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I won't bury the lede: the Smolblog project is being shelved for the foreseeable future . I have a whole list of reasons why, but to sum up: The business model has no legs. The people who care most about owning their online identity are also the people mo

I write short stories, and I vastly prefer writing in Markdown to a word processor. I've got one series with a lot of texting/group chat, and I'd love to represent this better both in the Markdown and the resulting HTML. Requirements Optional title Option

Accelerated collapse of ICE cars seen, as oil crisis drives 'replacement under pressure'

It has happened: the Mac Pro is gone, and Apple will not be replacing it.Chance Miller, at 9to5Mac:It's the end of an era: Apple has confirmed to9to5Macthat the Mac Pro is being discontinued. It has been removed from Apple's website as of Thursday afterno

Towards the end of 2018, Apple threatened to pull the tumblr app from the App Store over the presence of CSAM on the site. Tumblr responded with a radical change in policy that affects it to this day.

There's a dustup going on over at Bluesky over moderation decisions. I won't go into details because-for the purposes of this blog post-I'm less focused on why the dustup is happening and more that it is happening. It's happening at Bluesky, it happens on

I've been looking into Tempest. It's a new PHP framework that is built for modern PHP: type hinting, property accessors, the works. I'm most excited about its approach to discovery. It closely models what I've been building towards in Smolblog's framework

It's hard to overstate just how much my opinion on Gumroad has changed since the beginning of 2025. I'm not mad, just disappointed. Incredibly disappointed.Strike One: Unintended Consequences Let me preface this by saying I get problems with email deliver

I've been working on Smolblog, a social web blogging app. To help me get to a minimally viable product sooner, I've been building it on top of WordPress. However, WordPress is built exclusively for the MySQL database, and I eventually want Smolblog to wor