Reading List

The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

You are falling behind because you haven’t fed the insincerity machine in the last 5 minutes

I was lucky enough to witness the beginnings of social media, working on the platforms that made it happen. I’ve also seen the decline of its first iterations and products. Currently I am witnessing the idea of a social web being perverted, weaponised and automated out of any trace of human or social aspect… In […]

Talking on the “We love open source” podcasts about the threats of AI to open source and free software.

I was on the We l❤️ Open Source podcast and talked about the threats to open source and software. Trading openness for convenience: From app stores to AI assistants

LinkedIn should punish the “comment X to get access” bait spam

I liked social media. I love learning and showing people how things are done there. I’m a LinkedIn and Skillshare trainer and wrote a few books. I also published tons of information on various social media channels. I also like that creators get benefits from publishing information. A social media platform should reward great contributions […]

Quick tip: hosting HTML/CSS/JS demos from source code on GitHub Pages

Did you know that you can host HTML/CSS/JS demos with execution and source code display on GitHub? All you need is a few include commands in a markdown file and your html/css/js files in a folder. Try it out here: https://codepo8.github.io/code-hosting-demo/example/ See the source here: https://codepo8.github.io/code-hosting-demo/example/index.md My Code Demo ## Try it out {% include_relative […]

I fell for a phishing attack and lost access to my X account. Here are five mistakes I did that you need to avoid!

After 20 years of using Twitter, I just lost access to my X account. The reason is that I fell for a phishing attack. As someone who helps a lot of people with their security issues, this is embarassing, but I want to make it a learning experience, so I will share my mistakes with […]