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Roy Tang 🇵🇭 @roytang@indieweb.social · Jul 31, 2026

Shared: Things Unexpectedly Named After People https://notes.rolandcrosby.com/posts/unexpectedly-eponymous/

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Roy Tang 🇵🇭 @roytang@indieweb.social · Jul 30, 2026

Shared: You don’t have to blog like me – Dan Q https://danq.me/2026/07/02/you-dont-have-to-blog-like-me/.

#Blogging #Poetry

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Roy Tang 🇵🇭 @roytang@indieweb.social · Jul 29, 2026

New blog post: Exporting a Youtube Playlist to MP3s https://roytang.net/2026/07/youtube-playlist-export-mp3/ #Youtube

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Roy Tang 🇵🇭 @roytang@indieweb.social · Jul 27, 2026

I've been on work hiatus for a while but I wanna try to get back into it. I would appreciate any boosts, leads, or tips. I'm a software dev from the Philippines with 18+ years of experience, mostly with Java and Python, but I can learn and work with pretty much anything. I'm open to remote work in any time zone, part-time or full-time. Yes to making the world a better place. No to GenAI, crypto, and similar things. Full resume: https://roytang.net/page/resume/ #GetFediHired #FediHire #JobSearch

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Roy Tang 🇵🇭 @roytang@indieweb.social · Jul 25, 2026

Shared: (Youtube) Don't Take the Black Pill - Andrew Kelley | SSW 2026 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLZwpH5lCD4.

#Tech

YouTube

Don't Take the Black Pill - Andrew Kelley | SSW 2026

Software Should Work

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Roy Tang 🇵🇭 @roytang@indieweb.social · Jul 25, 2026

Shared: I Hate The Way We Talk Online – Jason Toney https://misterjt.com/2026/07/11/i-hate-the-way-we-talk-online/.

#Web #Tech

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Roy Tang 🇵🇭 @roytang@indieweb.social · Jul 25, 2026

Shared: 95 reasons for having your own website in 2026 ~ Bell Kiosk https://bellkiosk.website/blog/reasons-to-website.html #Web

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Roy Tang 🇵🇭 @roytang@indieweb.social · Jul 25, 2026

Shared: What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all https://stephenfollows.com/p/what-just-happened-to-thenumberscom-should-worry-us-all.

#Genai #Web

(Sadly Substack)

> "A beloved, useful, free website, run carefully by a competent, honest person for nearly thirty years, was crushed between two features of the new AI economy. "

Yet another story of genAI-powered bots breaking the open web

stephenfollows.com

What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all

If you work in or around the film industry, there is a decent chance you have used the work of The Numbers this month, whether you realise it or not.

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Roy Tang 🇵🇭 @roytang@indieweb.social · Jul 23, 2026

Shared: Soko Striker https://axylaric.itch.io/soko-striker.

#Games #Gaming

Soccer-themed sokoban-style puzzle game with 30 levels. I spent almost an hour of my life playing through this, so it's worth sharing

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Roy Tang 🇵🇭 @roytang@indieweb.social · Jul 22, 2026

On a whim I bought this fun little #Transformers Blokees blind box to see what it was like. I got Wheeljack! These are pretty cheap - they're the smallest ones (ballpen for scale). You need to assemble them, but its not too hard even with my poor dexterity. Its a pretty clever product because I can see these as being nice cheap gifts for kids, but the blind box gives it collector appeal too.

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Roy Tang 🇵🇭 @roytang@indieweb.social · Jul 20, 2026

It annoys me that this prompt has a checkbox to always open in app but not the opposite option i.e. never open links in apps, since I almost always prefer #web

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Roy Tang 🇵🇭 @roytang@indieweb.social · Jul 19, 2026

New blog post: Weeknotes 2026-07-19 https://roytang.net/2026/07/weeknotes-07-19/

#Weeknotes

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Roy Tang 🇵🇭 @roytang@indieweb.social · Jul 17, 2026

Shared: Report from the march to Stop the AI Race https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/stop-ai-march/.

#Genai

> "Even if the danger isn’t as existential as the doomiest doomers imagine ... I believe this is a great opportunity for humanity to prove that we can actually make choices about the development and deployment of powerful technology. If we can’t, then we are not as sovereign as we imagine; if we can’t, a machine god has already taken over this planet, and it’s called the market."

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Roy Tang 🇵🇭 @roytang@indieweb.social · Jul 16, 2026

Shared: Chasing life goals is a recipe for disaster – so try these tiny experiments instead | Life and style | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/jun/21/improve-career-health-relationships-experimental-mindset.

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Roy Tang 🇵🇭 @roytang@indieweb.social · May 14, 2026

Replying to @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social

@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social i have trouble naming my video game characters, im not going near my own name

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Roy Tang 🇵🇭 @roytang@indieweb.social · May 04, 2026

New blog post: Weeknotes 2026-05-03 https://roytang.net/2026/05/weeknotes-05-03/

#Weeknotes

roytang.net

Weeknotes 2026-05-03 · roytang.net

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Roy Tang 🇵🇭 @roytang@indieweb.social · May 03, 2026

Shared: Books and screens https://aeon.co/essays/what-we-think-is-a-decline-in-literacy-is-a-design-problem.

#Tech

> "Your inability to focus isn’t a moral failing. It’s a design problem. You’re trying to think in environments built to prevent thinking. You’re trying to sustain attention in spaces engineered to shatter it. You’re fighting algorithms explicitly optimised to keep you scrolling, not learning."

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Roy Tang 🇵🇭 @roytang@indieweb.social · May 02, 2026

New blog post: Movies / TV - Mar & Apr 2026 https://roytang.net/2026/05/movies-tv-mar-apr-2026/

#Movies #Tv #WatchingLately

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Roy Tang 🇵🇭 @roytang@indieweb.social · Apr 30, 2026

Shared: Just Put It On Your Blog https://shellsharks.com/just-put-it-on-your-blog.

#Blogging

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Roy Tang 🇵🇭 @roytang@indieweb.social · Apr 30, 2026

Shared: The Artisanal Web | Another Rodeo https://another.rodeo/artisanal-web/.

#Web

> "Amidst all the commoditization there are small human spaces out there, waiting to be discovered, with people working diligently and with care in them."

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Roy Tang 🇵🇭 @roytang@indieweb.social · Apr 30, 2026

Shared: How are we preparing for the Long Web? · brennan.day https://brennan.day/how-are-we-preparing-for-the-long-web/.

#Web

> "What can we pass on? What can we leave behind so that the next generation of netizens and internauts aren't reinventing the social wheel once again? To paraphrase a popular musical, what seeds are we planting in the digital garden that we never get to see?"

brennan.day

How are we preparing for the Long Web?

What will the Internet look like in 2036? 2046? How do we reckon with the challenges of digital preservation, link rot, and building for the Long Web in an age of ephemeral content?

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Roy Tang 🇵🇭 @roytang@indieweb.social · Apr 27, 2026

If #ubuntu is gonna start doing "AI" nonsense (https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/the-future-of-ai-in-ubuntu/81130), I assume #LinuxMint will be affected as well? It would make me explore other distros earlier than i expected

#linux

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Roy Tang 🇵🇭 @roytang@indieweb.social · Apr 25, 2026

Shared: Do I belong in tech anymore? · Ky Decker https://ky.fyi/posts/ai-burnout.

#Genai #Tech

Ky Decker

Do I belong in tech anymore?

On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal.

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Roy Tang 🇵🇭 @roytang@indieweb.social · Apr 23, 2026

Shared: AI as a Fascist Artifact https://tante.cc/2026/04/21/ai-as-a-fascist-artifact/.

#Genai #Fascism

Look, I'm tired of talking about "AI" too. Yet this essay was very good, framing the use of this technology (and others) through the lens of fascism. Very long though.

Smashing Frames

AI as a Fascist Artifact

(Christian Tieber hat eine deutsche Übersetzung des Textes angefertigt: “KI” als faschistisches Artefakt. Vielen Dank Christian!) (This is a bit of a merger of two talks I recently gave about fascism

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Roy Tang 🇵🇭 @roytang@indieweb.social · Apr 22, 2026

Replying to @roytang@indieweb.social

"...but this is precisely the reason Silicon Valley keeps trying to force futures on consumers that they emphatically don’t want. A VC who is incapable of self-reflection will never notice that his bets on the future of consumerism are failing in exactly the same way every time. That VC hasn’t noticed, and indeed can’t notice, that his experience isn’t representative of what the ordinary person wants or needs."

(archive.org link because paywall)

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Roy Tang 🇵🇭 @roytang@indieweb.social · Apr 22, 2026

Shared: Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/tldr/915176/nft-metaverse-ai-weirdos.

#Genai #Business #Tech

The Verge

Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want

Did the tech industry get high on its own supply?

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Roy Tang 🇵🇭 @roytang@indieweb.social · Apr 18, 2026

Shared: Understanding friction in software engineering | deadSimpleTech https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/friction_software_engineering.

#SoftwareDevelopment #Genai

Comparing friction in the Iran War to friction in software dev projects, with a bit of LLM-related stuff towards the end. (The essay is a bit long)

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Roy Tang 🇵🇭 @roytang@indieweb.social · Apr 18, 2026

Shared: The 49MB Web Page | thatshubham https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit.

#Web

> "They built a system that treats your attention as an extractable resource. The most radical thing you can do is refuse to be extracted. Close the tab. Use RSS. Let the bounce rate speak for itself. These are vanity metrics until enough people stop vanishing into them and then suddenly they become a crisis."

thatshubham.com

The 49MB Web Page

A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.

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Roy Tang 🇵🇭 @roytang@indieweb.social · Apr 18, 2026

Replying to @roytang@indieweb.social

I didnt get a screenshot but my result was like 47% in each category and it bothers me a bit that the treshhold is not 50% but at the same time that maybe validates the results lol

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Roy Tang 🇵🇭 @roytang@indieweb.social · Apr 18, 2026

I took the German or Autistic diagnostic. Result: Both. The Wittgenstein Result. I don't know whether to be proud or concerned. https://german.millermanschool.com/

> "You have, apparently, both the cultural formation that produces systematic people and the neurological substrate that makes systematic thinking feel like breathing. This is either a significant advantage or an explanation for certain recurring difficulties in your life. Probably both."

german.millermanschool.com

Am I German or Autistic?

A rigorous diagnostic. 15 questions. One uncomfortable truth.

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Roy Tang 🇵🇭 @roytang@indieweb.social · Apr 16, 2026

Replying to @stefan@stefanbohacek.online

@stefan thanks, ill take a look at some point

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Roy Tang 🇵🇭 @roytang@indieweb.social · Apr 16, 2026

I would like some kind of browser extension where if I click a link to a post on a #fediverse instance, it will automatically redirect to the server where my own fediverse account is (#mastodon for me, I suppose I will have to configure this in the extension settings) and load that post on my server, so I can comment/like/boost without having to go through the whole "To continue, you need to reply from your account." modal dialog

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Roy Tang 🇵🇭 @roytang@indieweb.social · Apr 16, 2026

Shared: A Commentary On GenAI Inspected Through Different Lenses | Brain Baking https://brainbaking.com/post/2026/04/a-commentary-on-genai-inspected-through-different-lenses/.

#Genai

Maybe someday I will maybe gather the energy needed to also detail my thoughts on genAI (the general trend should be obvious from what links I share), but until then I appreciate that people I follow like Wouter tend to have largely similar sentiments

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Roy Tang 🇵🇭 @roytang@indieweb.social · Apr 15, 2026

Replying to @roytang@indieweb.social

I saw someone post that they used claude to vibecode a searchable twitter archive for their website. Burning tokens/energy/water/goodwill was not necessary because there is at least one privacy-respecting service that already does this, linked here. The code is also open source so you can just tweak it to your liking. I used this for my own twitter archive at https://roytang.net/files/twitter/

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Roy Tang 🇵🇭 @roytang@indieweb.social · Apr 15, 2026

Shared: A simple Twitter archiver https://tinysubversions.com/twitter-archive/make-your-own/.

#Twitter #Archiving

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Roy Tang 🇵🇭 @roytang@indieweb.social · Apr 12, 2026

New blog post: Weeknotes 2026-04-12 https://roytang.net/2026/04/weeknotes-04-12/

#Weeknotes

roytang.net

Weeknotes 2026-04-12 · roytang.net

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Roy Tang 🇵🇭 @roytang@indieweb.social · Apr 12, 2026

Replying to @roytang@indieweb.social

Perhaps a bit too naive, in hindsight: "Computers and tyranny do not necessarily go hand in hand. Tyrannies have worked very well without computers (consider the Nazis) and the most computerised nations in today's world are also the least tyrannical."

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Roy Tang 🇵🇭 @roytang@indieweb.social · Apr 12, 2026

Shared: REVIEW OF 1984 By Isaac Asimov I https://www.newworker.org/ncptrory/1984.htm.

#Books

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Roy Tang 🇵🇭 @roytang@indieweb.social · Apr 12, 2026

Shared: Between the Impossible and the Inevitable: The Case for Defiance (aka Never F**king Surrender) https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/between-the-impossible-and-the-inevitable-the-case-for-defiance-aka-never-f-king-surrender/.

> "There is a lot of space between inevitable and impossible, and that is the space of the possible, good and bad. "

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> "We make the future in the present, when we show up. Don't surrender it to those who would destroy it. "

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Roy Tang 🇵🇭 @roytang@indieweb.social · Apr 12, 2026

Replying to @roytang@indieweb.social

"When a programming tool is unreliable, completely resists mental-modeling, and is incapable of consistently rejecting invalid input, I think it’s reasonable to say it’s not fit for purpose, and is certainly not the future of programming. We simply cannot develop mental models of AI through traditional means. But we have to remember that just because we don’t understand it doesn’t mean it’s hiding secret insight or power."

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Roy Tang 🇵🇭 @roytang@indieweb.social · Apr 12, 2026

Shared: how to make programming terrible for everyone | jneens web site https://jneen.ca/posts/2026-03-27-how-to-make-programming-terrible-for-everyone/.

#Genai #Programming

jneen.ca

how to make programming terrible for everyone | jneens web site

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Roy Tang 🇵🇭 @roytang@indieweb.social · Apr 12, 2026

Replying to @roytang@indieweb.social

"The speed of writing code was never your problem. If you thought it was, the gap between that belief and reality is where all your actual problems live. The competitive advantage doesn't go to the team that writes code fastest. It goes to the team that figured out what to build, built it, and got it into users' hands while everyone else was still drowning in a review queue full of AI-generated PRs that nobody has the time or the energy to read."

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Roy Tang 🇵🇭 @roytang@indieweb.social · Apr 12, 2026

Shared: If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem - you have bigger problems | Debugging Leadership | Debugging Leadership https://andrewmurphy.io/blog/if-you-thought-the-speed-of-writing-code-was-your-problem-you-have-bigger-problems.

#Genai #SoftwareDevelopment

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Roy Tang 🇵🇭 @roytang@indieweb.social · Apr 11, 2026

Shared: General Excellence: Origins of Koei – Gaming Alexandria https://www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/2026/04/general-excellence-origins-of-koei/.

#Gaming #Koei

I spent a good chunk of my early gaming years playing the early versions of KOEI's Romance of the Three Kingdoms series and some of their other games, so I enjoyed this retrospective

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Roy Tang 🇵🇭 @roytang@indieweb.social · Apr 11, 2026

New blog post: The Banner Saga 1 and 2 https://roytang.net/2026/04/banner-saga-1-2/

#Gaming #Games

roytang.net

The Banner Saga 1 and 2 · roytang.net

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Roy Tang 🇵🇭 @roytang@indieweb.social · Apr 11, 2026

I always try to note whenever the #Philippines makes an appearance in international #comics. This page is from Punisher War Journal (1988) no. 21, written by Carl Potts #marvel

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Roy Tang 🇵🇭 @roytang@indieweb.social · Apr 11, 2026

From Superman (2023) no. 36: Superboy Prime adapting the Spider-man theme song. Written by Joshua Williamson #comics #dc #marvel

indieweb.social

Indieweb.Social

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Roy Tang 🇵🇭 @roytang@indieweb.social · Apr 09, 2026

Even if I'm not a particular fan of the content, it's always fun to find an active #blog on blogspot dot com especially in the year of our lord 2026.

#blogging

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Roy Tang 🇵🇭 @roytang@indieweb.social · Mar 31, 2026

Green Arrow on #GenAI (Detective Comics no. 1107, written by Tom Taylor) #comics #dccomics

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Roy Tang 🇵🇭 @roytang@indieweb.social · Mar 29, 2026

Replying to @benbrown@masto.hackers.town

@benbrown what manga is it?

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Don't Take the Black Pill - Andrew Kelley | SSW 2026

What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all

Weeknotes 2026-05-03 · roytang.net

How are we preparing for the Long Web?

Do I belong in tech anymore?

AI as a Fascist Artifact

Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want

The 49MB Web Page

Am I German or Autistic?

Weeknotes 2026-04-12 · roytang.net

how to make programming terrible for everyone | jneens web site

The Banner Saga 1 and 2 · roytang.net

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