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Technology curmudgeon https://starkravingfinkle.org https://mastodon.cloud/@mfinkle

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True. There are ways to run locally and share the code, but there's still some friction to use your app via mobile and out of the house.

25.02.2026 04:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
The Rise of Hyper Local Software For years, we’ve been told that software is eating the world. Big, cloud-hosted platforms β€” Salesforce, Notion, Slack, Jira, Airtable β€” working to solve every problem for every team, at any scale. And...

The culture is already forming on its own. We see new examples popping up everyday. What's missing is the ecosystem to support it β€” the remixing, the community, the low-friction hosting.

starkravingfinkle.org/posts/2026/0...

25.02.2026 03:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Hyper-local software: Apps built for an audience of one person, one team, or one community. Too specific to survive as a SaaS product, but genuinely useful to the people who build them.

25.02.2026 03:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

SaaS solves problems for millions of users, but doesn't fitting any one of them well. Agentic coding changes the equation. It's faster to build what you need than use a tool that mostly works.

"SaaS is dead" misses the point.

25.02.2026 03:32 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

23.02.2026 21:43 πŸ‘ 19303 πŸ” 2928 πŸ’¬ 345 πŸ“Œ 1

β€œTraining a human takes 20 years of food”

22.02.2026 12:54 πŸ‘ 2498 πŸ” 625 πŸ’¬ 41 πŸ“Œ 14
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Quamina + Claude, Case 1

"There’s this guy Rob Sayre..."

I had to keep reading. Now I have a bunch of PRs to look over and learn new things about how to use coding agents.

www.tbray.org/ongoing/When...

16.02.2026 13:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Migrating a 20-Year WordPress Blog to Hugo and Cloudflare I moved my 20+ year old WordPress blog off Bluehost and onto a modern static site setup with Hugo and Cloudflare Workers. What I expected to be a painful, multi-week project turned into a surprisingly...

I migrated my blog from Wordpress to Hugo, and learned some Cloudflare tricks along the way
starkravingfinkle.org/posts/2026/0...

16.02.2026 03:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's kinda hilarious when Claude's plan for my project goes out for 9 days! Does Claude think I'm the one coding this?

09.02.2026 03:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a man is making a funny face while sitting at a table in a restaurant . Alt: a man is making a shocked face but there is nothing he can do

Me, watching my free $50 credit for Claude quickly disappear

08.02.2026 22:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

what?

31.01.2026 18:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

TFW you've been watching some observability dashboards and notice auto-refresh got turned off

01.01.2026 20:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

JFC Oklahoma you fuckin cowards. Now every Jesus-freak right-wing student who can't get a passing grade for a bunch of bible quotes masquerading as an essay is going to file a 1st amendment complaint. You gonna suspend the whole Biology department for teaching about evolution? (Don't answer that)

30.11.2025 21:37 πŸ‘ 1425 πŸ” 284 πŸ’¬ 44 πŸ“Œ 11

We obviously need some stronger regulations on environmental impact of data centers. But with this administration?

01.12.2025 00:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Has anyone merged reactive notebooks like Marimo with conversational agents yet? I mean, can I ask some questions about data and the agent fetches the data and displays the results. I can then interactive with either the data or the results.

That might be neat

01.11.2025 03:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

amusing too 🫠

01.11.2025 03:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"we're Chrome in a trenchcoat" β€” this

"however it does give them an escape route if something can replace Chrome." β€” I would not hold my breath. It's kinda assuming to realize that making a web browser is possibly harder than an LLM? πŸ˜‚

01.11.2025 03:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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I didn't check to see if @siracusa.social was named in the article

17.10.2025 00:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Random weird thing: Apple Pay is only a direct payment option in Starbucks app without an account. When you create your account the option disappears... and the experience gets worse.

I deleted the account

13.10.2025 18:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I can't imagine AOL employees are happy about this outcome

02.10.2025 03:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hard to imagine how the government being shut down could be much worse than the government we’ve had over the past 9 months.

27.09.2025 13:52 πŸ‘ 795 πŸ” 110 πŸ’¬ 35 πŸ“Œ 11
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25.09.2025 21:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

19.09.2025 09:33 πŸ‘ 19664 πŸ” 8189 πŸ’¬ 259 πŸ“Œ 768

πŸ‘€ "the US experience is peculiar. Young Euro area workers have record low unemployment. In the UK, the young persons’ unemployment rate has fallen steadily. Employment by young Japanese workers is near all-time highs. It seems implausible that AI uniquely hurts the prospects of younger US workers."

19.09.2025 11:28 πŸ‘ 58 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?

11.09.2025 05:10 πŸ‘ 18540 πŸ” 5127 πŸ’¬ 261 πŸ“Œ 101

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

03.09.2025 20:22 πŸ‘ 29149 πŸ” 8573 πŸ’¬ 507 πŸ“Œ 649

Yes! Although I didn't write it, I spent enough time in the code to appreciate it and notice when other products don't have it

21.08.2025 12:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm concerned that my first thought was:
Does @siracusa.social know about this?

14.08.2025 21:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Miss you too, but now we've found each other again!

27.07.2025 13:05 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Celebrating 20 years of MDN | MDN Blog MDN turns 20! Let's look at how we started, how MDN became the most trusted resource for web developers, the impact it's had on the open web, and yes, there's cake, too.

For 20 years Mozilla has developed one of the most useful tools for web devs.

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/m...

Congrats to the MDN team on an awesome milestone. I'm happy that we've played a small part in its history and I'm excited to see it continue to be at the core of every web dev's job.

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