Research & Development

Design My Boogie Board notes on the general design on Hypha Philosophy Your identity – your self – is a sharded aggregate of information1. For an organism to have integrity it must have ownership and control over the aggregate of these various elemental shards that, combined, constitute its being. In Hypha (subscribe via RSS), I will call these shards aspects2. For the purposes of Hypha, an aspect is defined by a secret known only to the person who owns it.

The Better Blocker web site. Better Blocker is a no-bullshit tracker blocker Laura and I built because we wanted an easy-to-use tracker blocker that wasn’t funded by or working for the adtech industry. We released the iOS version of Better Blocker on June 3rd, 2016. Since then, we’ve: Released a macOS version alongside the iOS version. Maintained a 4.7-star rating the iOS App Store and a 4.

Small Web (or smallweb) is a term used in a 1999 article, a hosting service, two consulting services, a May 2020 article, a Aug 2020 blog post that describes a subset of IndieWeb principles, a HackerNews summary of Gemini, a curation of indie websites, most recently a Kagi Small Web initiative, and has variants smol web (smolweb) and smol net (smolnet).

A tool for creating Small Web places. Contribute to small-tech/place development by creating an account on GitHub.

Domain is a free and open Small Web hosting platform.

Say “hello” to Small Technology Foundation. Today, Laura and I want to introduce you to Small Technology Foundation, where we will be continuing the work we started at Ind.ie five years ago. In those five years, we’ve developed a strong understanding of the problem (surveillance capitalism) and we’ve been iterating on solutions to it. Our work led us to leave the UK, move to Sweden, and finally, last year, to settle in Ireland.

Going forward, I will no longer be checking Twitter or responding on it … I plan to concentrate as much of my time and energy as possible on building the Small Web.

Aral’s been making things with computers since he was 7 years old. // Progressive enhancement, innit? ;) const years = Math.round((new Date().getTime() - new Date('1983-11-08').getTime())/1000/60/60/24/365) document.write(`(That’s approximately ${years} years ago. And yes, he still thinks computers are magic portals into endless universes.)`) Along the way, he dabbled in Flash, did some consulting, taught some workshops, gave a few talks, organised a smattering of conferences, made some apps, helped launch an after-school coding initiative for kids, got rather enraged by Silicon Valley’s bullshit, and co-founded Small Technology Foundation to do something about it.

Chat room Status: Offline Nickname: Message: Send Messages // Shorthand for basic DOM lookup via CSS selectors. const element = document.querySelector.bind(document) // Display a message in the messages list and ensure // that the list always shows the latest messages. function finalVersionDisplayMessage (message) { const nickname = `${message.nickname}:` const text = message.text const messageHTML = `${nickname} ${text}` // Update the message list. const messageList = element('#final-version-messages') messageList.

My site hasn’t had an update in a while. I broke the local version in the autumn last year, and told myself I needed to fix it before I posted again… a few months later and here we are!