mike morris

writer; software maker; gardener; craft brewer; tools-for-thinking researcher; ageing anti-authoritarian; apprentice human being

web: https://one.mikro2nd.net
blog: https://mikro2nd.mataroa.blog/

Last Notes

2026-06-10 14:56:32 UTC

The sooner software makers have to bear full legal liability for their badly designed, faulty products — just like every other class of product manufacturer has to — the better.

2026-04-08 15:15:34 UTC

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I was not so familiar with the Z80, *much* more at home with the 6502. Today I should probably look closer at the RISC-V arch...

2026-04-08 14:49:07 UTC

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Yes, this! So long as we use the tools of the industrial-software complex, we're fucked. All that complexity and cruftiness is a feature to them, part of selling more shit, as are the dark UI patterns, incessant upgrades, meaningless version churn... But it's up to us. We're basically going to have to redevelop the entire dev and user stack (though there's stuff from the past that we can leverage).

2026-04-01 13:02:31 UTC

With all this chatter around Anthropic's Claude code leak, the quality of the leaked code gives us a clear explanation of the appallingly hostile misbehaviour of the bots scraping the open web for "AI" training and how they came to be so fucking clueless and so badly written.

2026-03-23 09:25:08 UTC

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Better yet, make it a configuration option and offer a PR to Masto central.

2025-12-03 12:10:09 UTC

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Or... an abortive (failed) IPO could be the pin that causes the bubble to pop with finality and emphasis, no? #weLiveInHope

2025-11-05 14:05:58 UTC

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Thanks - I missed that in my (admittedly quite cursory) look.

2025-11-05 13:14:09 UTC

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Looks really interesting, but... no local-only storage? A showstopper for me.

2025-08-15 06:38:57 UTC

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I feel much the same way about the handful of people in just one country being "authorised" to irrevocably pollute our night skies and electromagnetic spectrum with satellites so that some rich yachties can get internet in the middle of the ocean.

2025-07-28 12:00:22 UTC

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Just waiting for the wailing and handwringing, "I opened my bank's website to ChatGPT and all my money is gone! How'd it go so wrong?"
#yaCantFixStupid

2025-05-26 14:55:47 UTC

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I'm guessing he took the money?

2025-04-01 12:19:48 UTC

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Sympathise strongly! These days I usually just skip the 20 hours browsing and jump straight to making it myself 😂 Huge time-saver! Plus one less dependency that's going to break on me in some future time when I've totally forgotten about it. #notWebDev

2025-03-02 13:09:30 UTC

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"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence."

2025-02-25 11:58:11 UTC

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What I just said ;-) https://indieweb.social/@mikro2nd/114064334635258412