- The open web isn’t dying. We’re killing it | Ouvre Boite
The open web’s values were always expensive. Someone has to run the servers. Someone has to maintain the software. Someone has to define the standards. Someone has to pay for storage, bandwidth, security, spam mitigation, abuse handling, moderation, and UX work. The fantasy was never that these costs did not exist. The fantasy was that advertising would cover them without eventually reshaping the system around the needs of advertisers and intermediaries.
Source: The open web isn’t dying. We’re killing it | Ouvre Boite
- transcript-tracer-js: Sync audio or video with corresponding text on an HTML page, using WebVTT timestamps.
Transcript Tracer is a JavaScript utility that allows you to sync audio or video with corresponding text on an HTML page (the “transcript”), using WebVTT timestamps. The currently-playing word, phrase, or block can be styled with CSS.
- The “Passive Income” trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs
I think it’s also not too far from what most businesses end up doing, it just takes slightly longer to get there. See enshitification.
But zoom out and what you had was just an enormous machine converting human ambition into noise. Affiliate spam // dropshipped junk // ebooks about passive income // courses about courses. An entire layer of the internet that was nothing but confident-sounding bullshit produced by people who had optimized for everything except making something worth buying.
Source: The “Passive Income” trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs
- Hally and Christy Prints
Discover handmade linocut prints of bold, whimsical animal characters in colourful outfits. Full of personality and charm. Perfect for unique gifts!
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- Vestaboard
- I Decompiled the White House’s New App
The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy’s GitHub Pages.
