Notices by Terence Eden (edent@mastodon.social)

🆕 blog! “A small collection of text-only websites”

A couple of years ago, I started serving my blog posts as plain text. Add .txt to the end of any URl and get a deliciously lo-fi, UTF-8, mono[chrome|space] alternative.

Here's this post in plain text - https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/a-small-collection-of-text-only-websites.txt

Obviously a webpage…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/a-small-collection-of-text-only-websites/
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#blogging #blogs #text #unicode #utf-8

@tedmielczarek @skinnylatte
Dammit! Now I need to buy more blue flavoured Takis!

@tedmielczarek @skinnylatte
I appear to have accidentally manifested these! Thanks universe 😄

🆕 blog! “A big list of things I disable in WordPress”

There are many things I like about the WordPress blogging software, and many things I find irritating. The most annoying aspect is that WordPress insists that its way is the best and there shall be no deviance. That means a lot of forced cruft being injected into my site. Headers that bloat my page size,…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/a-big-list-of-things-i-disable-in-wordpress/
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#blog #HowTo #php #WordPress

🆕 blog! “Now witness the power of this fully operational Fediverse!”

How can you measure the popularity of a social network site? Perhaps by counting the number of active accounts, or the quality of the discourse, or even how many people reply to your witty memes.

Me? I prefer to look at how many people visit my blog…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/now-witness-the-power-of-this-fully-operational-fediverse/
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#ActivityPub #BlueSky #fediverse #mastodon #statistics

@evan What did you think about the blog post, Evan 😆

@evan indeed! But people rarely visit their own country's museum having had all of that forced into them at school.

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Mention my name when you join and I get a tenner (entirely optional).

#TradeUnion

🆕 blog! “The Peaceful Transfer of Power in Open Source Projects”

Most of the people who run Open Source projects are mortal. Recent history shows us that they will all eventually die, or get bored, or win the lottery, or get sick, or be conscripted, or lose their mind.

If you've ever visited a foreign country's national history museum, I…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/the-peaceful-transfer-of-power-in-open-source-projects/
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#BDFL #mastodon #OpenSource #oss

@Gargron Brilliant news - you should feel so proud of everything you've created.

🆕 blog! “OpenBenches 💖 OpenStreetMap”

When Liz and I created the OpenBenches website, it was just designed to be a fun way for people to record memorial benches. Since then things have got out of hand and we now have over thirty-nine thousand benches recorded!

Our plan was never to compete with something like OpenStreetMap. The OSM project is vast, complex, and…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/openbenches-%f0%9f%92%96-openstreetmap/
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#OpenBenches #OpenStreetMap

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From 1988.

https://archive.org/details/crash-magazine-57?view=theater#page/n67

I warn you - this will physically hurt to read:

> How did the experts succeed in their intrusion? Mainly by the weakness of certain passwords that Anssi politely describes as “trivial”: type “LOUVRE” to access a server managing the video surveillance of the museum, or “THALES” to access one of the software published by... Thales.

https://archive.ph/l0web

#Louvre #CyberSecurity

Got the email that Belkin are killing off the WeMo cloud & app for their smartplugs.

Local control still works fine though. Easily integrated into HomeAssistant.

Lots of cheap WeMo bits on eBay if you want a local-first smarthome.

#WeMo #Belkin #HomeAssistant #IoT

My old employers are hiring technical talent in the UK. Fully remote / hybrid (London).

* Senior Data Engineer
* Senior Security Engineer (Developer)
* Engineering Manager - (Genetic Data)

And several more.

Great team with an amazing mission. All the jobs are listed at:
https://apply.workable.com/our-future-health/

(I don't work there any more so can't answer specific questions about the roles.)

Having a look through the filesizes of the SVG logos at https://github.com/edent/SuperTinyIcons

And, yeah, that sounds about right for C++!

@silverpill it is similar. But, as I say in the post, it can just return an image, rather than all the JSON metadata.

🆕 blog! “Alpha launch - .well-known/avatar - feedback wanted”

I've gotten sufficiently annoyed with a trivial problem that I'm preparing to write an IETF RFC. Yeah. That's how ticked off I am!

Every site that I sign up for asks me to upload an avatar to represent myself. Whenever I change my photo, I have to log in to a hundred sites and change it…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/10/alpha-launch-well-known-avatar-feedback-wanted/
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#IETF #ReDeCentralize #standards #web

🆕 blog! “Was my website mentioned in a GitHub issue?”

This is a quick GitHub action to get alerted every time your website is mentioned in a GitHub issue.

Doing it manually

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

Using the API

GitHub has a fairly…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/10/was-my-website-mentioned-in-a-github-issue/
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#blog #github