brian schrader – microblog

Pumpkin Bread!

I can’t wait until the new changes percolate down to the 13”. A 16” is not for me.

People seem to be pretty angry with the 16” MBP’s still-mandatory TouchBar. I don’t see it. I think a TouchBar with a physical Esc key is a solid compromise.

It’s good to be home.

Redash is great. When in doubt, use it for your BI.

Pushed some backend changes that fixes an issue hopefully no one saw.

Careful out there kids. There’s a vicious Linode phishing scam going around.

There’s lots of great tools out there to help you get started. I should probably put a list together.

The good news is that there’s things that people, politicians, and technologists can do to fix this! Start a blog, read and share blogs, reject big social media, and promote a better web by building open tech and funding it. This is how we fix what’s broken.

The democratic web where individuals could speak their mind and people, not bots, would determine if and how their voice was heard; that web is gone. What we have now is arguably worse than what we had before the web.

Day to day we don’t really notice it, but the web has changed so much since it’s inception and although lots of great stuff exists today on the web, it’s important to realize and revive what we lost.

Still listening, but the latest Weeds episode on “The Internet we lost” with Anil Dash is really good. Lots of good insight, and it’s great to hear this stuff being discussed with a wide audience.

Congrats to Brent on 20 years of blogging! Here’s to 20 more.

Just pushed a fix for following feeds from the web. Apologies about that.