The Programmer's Fulcrum: 29 May, 2026

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 Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism.

IMHO, the best way to do that is to use tools from the Techno Anarchist Manifesto to build your own site(s) to participate in the Open Media Network. Then you should share it (them) via Real Simple Syndication (RSS), the Fediverse, and possibly a newsletter or podcast. This approach is similar to what some call the IndieWeb and its POSSE philosophy.

The second best strategy is to have accounts on the Fediverse and use the hell out of them. And do the same with a RSS feed reader.

We publish TPF on Fridays so you can enjoy it over your weekend.

There's good stuff in all of our categories, so please take the time to enjoy and bookmark the items most relevant to your goals. We hope you are inspired to create new ones.

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Sites/Blogs/CMSs

Techno Anarchist / OMN Tools

OMN Programming

ActivityPub

Fediverse

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

Featured Item(s)

Misaligned Markets writes:

Governance determines the evolution of an innovation, giving society power over a technology’s ultimate form.

To steer the future we must imagine a different past

Defend Democracy writes:

Europe is spending €300 billion to free itself from undemocratic control of its digital infrastructure. It has not yet considered what happens when the authoritarian is European.

Europe’s big tech bet is only as safe as its democracy

Yep.

Code and Civilisation writes:

Gradually, attention shifted away from the sheer accumulation of things toward the structures that made cooperation possible: the systems by which knowledge was recorded, exchanged, tested, and carried forward. Within these largely unseen arrangements, civilisation found new means of continuity.

Civilisation XIV: The Invisible Commons

Very informative.

CMSs

The Repository reports:

Patchstack CEO Warns WordPress 7.0 Could Trigger “Absolute Rush” To Steal AI API Keys

Manual do Usuário shows us:

How to disable WordPress 7.0’s new AI features

Or you could just not be a c^nt and don't use non-local AI. Or be a saint and don't use AI period.

PureBlog explores its:

Post Scheduling

Bear

Wonders of Web Weaving has a nice interview:

Wonders of Web Weaving Number 3

Bear = Nice and KISS.

Robert Birming introduces a:

Bear gallery upload plugin

Ghost

Ghost announces:

Comment threads, votes and pins

Tech Times reports:

Ghost CMS SQL Injection Hits 700 Sites: Harvard, DuckDuckGo Serve Fake Cloudflare Malware

This is why I don't self-host non-static sites.

Build Awesome

Ste Grainer shares:

Friday Fave: Build Awesome aka 11ty

Mathia Wright shares:

How I Made This Website

Micro.blog

The Art Of Not Asking Why says:

It's official: I prefer Inkwell over Elfeed

Micro.Blog announces:

We’ve restarted the iOS beta for Strata

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Tools

Joost de Valk opines:

Open Source First is right, but not enough.

Disconnect opines:

Google is its own worst enemy

When this mountain range of shit collapses we need to have built a real and climbable mountain above the sea of decay.

Kevin Boone examines:

Maps after Google

I use Organic Maps and it's good enough.

Small Web

17 year-old Frost says:

The Small Web Still Depends on Corporate Infrastructure

Nice piece.

VPN

Chat

Signal has:

Signal Labs: are “Starred messages” and these six other features coming to Signal?

Browsers

Slashdot shares:

Mozilla Brings Web Serial Workflows to Firefox, Collaborates With Adafruit

Cloud

Jorijn Schrijvershof has:

Why I left Google Workspace for self-hosted Nextcloud

The Open Cloud Alliantie is real. Seven Dutch providers just made sovereignty a procurement conversation.

The Free Knowledge Institute shares:

Cooperative Clouds in Practice - KolliCloud Shows How Affordable, Sovereign Infrastructure Is Already Here

Writing

LibreOffice has:

New Web and Mobile Strategy for LibreOffice

ODF vs OOXML, an issue that should never have existed

Nextcloud announces:

Euro-Office: General availability set for June 9

Linux/Open Android

9to5Linux reports:

Linux Mint 23 Getting New Cinnamon Screenshots Tool, Network Improvements

Phosh announces:

Phosh 0.55.0

Luigi311 reviews:

Furilabs FLX1s

Clubic has an interview:

"Apple et Google sont prisonniers de leur propre écosystème, nous pouvons innover librement" - Interview Jolla

F-Droid has:

This Week in F-Droid

Building trust through software rather than giving it

Gael Duval promotes:

Joining the Wave: Murena & /e/OS 2026 Roadmap

This week's featured OMN tool

HubZilla

The powerful open source privacy-respecting all-in-one home base for collaboration and social interactions.

Hubzilla

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Programming

Yancey Strickler looks at:

Seven years in the forest

This in an in-browser light version of efforts like Newsmast Community, Acorn, and Bonfire / Manade.

Prasham H Trivedi notes:

Mobile won the platform war on distribution, not capability

Interoperable Europe has:

Workshop report from Université Grenoble Alpes maps the missions, structures and services proper academic OSPOs should provide

Grenoble is a fantastic city BTW.

Curl's main man looks at:

The pressure

Daniel Beck asks:

Open source docs: where does the money come from?

Joan Westenberg proposes:

The Costco Theory of the Internet

If you are a solopreneur or small business owner, you should read this.

Matthias Schaub shares:

I rebuilt my own web image feed and gallery

A great, little, fairly KISS project.

Git

Bruno Bernardino is:

Migrating from GitHub Actions to SourceHut Builds

HTML

Frontend Masters explores:

Managing Anchor Associations With Data Attributes and Advanced attr()

CSS

CSS Tricks examines:

The State of CSS Centering in 2026.

Brian Kardell has:

Get Clamped: Unwinding Some Difficult CSS History

Donnie D’Amato looks at the color:

Eigengrau

Very interesting and the advice not to use pure black is solid.

AI

The Guardian reports:

Pope Leo denounces ‘culture of power’ driving rise of AI

Where's Your Ed? finishes a series:

Revenge of The Business Idiot

Ed may be my brother from another mother.

The University of Oxford explores:

Software Freedom as Civic Care

Fantastic, though long. Even my our standards.

This week's featured programming tool

Markdown

Write for your website.

Markdown

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ActivityPub

IT Notes notes:

FediMeteo, HAProxy, and the art of not wasting snac threads

Jeremy Herve examines:

Radical Speed Month, and a new Reader

Pat is:

Thinking more about ActivityPub

Gyptazy announces:

Starling – A Lightweight ActivityPub Server for the Fediverse

I will definitely check this out. Maybe for the Manade website.

This week's featured ActivityPub featured tool

Validate ActivityStreams Event

Verify your ActivityStreams Event object for FEP-8a8e compliance

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Fediverse

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Connected Places has:

FR 164 – The Pope on Defederation

If you're interested in what the Pope is building upon, check this section of the TAM out .

For Better looks at:

The 'normal' response to the Social Web

The better name might be Ad-Free Social Media.

I ran across PeerSeek this week:

Search PeerTube videos

If you watch videos (which I don't), give this a peak.

Elefeed announces:

No app store needed

Holos Social notes:

HolosSocial isn't bringing something new to the Fediverse

Multi-device support is progressing well for Holos Social.

There are three notes in this thread.

Zeitfresser says:

Stop Posting to Platforms — Turn Your (WordPress) Website into a Fediverse Node

A solid implementation. It's only drawback is its slightly wonky with some third party clients. Still, it's probably the best integration with a CMS.

Euractiv looks:

Inside the Commission’s favorite European social network

Bonfire

A quick aside - hosting, provisioning, implementation, and opinionated customization of Manade is moving along nicely.

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More

Daniel Prindii aks:

What are third spaces and what makes them work

Just a Simple App announces:

Flat is now available

This is similar to Flipboard’s Surf app.

Kevin Boone announces:

keplerd: a new Java-based server for the Gemini protocol and others

Matrix

Alexia apologizes:

My Matrix post? it f^?§%ng sucked.

Element reports:

Sweden goes live with Matrix-based federation!

RSS

CybersecKyle shares:

Improving My RSS Feed and Making It More Human Readable

XMPP

Mathieui announces:

Poezio 0.18

Other Federated Social Media

TechCrunch reports:

As X shuts down Communities, Acorn debuts an alternative that puts creators in control

pckt reports:

Standard.site link cards are coming to Bluesky

Elena Rossini has an expose:

The Untold Story About W Social: Unconventional Beginnings, Strategic Pitches, and Conflicting Signals

Democracy Tech

Code and Civilisation explores:

Change Management as Civic Infrastructure

eMail / Newsletters

Rewiring examines:

Moving from Fastmail to a generic host + own domain

CTAs

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