This post originally appeared on The Fulcrum.

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It’s your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Fediverse development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism.

There is a lot of coverage of the shitshow that is ShitHub this week. And that makes me so happy I moved to Codeberg several […]

A rant on the current state of 11ty and my blog

https://jacen.moe/rants/20260508-migrating-from-11ty/

#11ty #Eleventy #BuildAwesome #Astro #StaticSiteGenerator #SSG

The Build Awesome Kickstarter is back up, already hit its goal in less than a day.

I backed it, because I do want to see Leatherman and OSS projects as a whole succeed monetarily and be sustainable. I hope there is an audience for Build Awesome Pro despite my doubts.

That said, seeing one of the main features of Build Awesome be that "Cursor can refactor it, Claude can rewrite it, and your own scripts can manipulate it (safely)." and that "Build Awesome was designed for a world where your agentic assistant is a full contributor" is certainly frustrating and disappointing.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fontawesome/build-awesome-pro

#11ty #buildawesome #eleventy

Moving away from WordPress – important* info

When I started this blog in 2017, I picked WordPress almost at random, just so I could get started with something. And it has worked well enough.

But:

• it’s not cheap
• it’s a pain to make layout adjustments
• the post editor is clunky and sluggish
• WordPress.com sites are at least partially hosted in the US.

Because my blog is essentially a static website (comments section aside), I’ve decided to switch to a static site generator (Eleventy/Build Awesome) and a fully European web hosting provider (statichost.eu), which offers a free tier for small sites like mine.

How this might affect you

If you follow the blog, this will be the last post you’ll be notified about. After that, there will be:

• no more email updates
• no more WordPress notifications
• no more Mastodon cross-posting.

If you still want to hear from me

The transponderings blog is not dead, and I do plan to post from time to time (when my AuDHD brain allows!).

You will be able to:

• visit transponderings.blog as before
• follow/discuss/support the blog on Ko-fi
• follow the blog and get notifications using an RSS newsreader.

Thank you so much for supporting my blog. ☺️

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* important to me, probably not to you!