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For the last three years, I’ve been working on Offpunk, a command-line gemini and web browser.
While my initial goal was to browse the Geminisphere offline, the mission has slowly morphed into cleaning and unenshitiffying the modern web, offering users a minimalistic way of browsing…
Those whom the gods would send mad, they first teach recursion.
PHP 8.4 introduces a new Dom\HTMLDocument class it is a modern HTML5 replacement for the ageing XHTML based DOMDocument. You can read more about how it works - the short version is that it reads and correctly sanitises HTML…
The good folks at Windfall Energy have sent me one of their interesting new plugs to beta test.
OK, an Internet connected smart plug. What's so interesting about that?
Our Windfall Plug turns on at the optimal times in the middle of the night to charge and power your devices…
There's a new Web Standard in town! Meet WebMonetization - it aims to be a low effort way to help users passively pay website owners.
The pitch is simple. A website owner places a single new line in their HTML's <head> - something like this:
<link rel="monetization" href="https://wallet.example.com/edent" />
That…
My friend Andrew has written a cracking novel. The English Civil Wars have left a fragile and changing world. The scarred and weary inhabitants of Newcastle Upon Tyne enlist a Scottish "Pricker" to rid themselves of the witches who shamelessly defy god.
Many are accused, and many hang despite their…
Kevin O'Leary has sued crypto personality Ben Armstrong (aka "BitBoy Crypto") for repeatedly claiming O'Leary murdered two people.
![27. On March 19, 2025, Armstrong unleashed another tweet accusing O’Leary of committing “actual crimes”: “Doesn’t everybody think it’s weird that I’ve been publicly calling … @kevinolearytv [a] murderer[] and yet not a single word or legal action? It’s almost like they ‘can’t’ because a lawsuit would open up their actual crimes and they know it.”](https://storage.mollywhite.net/micro/cc6240fece1a25cdb952_Screenshot-2025-03-27-at-11.15.02---PM.png)
(O'Leary and his wife were indeed involved in a boating collision that killed two people in 2019; O'Leary states in the…
I adore it when people say that baseball is America’s pastime. It may have been true 65 years ago but I would say that right now gambling on baseball is a much bigger pastime than baseball itself, and gambling on football is assuredly more popular than both of them combined.…
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