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  "description": "Welcome to this week's The Programmer's Fulcrum.\n\nIt's your weekly review of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Fediverse development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism. We aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism.\n\nIMHO, 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 O",
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    "Techno Anarchist Manifesto",
    "Open Media Network",
    "Make a Fucking Website",
    "The Weight of the Good Days",
    "Whoops, Websites Realize That Killing Their Comment Sections Was A Mistake",
    "WordPress 6.9.1 RC1 is now available",
    "Call for Testing – Customizable Navigation (“Mobile”) Overlays",
    "Exploring work in progress for WordPress 7.0",
    "How Art School Led Me To Web Design",
    "2025 FAIR Recap",
    "Gutenberg Blocks in 2026: WordPress Development in the AI Era",
    "WP Engine Launches Newsroom, a Publishing Platform Built on Big Bite’s Newsroom Expertise",
    "Post-Mortem on 29 January 2026 Outage",
    "Inside Drupal CMS 2.0: Q&A with Product Owner Pam Barone",
    "Release Day: The Drupal Recipes API",
    "The uncomfortable path",
    "A Faster Friendlier Collabora Online – Part III",
    "The Big Tech Walkout 2026",
    "Retravaillez vos PDFs sans crainte",
    "Signal Desktop now available in the Microsoft Store",
    "Zulip Server 11.5 security release",
    "I just want a browser",
    "Firefox will soon let you block all of of its generative AI features",
    "LibreWolf bsys6 Release v147.0.3-2",
    "Top 10 easy sharing tips with your SharePoint alternative: Nextcloud Files",
    "A new data access architecture for Nextcloud: introducing the ADA engine",
    "Nextcloud recognized as a Digital Public Good",
    "LibreOffice 26.2 is here: a faster, more polished office suite that you control",
    "Kdenlive 25.12.1 Brings Welcome Screen Polishing and Audio Fixes",
    "Linux Foundation Europe 2025: Milestones, Momentum, and What’s Next",
    "Inside the Linux Kernel Runtime Guard (LKRG): A New Layer of Kernel Integrity Protection",
    "Scribus",
    "FOSDEM 2026 Reflections",
    "Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source Software, Researchers Argue",
    "Introduction to the new HTML element",
    "Performance-Optimized Video Embeds with Zero JavaScript",
    "I Learned The First Rule of ARIA the Hard Way",
    "How to Favicon in 2026: Three files that fit most needs",
    "Unstacking CSS Stacking Contexts",
    "Stop Fighting Your Layouts: The Real Power of CSS Grid",
    "How To Dynamically Install Custom Elements",
    "Getting Bots to Respect Boundaries",
    "How to work with project templates",
    "Forgejo 14.0 Arrives With New Web Editor, Smarter Search",
    "Release Notes for XWiki 17.4.9",
    "Release Notes for XWiki 17.4.9",
    "HTML is for people",
    "7.9.0 — Spring Cleaning",
    "ActivityPub module for Drupal",
    "FEP-4f05: Soft Deletion",
    "ActivityPub Book",
    "How the left can win back the internet – and rise again",
    "How our “mainstreaming” people understand what they’re doing",
    "Interledger Foundation awards $200,000 to Social Web Foundation to support decentralized social media",
    "EU Open Source Policy Feedback",
    "Fediverse: An overview for community organizers",
    "IFTAS Response to the European Commission’s Call for Evidence “Towards European open digital ecosystems”",
    "Introducing the Castopod Installation Script",
    "Type inference of all constructs and the next 15 months",
    "Castopod",
    "Money for mutual resilience: Introducing Blacksky Cash",
    "Eurosky is making progress as they roll out their own PDS",
    "The Everything Account",
    "DeGoogle list with best private alternatives | 2026",
    "Public descriptions for tags",
    "on Flipboard",
    "@thefulcrum@thefulcrum.dev",
    "The Techno Anarchist Manifesto",
    "Share on Open Social Media",
    "Previous Battalion Posts",
    "Previous Symfony Station Posts"
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  "textContent": "Welcome to this week's The Programmer's Fulcrum.\n\nIt's your weekly review of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Fediverse development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism. We aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism.\n\nIMHO, 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.\n\nThe second best strategy is to have accounts on the Fediverse and use the hell out of them.\n\nWe publish TPF on Fridays so you can enjoy it over your weekend.\n\nThere'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.\n\nOr you can jump straight to your favorite section.\n\n  * Website CMSs\n  * Tools\n  * Programming\n  * ActivityPub\n  * Fediverse\n  * More\n\n\n\n**FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And may involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck ´em.**\n\n### Follow us on the Fediverse\n\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## Featured Item(s)\n\nThis what I mean when I encourage you to join the Open Media Network. 😈\n\nMelanie Cat purrs:\n\nOh nice social media account, did your Zuckerberg give it to you? Aww, how cute. Now grow the fuck up and get your own fucking website.\n\nMake a Fucking Website\n\n**I am pretty sure she is a black cat. IYKYK** 🐈‍⬛\n\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n\n\n\n## Open Media Network Site CMSs\n\n\n\n\nJannis Fedoruk-Betschki looks at:\n\nThe Weight of the Good Days\n\n**We love you Jannis. Keep at it.**\n\nTechDirt reports:\n\nWhoops, Websites Realize That Killing Their Comment Sections Was A Mistake\n\n### WordPress\n\nMake WordPress has:\n\nWordPress 6.9.1 RC1 is now available\n\nCall for Testing – Customizable Navigation (“Mobile”) Overlays\n\nAnne McCarthy is:\n\nExploring work in progress for WordPress 7.0\n\nHeroPress explains:\n\nHow Art School Led Me To Web Design\n\n**Great DIY story.**\n\nFAIR shares its:\n\n2025 FAIR Recap\n\nVarun Dubey explores:\n\nGutenberg Blocks in 2026: WordPress Development in the AI Era\n\nThe Repository reports:\n\nWP Engine Launches Newsroom, a Publishing Platform Built on Big Bite’s Newsroom Expertise\n\n### Ghost\n\nMagic Pages shares a:\n\nPost-Mortem on 29 January 2026 Outage\n\n### Drupal CMS\n\nDrupal has:\n\nInside Drupal CMS 2.0: Q&A with Product Owner Pam Barone\n\nDrupalize Me announces:\n\nRelease Day: The Drupal Recipes API\n\n\nBack to top 👆🏼\n\n\n* * *\n\n\n\n\n##  Techno Anarchist / OMN Tools\n\n\n\n\nHamish Campbell examines:\n\nThe uncomfortable path\n\nCollabra announces:\n\nA Faster Friendlier Collabora Online – Part III\n\nRebel Tech Alliance looks at:\n\nThe Big Tech Walkout 2026\n\nFramasoft has:\n\nRetravaillez vos PDFs sans crainte\n\n### Chat\n\nSignal announces:\n\nSignal Desktop now available in the Microsoft Store\n\nZulip announces:\n\nZulip Server 11.5 security release\n\n### Browsers\n\nAdam Varn says:\n\nI just want a browser\n\nTechCrunch reports:\n\nFirefox will soon let you block all of of its generative AI features\n\n**Or better yet, use Zen, LibreWolf, or Waterfox.**\n\nSpeaking of, LibreWolf announces:\n\nLibreWolf bsys6 Release v147.0.3-2\n\n### Cloud\n\nNextcloud has:\n\nTop 10 easy sharing tips with your SharePoint alternative: Nextcloud Files\n\nA new data access architecture for Nextcloud: introducing the ADA engine\n\nNextcloud recognized as a Digital Public Good\n\n### Writing\n\nLibreOffice announces:\n\nLibreOffice 26.2 is here: a faster, more polished office suite that you control\n\n**I put this here because they have improved markdown support, which is great.**\n\n### Creative\n\nLinuxiac reports:\n\nKdenlive 25.12.1 Brings Welcome Screen Polishing and Audio Fixes\n\n### Linux\n\nThe Linux Foundation Europe shares:\n\nLinux Foundation Europe 2025: Milestones, Momentum, and What’s Next\n\nThe Linux Journal looks:\n\nInside the Linux Kernel Runtime Guard (LKRG): A New Layer of Kernel Integrity Protection\n\n### _This week's featured OMN tool_\n\nWant to publish something like a fanzine? Check out Scribus:\n\nScribus is the go-to Libre Desktop Publishing Application.\n\nScribus\n\n\nBack to top 👆🏼\n\n\n* * *\n\n\n\n\n## OMN Programming\n\nDerick Rethans shares:\n\nFOSDEM 2026 Reflections\n\n404 Media reports:\n\nVibe Coding Is Killing Open Source Software, Researchers Argue\n\n### HTML\n\nMike Matuzović has an:\n\nIntroduction to the new HTML element \n\nFrontend Masters demonstrates:\n\nPerformance-Optimized Video Embeds with Zero JavaScript\n\nCSS Tricks has:\n\nI Learned The First Rule of ARIA the Hard Way\n\nEvil Martians updates a classic:\n\nHow to Favicon in 2026: Three files that fit most needs\n\n**One to bookmark.**\n\n### CSS\n\nSmashing Magazine explores:\n\nUnstacking CSS Stacking Contexts\n\nGroundworx says:\n\nStop Fighting Your Layouts: The Real Power of CSS Grid\n\n### Web Components\n\nHeydon Works shows us:\n\nHow To Dynamically Install Custom Elements\n\n### JavaScript\n\n### AI\n\nInternet Exchange reports on:\n\nGetting Bots to Respect Boundaries\n\n### Other\n\nOpenProject shows us:\n\nHow to work with project templates\n\nLinuxiac reports:\n\nForgejo 14.0 Arrives With New Web Editor, Smarter Search\n\nDDEV announces:\n\nRelease Notes for XWiki 17.4.9\n\nXWiki announces:\n\nRelease Notes for XWiki 17.4.9\n\n### _This week's featured programming tool_\n\nHTML, master it.\n\nHTML is for people\n\n\nBack to top 👆🏼\n\n\n* * *\n\n\n\n\n## ActivityPub\n\nActivityPub for WordPress has:\n\n7.9.0 — Spring Cleaning\n\nSwentel works on the:\n\nActivityPub module for Drupal\n\nNodeBB shares:\n\nFEP-4f05: Soft Deletion\n\n**This is interesting.**\n\n### _This week's featured ActivityPub featured tool_\n\nActivityPub Book\n\nWritten by Evan Prodromou, the coauthor of the ActivityPub protocol and the Activity Streams 2.0 data format, this is the ActivityPub handbook that every social software hacker needs.\n\n**I have it and am slowly reading it.**\n\n\nBack to top 👆🏼\n\n\n* * *\n\n\n\n\n## Fediverse\n\nThe Guardian shares:\n\nHow the left can win back the internet – and rise again\n\n**He's right about competition among the left, but perhaps this fucker has never heard of the Fediverse.**\n\nHamish Campbell explains:\n\nHow our “mainstreaming” people understand what they’re doing\n\nInterLedger announces:\n\nInterledger Foundation awards $200,000 to Social Web Foundation to support decentralized social media\n\nSpeaking of, the Social Web Foundation shares its:\n\nEU Open Source Policy Feedback\n\nStefan Bohacek provides:\n\nFediverse: An overview for community organizers\n\nIFTAS shares:\n\nIFTAS Response to the European Commission’s Call for Evidence “Towards European open digital ecosystems”\n\nCastopod is:\n\nIntroducing the Castopod Installation Script\n\n### Bonfire\n\nElixir has:\n\nType inference of all constructs and the next 15 months\n\n### _This week's featured Fediverse Platform/Tool/Resource_\n\nThere was a rare Castopod article so let's feature it.\n\nCastopod is an open-source server made for podcasters who want engage and interact with their audience.\n\nCastopod\n\n\nBack to top 👆🏼\n\n\n* * *\n\n\n\n\n## More\n\n### Other Slightly Federated Social Media\n\nBlacksky announces:\n\nMoney for mutual resilience: Introducing Blacksky Cash\n\nStefan Bohacek reports:\n\nEurosky is making progress as they roll out their own PDS\n\nAnuj Ahooja examines:\n\nThe Everything Account\n\n### eMail Newsletters\n\nTuta looks at:\n\nDeGoogle list with best private alternatives | 2026\n\nButtondown announces:\n\nPublic descriptions for tags\n\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n\n\n\n## Sign up for The Fulcrum\n\nDevelopers defending democracy! We cover items and ideas in Battalion's Techno Anarchist Manifesto that relate to development.\n\nSubscribe\n\nEmail sent! Check your inbox to complete your signup.\n\nNo spam. Unsubscribe anytime.\n\n\n\n\n## CTAs\n\n  * That’s it for this week. Please share The Programmer's Fulcrum.\n  * Follow us on Flipboard or at @thefulcrum@thefulcrum.dev on the Fediverse for daily coverage.\n  * Read, live, and share The Techno Anarchist Manifesto!\n\n\n\n\n**And please build something for a community!**\n\n\n\n\n\nShare on Open Social Media\n\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n\n\n\n## Blasts from the past\n\nPrevious Battalion Posts\n\nPrevious Symfony Station Posts",
  "title": "The Programmer's Fulcrum: 06 February, 2026",
  "updatedAt": "2026-02-06T16:13:19.000Z"
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