attempt to list some of them
A really helpful list because it's not always obvious how to find community-centered events/tags/etc. when you're just browsing on Mastodon
Generate GPX and KMZ files from your Google Maps saved places to import as bookmarks in CoMaps, or use anywhere you'd like. This tool generates everything locally in your browser and does not upload any data.
Little Webby Press is a tool to build books and websites from a manuscript folder. You write your book on your computer. There is no back-end service involved, the book generation happens locally. It is all done in your browser. At the end of it, you’ll have two zip files, one containing your book in EPUB3 non-DRM format and another with the HTML for a website.