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  "description": "Welcome to this week's The Programmer's Fulcrum. It'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...",
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  "textContent": "Welcome to this week’s The Programmer’s Fulcrum. It’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. 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. 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. Or you can jump straight to your favorite section. Website CMSs Tools Programming ActivityPub Fediverse More FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And may involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck ´em. Featured Item(s) Hamish Campbell writes: What can grassroots openweb people actually do when the EU is building alternatives to dotcons, but with very real risks of recreating European versions of the same problems? This is a historic moment, for the first time in decades public funding is flowing toward digital commons and infrastructure sovereignty is being taken seriously. But alongside this opportunity comes an obvious risk, that they replace Californian platform capitalism with European platform capitalism. The EU opportunity and danger, what grassroots projects can offer And he has this as one option: An affinity group is not just “a group of people who agree” Good Internet Magazine shares: One could argue that the modern web has become a Rube Goldberg machine of sorts, where instead of deliberate inefficiency, it has been inflicted accidentally. Pointless bloat brought on by tracking scripts, analytics, and optimization tools that serve no real purpose to the user and even prove disruptive to the provider in some cases. In the unrelenting pursuit of maximum efficiency and conversion, we’ve created the most inefficient systems imaginable. In spite of this, there is a counter-movement of sorts. Digital creators embracing the philosophy of Harold Harold and building websites that serve no corporate purpose. People creating interactive experiences that generate no revenue and crafting digital art that exists purely for the joy of creation and discovery. Rebelling against efficiency Be sure to buy an edition from them. And join the OMN with a useful or unuseful website. Open Media Network Site CMSs Simon Repp shares: Another early Faircamp 2.0 teaser WordPress Make WordPress has: What’s new in Gutenberg 22.5? (04 February) WordPress Playground has: wp-env now runs WordPress with Playground runtime This is simpler for simpler sites. Groundworx explains: Why I Choose Gutenberg Over Elementor The Repository reports: WordPress Meetup Organizers Back Revamp Plans, but Warn Infrastructure Must Catch Up WordPress AI Client Proposal Prompts Debate Ahead of Planned Core Merge in 7.0 Well, fuck. Mullenweg Calls for Markdown Endpoints on WordPress.org as He Pushes “Web OS” Vision Matt Mullenweg: Global Sponsors’ Products Should Be “Fair Game” For WordCamp Talks More on Automattic’s enshitification. Learn WP Theme Dev continues a series: Building a Custom Block Part 5: Adding Block Styles Delicious Brains explores: The Art of the WordPress Transient: Performance, Persistence, and Database Bloat WP Editor and Blocks examines: Client-Side Navigation with the Interactivity API Router Ghost Ghost has: Comment moderation Micro.blog Micro announces an: Updated text editor with full-screen mode and editing improvements Write.as Write.as announces: Post previews are here! Introducing Write.as Memberships If you are interested, now would be a good time to commit for $3 a month. See below. Celebrating 11 Years on the Web! Back to top 👆🏼 Techno Anarchist / OMN Tools Picalilli shares: The open source design stack Some good stuff here. Murena announces: Meet Murena Maps Chat Signal has: New Signal updates for Android, iOS, and Desktop bring mostly behind-the-scenes improvements Signal raises limit for audio and video calls to 75 participants Browsers FOSS Force says: Get Your Zen on With Zen Browser Fair warning, you might want to view this in reader mode. Igalia has: Interop 2026 Focus Areas Announced Cloud Nextcloud has: February maintenance updates before Nextcloud Hub 26 Winter release Writing Joplin announces: Joplin will come preloaded on the HMD Terra M Creative Linuxiac reports: GIMP 3.0.8 Delivers Bug Fixes Across Core, Tools, and Plugins KdenLive shares: Parametrized Keyframes – Status Report, February 2026 Linux Igalia reports: Linux 6.19 Released TecMint lists: 10 Tools to Make Bootable USB Drive from ISO in 2026 We all know Linux is a pain in the ass to install. But, here are some tools to help. LineageOS announces: Linux 6.19 Released Dominik Chrastecky shares: Patch what Android thinks is the installer of the given app This week’s featured OMN tool Publii Our retirement site, Les Chroniques de Walker is built with Publii. I’ve grown to like it. With the Publii app, you can create a beautiful, safe, and privacy-friendly website. Publii Back to top 👆🏼 OMN Programming Good Internet Magazine looks at: Unlocking a better future with old computers Seth Larson shows us: How to disable Copilot in GitHub? Better yet, don’t use GitHub. Mark Sample announces: Here’s Glitchlet HTMX OpenRelay explores: Building Infinite Scroll with HTMX Twig CSS Always Twisted examines: Underlining Links With CSS A good review. Frontend Masters has: Background Patterns with CSS corner-radius An Over-The-Top Spoiler Design with the Details Element Web Components Igalia looks at: Reference Target: having your encapsulation and eating it too JavaScript Roberto Butti reviews: State of JS 2025: Popular Syntax Features Explained with PHP Equivalents David Duymelinck says: Javascript has a Typescript problem AI Local Ghost says to: Stop generating, start thinking Other Larvitz Blog reports: Podman 5.8: Quadlet Multi-File Install, Automatic SQLite Migration, and the Road to 6.0 This week’s featured programming tool Penpot Penpot is the web-based open-source design tool that bridges the gap between designers and developers. Penpot Back to top 👆🏼 ActivityPub ActivityPub Space shares: ActivityPub Trust & Safety Taskforce forum ActivityPub for WordPress announces its: Roadmap 2026 — Charting the stars of the open social web Great stuff coming. I wish I could say the same for Ghost. This week’s featured ActivityPub featured tool ActivityPub Rocks This site is maintained by the current steward of the ActivityPub stack of standards. ActivityPub Rocks Back to top 👆🏼 Fediverse I ran across this tool: Thread Reader Holos has: Deeply mixed feelings about #ActivityPub’s adoption of JSON-LD Holos 1.0.0-rc-2 has been published Connected Places has: FR152 – The DSA Needs Big Tech ToToSocial announces: v0.21.0-rc1 Sacrilegious Sloth Mastodon has: Trunk & Tidbits, January 2026 FOSDEM 2026 Recap Thankfully Mastodon has picked up its game in the last year. Stefan Bohacek created a: Bridgy Fed bookmarklet for Mastodon Back to top 👆🏼 More The Register reports: Matrix is quietly becoming the chat layer for governments chasing digital sovereignty Fabio Manganiello prepares: Webmentions with batteries included Absolutely awesome. RSS NetNewWire reports: NetNewsWire 7.0 for iOS Other Slightly Federated Social Media Roost announces: Meet Coop V.0 A New Social announces: Launch: Interact with Unbridged Replies & Mentions eMail / Newsletters Tuta shows us: How to disable Gemini on Android, Gmail, Chrome, Photos, & Google apps. Opt out of AI tracking now! Ghost updates: Welcome emails CTAs That’s it for this week. Please share The Programmer’s Fulcrum. Follow us on Flipboard or at @thefulcrum@thefulcrum.dev on the Fediverse for daily coverage. Read, live, and share The Techno Anarchist Manifesto! And please build something for a community! Blasts from the past Previous Battalion Posts Previous Symfony Station Posts",
  "title": "The Programmer’s Fulcrum: 13 February, 2026",
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