Nice update on RootBadger: group names now use an rb. prefix, like rb.comp.lang.python and rb.alt.politics.
Good move, honestly. It keeps the old-school newsgroup-style naming, but makes it clear these are RootBadger groups and not trying to claim or replace existing ones.
Small change, but it makes the whole thing cleaner.
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RootBadger is live in beta:
A modern, Usenet-inspired social platform with topic-based groups, threaded discussions, and no algorithmic feed.
Still early and in progress, but open for testing.
Ahoska Rewatch with Waffle: Ep 1
Episode 1 A blog is a space to waffle about things right? I used to do a lot of fannish waffling about things, on mailing lists and bulletin boards, picking over the fine detail of episodes, speculating, over analysing, enthusing about details. A lot of that happens on YouTube these days it looks like and it’s hard to navigate with stumbling into toxicity. And anyway I like writing better than talking, and I do not enjoy video editing. So the Ahoska live action series... (I actually kind […]https://www.leia.cymru/2026/06/07/ahoska-rewatch-with-waffle-ep-1/
3 Cons
So an Old Internet thing we used to do all the time was share stories from cons. I rather over did it on that front over the bank holiday weekend so have plenty to waffle about! MCM London This was a impulse unwise financial choice almost immediately after Liverpool Comicon only a few weeks earlier but my favouritest of favourite Star Wars characters, even more than my namesake, is Ahsoka... and how often are the American based voice actors over here and and and... So the short version is […]
Up to this day, I love how #Linux wins the #ERBOH between #SteveJobs and #BillGates.
Imagine kids: Once these shitvideos where made by people dressing up as lookalikes, actually acting out the whole thing, filming and recording everything which rarely goes in one take, and then editing it by hand.
And they where more funny than 95% of the AI shitvideos nowadays (I'll give you 5% because some áre really funny. A waste or resources, sure, but really funny).
Another one bites the dust. Looks like the original 1994 Netscape homepage is no more. This must have happened recently, the last Wayback capture of it was last week: https://web.archive.org/web/20260522144340/http://home.mcom.com/home/welcome.html
Other People’s Love Letters
The IndieWeb Carnival May 2026 theme of Love Letters gave me some interesting and happy reading. I started trying to work out what this Webmentions business was all about while writing this but failed. I've a plugin installed named that but couldn't quite unpick what dependencies it might have or whether it's working, before I became trapped in a circular loop of documentation, so we'll see I suppose! It was pleasantly old school clicking through list of themed posts by different […]https://www.leia.cymru/2026/05/26/other-peoples-love-letters/
People from my #coop don't appreciate my hand-crafted no-framwork, handwritten HTML+CSS+js. They say it looks unprofessional. They are 100% non-tech normies.
#webdev what do I do? They want to take an AI shortcut. It's not an option for me.
Is there a way to make something "look professional"? I don't even know what it means. I don't think they know either.
"Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke." -- "Bob"
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