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• Post #4474960

  A lot of folks are hard-launching vibe-coded apps into the world. If you do this, please do me a favor: When you email folks about the thing you built, write the email yourself. Thanks. https://tedium.co/2026/08/09/vibe-coding-insincerity/ new @tedium@social.tedium.co

• Post #4156244

  You know how much of a dark pattern Facebook is? Simply typing “fa,” two home row characters, is enough to trigger it in most browsers. I had to come up with a brain hack to stop typing it and visiting this site I freaking hate. https://tedium.co/2026/07/27/facebook-home-row-keyboard-trick/ new @tedium@social.tedium.co

• Post #3900770

  You gotta see this incredible recreation of a vintage web portal. https://flamenet.io/

• Post #3848726

  Hey Sony, there’s no reason there can’t be kiosks across the land burning physical discs for gamers on demand. It’s been done before! @mattl@social.mat.tl highlights an example from the UK that covered a surprising number of platforms: https://tedium.co/2026/07/15/edos-disk-copying-system-history/

• Post #3623167

  Recently I took a journey with a portable eGPU. And honestly, I kind of love it—even if it was a massive pain in the ass to set up in Linux. https://tedium.co/2026/06/10/gigabyte-aorus-5060-ti-ai-box-egpu-review/ new @tedium

• Post #3623166

  In so many ways, having ethics is for suckers. You have to uphold a high standard for yourself only for people to knock you off that high standard or drag you for any perceived diversion. But you should ultimately follow them because you care, not for someone else’s fairweather sake. That’s a trap. Do it for you, not them.

• Post #3623165

  I noticed when I was working on my latest Tedium piece that the original Web forum software, created by the W3C, was no longer online. I downloaded it, did some updates to make it hostable on Docker, and put it online. Try it here. Don’t use a password you care about: https://wit.tedium.co The code is on GitHub in case you feel like running a really old forum on your own website: https://github.com/readtedium/WIT

• Post #3623164

  I decided that I needed to write a bit about Matt’s Script Archive, the website that armed hundreds of thousands of weekend website makers with the forums and guestbooks they needed back in 1996. Just one problem: The scripts were horribly insecure. https://tedium.co/2026/06/22/matts-script-archive-retrospective/ new @tedium

• Post #3623163

  RE: https://writing.exchange/@ernie/116795301552777746 Heard from Dave Cross, who worked on nms, the set of scripts intended to replace Matt’s insecure scripts. He was nice enough to address why his own scripts haven’t been updated in 20 years. Updated the piece with some of his insights: https://tedium.co/2026/06/22/matts-script-archive-retrospective/

• Post #3623162

  So having an issue with my laptop: The camera randomly stopped working this morning, didn’t work in Windows or Linux. BIOS updates did not fix. But after the issue had completely ruined my morning, I set up on my home setup and … the laptop camera suddenly started working again. My presumption is that a cable is getting crimped by the hinge and causing it to short (I did open it up and that seemed like a genuine possibility). Any thoughts?

• Post #3623161

  Apple, the master of vertical integration, may have finally found something it can’t vertically integrate: RAM. https://tedium.co/2026/06/27/apple-micron-ram-shortage-vertical-integration/ new @tedium

• Post #3623160

  Let me pose an existential question: Would we have been better off if we never had a single place where we could all post snarky quips, but instead used a bunch of shitty web forums that barely worked? Mayhaps. https://tedium.co/2026/07/01/online-web-forums-retrospective/ new @tedium

• Post #3157002

  Adobe is pitching a new law that aims to protect artistic styles. It may be meant for AI, but all I see are blurred lines. https://tedium.co/2026/06/06/adobe-creator-act-style-protection-commentary/ new @tedium@social.tedium.co

• Post #2222336

  I once called Ted Turner the Steve Jobs of television, which makes me all the sadder about his passing. He was from the era of billionaires that were weird in a good way.

• Post #2113706

  Hard to disagree with this take. https://www.computerworld.com/article/2117752/google-gemini-ai.html

• Post #2087161

  Vulture ranked every band in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame from best to worst. This is one of those times you hit the “End” button to go to the bottom of the page, then scroll up. Vulture living up to its name this evening. https://www.vulture.com/article/rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-artists-ranked-from-best-to-worst.html #LongReads #Lists

• Post #2022882

  Yes, you can in fact reinvent the wheel. @enkiv2 did a bunch of digging and found ample evidence that wheels are constantly being reinvented—some more successfully than others. More in today’s @tedium: https://tedium.co/2026/05/03/wheel-reinvention-technology-history/

• Post #1576930

  Crypto miners, start your engines https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/14/uk-households-power-renewables-soar

• Post #1576929

  I found a book in a junk shop that made me think of a question I had never considered before: What’s up with the Form 1040? That sent me on a long journey through the history of taxes. I made it out alive! https://tedium.co/2026/04/18/tax-forms-history-irs/ new @tedium

• Post #1576928

  My reggae-legend namesake Ernie Smith just died. He was 80. This hit me surprisingly hard—I’ve been competing with this man’s search results my whole life. Seriously though, he’s an icon. You should check out his music. https://www.caribbeannationalweekly.com/entertainment/legendary-jamaican-singer-ernie-smith-dies-at-80/

• Post #1576927

  Anyone do the Mullvad add-on for Tailscale? Is it worth it?

• Post #1576926

  Don’t lose sight of the fact that when an employer points to AI as a reason to do something, AI is really just a way to sell it. They wanted to do it anyway. https://tedium.co/2026/04/21/mcclatchy-journalism-ai-scapegoat/ new @tedium

• Post #1576921

  The movie they didn’t want you to see now has a trailer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-43VeYGiPM

• Post #1447643

  I like every other creative software company going out of their way to work together to fill out the creative stack. Now if we get all these apps on Linux … https://www.theverge.com/tech/913765/adobe-rivals-free-creative-software-app-updates

• Post #1331492

  “It's working. They're shook. It always works: When everyone tells the schoolyard bully that he's a freak and no one likes him, he loses his power.” https://defector.com/look-at-these-fucking-weirdos

• Post #1159013

  Some thoughts on Cloudflare’s attempt to build a successor to WordPress: Hey, if this keeps some old sites from going offline, all for it. https://tedium.co/2026/04/02/emdash-cloudflare-wordpress-competitor/ new @tedium

• Post #1159012

  Wild to me that I posted about this independently a couple of days before it became a legit news story. https://www.tomshardware.com/software/browsers/linkedin-scans-visitors-browsers-for-over-6000-chrome-extensions-and-collects-device-data

• Post #1159010

  For folks trying to get a working low-profile external fingerprint reader on Linux: Search for “cs9711” and presume you’re buying from either AliExpress or Temu. Everything else is either huge or not supported. I just got mine in. Works perfect. Here’s the installer you need. https://github.com/Ziomal12/libfprint-CS9711

• Post #1159009

  Play much solitaire lately? I haven’t, but I hear David Buck has. https://tedium.co/2026/04/09/solitaire-card-game-types-history/ new @tedium

• Post #1159008

  New Photoshop competitor for Linux just dropped. (Not FOSS, sadly, but not subscription either.) https://www.fogpanther.com/