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If any of your communities use Slack, especially the “free” version, once in a while Slack seems to temporarily upgrade your “Slack team” to their “PRO” version (for 30 days).In the Slack mobile app, you may see a dismissible banner like:“PRO: Your team is

Today’s #WASSUP tip: Turn on DNS over HTTPS (DoH) in your Firefox Preferences.

Happy #8bitday!

Today’s #WASSUP tip: a search shortcut for saving pages in the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.Yes this is a lot like yesterday’s tip, except for archiving a page, rather than looking it up.

Today’s #WASSUP tip: a search shortcut for looking up pages in the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.Ever click on a link for an article or photo and it’s not found (404), or redirects to a home page, or otherwise is not what you expect?

The #Blaugust 2026 blogging challenge had a nice set of awards this year based on reaching a certain number of posts published:* 1* — Newbie Blogger.

How to add MapQuest with a search shortcut to your Firefox:1. open Firefox Preferences ("Firefox" menu, "Preferences" item)2. select "🔍 Search" from the left column3. click the [ + Add search engine ] button4. enter "MapQuest" into the Search engine name…

If you find a wiki page seemingly from a MediaWiki, but without a "View History" link, here’s a tip for how to find it.Example: the old HTML Working Group (WG) wiki at W3C* https://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/Main_PageNote the warning at the top: “This wiki h…

Welcome to September!

There are many paths onto the #indieweb.

What does it take to be on or be part of the #indieweb?

Due to recent reports about “AI”/LLM/“agent” tools and services, I have growing concerns that the #security properties of the open web are changing, or have already changed, in practice, to a degree that we haven’t seen in many years.This past week’s arti…

The #indieweb is about making your own words translate to actions, especially actions like writing, editing, and publishing your words (or photos or other media) on your personal site.

TIL: “security by antiquity” from https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260821-why-older-tech-is-sometimes-safer-from-hackersPresumably a reference to (or a subset of) "security through obscurity".Best rationalization for old-tech-hoarding I have seen in a…

Why are there two pentagons in the otherwise hex-tiled American continents displayed in TRON: Legacy’s Rectifier Globe computer graphics?

Lessons learned from the problem solving of “fixing” a recent “broken record”.

Discussed Venn diagrams with a couple of friends this morning, especially in the context of illustrating the utility of including all 3 or 4 of a specific set of design principles when creating certain kinds of things, and learned about the difference bet…

Parasocial grief.

Latest strange “AI” (LLM) behavior in the #indieweb community: the same entity that showed up a few days ago (for a second time) joined the IndieWeb Slack (a bridge to our IRC) yesterday, introduced itself again, and seemingly engaged in human-like chat b…