Friends must be free to choose whatever software and service they want
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Like of: bridge all the things by Beko Pharm
This rant is great!
🔗 Links: 2020
This is a collection of links I stumbled across and found worth sharing. Also see the blogroll for links to blogs I regularly read.
Is Having an RSS Feed Just Giving Content Away for Free?
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Chris Coyier is thinking in an article on CSS-Tricks about RSS:
LibreLingo
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LibreLingo is a relatively new open-source project that seems to be inspired by Duolingo. The demo already looks great, I learned the Spanish words “pan”, “pasta”, “leche” and “pareja”.
Make music with Excel
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Through this article by The Verge, I discovered this YouTube video by musician Dylan Tallchief. He used Microsoft Excel to create a DAW (a digital audio workstation) called xlStudio. With that you can create entire songs in Excel spreadsheets and even export them to use them in the software suite Ableton. I don’t know much about music or music production, but this looks pretty awesome.
CO2 emissions on the web
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Danny Van Kooten wrote an great article. He wrote how he tries to reduce the environmental impact of his WordPress plugins:
Google Maps Hacks
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The Berlin based artist Simon Weckert has hacked Google Maps in a creative way:
Why Using WhatsApp Is Dangerous
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Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, wrote about “why using WhatsApp is dangerous”, citing the attack against Jeff Bezos.
Avast sells user’s browsing data
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Stories like this are a great reminder to not install any “freeware malware protection” software and unknowingly opt-in to data collection. If possible switch to Linux, or if you want to stay on Windows, use the integrated Windows Defender.
Tinify
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Tinify or TinyPNG or TinyJPEG is the service I use to automatically compress and resize images uploaded to my micropub media endpoint. It’s a great service with a nice developer API that also offers a free limit of 500 compressions per month and has a pay-what-you-use policy after that (but I won’t upload more than 500 images per month anyway). I use a library written in Go to use the API.
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Purelymail
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I’m visiting the site of Purelymail from time to time for over a year now (shortly after they launched), because I’m interested into how the service evolves. It looks like a great service that provides purely mail and is very cheap or even cheaper when you are opting for advanced pricing (“Pay as you go”). You can add as many custom domains and users as you want and just pay for the resources you actually use.