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  Good places on the internet - GitHub (https://github.com/) GitHub is a platform for hosting and collaborating on code, bringing Linus Torvalds' Git version control system to the internet, and offering a chance for social discovery and the ability to contribute it to a project or fork it into your own version. In recent years the number of Github tools I've found useful has continued to grow, such as boring.notch and slsk-batchdl. Let me know your discoveries.

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  After @Casey and @kevin showed their websites on hard fork I was emboldened to give designing a new Ghost theme another go. Antigravity (Gemini) sort of got there, but then out of nowhere started researching the GDP of Pakistan and couldn’t be revived. Claude Code got to the end, spun up a local Ghost instance, but when I uploaded the theme it went “oh shit I just took the default and put on a green background”. Am I just doing it wrong? Feels the same as Cursor did a year ago.

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  Exhibit B of Gemini overthinking a problem. Yesterday it was the GDP of Pakistan instead of my website design. Now when I asked it about a Raspberry Pi build, it's thinking about the philosophy of the build itself by reviewing Steve Jobs quotes. #DEEPresearch

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  Habbo Hotel launched in 2000, three years before Myspace. It was the original social MMO, but for me it was always about collecting furni and expressing your personality through your room in the Hotel. Habbo had its problems—child grooming and racist memes like 4chan's "pool's closed"—but it was a pioneering social experiment, shaped by a population who could recently remember a world without the internet.

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  Good places on the internet - Soulseek (http://www.slsknet.org/) Soulseek is a peer-to-peer file sharing network focused on music, started in 2000? (I dont trust the dates online) Soulseek for me is the closest thing to a dusty 2nd hand record store on the internet, in the great P2P tradition (shouts to KaZaa and Limewire too). For out of print recordings, bootlegs, bloghouse cuts, or old school music privacy it is unmatched and has survived, probably due to it's P2P pipes and niche...

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  Good places on the internet - YouTube Though not always a good place (see @kevin’s podcast series 'Rabbit Hole'), its undeniable that the primacy of Youtube as the visual platform of the world has crystallised in the last couple of years. The main thing I love about Youtube is primary footage. It's an unintentional archive of raw captures from many different types of events in the world. One favourite example - spacewalk footage from a GoPro on the ISS in 2017: https:...

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  Good places on the internet - Bandcamp (https://bandcamp.com/) Bandcamp is a platform for artists to sell music directly to listeners. Launched in 2008, most of its great features for fans and artists have been there since inception. Of particular note for me is the fan collection page, where all of your purchases are displayed. I've never seen a better execution on the internet of putting value and self expression at the centre of (what is mostly) digital files.