Mastodawn

Simon Jones 1d ago

Matt Stein 1d ago

Just for fun!
https://mattstein.com/thoughts/hand-drawn-favicons/

Hand-Drawn Favicons

I love drawing these dumb little things.

Matt Stein

Simon Jones 2d ago

Hidde 2d ago

Today I talked at Web You Want about five essential ingredients of a web in service of us, the people!

Such a web is
- sustainable,
- ethical,
- accessible,
- fun, and, most importantly,
- ours.

🖼️ Slides: https://talks.hiddedevries.nl/YjWPWr/five-essential-ingredients-for-a-web-that-serves-us-all

Five essential ingredients for a web that serves us all by Hidde de Vries

Simon Jones 2d ago

RE: https://front-end.social/@hdv/116421322111428599

I love this! I agree everyone needs easier ways to publish on the web. Tools like WordPress are ubiquitous, but complex for most folk.

What are the simplest tools for people to publish to the web? Or do we need new tools?

And how can hosting companies help make hosting this easier, lowing the barrier to those that don’t know how to self host?

Simon Jones 4d ago

Hidde 4d ago

🔗 “I want your unfiltered and half-baked ideas, not Claude’s synthesized extrusions.”— @davatron5000 https://daverupert.com/2026/04/claude-no/

I don’t want a screenshot of your Claude conversation

The personal blog of Dave Rupert, web developer and podcaster from Austin, TX.

daverupert.com

Simon Jones 5d ago

Interesting article about online search engine to allow Germans to find out if their ancestors were members of the Nazi party. But why in this modern age does the BBC still not link to the website? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr411ndee7yo

The Die Zeit website appears to be https://www.zeit.de/wissen/2026-04/nsdap-mitgliederkartei-karteikarten-familienmitglieder-suche

Nazi search engine shows if ancestors were in Hitler's party

Christian Rainer told the BBC he found his grandfather within seconds using the online tool, which also helped clear other members of his family.

BBC News

Simon Jones 6d ago

Jens Oliver Meiert Apr 9

A Simple Model to Address Work Performance Issues:

Too often, we see leaders inadvertently and unnecessarily worsen perceived performance gaps, only to then struggle in turning the situation around. On a basic approach to understand and change what’s going on.

https://meiert.com/blog/performance-model/

#management #career

A Simple Model to Address Work Performance Issues · Jens Oliver Meiert

Simon Jones Apr 10

Just watched The Assembly with Nicola Sturgeon and @stephenfry. A joyful, intelligent programme, well worth a watch. Some great questions & the performance of I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free at the end of Stephen’s episode was beautiful. #itv

Simon Jones Apr 6

Watching the livestream on BBC as the Artemis 2 astronauts become the furthest people from Earth. Incredible :)

Simon Jones Apr 2

Gareth 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Apr 1

Ok, today’s xkcd is glorious!

[edit] I should probably mention you need to visit the site for the full effect, it’s more than just a comic today!

https://xkcd.com/3227/

Creation

xkcd

Simon Jones Mar 26

Tim Bray Mar 26

Here's where you go to tell GitHub that it can’t train CoPilot on your code & interactions: https://github.com/settings/copilot/features

Just sayin’

#GenAI

Build software better, together

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