I don't recall seeing so many Linux mags in French press shops in the past. Is this new?
Olivier Forget
@olivierforget.net
Aerospace engineer turned developer and entepreneur. https://olivierforget.net Interested in web and user agency on the net. Building https://dropserver.org
Good read. I had been thinking that LLMs could completely change how we think of forks. They can just be a prompt some tests and a cron job. That completely changes how we think of forks. It's no longer abandoned branch or major community busting split. It's just normal.
A surprising conclusion I have come to from working with agents. blog.exe.dev/devtools-mus...
Every home device should always have a free local first API available
Samsung SmartThings API fees could impact your favorite smart home apps
Samsung has announced that it is ending free access to SmartThings API. The company will roll out paid commercial tiers and a personal plan.
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47% The percentage of Anguilla’s revenue from .ai domain sales in 2025. Anguilla is using .ai proceeds to fund infrastructure, like schools, roads, and airports. Hypothetically, Anguilla could even fund a Universal Basic Income of ~$2-5k per citizen (kind of like Alaska’s oil-funded dividend)
There is an estuary in Florida where the water is 92F 🥵 Also, a windsurfing blog in the wild 🤙
Got a new windsurfing sail yesterday and tried it out today. Wrote a blog about it in which I also get into my typical rants about beach access, climate change, and environmental health. jimbodouglass.blogspot.com/2026/07/new-...
great piece. I also think localfirst has a lot of great ideas, great people working on it, and a lot of smart tech. But I don't think it's any easier in practice than self-hosting a web-app, and it has inherent limitations. That's why my focus has been on dropserver.org
Very interesting discussions down in the replies. Also the post linked is worth a read.
The browser is the wrong medium for local-first 🫠 Act accordingly. (I don't think we can fix browsers unfortunately)
react is the kubernetes of web dev, kuberenetes is the react of infra dev
The implications of this are that we can build web apps with simpler architectures to start with, f.e. without using SPA (single-page app) architecture that uses SSR (server-side rendering) hydration, only plain HTML pages, with fluent transitions described in CSS.
Another take on frontend frameworks. I don't fully get it yet (just skimmed some docs) but it seems like it's a different approach than my own BackflipHTML even though it's also HTML-first. That's good! We'll need to try different things before finding something that really works. e-html.org
EHTML
EHTML (or Extended HTML) can be described as a set of custom elements that you can place on an HTML page for different purposes and use cases. The goal of this library is to provide a convenient way t...
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Very cool site design (when you have a wide enough screen, meaning not a phone).
blog.jade-evans.co.uk I wanted to wait a bit until I definitely decided I liked writing short form blog posts, and I do! So here are some and will update on here as I write more
I've been asked what framework I used to make the dashboard for my Stoat bot AutoMod so fast and snappy. It is genuinely just slick HTML/CSS/JS that communicates with an API layer I developed. The dashboard itself doesn't depend on even a single external library.
"Describe your favorite movie as boring as possible:" Two guys have UX issues with a work computer. (Answer tomorrow)
A burnt-out employee makes a rounding error.
They're definitely related, declaratively partial updates is the foundation it seems, the declarative fragments expands it to stuff like html includes. I think this github.com/WICG/declara... is the explainer for the newer bit.
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TIL: WebUI framework: a backend-first HTML rendering system by Microsoft. microsoft.github.io/webui/ I'm still digging into the docs, but there is overlap with my own experimental project BackflipHTML. Are others working on similar ideas that bring HTML rendering back to the backend?
WebUI Framework | WebUI Framework
SSR without JavaScript on the server. No virtual DOM. No JSX. Just HTML, streamed from any language.
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When you see this kind of stuff I want you this immediately think what of what this ad by IBM meant to the personal computer revolution.
Tired: this meeting should have been an email Wired: this app should have been a web page danq.me/2026/07/09/y...
Your ‘App’ Could Have Been a Webpage (so I fixed it for you…)
I was asked to install a mobile app to get access to the itinerary of a trip to Disneyland I'm taking with the kids. Fuck that noise: couldn't it have just been a Web page? An hour of reverse-engineer...
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Dropserver 0.14.5 is out. It fixes broken sandboxes caused by @deno.land introducing a breaking change in Deno 2.9. I upgraded packages all around, however I had to hold @tailscale.com back at 0.90.9 for now because they introduced breaking changes in tsnet. github.com/teleclimber/...
Release v0.14.5 · teleclimber/Dropserver
71758ca frontend-ds-host: update classes and CSS for Tailwind v4 c9722c6 upgrade frontend-ds-dev packages 82b4fca upgrade frontend-ds-dev Tailwind CSS to 4x 570adcc chore: upgraded packages to fron...
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We’re so lucky to live on a planet you can spend decades on and still discover new things that are mind blowing and seem totally fake but are not.
a mothing dream of mine has finally come true… i had my first visit from the iconic rosy maple moth! kinda speechless, it’s so hard to believe this moth is actually real… and it’s SO CUTE, and yes it is just as stunning in person as i imagined #teammoth
I sometimes inadvertently CTRL-s web forms, and get the "Save page as HTML" modal dialog box. It is bad.
does every millennial & gen x still ctrl+s or is it a trauma response
DuckDuckGo just inventing a CSS selector here. "The CSS selector for selecting elements that do not have a specific attribute value is [attribute!="value"], ..." No it's not. Does not exist. You just made it up to satisfy me with an answer. Actual helpful link: stackoverflow.com/questions/25...
Can't find a "not equal" css attribute selector
I want to target div elements where the attribute "foo" has a value. <div foo="x">XXX</div> <div foo="">YYY</div> I have tried this css, but it doesn't work: [foo!=''] {
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It just dawned on me that DuckDuckGo has bangs for browser bug trackers. !wkb WebKit bugzilla !bmo Mozilla bugzilla !crbug Chromium bugs