Most Android phones, that contain eSIMs, are pretty expensive.
Fortunately, several companies have developed eSIM adapters that can be plugged into regular physical SIM card slots and add eSIM technology to your phone.
We were very excited to demo Channel. org & Patchwork at the fourth edition of FediForum - the virtual unconference moving the decentralised social web forwards.
"From Florida to Oregon, utilities are racing to meet a surge in demand from power-hungry AI data centers, manufacturing facilities and electric vehicles."
"Electricity usage by data centers is poised to surge as much as ten times current levels by 2030."
20 years and two weeks ago, I came up with undohtml.css and unknowingly invented the mechanism of CSS Resets (AKA reboot or reset style sheets¹) which spawned numerous variants, many still in broad use on the web today.
A one sentence problem description, and a short paragraph describing my problem-solving, actions, license, link to less than 300 bytes of code (not counting comments), and a few future thoughts.
The rest of that blog post was about “debug scaffolding”, the part I thought was more interesting at the time.
~6 months later Eric published his evergreen resource “CSS Tools: Reset CSS” * https://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/ which, as you see within the URL: “css/reset”, is perhaps where the phrase “CSS Reset” comes from, and it’s also the label (link text) he gives that page in his UI about-page² and the first content link in his 404 page³.
My technology invention takeaways from all this:
1. if you find yourself repeatedly solving the same (especially annoying) problem, create a re-usable solution that works for you 2. write up your problem statement / use-case in only one sentence 3. publish your solution (on your personal site⁴), name it something short, with only a short paragraph description, and re-use/remix friendly license (like Creative Commons)
And things not to worry about (that may get in your way to publishing):
1. perfecting or making your solution “big enough” or “the right size”. does it solve your problem? then it’s already the right size. 2. coming up with the perfect name. instead, name it what it does. someone might come up with a better name weeks, months, or years later. let them run with it! 3. waiting to blog multiple things. I could have blogged undohtml.css by itself, probably should have, and instead lumped it into a blog post with another CSS thing I came up with.
Daily Inspiration: "Thinking of innovation? Invest in an experience factory!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
I wasted quite a bit of time yesterday. It was great!
What was I doing? I'm trying to figure out how to move my various Websites and servers from a Runcloud setup over to CloudPanel since the latter is a pretty good tool for managing self-hosting. I was running into significant problems with my Cloudflare setup involving SSL and page rendering, and couldn't quite figure out what was going wrong.
Overall, it was pretty unsuccessful - and so I woke up this morning that it might be a PHP version issue that I need to explore. I'll tackle that issue later today with a series of experiments to see what might go wrong and to determine if that is the root cause.
All of this is entirely meaningless to you, and for me, involved quite a bit of a bit of wasted time yesterday as I went down a rabbit hole of Websites, YouTube videos, and more as I explored my challenges.
But in doing so, I continue down my path of regularly exploring the complex world of technology to better understand what it's all about - part of what is now a 40-year voyage. By doing so, I am always enhancing the knowledge by which I can talk intelligently about all kinds of complex technology topics, understand deep security issues, and assess new emerging technology trends and opportunities. It's my 'experience factory!'
A place and time where I can chase new ideas, understand new concepts, develop new knowledge, and learn more about new things. Developing time in your life for an 'experience factory' is time wasted well spent. After all, you can't talk about something if you aren't deeply involved.
Question: What are your thoughts about Standard Notes?
Been thinking of giving it a try because I'm looking for something simple and with good cross platform support. I've been using OneNote but find it to be overkill. Obsidian is also fussy, and Joplin doesn't like iOS.
What is giving me pause is primarily subscription fatigue. Is it really worth the cost? Is it any better than using Simple Note (beyond privacy concerns).
Americans used record 100 trillion megabytes of wireless data in 2023
Americans used just over 100 trillion megabytes of wireless data in 2023, up 36% over the prior year in the largest single-year increase in wireless data consumption
If you're attending #FediForum we have a surprise for you!
We've put together a Press Pack for FediForum attendees who want to know more about what we're doing and (hopefully 🤞 ) for the amazing press people attending that want to write about Channel. org and Patchwork.
If you want to see it, reach out to freddie@newsmastfoundation.org
"Sure it's messy and confusing and not everything works all the time, but it's ours, not some corporation's. We made this ourselves because we care about this better future and we spend every day trying to make it just a little bit better."