The Outsider web is alive and well.

The web designer and developer Jim Nielsen commented on a quote from the Security/Devops engineer Mat Duggan about the Fediverse… apparently a “social network that half the internet has never heard of”.

No source for this claim is cited so allow me make up my own statistic in response: Half the Internet has heard of the Fediverse but decided it is not for them as they are not techy people and do not wish to join one of the gated communities they are building for themselves so they can keep reassuring each other what a great job they are doing… even if some of them struggle to resize a window.

To quote from an earlier piece by Mat Duggan regarding a browser extension he had created:

“Interestingly one of my most common requests is “I would like less technical content” which as it turns out is tricky to provide because it’s pretty hard to find.”

The clues are all there. Let’s see if they can figure it out.

Developers are great – an ongoing series

Most of my school reports concluded that I ‘could do better’/’must try harder’. As we watch the web disintegrate around us daily those are the words that usually come to mind. It is not just the Enshittification but the careless amateurism of much of what appears on, supposedly, professionally developed sites. I assume that these are managed and overseen by someone competent but…

Duncan, lower your monthly payments by £0 Est.

This is basic stuff. In lesson one you learn about Bubble sorts. Lesson two check for negative and zero values so you do not spew out nonsense like this.