Alexander Kluge 🐣 naii.io @naii@mastodon.naii.io

The first step of any creator hoping for lasting success—whether for ten years or ten centuries—is to accept that hope has nothing to do with it.

To be great, one must make great work, and making great work is incredibly hard. It must be our primary focus.

We must set out, from the beginning, with complete and total commitment to the idea that our best chance of success starts during the creative process.

Do go make and share. Do what you can’t.

Adtech collects data about people which is fed into algorithms.

Algorithms use the data to feed more “engaging” content to people. This content is often sensational and can drive people down “rabbit holes”.

Rabbit holes are where most irresponsible, fanatical and inflammatory content lurks. It can lead to radicalisation.

Radicalisation leads to nothing but trouble.

(c) Bob Hoffman 2021

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I’m a messenger.

Don’t kill the messenger.

The straight line between AdTech and Radicalisation:

AdTech › Algorithms › Rabbit Holes › Radicalisation

(c) Bob Hoffman 2021

@aral

I know there are services like donorbox.org to get a quick and easy donation form but I would like to keep the third-party fees to a minimum.

So, is it easily possible through Stripe’s documentation to build a form like the one you have on https://small-tech.org/fund-us/?

Or is it more technically advanced to implement that?

Oh and @aral, your recommendation for Svelte was really cool. I found a nice complete tutorial about it that explained it well.

I also look forward to the integration into SiteJS.

And if you don’t mind, I have another technical question: On your small-tech.org Fund Us page you have an elegant Stripe-powered donation form.

For my own project (a story production company) I want to integrate a donation form that features one-off donations and recurring ones to support our original stories.

@aral @laura

Can I expect an answer from you if I send an email to hello@small-tech.org?

Hi @aral and @laura, it’s super cool that you’re doing weekly livestreams now. I might not be able to tune in live but I watched your second one the other night like eating a piece of chocolate - with pleasure and joy :)

I’m an obvious fan of what you’re doing, and while I can’t help you out with coding skills or donations, I can do my best to spread the word.

And regarding the latter, I have an idea that requires you to only say YES or NO. But it requires more space than a toot.

What if a product wants your full attention all the time?

https://naii.io/invisible/

own your life without getting cocky

(and while you’re busy owning, have some slides on the snoooooow)

"HTML over the wire"?

Hotwire.

https://hotwire.dev

Hi @aral, for a new website I want to give https://sitejs.org a real shot.

I want to see how bullet- and fool-proof it is for someone like me who is not a super hardcore tech guy.

I like how https://marketingexamples.com is made - it’s fast responsive and when you click an article it nicely hovers over the rest of the website.

Would say that achieving this kind of site with Site.js is possible and possible easily?

"Email a Dumpster Fire" answers the 2020 COVID-19 question…

"Can email be a conduit for catharsis? If you could type out an email, press send, and see it being consumed in an actual dumpster fire, would it help reclaim a little bit of what we've lost?"

https://hey.science/dumpster-fire/

Search Engine for Developers?

Yep. It’s Devbook!

https://usedevbook.com

With this macOS-only app you can search StackOverflow and GitHub for questions or code.

I found a CURE to revive your email marketing life!

https://superresponder.com

It’s like VIAGRA for bored readers and dozed-off email lists.

Hey @hi, good to have you here on Mastodon :)

If you want 2 hours of Charles Dickens #ASMR writing room, there you go:

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=12SOBZWJPW4

And it’s great to see @ubernauten being listed there already 😍

What is 1MB Club?

https://1mb.club

MB Club is a growing collection of performance-focused web pages found across the internet. The one and only rule for a web page to qualify as a member:

Total resources downloaded client-side must not exceed 1 megabyte

This one mindset from 7+ years ago is still valid for me until today:

I’m thinking and acting as a journalist because…

A good journalist is everywhere, but doesn’t belong anywhere.

Happy Birthday, @aral :)

Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere (1987) sounds like Cut Copy - Take Me Over (2010)

Here is Cut Copy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gaEhK2C0tQ

Here is Fleetwood Mac:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF1R0hc5Q2I

#music