“How about if we all start blogging and subscribing to each other’s Atom feeds again? The original distributed social network could still work pretty well if we actually start using it.”

Git scraping

Track changes over time by scraping to a Git repository.

Open source projects should run office hours

A fresh way to collect feedback for your projects.

One-liner for running queries against CSV files with SQLite

The default sqlite3 command line utility makes it possible.

The perfect commit

It goes with implementation, tests, documentation, and issue thread.

Mastodon is just blogs

An analogy may help to understand the decentralized social network better.

Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”

What if AI-powered web search is not ready for prime time?

ChatGPT can’t access the internet

“ChatGPT is really good at pretending it can access the internet, inventing entire articles.”