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I've long been a fan of pie menus. I wish macOS had adopted and used pie menus. This looks like something I need to try out at some point.

A pretty fun Reddit post that contains a potted history of the evolution of Second Life. I've had an account for a good chunk of that time and it all reads about right to me.

The FSF, in effect, do what the FSF is there to do: defend the copyright of GNU Emacs. Meanwhile someone attempts to contribute a patch written by a large language model, and seemingly gets offended that it's rejected. I think the worst part about it is they seem to think that being honest about using an LLM should let their contribution in.

A good reminder that, as fun and neat as Gemtext is, it's not terribly accessible.

A handy guide to all things relating to the small web, and related concepts.

On the one hand, this looks like a fun idea: sort of a Second Life for websites. On the other hand it's the worst of the Internet, which is no surprise.

An article in which the author talks about the con played by psychics, and how large language models pretty much do exactly the same thing.

A funny, and kind of informative, post about how you can be mean to IIS servers. Not that I'd ever do that (no, really, I wouldn't, that's not my sort of thing), but it's fun to know that some folk do do that.

The press release from the UK government, covering the intended ban on social media for under-16s. Even if we were to assume this is a good thing (and I'm far from convinced it is), the proposal as it looks right now is as hilariously bad and appears to be as ill-informed as any attempt to control the Internet.

The specification for the hypertext format used by the Gemini protocol, also know as "gemtext". Currently I'm developing my own terminal-based Gemini client so this comes in very handy.