"Personal curation is a powerful practice to build your own content streams. And instead of seeing posts, articles, newsletters, podcast episodes piling up in your backlogs as a burden, and feeling overwhelmed by it, embrace it, embrace the content, embrace your personal curation."
That's why I do Full-Time Curious
A React developer explains why he no longer recommends React for new projects. citing three major problems.
His recommendations at the end : Vue, Svelte, or Lit for SPAs, and Astro for content-heavy sites.
"The paradox of designing for the web is that the simplicity of building a website with basic tools means it can adapt to the changing technology around it."
“The web that many connected to years ago is not what new users will find today,” wrote Tim Berners-Lee, one of the inventors of the internet, on its 29th birthday. “What was once a rich selection of blogs and websites has been compressed under the powerful weight of a few dominant platforms. This concentration of power creates a new set of gatekeepers, allowing a handful of platforms to control which ideas and opinions are seen and shared.”
The inventor of the web on what the web has sadly become
"Le blogging c’était l’époque où on écrivait pour des humains, pas pour des algorithmes, où les discussions se faisaient en citant des liens et pas en crachant des réactions sous un post, et où les trolls devaient au moins se donner la peine d’héberger leur propre merde 🤘"
"When these people talk about the web they’re talking about the web they’re part of: they talk about the web that is powered by advertising and by tracking, the web that needs traffic to sustain itself. The commercial web is what they talk about."
A huge animation scene with many references to memes, games, films, series, anime, music groups
Chester has such a cool homepage. I love how all of his interests blend together in one page. That's kind of my goal with my website, blending my different interests into one place.
The personal site & portfolio of creative web developer Henry (from Online) is full of creative design elements. Definitely wander on his website
When code and sounds are used in a good way. The homepage of an award-winning artistic music and sound design studio by Iván Llopis
Check the efficiency of your ad blocker with Toolz. A simple website to correctly setup your ad blocker.
Fight enshittification by using RSS to consume online content. I have been doing this for a while and could not recommend it enough!
"L’addiction à cette constante nouveauté, couplée avec l’ubiquité d’une connexion mobile permanente, a rapidement fait disparaitre la moindre minute de vide, d’ennui, de rien. Depuis les toilettes à la récupération après un jogging dans le parc ou la file d’attente au supermarché, chaque minute qui était auparavant « intellectuellement gaspillée » peut désormais être remplie d’une quelconque nouveauté aléatoire. Ou, tout au moins, d’une quête de ce genre de nouveautés.
Malheureusement, les idées ne naissent que dans le terreau du rien, du vide, de l’ennui."
Throwing the whole world into a single room together doesn't work.
“Getting screamed at and insulted by people who disagree with you doesn’t take you out of your filter bubble — it makes you retreat back inside your bubble and reject the ideas of whoever is screaming at you.“ Noah Smith