Articles by edent
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Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight (mohkohn.co.uk)

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What Yahoo killed when it bought Maktoob (lr0.org)

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RFC for 700 HTTP Status Codes (github.com/joho)

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UK publishers can opt-out of Google's AI search (gov.uk)

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102KB ought to be enough for any email (shkspr.mobi)

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Google Health Sucks (joebaldwin.me.uk)

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Whale Fall (shkspr.mobi)

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Real Signals or Artificial Stereotypes? (kucharski.substack.com)

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The True Cost of Influencing (thebristolsauce.com)

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GDS weighs in on the NHS's decision to retreat from Open Source (shkspr.mobi)

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Stochastic Parrots: Frequently Unasked Questions (medium.com/emilymenonbender)

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Keep OSS alive on company time (ossresistance.com)

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Ordnance Survey demands removal of all open data address datasets (owenboswarva.com)

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All my clients wanted a carousel, now it's an AI chatbot (pages.casa)

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Public Service Announcement Badges (psas.dev)

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NHS goes to war against open source (shkspr.mobi)

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The Seven Deadly Fediverse UX Sins: A Redemption Report Card (wedistribute.org)

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It's OK to Use Floating Point for Money (suricrasia.online)

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Deleteduser.com a $15 PII Magnet (mike-sheward.medium.com)

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Proposal: Moving ownCloud community discussion to GitHub Discussions (owncloud.org)

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Mastodon gets Sovereign Tech Agency funding (joinmastodon.org)

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Android now stops you sharing your location in photos (shkspr.mobi)

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Today Is CSS Naked Day (css-naked-day.org)

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Solar and batteries can power the world (nworbmot.org)

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GitHub for Lesbians (git.gay)

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Why we're winding up in 2027 (connectedbydata.org)

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UK to Allow "Plug in" Solar (gov.uk)

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Open Alleged PhotoDNA (github.com/arcanenibble)

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Lost Doctor Who episodes found (bbc.co.uk)

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Unstructured Data and the Joy of having Something Else think for you (shkspr.mobi)

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HeliBoard is creating an open source gesture typing library (github.com/helium314)

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F-Droid Board of Directors nominations 2026 (f-droid.org)

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I Don't Like Magic (adactio.com)

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Getting Bots to Respect Boundaries (exchangepoint.tech)

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Social Media Payments and Perverse Incentives (shkspr.mobi)

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Hold the security: a vibe-coding story (harrym.com)

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100 Days to Offload (100daystooffload.com)

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eInk UI Components in CSS (eink-components.dev)

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Reputation Scores for GitHub Accounts (shkspr.mobi)

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Get all the reactions to your GitHub content using GraphQL (shkspr.mobi)

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The Day the Music Died (wikipedia.org)

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ePub and HTML – Survey results and next steps (w3.org)

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Copilot SDK in Technical Preview (github.com/orgs)

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Leaving the Matrix (raccoonland.us)

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Windows 8 Desktop Environment for Linux (github.com/er-bharat)

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Why my NFC passport didn't work at Heathrow's eGates (shkspr.mobi)

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I rebooted my social life (jamesomalley.co.uk)

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Exploring Dithering on Spectra 6-color E-Ink Displays (myembeddedstuff.com)

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A small collection of text-only websites (shkspr.mobi)

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We will never fucking trust Americans again (readtheline.ca)

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Get an Old Laptop (cyberaether.xyz)

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Stop crawling my HTML – use the API (shkspr.mobi)

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LastPass fined £1.2M by ICO for data breach (ico.org.uk)

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Former Twitter Attorney Files for 'Twitter' Trademark (gerbenlaw.com)

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Frequently Asked Unicycling Questions (vale.rocks)

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The peaceful transfer of power in open source projects (shkspr.mobi)

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The Future Is Ours to Build – Together (joinmastodon.org)

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Time to Migrate (tbray.org)

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ICRAfail – A Lesson for the Future [pdf] (philarcher.org)

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Type-in magazines are back, but this time for HTML (vole.wtf)

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I Created a Spare Monitor (ianturton.com)

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XSLT RIP (xslt.rip)

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Sometimes Red, Sometimes Blue (sometimesredsometimesblue.com)

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iPod for Android (github.com/adeeteya)

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A Requiem for My Dignity, Sacrificed at the Altar of AI (sightlessscribbles.com)

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Jellyfin for Android TV 0.19 (jellyfin.org)

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BogoMips Mini-How To (tldp.org)

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Mapping Underground Structures with 3D Scans (wilkinson.graphics)

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My First Months in Cyberspace (gyford.com)

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Framework under fire for Omarchy/DHH/Hyprland support? (crimier.github.io)

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Weird Operators in PHP (exakat.io)

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Where's Barry? (noncanon.co.uk)

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A threat model for accessibility on the web (alice.boxhall.au)

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Woman convicted following largest crypto seizure (met.police.uk)

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Steps Towards a Web Without the Internet (ajroach42.com)

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Scream Cipher (sethmlarson.dev)

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Android and Braille (issuetracker.google.com)

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Picket Right Font (stormgold.itch.io)

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What does the government think an algorithm is? (tommorris.org)

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Microsoft 365 Copilot pilot: DBT evaluation report (gov.uk)

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Looking back at "legacy" HTML practices (nooshu.com)

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Security Flaws in the WebMonetization Site (shkspr.mobi)

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The Jargon File (1991) (jargon-file.org)

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What about using rel="share-url" to expose sharing intents? (shkspr.mobi)

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Vole WTF Sitemap (vole.wtf)

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Books will soon be obsolete in school (shkspr.mobi)

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Should we remove XSLT from the web platform? (github.com/whatwg)

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Meta's flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York (reuters.com)

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Am I (still?) in Mozilla's target audience? (neilzone.co.uk)

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Do Kwon Pleads Guilty (bsky.app)

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In Memory of Phil and Jan Karlton (hamilton.com)

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Accessibility and the agentic web (tetralogical.com)

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How ChatGPT spoiled my semester (2024) (benborgers.com)

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The Bus Station That Didn't Exist, and Other Data Epiphanies (nightingaledvs.com)

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Wero Wallet (wero-wallet.eu)

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Clorox versus Cognizant Complaint (documentcloud.org)

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Complete silence is always hallucinated as "ترجمة نانسي قنقر" in Arabic (github.com/openai)

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The Swamp of Negative Utility (ides.dev)

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Comparisons Between Life in the UK and the USA (sootyempiric.blogspot.com)

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The last car you'll ever own (thejubjubbirds.com)