The Programmer’s Fulcrum: 5 June, 2026

This post originally appeared on The Fulcrum. Welcome to this week's The Programmer's Fulcrum. It's your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Fediverse development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism. The big news this week was obviously The European Commission's European Technological Sovereignty Package....

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The Programmer’s Fulcrum: 29 May, 2026

This post originally appeared on The Fulcrum. Welcome to this week's The Programmer's Fulcrum. It's your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Fediverse development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism. As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno...

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Eleventy Becomes, *Sigh*, Build Awesome

In case you haven’t heard, Eleventy, the excellent static site generator that I use for this very website has been acquired by Font Awesome. As a result, it has been renamed, _sigh_ , Build Awesome. After seeing what happened to Shoelace, I’m apprehensive and very much not looking forward to seeing what features get locked behind a paywall. But beside the enshittification likely to follow, I…

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The Programmer’s Fulcrum: 08 May, 2026

This post originally appeared on The Fulcrum. Welcome to this week's The Programmer's Fulcrum. It's your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Fediverse development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism. There is a lot of coverage of the shitshow that is ShitHub this week....

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Eleventy

When I started this blog in 2011, I built it using Jekyll. Jekyll served me well for fifteen years. It was fast enough, and though it would take me an hour or two to get the system reinstalled when I switched laptops, it mostly just worked. But late last year, I was in the midst of updating all of my local installations to the latest versions of their runtimes, and when I tried to update Jekyll…

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The Programmer’s Fulcrum: 06 March, 2026

This post first appeared on The Fulcrum. Welcome to this week's The Programmer's Fulcrum. It's your weekly review of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Fediverse development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism. We aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each...

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The Programmer's Fulcrum: 06 March, 2026

Welcome to this week's The Programmer's Fulcrum.

It's your weekly review of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Fediverse development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism. We aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism.

IMHO, the best way to…

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