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I recently received an email asking for permission to react to one of my YouTube videos and offer his own perspective on it. Of course, I said yes, but I was a bit confused why he even asked in the first place. I can understand his apprehension due to how bad the copyright system is. Especially on YouTube, many creators fear for their lives, as if you say one bad thing about someone, they can take…
I have a confession to make. I’m obsessed with optimizing images. Images are the biggest oversight for a lot of websites. I’ll see blogs that obsess about minimalism and using as little JavaScript as possible, only to have huge, uncompressed images served in outdated formats. It’s very common to see images that are 300 KB that could be reduced to 100 KB or less with no quality…
There’s a growing subculture on the internet dubbed by some as the “minimalist web”. It’s a group of people with websites that have grown tired and disillusioned with the slow, bloated state of the modern web. Instead of building websites with the next big JavaScript framework, loading in a carousel on the home page powered by jQuery, or bringing in a 500KB image just as a…
I (and many others) have done a lot of complaining about the modern web. I’ve made videos in the past talking about how I miss the old, independent web when everyone had their own website and there was always a cool, new, unique website that you could find and explore. But the independent web is alive and well ! I just didn’t know about it. But you can’t really blame me. Websites…
This website is analytics-free ! If you know me, I’m sure you understand why I don’t use Google Analytics . But there are lots of other good, privacy-respecting analytics services and softwares out there. I’ve even done several videos about privacy-respecting web analytics. They’re very good, and I still recommend them to this day. I’ve also used these services in the…
It’s time for a new website, and a new philosophy behind my website . Functionally, the website isn’t much different from the previous iteration. The styles are a little bit different and things are a little bit better organized. But under the hood, I’m still using Hugo , my favorite static site generator. There isn’t some crazy technological change or a massive, ground-up…
Mastodon is in the news again after Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter. Twitter users are up in arms about how they think that Twitter is doomed due to the change in management. Since everyone is predicting this as “the end” of Twitter, they’re looking for an alternative. Mastodon has been a popular alternative that’s been around for several years already. Mastodon is…