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Standard.site provides shared AT Protocol lexicons. Atproto is just spicy JSON and asymmetric cryptography. I’ve tried to explain atproto in more detail before. Bluesky has always supported a few open graph meta tags which I use to generate images for blog posts. […]
I am back! Ten days “offline”. For me that just means online without talking to anyone. My break came at a time of high industry (and personal) stress. “Seeing talented people lose motivation bums me the hell out. Reach out and say thanks - Kevin Powell”Thank you to those who reached out whilst I […]
It’s Google I/O week and this year’s theme is performative slop. Budding Googlers battle it out on stage vying for executive eyeballs. The prize? Exemption from the next culling. As you might know AI isn’t my cup of tea and my AI policy explains why. […]
How do you stay sharp as a web developer and/or designer? I’ll share my advice below. I’m also looking for front-end folk to advise me too. What are your whetstones? That is to say: sources of news and knowledge to level up professionally. Does that metaphor work? […]
The web and tech industry is a veritable sausage party. We don’t need surveys to prove it but we have surveys to prove it. State of surveys have been running for a decade now. Let’s look at the 2025 survey demographics: Yes I think “sausage party” is accurate. Weißwurstfest even. […]
Giving lightbulbs a MAC address was a mistake that I’m living with. “I’m literally unscrewing lightbulbs to renew their DHCP lease @dbushell.com - Bluesky”Instead of enjoying the bank holiday Monday I updated my homelab software. I was ‘inspired’ by the Copy Fail Linux bug to run full distro […]
TL;DR: GitHub used to be cool and now it’s a lame slop graveyard. GitHub is racing towards the mythical zero nines of uptime. Users are starting to notice that GitHub is now a Microsoft product. Eww! Official uptime paints a concerning chart. The missing status page tell a far worse story. […]