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With such a reckless assault, we may need to change the tactics somewhat these days. But the strategy is the same as it’s always been. Keep building on the open web, and resist the technologies that aim to do it harm.
All we can do is prepare I think.
Oh look, another banger of a post by @Jayhoffmann
Prepping for the endgame.
I'm reading Ulysses, and take note of a few things as I go. Finding it very rich and rewarding so far, about a quarter of the way through.
Jay Hoffmann @Jayhoffmann on the origins of permalinks for blog posts. Decades later some sites with blog or news items still don't provide permalinks.
https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/did-you-want-that-link-to-be-permanent
Nearly started crying at how meaningful the first two sentences of this letter is.
“Every kid should grow up knowing they are loved.
Everything else is pretty close to a rounding error.”
https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-raise-children/
“In Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Roy Bland captures a cynical, post-ideological, corrupt English society: “You scratch my conscience; I’ll drive your Jag.” You could say the same of today’s Silicon Valley. It used to believe it could change the world. Now it just hopes the world won’t change its stock price.
Think Different? Not anymore.”
@sturobson may have solved the problem of refactoring legacy CSS. Though I have to be honest, the web history buff in me just wants to use this to do some genuine digital archaeology on some long-running codebases.
Look how cool this is.
https://www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/introducing-relicss-a-tool-for-front-end-archaeology
Anil Dash paints the parallel construction of the web happening right alongside the centralized and commoditized one. The open and free and accessible web that's always been there. Markdown helps tell that story.
https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/09/how-markdown-took-over-the-world/
a fresh pup of coffee 
Paolo Amoroso
