BlogFlockTrump's crypto windfall represents a mixing of personal and government interests at an unprecedented scale.
I've nearly entirely rewritten my site over the past few months. First, I refactored the frontend into a Laravel application that leveraged the same postgREST endpoints that my long-running 11ty site used. Next, I wrote a new administrative application in Filament and migrated off of Directus. If I did…
October 2025 brought the most dramatic crypto flash crash of all time, but it was only a dress rehearsal for the systemic crisis the industry is building toward.
[Lisa Riordan Seville, Andy Kroll, Katie Campbell and Mauricio Rodríguez Pons at ProPublica]
It’s exciting to see the newsroom where I work, ProPublica, publish more medium-form video.
On a meta-level, I think this is very well done — but it’s also an important story that I hope everyone will…
[Alexandra Geese in Tech Policy Press]
More on European data sovereignty from Alexandra Geese, a German Green Party member who has served as a member of the European Parliament since 2019.
In an environment shaped by the Trump administration and far-reaching legislation like the CLOUD Act, the argument…
This is a quick GitHub action to get alerted every time your website is mentioned in a GitHub issue.
You can search GitHub for a URl, and sort the results with the newest first, like this:
https://github.com/search?q=%22shkspr.mobi%22&type=issues&s=created&o=desc
GitHub has a fairly straightforward API -…
Here's a trick I've been trying. This is difficult, which I think reveals just how much we flit between tasks in the course of a day. I haven't managed to do it well yet.
Open a new note. Just…
It’s always fun when you get inspired by some post and then you see another one talking about pretty much the same thing.
Earlier today as I checked my RSS reader I read this update from Steve, who wrote:
Last week I wrote about the two-sentence journal method, which…
[Elizabeth Spiers in Talking Points Memo]
Elizabeth Spiers nails what was — and is — amazing about blogging:
“If you wanted people to read your blog, you had to make it compelling enough that they would visit it, directly, because they wanted to. And if they wanted to…
I've seen this doing the rounds on a few blogs recently, so wanted to add my own version because I'm a narcissist. 🙃
Pete Moore did his version yesterday, and David did his version all the way back in April. I actually had this in draft from around then, but…
A brotherhood of owls praying to the debugger God.<p><a href="https://twitter.com/AdeptsOf0xCC" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@AdeptsOf0xCC</a></p>
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