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Web developer, science nerd, gamer, possibly three potatoes in a trenchcoat. Web dev/UX designer on Neurocracy: a sci-fi hypertext murder mystery.
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ambientimpact.comhttps://ambientimpact.com
Neurocracy: a sci-fi hypertext murder mysteryhttps://neurocracy.site

Firefox is adding a feature you'll actually want to use: Split View. It lets you see two websites side-by-side in a single tab.

It's still a WIP, but if you run Firefox 146 you can try it out.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/enable-firefox-split-view-feature?v1

#Firefox #Mozilla #OpenSource

Firefox is Adding Split View for Tabs, Here's How to Enable It

Firefox's new Split View lets you browse two tabs side-by-side in one window. Enable this experimental feature in Firefox 146 now - here's how.

OMG! Ubuntu

Hey #comics and #graphicnovels nerds, are you looking for Christmas gifts? A friend is selling a bunch of stuff on eBay: https://www.ebay.com/usr/lareinamab

#comic #buffythevampireslayer

Hey #Drupal community, anyone interested in hiring me? I created this fake wiki using Drupal, doing everything from back-end programming to UX design. Imagine what I can do for your projects.

https://ambientimpact.com/portfolio

This SPA sure seems fast. I bet it's some decoupled thing serving JSON to a front-end.

Just kidding: this is a 100% server rendered HTML #Drupal site with #js navigation layered on top along with some clever async precaching as you scroll and click around.

Project: https://www.drupal.org/project/refreshless

Live demo: https://omnipedia.app

P.S. Impressed with what you see? I'm currently unemployed so feel free to contact me if you want to hire me.

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.

In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.

In 2005 I started medical transition. For the state to recognise this I had to submit to standards of "care" which were humiliating, degrading and which placed me at risk of violence.

But I did it "by the book"

As I did it "by the book", the NHS agreed to reregister me as female, which makes sense because my anatomy now is.

In 2007 I had sex reassignment surgery. This had to be signed off by two mental health professionals, "by the book", and it was.

In 2008 I applied for gender recognition. This involved signing a statutory obligation, stating that I promised, BY LAW, to live fully as female for the rest of my life. As this was done, "by the book", the government promised that it would treat me as such.

Its first act as treating me as female was to annul our marriage because it was a same sex marriage and those were not allowed.

The state then reissued my birth certificate, correcting the "mistake" it had originally made when it recorded me as male, "by the book".

In 2009 Sylvia and I married for the second time, in a same sex civil partnership, which was done "by the book", because the state regarded me as female and I was bound by law to be female.

In 2013 we married again, because the state decided that same sex marriage was in fact allowed after all. This was done, "by the book". Despite having been married for 12 years, we had to submit ourselves to individual questioning to prove our relationship was genuine, "by the book".

In April of 2025 the state turned round and told me that I had been mistaken. That it never regarded me as female. That I was male the whole time. That the marriage it annulled because it was a same sex marriage was never a same sex marriage (but it stays annulled). That the civil partnership in 2009 never really happened because "opposite sex" civil partnerships were not allowed in 2009.

And that the legal obligation I have to live as female for the rest of my life, which I signed and gave up my marriage for, is still in effect but also if I keep following it, I am breaking the law and subject to arrest. As it's still valid, presumably if I don't keep following it, I am also breaking the law and subject to arrest.

The law of the land simultaneously requires me to be both a man and a woman and if I do either then I am breaking the law and subject to arrest.

At every stage I did what the state asked me to, even though it was humiliating, degrading and cruel.

And it kept moving the goalposts, and reneging on the agreements it made, whilst continuing to hold me to them even when they are now mutually contradictory.

Apparently this is "all my fault" and I should have known that this would be the consequences of my actions when I started medical transition 2 decades ago.

Perhaps you can now appreciate why we are upset?

Readeck 0.20 is out!
It's a bigger release than expected but it brings a lot of improvements, especially on the content extraction front.

https://readeck.org/en/blog/202508-readeck-20/

Many thanks to all the contributors, with a special mention to @mislav for his involvement in improving (a lot) the content extraction process!

Readeck: Readeck 0.20

Readeck 0.20 is out, full of quality of life improvements.

Readeck
I’ve recently fallen into the rabbit hole of self-hosting solutions for things that I was previously using services for. This time around: a read-it-later app that also makes an archived backup of any web article you save. I’ve contributed a bunch to article parsing in the latest Readeck release and I hope you might find it useful too 📚
https://mastodon.online/@readeck/115116880686860596
Readeck (@[email protected])

Readeck 0.20 is out! It's a bigger release than expected but it brings a lot of improvements, especially on the content extraction front. https://readeck.org/en/blog/202508-readeck-20/ Many thanks to all the contributors, with a special mention to @[email protected] for his involvement in improving (a lot) the content extraction process!

Mastodon

Progressively enhancing #js navigation onto the public part of a #serverrendered #Drupal site is a neat trick, but what if I told you that the RefreshLess module totally works in the admin areas too? Here I am navigating around on the Gin theme, changing site settings and even installing and uninstalling a module.

https://www.drupal.org/project/refreshless

RefreshLess was chosen as the #Drupal module of the week on Talking Drupal 514!

https://talkingdrupal.com/514

Your #serverrendered #php can feel like an app with minimal theme changes, all without sacrificing crawlability or resiliency (if JS fails, etc.). It's currently implemented using Hotwire Turbo, but we'd like to port it to #htmx, fix remaining bugs, and make it even more robust.

Want to learn more or help out?

https://www.drupal.org/project/refreshless

Talking Drupal #514 - HTMX | Talking Drupal