I have been away from HTML/CSS for a few years and I am a little sad scoped didn’t gain traction. It seemed like a really simple and elegant way to limit CSS to a specific part of the DOM without having go blown web components. Maybe it was just a pain to implement?

Nightly Time Machine Redux

Given the Time Machine question on @atpfm, I thought now might be a good time to promote Nightly Time Machine. Nightly Time Machine limits Time Machine backups to once per night and prevents backup disks from auto-mounting otherwise. It allows me to connect and disconnect my MacBook throughout the day without worrying about the disk or the state Time Machine. The backup disk also remains silent during the day because it’s unmounted.

https://github.com/JackWellborn/Nightly-Time-Machine

My ranking of Twitter-like social networks right now

My ranking of Twitter-like social networks right now:

  1. Mastodon – Chronological, open, support for third party apps like Ivory, and I don’t see the negative parts for whatever reasons.
  2. Bluesky – Chronological-ish, mostly good vibes, but somewhat clique-y and a little quiet at times.
  3. Threads – Non-chronological mess full of posts by people and companies I don’t follow, but, hey, everyone is there.

Union strikes are absolutely class warfare, because war only happens when both sides put up a fight. When only one side unilaterally use its power to unfairly dominate another, it’s called exploitation.

Being a show about running an online RPG, Mythic Quest naturally has a minor plot about dealing with nazis. The solution was to simply isolate the nazis all to one server without them knowing. I kind of feel like that’s what effectively happening to Twitter right now.

I am on Threads at @_jackwellborn (yes, I was late to the instagram party), but here’s my feelings on the whole thing for the record…

Mr Burns in a series of poor disguises