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recent bookmarks from StolzenhainRequest Blocker – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)2025-09-05T17:39:55+00:00
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/request-blocker-we/
Stolzenhainnützlich tested Plugins Firefox Software Webhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:Stolzenhain/b:349fe8002ed2/Firefox is fine. The people running it are not • The Register2025-07-15T13:22:15+00:00
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/08/firefox_isnt_dead/
StolzenhainI am not here to shoot the messenger. Steven's core point is correct. Firefox is in a bit of a mess – but, seriously, not such a bad mess. You're still better off with it – or one of its forks, because this is FOSS – than pretty much any of the alternatives.
Like many things, unfortunately, much of computing is run on feelings, tradition, and group loyalties, when it should use facts, evidence, and hard numbers. Don't bother saying Firefox is getting slower. It's not.
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Perhaps [jwk is] right, and Mozilla should be a nonprofit, working to fund the one independent, non-vendor-driven, standards-compliant browser engine.
bit moody, so rely on comments for corrections:
if you want to ensure no site works in Firefox, definitely make devs install a special version. The reason most things still work in Firefox is because many web devs still use it as their day-to-day browser. If it wasn't for that, nobody would care. And the presence of the development tools mean if you spot something going wrong, you can only up the tools and inspect it there and then.
]]>nützlich Software Meinungen Performance Firefox Webbrowser Web .Intermedienhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:Stolzenhain/b:79f038be0446/kill the metrics in your head | The Roof is on Phire2025-06-08T03:23:34+00:00
https://phirephoenix.com/blog/2025-05-30/metrics
StolzenhainYou can only demonstrate that you’re paying attention by taking some step to express it: a like, a repost, a reply, an email, a rambly blog post. And because these things take energy, you’re not going to get a signal from the majority of the people you’re trying to reach.
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This is a genuine problem with interactions on the internet. Weirdly, it’s a problem that analytics software was sort of trying to solve; shame it ballooned into this privacy-destroying behemoth that undergirds the global surveillance panopticon.
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it is easy, so incredibly easy […] to confuse the thing you’re measuring for the metric itself.
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Often when I start writing I discover lots of other people are writing about similar themes quite eloquently and decide maybe I didn’t have anything new to say after all. That is still the metrics-poisoned perspective]]>nützlich interessant .Intermedien Meinungen Kommunikation Web Analyse Trackinghttps://pinboard.in/u:Stolzenhain/b:209f89aeb0dd/Home - pastinter.net directory2025-05-25T04:52:27+00:00
http://dir.pastinter.net/
StolzenhainSearch across more than 70,000 historical URLs featured in printed Internet directory books published around the world in the late 1990s and early 2000s. ]]>nützlich interessant .Intermedien Nachschlagewerke Geschichte Web Medien Entwicklung/Programmierunghttps://pinboard.in/u:Stolzenhain/b:7b16425b472e/The death of programmatic ads | destructured2024-03-15T08:40:31+00:00
https://destructured.net/death-programmatic-ads
Stolzenhainthe displacement of programmatic advertising with a greater reliance on direct ad sales would be good for the internet as a whole.
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Direct ads need not be vulnerable on either front, which means advertisers can feel more confident that their ads are being served when a browser loads the page.]]>interessant .Intermedien Wirtschaft Werbung Journalismus Meinungen Medien Webhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:Stolzenhain/b:779767a074f7/Skyview2023-12-19T14:12:47+00:00
https://skyview.social/
StolzenhainView and share BlueSky threads without needing a BlueSky account.]]>nützlich tested social .Intermedien interessant Web Medienhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:Stolzenhain/b:9c684d38cf42/Advertisers Broke The Contract With Publishers. Cut Them Off.2023-11-01T14:40:28+00:00
https://tedium.co/2023/10/30/data-advertising-publishing-industry-damage/
StolzenhainWhy are we so willing to change our models for the sake of advertisers who don’t care about them? Why shouldn’t the advertisers learn to work more like us, even once?]]>interessant .Intermedien Wirtschaft Web Medienhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:Stolzenhain/b:6525a43fe571/A look at search engines with their own indexes - Seirdy2022-12-10T20:05:01+00:00
https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes/
StolzenhainI decided to test and catalog all the different indexing search engines I could find. I prioritized breadth over depth, and encourage readers to try the engines out themselves if they’d like more information.
This page is a “living document” that I plan on updating indefinitely]]>interessant .Intermedien nützlich Web Suchehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:Stolzenhain/b:c3ccf9803e15/Unicode Font Converter - Fancy Text Styles to Copy2022-10-18T16:42:07+00:00
https://textfancy.com/font-converter/
StolzenhainBrowse our large assortment of 60+ Unicode font styles from our gallery. All you have to do is type into the input bar, copy and paste, it’s that simple! We feature Unicode styles that are normal & 𝐛𝐨𝐥𝐝, as well as multiline Ascii text and 𝓼𝓽𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓯𝓻𝓪𝓶𝓮𝓼
so there are letterset variants for ASCII text ranges which you can convert here for added effect.]]>utf-8 nützlich tested Schriften Typografie Webhttps://pinboard.in/u:Stolzenhain/b:752ef0a1fe5c/The Single File Philosophy2022-10-10T14:48:21+00:00
https://single-file.netlify.app/
Stolzenhainthere are cases where we introduce Complexity to build our single-use web apps or side projects for the sake of Convention. If we take a step back and see the project for What It Is, you may realize that you don't need to follow Convention. Everything you wrote can realistically fit into a lone readable file and nothing more.]]>.brutalist nützlich tested Webdesign Software Web Performance Meinungen Kommunikation Dokumentationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:Stolzenhain/b:250c94699595/The smallest 256x256 single-color PNG file, and where you've seen it2022-04-24T19:56:41+00:00
https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/smallest-png/
StolzenhainSlippy maps traditionally serve fixed size 'map tiles' in a grid at a given zoom level - for example [http://b.tile.openstreetmap.org/6/29/20.png]
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Servers could send a redirect to a cached resource - some maps do exactly that! But when you can send a tile in just 103 bytes, sending the tile is as simple as sending the redirect.
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69 bytes - if all your clients support scaling
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If you're doing something that involves moving lots of small PNGs around, a hex editor is all you need to check you're using the minimum number of bits per pixel, your palette is truncated, and you don't have any data segments you don't absolutely need.
also check the conversation including SVGs at:
[https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6018611/smallest-data-uri-image-possible-for-a-transparent-image]
which links to the smallest transparent GIF (60b), from 2009:
[http://probablyprogramming.com/2009/03/15/the-tiniest-gif-ever]
smallest intransparent GIF (26b):
[http://probablyprogramming.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/handtinyblack.gif]
… and highlights from the comments there:
18 bytes (49 bytes after gzipping) - 44x37 (good for almost any image or thumbnail) : GIF89a,%00%%00%%%
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Amazingly, if you use your code and vary bytes 7,8,9,10, you can create a 26 byte image of any size (theoretically up to 65,535 pixels by 65,535 pixels). See [http://seconds.com/tiny.gif]
]]>nützlich Performance Web Grafik Hacks Inspiration Webdesignhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:Stolzenhain/b:b5bd584a9f41/zedeuss Profil - Liberapay2022-02-26T06:47:45+00:00
https://liberapay.com/zedeus
StolzenhainZed is creating Nitter, an alternative Twitter front-end
this probably needs support]]>interessant nützlich Shopping Web Kommunikation Opensourcehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:Stolzenhain/b:e27c745a1c5e/Whitespace character - Wikipedia2021-09-30T18:55:03+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_character#Unicode
StolzenhainThe table below lists the twenty-five characters defined as whitespace ("WSpace=Y", "WS") characters in the Unicode Character Database.]]>nützlich Typografie Nachschlagewerke Webdesign Web Bildschirmhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:Stolzenhain/b:1745b701c75c/Netflix Top 10: The streaming service’s clickbait problem threatens to ruin it.2021-08-27T13:29:19+00:00
https://slate.com/culture/2021/08/netflix-top-10-movies-shows-clickbait.html
Stolzenhainthese days, Netflix has discovered clickbait.]]>interessant .Intermedien Medien Film Video Web Werbung Meinungen Psychologiehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:Stolzenhain/b:deb9638c710d/The most underused browser feature | Frank's blog2021-08-27T13:29:11+00:00
https://frankgroeneveld.nl/2021/08/24/most-underused-browser-feature/
Stolzenhainfor Chrome, […] you first need to enable it at chrome://flags/#enable-reader-mode.
… or use a browser that does not rely on ad money.]]>nützlich Meinungen Web Software Typografie Nachschlagewerke Performancehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:Stolzenhain/b:caeac4fc9912/Thread by @The_Opponent on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App2021-08-25T19:26:57+00:00
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1430204227067027458.html
StolzenhainSince 2002, GameFAQs contributor StarFighters76 has been submitting maps maps for games across multiple platforms. To date, they've published over 3,400, and they all look like they were made in Windows 3.1 Paintbrush. A minimal, highly pleasing aesthetic.
[https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/community/StarFighters76]
The maps either use clean angles for maximum readability or recreate level structures for quick identification rather than use a screenshot. It's a very impressive dedication to the Windows 3.1 look—note the copyright years as late as 2021.
these look very classy indeed and has its own Twitter account now: [https://twitter.com/StarFighters76]]]>interessant Spiele Geschichte Dokumentation Kunst Web Medien .Intermedien Kartographie Retrohttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:Stolzenhain/b:2c770cb66570/Why Can’t We Be Friends — Real Life2021-07-06T09:09:02+00:00
https://reallifemag.com/why-cant-we-be-friends/
StolzenhainThe psychologists Roy Baumeister and Mark Leary showed in this 1995 paper that people’s need to belong is satisfied only when pleasant interactions with other people are framed in a predictable and regular structure.
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Lurkers passively consume super-fans’ fan-art, fan-criticism, and love, just as they consume the creator’s personality.]]>interessant Psychologie .Intermedien Medien Web Kommunikationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:Stolzenhain/b:d2e683a66108/What Substack is really doing to the media.2021-04-26T19:33:39+00:00
https://slate.com/business/2021/04/substack-media-new-york-times-subscriptions-poaching.html
StolzenhainIf you’re hearing what feels like a lot about Substack these days, it’s because journalists are obsessed with news about the news, especially when it involves boatloads of money.]]>interessant Medien Meinungen .Intermedien Journalismus Wirtschaft Webhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:Stolzenhain/b:ea1224434197/What Really Caused Facebook's 500M-User Data Leak? | WIRED2021-04-08T12:46:11+00:00
https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-data-leak-500-million-users-phone-numbers/
StolzenhainFacebook says it did not notify users about the 2019 contact importer exploitation precisely because there are so many troves of semipublic user data—taken from Facebook itself and other companies—out in the world. Additionally, attackers needed to supply phone numbers and manipulate the feature to spit out the corresponding name and other data associated with it for the exploit to work, which Facebook argues means that it did not expose the phone numbers itself.
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But for those affected, this is a distinction without a difference. Attackers could simply run through every possible international phone number and collect data on hits. The Facebook bug provided bad actors with the missing connection between phone numbers and public information like names.]]>interessant .Intermedien Anekdoten Sicherheit Web social Kommunikation Gesellschaft Kulturhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:Stolzenhain/b:c7653a73619f/Hyperland, Intermedia, and the Web That Never Was — Are.na2020-12-09T11:14:24+00:00
https://www.are.na/blog/hyperland-intermedia-and-the-web-that-never-was
Stolzenhain.Intermedien interessant nützlich Web Geschichte Nutzerführung Kunst Medien Film Hardware Software UI UXhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:Stolzenhain/b:c2700cf32dd8/Gossip’s Web2020-12-01T16:11:43+00:00
https://gossipsweb.net/
StolzenhainIt costs $1 to submit
The fee goes towards running this ad free website
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personal websites
communities
experiments
writing
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Gossip’s Web is a place for sharing personal websites, experiments, writing, and communities. Gossips is different from other link sharing websites in that it focuses on handmade websites instead of commercial, news, or ad-driven sites. You can help with this mission by submitting personal, original, and inspiring sites to the directory.]]>interessant nützlich .Intermedien Web Inspiration Blogs Listen Rezensionen Webdesignhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:Stolzenhain/b:08f3e0b2cc5a/The Hidden Cost of Digital Consumption2020-11-16T07:40:06+00:00
https://parametric.press/issue-02/streaming/
Stolzenhainwe should be mindful of the carbon emissions produced by running the world’s data centers and internet networks. According to one study, the Information and Communications Technology sector is expected to account for 3–3.6% of global greenhouse gas emissions in 2020 [1]. That’s more than the fuel emissions for all air travel in 2019, which clocked in at 2.5%. The answer to “why?” and “how?” may not be immediately obvious, but that’s not the fault of consumers. A well-designed, frictionless digital experience means that users don’t need to worry about what happens behind the scenes and, by extension, the consequences. This is problematic: the idea of “hidden costs” runs contrary to principles of environmental awareness. ]]>interessant .Intermedien Umwelt Infrastruktur Web Wirtschaft Infografikhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:Stolzenhain/b:1f2babf51488/GitHub - flyingrub/scdl: Soundcloud Music Downloader2020-10-30T08:13:40+00:00
https://github.com/flyingrub/scdl
StolzenhainThis script is able to download music from SoundCloud and set id3tag to the downloaded music. Compatible with Windows, OS X, Linux.
alternative to [https://github.com/Miserlou/SoundScrape]]]>nützlich tested Python Shell FFMPEG Software Musik Sound Web Downloads MP3https://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:Stolzenhain/b:bab66f171094/The Hidden Costs of Streaming Music | The New Yorker2020-09-27T19:40:35+00:00
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-hidden-costs-of-streaming-music
StolzenhainKyle Devine, in his recent book, “Decomposed: The Political Ecology of Music,” thoroughly dismantles that seductive illusion. Like everything we do on the Internet, streaming and downloading music requires a steady surge of energy. Devine writes, “The environmental cost of music is now greater than at any time during recorded music’s previous eras.”
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In environmental terms, however, the CD turned out to be somewhat less deleterious. Devine observes that polycarbonate, the medium’s principal ingredient, is not as toxic as polyvinyl chloride. Early on, the widespread use of polystyrene for CD packaging wiped out that advantage, but a turn toward recyclable materials in recent years has made the lowly CD perhaps the least environmentally harmful format on the market.]]>interessant .Intermedien Musik Umwelt Geschichte Hardware Kultur Gesellschaft mobile Web Medienhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:Stolzenhain/b:7afb56e1a9e5/Dinosaur Comics - September 7th, 2020 - awesome fun times!2020-09-18T09:27:33+00:00
https://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=3641
StolzenhainYou know what sounds hella dystopian yet I hear it EVERY DAY?
When kids call themselves "CONTENT CREATORS"!]]>interessant .Intermedien Kreation Web Kommunikation Medien Humor Anekdoten Konzeptionhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:Stolzenhain/b:5e3e1d5b8bed/The cult of the free must die - QuirksBlog2020-08-13T09:26:11+00:00
https://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2020/08/the_cult_of_the.html
StolzenhainSmall company gives away software for free. Large companies give away the same software for free, and to them the cost is essentially peanuts, and they own the platforms the sofware runs on. Therefore small company will lose, decreasing diversity in the browser market. Simple as that
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The cult of the free must die so that Firefox may live.]]>nützlich Meinungen .Intermedien Wirtschaft Medien Web Geschichte Software Projektmanagementhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:Stolzenhain/b:4e45f2646606/Old Code Gets Younger Every Year - Marianne Bellotti - Medium2020-06-10T12:10:10+00:00
https://medium.com/@bellmar/old-code-gets-younger-every-year-3bd24c7f2262
StolzenhainIn all likelihood the reason the average age of COBOL programmers is stable is because COBOL programmers develop their depth of experience and expertise in other languages before moving over to COBOL later in their career.
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On the flip side of dependency hell is jQuery. Migrating away from jQuery is not difficult because of dependencies, it is difficult because so many other things have come to depend on jQuery.
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like all holy wars in technology, good sensible arguments against choosing one option over the other become murkier the more often they are repeated. In some ways I think the jQuery story is the most similar to the COBOL story in that the headlines published about it lead with its omnipresence and imply that because other technologies can do the same things now those other (newer) technologies must be better.
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The real horseman of the legacy apocalypse is the depth of the dependency tree.
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we need to start thinking critically about how long we expect a given piece of technology to last and ask ourselves whether the choices we make in building it will make it harder to remove later. We can no longer afford to wait and see when something better comes along. We have to assume that something better will come along eventually.
Finally we need to refocus the conversation and stop demonizing technology just for being old and programmed by old people.]]>nützlich Web .Intermedien Geschichte Software Webdesign Administration Sicherheit jQuery COBOL Python Javascript node.js Kultur Anekdoten Entwicklung/Programmierunghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:Stolzenhain/b:27a9783758de/Your problem isn’t software, it’s workflow - Public Media Stack2020-05-20T06:25:40+00:00
https://publicmediastack.com/workflow-stage/publishing-distribution-essay/
StolzenhainA large NGO came to us years ago and said, “I don’t care what CMS it is, it should just cost half a million dollars”. That was a low point
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the first part of making a decision about a CMS is just sitting with your editorial teams and actually listening to them. And then, and this is the tricky part, going back on a recurring basis to the same people as they start to use the new system, finding out what’s working and what isn’t.
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The best way to think about the workflow of production and distribution is as something that is stuck between two funnels. One funnel is the workflow funnel of your editorial teams, where you really have to understand what their everyday working needs are. The second funnel is the audience engagement or monetization funnel, where you really need to think hard about exactly what the audience journey is.
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The bit in the middle that connects the two funnels in the best way possible – that’s your content technology strategy.
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The biggest problem with content technology now is not just specifying the right tech; it’s maintaining it after launch. For non-profits, having the money to invest in requirement gathering and tech strategy is hard. But getting the budget to maintain and update that technology in a sustainable, iterative way is almost impossible.
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The true disaster, in my opinion, is rich interactive projects that require huge bespoke technology development to even exist in the first place. The kind of project where there’s video at the top, there’s data visualization, and other whizzy things. I look at things like that and think – that will never be updated and it will eventually fail completely. Doing the work to support bespoke projects like that is incredibly expensive]]>nützlich tested Meinungen CMS Projektmanagement Medien .Intermedien Redaktion Wirtschaft Web Webdesign UXhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:Stolzenhain/b:52a538fecd3b/Ian's Recs2020-03-17T20:51:02+00:00
http://ianmaclarty.com/recs/index.html
StolzenhainThis is a collection of small, inexpensive videogames I like. ]]>interessant Spiele Rezensionen Blogs revisit Indie Kunst Web .Intermedien kostenloshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:Stolzenhain/b:1e503591a20d/The “celestial jukebox" era is dead. What's next for music streaming? | Water & Music on Patreon2020-02-01T20:02:17+00:00
https://www.patreon.com/posts/32326028
StolzenhainThe “celestial jukebox” of early streaming, while idyllic in theory, presents a similar conundrum: the more choices we face for what to listen to or watch as users of these platforms, the more paralyzed we become and the more we tend to flock towards what we already know. Or, the less we remember the vast swath of music we end up consuming.
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In a world of chronic abundance, gatekeepers earn more power, not less.]]>interessant .Intermedien Musik Wirtschaft Vertrieb Kultur Gesellschaft Web Konsum Anekdotenhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:Stolzenhain/b:1257514d9d08/Microbrowsers Are Everywhere ◆ 24 ways2019-12-16T14:59:07+00:00
https://24ways.org/2019/microbrowsers-are-everywhere/
StolzenhainMicrobrowsers are a class of User-Agents that also visit website links, parse HTML and generate a user experience. But unlike those traditional browsers, the HTML parsing is limited and the rendering engine is singularly focused. The experience is not intended to be interactive. Rather the experience is intended to be representational - to give the user a hint of what exists on the other side of the URL.
Creating link previews is not new. Facebook and Twitter have been adding these link previews in posts for nearly a decade.
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Rather than reinventing the wheel, each platform looks for pre-existing micro data to generate the preview.
The challenge now is that each communication platform parses and interprets this micro-data in different ways, and presents the information in differing ways.
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It’s easy to miss the traffic from Microbrowsers. This is for a number of reasons:
First, page requests from Microbrowsers don’t run JavaScript and they don’t accept cookies. The Google Analytics