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A character encoding defines how text is stored as bytes. If you’ve seen “café” instead of “café,” that’s an encoding mismatch. This intro covers how encoding works, how #Unicode and UTF-8 relate, and why mistakes break apps and websites. It also matters beyond #developers, affecting readability, search, data exchange, #accessibility and whether people see text correctly online.

🎬 Watch @xfq, @w3c's Internationalization Lead, explain what character encoding is: https://youtu.be/y2ay7otbFWk
#i18n

Clearly I'm not the first person to make this observation, but there's a very odd thing about being a person in the their late 40s, where I grew up being the "kid who programmed the VCR"

My elders don't know how to use Excel (etc). Neither do my younger colleagues, which leaves me in the odd position of "how the bloody hell did you do that?" after I've, like, done a vlookup.

Bonus is that I can do 2 minutes of work, then go and spend 50 minutes in the kitchen (I'm WFH), occasionally wiggle my mouse (oor-er!) just in case, and they'll assume that what I've just sent them was an hour of solid hardcore work.

I am not in a mind, right now, to correct them.

Introducing the Dillo Lab, a new section in our website for experimental ideas and features.

https://dillo-browser.org/lab/

The world will be a better place if the intelligent people on Twitter
leave that s*** hole, set up a website where they can micro blog to their hearts content and I can follow them by RSS in peace. Now I'm forced to wade through s***, AI slop, deluded lies and read deluded, crazy, racist comments. Most of whom are probably feom teenagers in basements who can't find Iran on a map, or who are bots.

#SocialMedia #Indieweb

Found that Stunt Car Racer via Bubbles, the link aggregator for the #smolweb

https://bubbles.town/

FediForum Spring 2026 is starting in 7 days!

Join us online for 3 half-days of unconference discussions, cool social web software demos, keynote and to meet and connect with your fellow advocates and movers and shakers moving the open social web forward.

More: https://fediforum.org/2026-04/

Extra, from a team of former Pinterest designers and engineers, reimagines email around your life instead of the traditional inbox. https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/21/former-pinterest-team-redesigns-email-with-extra-and-its-actually-good/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

6 lines to get dark mode on pure HTML page :)

#HTML #smolweb

Does anyone know of any JavaScript-free but responsive #WordPress themes? (Thinking pure HTML5/CSS3). #smolweb #permacomputing #webdesign

Framework Laptop 13 Pro is the first major revision to the original Framework Laptop
Laptop includes Core Ultra Series 3 CPUs, a bigger battery, and a touchscreen.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/framework-laptop-13-pro-is-the-first-major-revision-to-the-original-framework-laptop/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

How to Install #GoToSocial on Rocky Linux #VPS (10 Minute Launch Guide 🚀) This article provides a guide for how to install GoToSocial on Rocky Linux VPS. What is GoToSocial? GoToSocial is an open-source, self-hostable social ... Continued 👉 #selfhosting #rockylinux #hosting #selfhosted

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@gajim/116433575527221800

The #XMPP community operates on the principle that good ideas will prevail. Showing a warning when it’s nighttime for a contact has had three independent implementations in a little over a month.

We don’t need CEOs. We don’t need kings. #ThatsXMPP

Il y a 5 ans, j'ai dit au revoir aux bibliothèques pour devenir designer. Aujourd'hui, cet au revoir se transforme en adieu.
Dans cet article, je raconte pourquoi j'ai pris la décision de démissionner malgré tout l'amour que j'ai encore pour le métier de bibliothécaire.

https://emue-design.fr/articles/dire-adieu-aux-bibliotheques

#Bibliothèques #FonctionPublique #Reconversion

I need a better #markdown editor for #Windows. What are folks using and liking? I'm currently using #VScode but I didn't think it's great for markdown.

@servo is now capable of rendering @Mastodon !

Servo is becoming usable, such a good news ! (this post was also created from #servo)

#webbrowser #rust

I spent the day (off and on) working on updating my Mercury Protocol implemention, in the Go programming-language (golang)

(The Mercury Protocol is the Gemini Protocol without the TLS.)

I wrote it back in 2021. The Go programming-language has changed since then. I updated it accordingly, and did a number of to-do items I planned to do but never got around to.

#GeminiProtocol #golang #MercuryProtocol #SmallNet #SmallWeb #SmolNet #SmolWeb