Week 11, 2026

Cult Dynamics at the Scale of Rogue Democracies

I was born and grew up inside an authoritarian Tibetan Buddhist hippie community that slowly revealed itself to be a cult. Why am I telling you this? Because once you have lived inside a coercive syst...

Optimizing Eleventy Build Performance: From 38s to Under 10s

My Eleventy site builds 3,400+ pages with data from over a dozen APIs (GitHub, Funkwhale, Last.fm, YouTube, Mastodon, Bluesky, and several Indiekit endpoints). The initial build was taking 38 seconds,...

Dev Log: Hunting OOM kills, fixing CLS, and making Eleventy builds 10x faster

Three days of performance work on the Indiekit stack — memory optimization, Core Web Vitals, and build-time improvements. This one gets technical. The Problem: OOM Kills in a 3 GB Container The site r...

After a few fix the feature is a success I can now show provenance from ActivityPub aka the fediverse, Indieweb sites (webmentions) Bluesky and Mastodon

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If you see this post, please interact with it with a reply or like, I will then be able to retrieve your interaction to my blog/AP fedify instance and then I will test replying to your reply to demo t...

This blog post (sadly on substack) is truly fascinating : Two years after the campaign started, in August 2021, China’s Supreme People’s Court, along with the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Se...

Funny how building an ActivityPub plugin for #indiekit fully based on Fedify, migrating my Mastodon account to my own server @rick@rmendes.net and building my own UI to consume AP content from the #Fe...

Two Microsub reader updates this week: Feed type indicators — each feed now shows its type (RSS, Atom, JSON Feed, h-feed) as a badge, and subscribing to a feed that already exists in another channel r...

L’open web a gagné la guerre des standards. Il est en train de perdre la guerre de l’attention. peut-on encore faire marche arrière ? individuellement oui, mais collectivement c’est déjà plus compliqu...

Public statements by Israeli leaders, and reports of biblical rhetoric inside the U.S. military, show how this war is being wrapped in religious language. When states frame bombing campaigns through t...

When U.S. and Israeli officials or commanders tie war to biblical enemies, divine plans, or sacred destiny, they reveal a political logic closer to religious nationalism than to secular democracy. Tha...

Just updated indiekit-deploy (indiekit docker/compose based deployment) Changes Summary Plugin versions aligned (package.core.json + package.full.json) Plugin Old New syndicator-bluesky 1.0.14 1.0.19...

Interesting concept but unless I misunderstood my blog doesn’t fit their mental model, my blog is 99% written by me, a human, and 0.9% of my posts were written with AI assistance, it doesn’t make my b...

cool stuff being created on top of #ATproto https://pckt.blog/

a Bunch of Github repo’s I want to check out related to Claude Code usage : https://github.com/Charlie85270/Dorothy https://github.com/onllm-dev/onWatch https://github.com/wesm/agentsview https://gith...

A TUI and CLI tool for inspecting Claude Code conversation history and compaction events.