The Programmer's Fulcrum: 12 June, 2026

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FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And may involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck´em.

There won't be TPFs the next two weeks as we're (mostly) done with the breakneck pace of settling into retirement in France. To celebrate we're taking a beach vacation. Although we will work on Manade's default implementation / configuration and probably an unrelated documentary script.

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Featured Item(s)

Hamish Campbell writes:

The problem is not that institutions are involved (in the Fediverse), the problem is when institutional logic starts drowning out community logic to create a growing signal-to-noise problem.

The signal is people building infrastructure, running servers, writing code, creating culture, organising communities, and solving problems together.

The noise is the endless churn of reports, branding exercises, stakeholder management, conference panels, and “engagement” processes that consume energy without producing any substance.

The useful framing here might be:

Fluffy: welcoming people in, building bridges, creating shared spaces, encouraging participation.

Spiky: defending native values, challenging bad practice, calling out capture, and maintaining boundaries.

The Fediverse needs both, too much fluffy and everything gets absorbed into mainstreaming culture until the original values disappear. Too much spiky and you end up isolated, talking only to people who already agree with you. The challenge is maintaining a productive tension between the two.

The real debate isn’t institutions versus communities. It’s whether institutions can learn to work within open web culture rather than replacing it with the same management culture that has already failed across much of the closed web.

The signal is still there, the question is whether we can keep hearing it through the noise.

The Fediverse’s growing signal-to-noise problem – and who’s causing it

So, maximum building and minimum talking.

He follows up on a related note:

Nicenasty, the hidden power of soft obstruction

And how to combat the obstruction:

Working Groups, Horizontal Organising, and Getting Things Done

CMSs

Buttondown has some great advice:

Being weirder than AI is practicable and valuable

Mark Pitblado looks at:

Renting vs Owning in the digital era

Sander van Dragt announces:

Lamb 0.9.0

Nice.

Skypress has:

Say hello to SkyPress (it's an alpha, and it's a playground)

Interesting with lots of potential.

Ghost

Ghost introduces:

Dynamic filters for members

This may be a useful tool for larger Ghost publishers:

Vellumine

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Tools

Open Source Initiative says:

OSI welcomes the European Union’s “Tech Sovereignty” package

The Linux Foundation Europe shares:

Linux Foundation Europe’s response to the European Commission’s public consultation: European Open Digital Ecosystems Strategy

FediVariety reviews the:

Status of the current Digital Sphere?

Internet Archive Europe says:

Maps Are Infrastructure Too

Signal has:

[Surveillance Is Not Safety: A statement on the

UK's latest threat to privacy](https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/2026-06-08-uk-surveillance-is-not-safety.pdf)

Why is every large party in England working to turn the country fascist before the fascists even seize power?

Heather Burns offers the term:

Grassware

Or as some have suggested SnitchTech and StasAI.

Chat / Team Chat

Delta Chat announces:

2.51+ releases are rolling into app stores

Wired reports:

Signal Alums Reveal ‘Encrypted Spaces,’ a System for Making Private Collaboration Apps

Signal shares a:

Signal Security & Privacy Guide

Browsers

Christian Visintin says / asks:

Ladybird won't accept public PRs anymore - what does it mean?

Tuan-Anh Tran has:

Some concerns about Ladybird's bylaws

I had forgot about Ladybird but still hope it succeeds.

Search

Later On explores:

Google’s AI and its effects

Cloud

NextCloud has:

Nextcloud Summit 2026: Digital sovereignty comes of age

Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring: Built together, designed for the future

As a NextCloud customer I am not sure why you would use Euro-Office (as it's still tied to Microsofts' formatting) over fellow offering Collabora (unless you're boycotting England too). Collabra is based on LibreOffice BTW.

IMHO, if you are a small org or solo user, using LibreOffice independent of NextCloud would be the best option. And all of them beat the shit out of Office 360.

It's FOSS reports:

Collabora's CODE 26.04 Release Might Be Its Biggest One Yet

Writing

LibreOffice has:

An open letter to office suite users, just before the Euro-Office announcement

Euro-Office, open standards, and native ODF

LibreOffice project and community recap: May 2026

Creative

Kdenlive announces:

The second maintenance release of the 26.04 series is out

9to5Linux reports:

HandBrake 1.11.2 Video Transcoder Adds WebM MIME Type Support on Linux

Linux / Open Android

F-Droid shares:

This Week in F-Droid

Liliputing reports:

Juno Tab 4 is a Linux tablet with Intel Core i3-N300 and Core Ultra 5 115U options

As a tablet fan, this is encouraging to see.

Hosting / Serving

Nycki announces:

Docket

This week's featured OMN tool

Drupito

For individuals Drupito is a hands off, coding-optional, maintenance-free version of Drupal CMS built with Drupal under the hood. For small orgs it's even more.

Drupito

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Programming

Bailey's Retrospective explores:

Missed Fundamentals In Web Development

Git

Forgejo shares its:

Forgejo monthly report - May 2026

404 Media reports:

Microsoft Hacked to Deliver Malware to Claude and Gemini Users

You deserve what you get if you're amoral and dumb enough to use AI.

HTML

Moh Kohn shows:

How building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight

This x 10,000.

Adam Silver explains:

Why the accept attribute degrades file upload UX

HTMX

Sachin Sharma examines:

Architecting Zero-Dependency HTMX Applications in 2026: Bypassing NPM and Bundlers Completely

HTMX features:

Code is Cheap(er)

The Subtractive, Constraining Engineer is a good approach if you are forced to use horseshit AI.

CSS

Always Twisted demonstrates:

Un-Sass’ing my CSS

Alex looks at:

Rendering a chat thread in CSS and JavaScript

Webkit is:

Introducing the Field Guide to Grid Lanes

JavaScript

NoLoJS has a resource to:

Reduce the JS Workload with No- or Lo-JS options

Use it.

AI

Dries Buyaert has:

Friction, abstraction, and verification

I find it amusing that the papa of Drupal (who I have met, shared a beer with, and respect) is writing about ease of use.

Hence a few days later:

Do AI coding agents recommend Drupal?

I ran across this project this week:

Apertus is Switzerland’s first large-scale, fully open, multilingual language model.

It will be interesting to see where this leads. Although I assume it still has the same environmental concerns. But, maybe Switzerland has shit tons of windmills and hydroelectric power.

Mashable reports:

The AI vibe shift is real: Why the backlash is growing

Bon.

Not to be outdone by their cunterparts at Google, 404 Media reports:

'Sloppenheimer:' Amazon Employees Mock the Company’s AI on Slack

Somehow the lickspittles still manage to work for the techno feudalist overlords.

Other

OpenProject announces:

We have released OpenProject 17.4.1 and 17.3.3

XWIKI shares its:

April and May Pro Apps updates

This week's featured programming tool

Codeberg

A community-led effort that provides Git hosting for free / open-source projects.

Codeberg

And if you don't qualify for use, please self-host Forgejo. And fuck ShitHub!

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ActivityPub

Kopper shares:

An outpost vision

Interesting.

Matt explains:

Fixing my ActivityPub and WebMention comments to make them play nicely.

Holos' Tom enables:

Following conversations across the Fediverse

Great stuff.

Mastodon shares:

Mastodon 4.6 for Developers

This week's featured ActivityPub featured tool

Emissary

Emissary is a Fedi server built for end users, developers, and admins.

Emissary

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Fediverse

Pure Web Hosting makes:

A case for organisations running their own ActivityPub servers

Jose Murilo has:

Cultural Heritage Digital Collections: Unwelcome Guests on Social Media, Homeowners on the Social Web

Bom, bom, bom.

HootOS opines:

The Bubble Wrap Conundrum; or, The Balkanization Of Social Media Didn't Solve Social Media

IT Notes notes:

Aggressive caching for a Mastodon reverse proxy: what to cache, what to never cache, and why content negotiation will eventually betray you

ActivityPub's papa, Evan Prodromou celebrates:

Mastodon now has a filtering option for notifications from bots

Elk announces:

Finally, Elk v1.0.0 is out!

I ran across Harmony this week:

Harmony

This looks promising for larger existing communities. I like that it's a progressive web app.

Internet Exchange

Due Process: Why Fair Moderation Builds Healthier Communities

Betula is:

Introducing Betula v1.8.0

Holos announces:

Having lists that mix accounts and hashtags is now possible in Holos Social 1.9.0

Owncast belatedly posts its:

Owncast Newsletter May/June 2026

Bonfire

FediForum shares:

Open Social Awards 2026

Bonfire was the only ActivityPub-focused winner. And that's because it's the most innovative thing in the Fediverse.

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More

LoRes Mesh explores:

Your web apps, talking peer-to-peer

Very interesting.

Matrix

Element announces:

Element (and Matrix by extension, the open standard it's built on) has been recognised as a true digital public good by dpgalliance

RSS

Seventeen year-old Frost shares:

RSS And The Difference Between Displaying A Standard And Living Inside One

Great stuff, Frost.

Giulio Magnifico (magnificent name) explores:

Feed RSS dei podcast Rai v2

XMPP

XMPP has:

The XMPP Newsletter May 2026

Mathieui announces:

slixmpp v1.16.0

Other Federated Social Media

Mirthe Valentijn covers:

AT Proto

This one is worth using your browser's translate function. Unless you can read Dutch.

EuroSky Social announces:

We’re now mirroring the did:plc directory - where identities live - on European infrastructure: plc.eurosky.network

Today we’re switching on a high-reliability relay: relay1.eurosky.network

eurosky.social announces mu.social, a new ATProto microblogging app with editing capabilities

Tres bon.

Bluesky announces:

Group chats are rolling out in v1.124 update

Sounds like a clusterfuck.

Along with group chats, we've rolled out a new way to share your profile and invite friends to find you on Bluesky

Uhm, no.

Ege examines:

Integrating standard.site with My Hugo Blog

Daniel's Leaflets continues a series:

Permissioned Data Diary 6: Boring Auth

Mozzius show us:

How standard.horse works

eMail / Newsletters

Andre Chaperon looks at:

The Boring Miracle of Email

Which after the printing press and the typewriter is the greatest technology of all time.

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