Philip Mallegol-Hansen's Blog
Codeberg , a German non-profit association operating a code forge for free and open-source software, recently held a passing member vote on including the following language to their terms of use: 7. You must not share projects that mostly consist of code written by "generative AI"-tools (including services such as Claude , OpenAI Codex ). Such projects having an unclear copyright status (see…
Hand writing HTML files is hard . I mean, not that hard. I've been doing it since I was a teenager, it's second nature to me now. But when compared to a polished UI designed by a trillion dollar corporation, explicitly made with the singular goal of ensuring you are as incentivized as possible to always post more, it's certainly not easy . It requires of me to sit down at my desktop computer and…
The company that hosts this very website recently had a catastrophic outage. The webserver was lost, and it turned out the backups weren't being written off-server as they should have. That is, of course, a huge bummer, but these sorts of things happen. I'm noting this context, not to berate my hosting provider, a small, local, company whom I continue to be glad to support, rather than hosting my…
What's the first thing you do after writing a blog? Adding an RSS feed of course. Well, maybe that's not as obvious as I make it out to be. But I truly believe RSS is a wonderful idea, I've written about that in the past. And I got a helpful nudge from a friend. So in the end I set off on a mission — to add a feed to this site, by hand of course. RSS or Atom? If, like me, you start diving…
I have a complicated relationship with the web. I'm not alone in that boat of course. As a person of a certain vintage, I grew up alongside the web. And as a life-long nerd, there were many times in my youth where the computer, and later the web in particular, were my escape into a world that made sense, when the people around me did not. I watched the web transform from a thing you could only…