Cory Dransfeldt

What if — and hear me out here — instead of using email or a platform-owned account, we leveraged individual domain names as personal identifiers for the web?

I block ads in the browser.

I block ads at the DNS level.

I dropped in a quick update to my now page to display the 5 most recent articles from my favorites feed in Matter.

Take a second, turn off all of your browser extensions, go to a popular website that comes to mind and take a look at how bad the default experience is. Bonus points — pull up the dev tools, go to the network tab, filter for JavaScript and see how many analytics suites load.

We've arrived at a point where we can say that our attempts to port relationships and social interactions to the internet has been an unambiguous failure.

My talk from the Eleventy meetup about building my now page (you even get to see how much I resemble my avatar).

I don't want your streaming music service, I just want the music I've collected and care about available to stream.

After posting and discussing my post from yesterday with Nicolas Hoizey I decided to explore his suggested path and explore using a GitHub action to handle posts to Mastodon, rather than Make.

I've relaunched, rebuilt and rewritten my personal blog more times than I can count, and I've had a trail of posts I've never fully migrated at each turn. This weekend, while relaxing and watching movies I ported them into Eleventy and, in doing so, found that the pagination implementation I was using didn't scale well with the number of pages I added.

I've discussed building a now page using Eleventy, but I also syndicate a subset of that content out to Mastodon using @11ty/eleventy-activity-feed and Make.