John Allsopp

Great grand father of responsive web design. Web Daoist.

web: https://webdirections.org
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnfallsopp/

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2025-10-09 23:26:33 UTC

Brisbane folks. Any recommendations for a trustworthy mechanic for my daughter who is up there at uni?

2025-08-22 00:06:11 UTC

Does anyone here find themselves simply not uing search so much anymore? It's not like I use a large language model the way I used to use Search. I just find myself much less frequently needing to search for anything for some reason in recent years.

2025-08-17 06:27:27 UTC

If anyone's knows any good resources for accessibility nd best practises for in-room captioning systems, things like font size, all caps vs sentence case, colours, and so on, please point me in their direction.
I can't really find too much in that general topic area.

2025-08-14 04:36:16 UTC

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Said billionaire does not appear to be offering their own code base for llms to be train on for free. Natch.

2025-08-13 03:58:25 UTC

Billionaire wants stuff others worked hard for and own to make more money. News at 9

2025-07-23 22:45:47 UTC

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why it is not in freefall is beyond me.

2025-07-03 21:11:37 UTC

honestly if big tech services outside hardware went away tomorrow, after a brief panic we'd all calm down and find replacements. Like everyone would.
In particular I've seen my kids over the last decade or so adopt new platform time and again, and drop most.
Social media, search, these are fungible.
Apropos of nothing in particular.

2025-05-24 00:25:39 UTC

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ironically it might be good for the traditional financial industry–the alternative is bitcoin, or some other crypto or stablecoin. (True Fans uses bitcoin).
Web Monetisation is a technology for fast, low friction, effectively free money transfer, but it integrates with the traditional financial system (including anti money laundering stuff like KYC).

2025-05-24 00:18:23 UTC

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yep.
@npub1thg…zq23 is doing some really interesting things with https://truefans.fm (SFW!–it's around podcasting)

2025-05-24 00:15:32 UTC

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this is the micropayments dilemma Clark Sharkt identified 30 years ago https://archive.is/fzL0I
the folks at interledger are really thinking about this (as am I in relation to our streaming platform [@conffab.com](https://conffab.com/@conffab.com )) ccing @npub1m70…f7mk and @npub10a7…h9jk

2025-05-24 00:05:27 UTC

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they are indeed-it's web monetization–https://webmonetization.org

2025-05-19 21:31:57 UTC

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in Australia a similar (but multi-billion dollar debacle and disaster) 'Robodebt' saw deaths by suicide, and Immiseration of thousands, before the whole thing was found to be illegal, and costing The Australian government over a $1bn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robodebt_scheme

2025-04-17 07:14:36 UTC

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A fair observation, but I'd suggest it's small compensation for otherwise very low engagement and very inaccessible talks

2025-04-12 23:46:16 UTC

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this brought to you by me currently editing a bunch of talk transcripts. I doubt many people have watched as many talks with the focus I do when editing transcripts.
I also have an eye to accessibility since we convert slides to accessible HTML, and this is essentially impossible with live coding.
Whoever invented live coding in presentations? how did it *ever* take off? Why does anyone think it is in anyway a good way to present? It is excruciating to watch. Excruciating.

2025-04-12 23:29:55 UTC

I know people often don't like to watch their own presentations but it really helps you improve.
And particularly if you live code in your presentations–please watch. You'll likely find it sobering-the long pauses, the truncated sentences, the lack of focus on the audience.
Then there's the almost impossible to follow code that flashes constantly with autocomplete, thetiny tiny text.
Trust me, you simply can't present well and code at the same time same time, and it should be outlawed.

2025-03-29 23:11:24 UTC

if I were running Apple AI I'd first and foremost ensure autocorrect weren't worse than when the original iphone came out.
There should never be a typo or contextually incorrectly chosen word, and the UI around typing (the #1 user input action by far on phones, laptops, tablets) has not changed in decades (as I typed this autocorrect suggested 'decaes')
start thinking about AI as a way to improve product experience, develop those muscles, not BS greenfield IMAGINE keynote fodder".

2025-03-28 03:50:01 UTC

So in response to Apple's recent Lumon Terminal product page I made The Lumonizer.
Add it to your bookmarks bar then view any page as if you're using a Lumon Terminal
https://webdirections.org/lumonizer/
One some sights, killjoys with their (Homer Simpson voice) CSP directives might lower the fun…
https://cdn.masto.host/indiewebsocial/media_attachments/files/114/237/983/461/570/248/original/190bdf9229c2eadf.png

2025-03-17 21:18:34 UTC

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and I guess the demo that buys Vision Pros (white upper middle class men over 50) is the Metallica demo…

2025-03-17 20:45:32 UTC

Nothing says ‘with it’ like featuring Metallica on your platform.

2025-02-11 22:40:02 UTC

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sometimes specific flashpoints make it very hard to ignore–frog in the microwave rather than frog slowly boiled.
But year I totally concur with you both.

2025-02-11 20:26:06 UTC

I wonder how much talent Shopify was staring down the barrel of losing, even in the current climate.

2025-02-09 22:44:05 UTC

for those (including Apple) concerned about the impact of side loading apps on privacy and security–there is a web established solution, Web Apps.
Now thanks to Apple's approach to browser engines on iOS (slowly being changed thanks to a number of regulators around the world but *really* thanks to @npub1kn4…3asa) web apps are a worse experience in some ways on mobile (fewer APIs like NFC and BT) and a dire install experience.
But it is possible to deliver sophisticated web apps.
1/n

2025-01-23 20:22:59 UTC

What if we treated capitalism not as a sacrosanct truth about the world, but as a humanly created technology, developed to achieve specific outcomes? That we can actively change, adapt and evolve?
Which if course it is.

2024-12-15 21:43:56 UTC

The @npub1tl7…6j09 recently published a set of ethical principles
https://www.w3.org/TR/ethical-web-principles/
to help shape the ongoing development of the Web.
My humble suggestion is all companies that benefit from the web adopt them too and these form the social contract of the Web.
Hey an idealist can idealise.

2024-12-09 07:18:01 UTC

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EP Thompson writes about ‘rough music’ in Appalachia (and the United Kingdom where it originates) of which tarring and feathering was on the extreme end. We still have curious echoes like adorning the cars of those just married (and perhaps even some of the hens nights rituals).
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1261031

2024-12-04 22:18:25 UTC

The awesome authors from A Book Apart (RIP 💐) have created a semi-official directory of where you can find their books
https://authors-together.org
Many you can read for free, others you can buy from the authors.
Thanks folks!

2024-12-03 21:01:05 UTC

2 years today since ChatGPT was released.

2024-11-14 10:10:59 UTC

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good old aral and Laura!

2024-11-14 05:00:31 UTC

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I actually mean this by the way. Small pieces loosely joined. Not giant monoliths. It’s an irony that Unix underpins so much of the modern technology world when its philosophy is anathema to large technology companies.

2024-11-14 02:22:58 UTC

make tech small again

2024-11-08 01:55:28 UTC

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so has that been recently added?

2024-10-11 21:57:08 UTC

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but not in a Soylent Green way 🙂

2024-10-10 20:54:48 UTC

from @npub1lrq…pn8w
"The web sits apart from the rest of technology; to me, it’s inherently more interesting. Silicon Valley’s origins (including the venture capital ecosystem) lie in defense technology. In contrast, the web was created in service of academic learning and mutual discovery, and both built and shared in a spirit of free and open access. "
https://werd.io/2024/it-turns-out-im-still-excited-about-the-web
Thanks Ben, needed this one!

2024-09-27 02:54:31 UTC

So if Trump actually won in 2020 and so is the President now, folks who believe this must surely concede he can't run and win a 3rd term?

2024-09-26 03:49:57 UTC

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from memory that was Darling Harbour, so not far?

2024-09-25 23:36:07 UTC

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have tried with my daughters–hilarity ensues. Though Papa John (long standing nickname by one daughter and friend group) gets a shout in femininomenon so there is that…
Plus the Matrix (there's only one why did they never make a sequel?) was shot near my old office and to this day I annoy them by pointing out where scenes were shot.

2024-08-20 22:33:03 UTC

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possibly also the underside of my desk…

2024-08-15 07:29:57 UTC

Why even are politicians?

2024-08-13 03:11:28 UTC

'delve' is the new 'moist'

2024-08-13 02:09:05 UTC

there's denial going for sure, sure, just not of service.