Mastodawn

Perfect example for why there's no way to build good software with venture capital - no matter how great the team and their intentions, the need for exponential growth means the product will eventually either be enshittified or shut down.

Tobias Bernard 1h ago

Pretty cool that the same people who told us 2 years ago that native apps are dead, let's do everything via the web are now telling us actually the web is dead too, let's do everything via an LLM

https://browsercompany.substack.com/p/letter-to-arc-members-2025

Letter to Arc members 2025

On Arc, its future, and the arrival of AI browsers — a moment to answer the largest questions you've asked us this past year.

Keeping Tabs by The Browser Company

Tobias Bernard 14h ago

Stephen Farrugia 1d ago

What a maddening reason to kill a product.

https://archive.is/V8lFd

Tobias Bernard 1d ago

Computer Facts Apr 23

there's another internet, buried under this internet, and it also sucks

Tobias Bernard 3d ago

Thanks for joining this weekend for #BoilingTheOcean, it was so much fun!

There was too much going on for me to have an overview/be able to recap, but some of my highlights:

- More Aardvark testing 🐼
- More GNOME OS/TPM debugging, feat. @pid_eins and @swick
- MNT Pocket Reform GNOME integration with @liaizon

Thanks @davedarko and @ljrk for hosting us @xHain_hackspace ✨

Tobias Bernard 3d ago

Simple Sabotage Field Manual May 19

Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done.

Tobias Bernard 3d ago

Simple Sabotage Field Manual May 22

Fill out forms illegibly so that they will have to be done over; make mistakes or omit requested information in forms.

Tobias Bernard 4d ago

Today is day two of #BoilingTheOcean 5! Yesterday we were at @101lab in Kreuzberg, hacking on (among other things):

- Tested Aardvark and fixed some p2panda bugs
- Tested GNOME OS on real hardware
- Played with systemd TPM tooling
- Designed a network inspector dev tool for p2panda apps
- Experiments towards a new/modernized Waydroid
- pmbootstrap cleanup
- And more!

Today we're at X-Hain in Friedrichshain! Join us: https://pad.gnome.org/enwydsh2RO2Dv4oOXBz4CQ

#gnome #berlin #p2panda

Tobias Bernard May 21

Jakub Steiner ⭐May 21

First blog post of 2025. Embarrassing.

https://blog.jimmac.eu/2025/plain-html/

Ode to HTML | Jakub Steiner

Random musings of a semi-sane designer from lesser Europe.

Ode to HTML | Jakub Steiner

Tobias Bernard May 20

Powersource May 18

Mastodon unironically needs more algorithms. A friend who posts once a week, impossible to catch it. A friend who mostly replies to people, also too hard to catch. An area where the tech development clearly drags behind bluesky.