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The Annual Music Recap Playlist (15 songs from 2023) 

01. “End of Everything” by Mega Bog
megabog.bandcamp.com/track/end

02. “To Me It Was” by Samia
samia.bandcamp.com/track/to-me

03. “Worst Case Kid” by Tommy Lefroy
labrecords.bandcamp.com/track/

04. “Close” by Dizzy
dizzytheband.bandcamp.com/trac

05. “More to Lose” by Shit Present
shitpresent.bandcamp.com/track

06. “Radial Chatter” by Janice Kwan
janicekwan.bandcamp.com/track/

07. “Fading” by Swimming Paul
headroomrecords.bandcamp.com/t

08. “Purple Tiger” by Milky Chance
youtu.be/7mVydFThdp4

09. “NAKE” by SAI
youtu.be/xbihHyu188U

10. “The Heat” by Paper Bee
paper-bee.bandcamp.com/track/t

11. “Jo Jah Jo” by Afriquoi
youtu.be/H5iqfGa36Fs

12. “You Know How” by Vagabon
vagabon.bandcamp.com/track/you

13. “Hesitate” by Hazlett ft. OSKA
youtu.be/aJ492Cqvrng

14. “Into Your Room” by Holly Humberstone
hollyhumberstone.bandcamp.com/

15. “Bell Ringer” by TRUE||FORM
truellform.bandcamp.com/track/

re: mozilla 

@aescling @wallhackio there’s been a blogpost going around criticizing a different blogpost their president (not c·e·o) made (this one: <blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/ma>) in which mozilla implies that it is pivoting away from firefox development and into a·i investment, and indeed, in the past year, firefox has invested huge amounts of money in a·i while usershare (and profits) from firefox have been in a steady decline

but i’m also old enough to remember when they thought it was a good idea to hire “industry color specialists” to create limited‐edition firefox themes that nobody wanted (<support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/p>), or that time that they non‐consensually downloaded a browser plugin on every firefox installation in order to promote a television show (<theverge.com/2017/12/16/167846>), or, you know, every other firefox marketing or capital‐raising venture mozilla has attempted in the past decade

re: women 

@aescling @wallhackio men of woe more like mon of weh

mozilla 

mozilla’s current c·e·o is bad, but friends, mozilla’s old c·e·o was also bad

web standardization history 

mozilla didn’t just directly profit from a situation where only large browsers manufacturers had any say in the direction of the web, they actively created it

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web standardization history 

remember when W3C leaned too hard into user-centric design and modularity and new X·M·L technologies

and Brendan Eich, noted homophobe, grew concerned with this, not because of its impact to ordinary people, but because he thought that monolithic web browsers manufacturers would wind up losing out to newer, bespoke applications

and so he got Mozilla and Opera together to write a letter saying that the future of computing on the web should take place entirely within the web browser using nothing but HTML, CSS, and a whole lot of Javascript (a language he created)

and they forked HTML from W3C, setting up WHATWG, an organization controlled entirely by web browser implementors, to decide the future of the web going forward

and then Mozilla used the fact that they were “the only nonprofit with a seat at the table of standardization organizations” in their fundraising campaigns for the next decade

re: thoughts on mozilla 

@unspeakablehorror @Satsuma GNOME Web, also known as Epiphany, is built on Webkit

i’m not sure what the current status of it is since i think most Linux distributions have switched to Firefox, but it seems to still be putting out releases

re: text editor discourse 

nobody writes programs which solve real people problems anymore

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text editor discourse 

has anyone created a better rich text editor for macOS than Bean, a program i first learned about on Open Source Mac Dot Org in 2010

or has innovation well and truly stalled since the early 2000’s

re: wake up babe new static site generator dropped 

@aescling damn i can't believe i’ve been working on this for two whole years

re: wake up babe new static site generator dropped 

@aescling the default behaviour (of printing a help dialog) is especially funny considering that the makefile still rebuilds and restarts itself twice to get there

re: wake up babe new static site generator dropped 

@aescling i agree but did it anyway

re: wake up babe new static site generator dropped 

(it may not work on Linux; i might have used an incompatible option for `touch´)

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re: wake up babe new static site generator dropped 

this is very much just a minimum viable implementation right now; there’s more to add but this WORKS

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@gaditb i’m working on it but i’m still building the technology

re: thoughts on mozilla 

@Satsuma @unspeakablehorror i think the only people trying to make firefox go away are the people who fund it

re: thoughts on mozilla 

@unspeakablehorror @Satsuma webkit isn’t Chromium-based (but it isn’t nonprofit either) [but it’s arguably more nonprofit than Firefox, which is used to drive Pocket and Mozilla V·P·N subscriptions]

but no i’ve seen plenty of people who are more than happy to roll out “your problem is with Mozilla Corporation not Mozilla Foundation and also their huge C·E·O bonuses and A·I investment are just capitalism” when, in fact, no other open source foundation is Like This, mozilla is a huge outlier

thoughts on mozilla 

• they know they have an image problem and are entirely disinterested in fixing it

• they are far from the only open-source/tech advocacy nonprofit on the planet and others do it better

• dunno why people keep defending them considering the above

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