Elliot

It is so frustrating to me that the internet and all its technologies were developed and yet all corporate “QMS”s are just list of word documents (or broken links to vanished ones) with contents that overlap, contradict and are entirely text-based.

So things will change, yeah? www.propublica.org/article/micr...

Find an independant pds atproto.brussels/other-pds then move using pdsmoover

What do we do about this? Start hosting our own and migrate off? Or admit Mastodon was always better for real independence? kevinak.se/blog/be-wary...

Thanks Yannick for a really nicely researched and written article around my PropelAuth package for API. I've spent the last few days making some big modifications to it and completing the API, all of the core and common functionality is now included.

👏 Use unsplash.com & include attributions to use free, great images whilst giving the photographer some credit. Even better, since you're paying AI to make a bad image, pay unsplash to give you a great one! No commission or referrals here, just sharing a website I love to solve a problem I loathe.

If your website has multi tenancy that segregates user pools, but shares a (sub)domain and determines tenancy by path/query parameter - know that we and all our password managers hate you.

Relevant again in 2026!

Rewatching Invasion in preparation for the new season being released, and accidentally relived the trauma of hearing Caspar say "I'm listening to old stuff" in relation to Green Day.

The stupidest thing wealthy people do is spend all of their money making sure they only ever see other wealthy people. Fucking rots their brains.

🇪🇺 On 29 June 1985, European leaders chose a symbol that would stand the test of time. Twelve golden stars in a circle. A powerful symbol of who we are and what we stand for: unity and peace, democracy and solidarity. Today, we celebrate 40 years of our common flag.

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I was flying once and drinking a cup of tea, I looked out the window and just thought “why am I calm, like why are we all calm? All sat here pretending this is perfectly normal sitting and having tea with nothing but air under us for 30,000ft” and then went back to staring at the clouds.

I made Iles Flottantes so you don't have to. elliotali.com/iles-flottan...

@fastmail.com there’s plenty of people looking for ethical alternatives to O365/Google Workspace. Any thoughts on rounding out your features towards that? Cloud storage with sync and oauth2/saml might be enough IMHO

We're thrilled to announce the first stable release of Oxlint - version 1.0! Our Rust-powered JavaScript/TypeScript linter delivers 50~100x faster performance than ESLint with 500+ rules and zero configuration required. Time to give it a try! voidzero.dev/posts/announ...

a lil reminder to really really think about where your money goes and who makes profit off of what… who’s getting richer… who’s more distracted. keep fighting.

Anyone trying to improve public/active transport to reduce car dependency will be told they “don’t care about low income families who need cars.” Low income families aren’t the ones driving, but they are the ones being killed by cars. We need more safe and affordable car-free ways to get around.

Whilst the author is talking about LLMs and coding, I think this article hits the nail on the head, and it applies to pretty much all complex uses of LLMs. https://skarlso.github.io/2025/06/07/re-my-ai-skeptic-friends-are-all-nuts/

@propelauth.com Hey team, are your plans per project, paid once for the whole account?

Our social media schedule app https://towncrier.app has just been migrated to a new host. You shouldn't notice anything at all, but please get in touch if you do spot something unusual so we can look into it. Stay well!

A HISTORIC MILESTONE: For the first time, solar power generated more electricity globally than nuclear, making it the world’s 4th largest power source. In just 5 years, solar output nearly tripled—from 79 TWh (Apr 2020) to 233 TWh (Apr 2025). The energy transition is speeding up. @ember-energy.org

@pascalbaljet.bsky.social is inertiaui.com/inertia-table still maintained?

I would love to make Zed my main editor, especially to build Laravel apps. One day maybe.

Siri knows me so well, especially with an Apple Watch. I was hopeful when I asked "Siri, why do I have a migraine?". Like "you slept in this morning and you're probably dehydrated. Start there". I was disappointed when it couldn't help. It didn't like being called useless. They had code for that.

At what point did society decide that milk bottles shouldn’t be stored on their sides? Like especially milk, which quickly deteriorates into a lurking smell.

Happy Sunday! https://towncrier.app now supports Blue Sky, as well as LinkedIn, X, Mastodon & YouTube. Plan and schedule your posts over a coffee on Monday & let Town Crier work for you through the week. It also has a media library, templates, stats and more.

There is a bird near my home which sounds exactly like the dying AirTag battery noise. Further proof we're living in a simulation and that simulation is A/B testing for hell.

I too have switched a ChatGPT subscription for an Ultimate independent search + AI subscription. It's a bit clunky on Safari due to default search restrictions, but totally workable. Or use Orion or Firefox or whatever.

I separated 240 pairs of tea bags into 480 separate ones, and now they’re all in two jars rather than the plastic pillow case they came in. So my day has been productive thanks.

Not dissimilar to the situation here in Aus.

Service announcement: If you ever need great photos for your posts, use unsplash.com for free and credit the author instead of AI. And if you need great blog software too, I reckon the most hassle-free and feature-rich is blogmaker.app. No affiliation, just both great resources!

I love my echo chamber where everyone values the humanity of other people and enjoys the arts.

Bravo Canada.

My first apartment in 1994 was $350/month. Adjusting for inflation, that apartment should now rent for $744/month. It actually rents for $1500. Greed and inflation are hurting the kids, not their Starbucks lattes.

Excellent news from Geneva, where a first consensus on the Pandemic Agreement was reached last night. We have learnt the lessons of COVID. To beat a pandemic, you need tests, treatments and vaccines. And you equally need solidarity and global cooperation. Statement ↓ europa.eu/!fkNJ9y

The Talk

If you thought this was going to end differently you are a victim of British media and their constant culture wars but you don’t have to live in that mental prison. Be like these guys. Also there’s six of them now and they’re all cycling + super old.

A group of four old Luxembourgers sat outside a cafe by a river having a beer in the sun. A cyclist blasts by them on an ebike, and they all start to shout at him. He turns his bike around, rides up to the group, and… now there are five old Luxembourgers having a beer in the sun.

Members of Congress should never be allowed to trade stocks. Period.

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

men will literally impose tariffs on islands entirely inhabited by penguins instead of going to therapy