Notices by Josh Collinsworth (collinsworth@hachyderm.io)

2014: How do I get robots to notice my website?

2024: How do make my website impossible for robots to survive intact?

I think we're focused on the wrong thing when we look at what tech works for a company like Amazon or Facebook or Netflix.

We should be looking at what tech works when you *don't* have a small army of staff engineers optimizing it. I want to know what I can scale *without* paying someone a half million dollar salary to do it.

There should be more case studies on things that don't have a billion-dollar company propping them up, humming along quietly on a cheap-ass VPS somewhere.

"Won't it be amazing what tech we'll have in the future?"

It's amazing what tech we have NOW. It's just all unaffordable, inequitable, locked behind a never-ending subscription, built to fail, and/or data mining and advertising disguised as a product.

The tech isn't the problem, and the next round of advancements isn't going to free us.

It took almost four years, but I just had my first positive Covid test. 😞

(Hard to be surprised; I was traveling internationally last week. But still.)

Really tired of "we must adapt to this new reality" takes in response to horrible people doing preventable things.

Fuck that.

Make anti-vaxxers adapt to 20th century medicine. Make selfish people adapt to living in a society. Make billionaires adapt to paying their fair share. Make climate deniers adapt to science. Make conspiracy theorists adapt to reality. Make fascists adapt to getting punched in the face.

The rest of us aren't the ones who need to be "adapting."

Once more: fuck that.

I took this photo of my kid playing with his blocks the other day, and when I realized it reminded me of something, well...I had to make this.

The entire lifecycle of startups is:

- Put users first
- Shift to extracting all possible value from users
- All-company five-alarm scramble to avoid being replaced by a smaller company that's still putting users first

This pattern just keeps repeating, and it absolutely astounds me that every time it happens, people act like it was some wild, unpredictable upset.

Just finished updating my SvelteKit blog tutorial to include all the version 1.0 changes. If you're curious to learn the basics of SvelteKit 1.0 and/or build a Markdown blog with it, this (long) post should have you covered.

https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/build-static-sveltekit-markdown-blog