Dan Betcher

@danbetcher
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Family Man, Cache Buster, Component Namer, Coffee Drinker. I tend to over-punctuate. Socially distant before it was cool.
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LocationThe Centre of Canada 🇨🇦
This new option (in iOS 26.1 beta 4) is dramatically better for everything and should be the default.
Everytime I listen to people talking about MCP and the agentic web, I can't help but think about this:

Today Mastodon is taking another step towards its founding ideals: independence and non-profit ownership. We're transferring ownership of key assets to a new, European not-for-profit entity, ensuring our mission remains true to a decentralised social web, not corporate control. #MastodonNonProfit

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/01/the-people-should-own-the-town-square/

The people should own the town square

It is more important than ever that the social web is not controlled by corporations. Today, Mastodon is taking another step towards its founding ideals: independence and non-profit ownership. We're transferring ownership of key assets to a new European not-for-profit entity, ensuring our mission remains true to a decentralised social web, not corporate control.

Mastodon Blog
Imagine it's 2024 and your bank is only just now thinking about 2FA... and they choose SMS as a delivery method 🤦‍♂️

🆕 Product update time!

We just released CrUX Dashboard: an easy way to check your Core Web Vitals based on Chrome User Experience Report, which collects data from real user sessions on your sites and apps. Now, you can:

→ check your Core Web Vitals assessment over time
→ track real user data with no tracking scripts to install ✨
→ get into RUM without feeling overwhelmed

#webperf #perfmatters

https://calibreapp.com/blog/crux-dashboard

Track real user Core Web Vitals data with CrUX Dashboard - Calibre

Learn how to check real user data from Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX) without the need to install a monitoring script.

Calibre - Site Speed Tools for Teams
“Wherever You Get Your Podcasts” Is a Radical Statement https://www.macstories.net/linked/wherever-you-get-your-podcasts-is-a-radical-statement/
“Wherever You Get Your Podcasts” Is a Radical Statement

I thoroughly enjoyed this story by Anil Dash on how the openness of podcasting (a topic I’ve covered before) has proven so resilient over the years and is, in fact, more relevant than ever in the era of federated social networks: But here’s the thing: being able to say, “wherever you get your podcasts” is

I've been in this industry long enough to see things constantly come & go. #React is no different - it'll be replaced by other frameworks soon & those will be hot for a bit. Then that one will be replaced & so on. Learn your basics! #HTML #CSS, *plain* #JS. Those are the *only* things that don't come & go & will take you through your entire career, regardless of what's cool right now. Will I still be coding #WordPress in 10 years? Who knows! But my knowledge of #PHP will carry me on.
@roo_44 just watched a trailer for this one - and it looks right up my alley. It’s on my list for sure! Thanks!

New York City is like Linux

* Spend the first year re-learning how to perform basic tasks
* Spend the rest of your lifetime claiming how much better it is
* Bad drivers

@MythingPerson interesting - I normally can’t get my head around animated shows for some reason, but you’ve piqued my curiosity with this one, so I might give it a shot - thanks!