A little piece of personal internet history. I found an old blog post from a friend in Dec 2009 about how bloggers are moving to Twitter.
> It seems that change is in the air at the moment, as a huge number of people are reassessing their relationships with their blogs this winter. [...] In some respects, a lively blog might be [...] a five year mission, at most. However, I also suspect that it is Twitter which is causing a lot of the reconsideration right now"
https://onlyagame.typepad.com/only_a_game/2009/12/man-bytes-blog-closes.html
Sometimes I find a non-peer-reviewed paper on Arxiv and I get dismayed that it wasn't a blog post. Like man, this thing could have been a cool blog post but instead you decided the rhetorical move of formatting it with LaTeX and uploading it to Arxiv was the way to get eyeballs on your idea. And maybe the authors are correct and it is, in fact, a better way to reach an audience than blogging!
idk what even my point is, ultimately I am just a 40 year old man who misses the golden age of blogs
@77ba84fb huh! I guess I wouldn't say that those are under-implemented? like, those are what I would consider absolute baseline for a minimum viable implementation
@603be6ac@30b6b534 maybe it makes sense to render subscribed hashtags differently than non subscribed. Make them bold or something. It would be easier and cleaner than adding a whole new header to posts
A friend of mine is looking for technical help - she has a newish Google Workspace domain and her emails to people keep going to spam. She has done the recommended SPF, DKIM, and DMARC stuff and it all seems to be working according to various diagnostic tools but still, emails go to spam.
She is willing to pay for someone's time to fix this. If you are that someone, or know that someone, you can get in touch at:
https://brighteradhd.com/#contact
Wow. T-Mobile finally got rid of their popover dialog that informed me they have a new mobile website. I don't know if it was a bug or what but that thing appeared, and I had to dismiss it, every time I logged in for the last, oh, 5 years or so. It wasn't even a call to action, just a "hey we have a new website, ok bye" type message!
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