Nick Thomas

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South Mainland. Techy sort, works from home.

Wow! Fantastic artical!

https://dev.to/quii/the-web-i-want-43o

Push back against people who think they need SPAs and heavy JS frameworks. "If I told the builder of my home to make it out of straw, I would hope she would convince me otherwise."

The Web I Want

The web is supposed to be accessible to all but flavour of the month techniques and over-complication is ruining everything

Speaking of technological aesthetics, there’s one in particular that has been and needs to continue coming back...

TRANSPARENCY.

Oh look, someone who follows 40K others just followed me

...blocked

I just thought I'd come up with a great blockchain scam.

Turns out it's an actual thing that already exists.

Probably still a scam, but not *my* scam, damnit!

@yuri56 Nazis are bad and I do not want to give them a platform for recruiting.

I've seen lots of toots about how the mastodon timeline is chronological

BUT

Boosts cause things to float back up to the top, even if I've already seen them.

I've read it once, I don't need to read it again.

Sorry to Bother You: is this the most shocking anti-capitalist film ever?

Would you run a workforce of slaves if the price was right? Would you give up your freedom for a job, food and a bed for life? Welcome to the chilling, absurdist world of Sorry to Bother You

‘Feels like censorship’: Facebook removes pro-Palestinian Occupy London page

A Facebook page containing pro-Palestinian posts has been taken down by the social media giant. The latest in a string of pages removed by Facebook, it has renewed claims of “censorship” against the company.

Heading south tomorrow, ready to go to a work conference in cape town, 23rd-29th August.

We're essentially being locked in the hotel, because OMG AFRICA DANGEROUS or something, but do poke me if you fancy a real-life meetup of some kind.