Mike Babb @mikebabb@mastodon.technology

I wrote to a few MEPs about #Article13 and sadly a number of them have sent canned responses along the lines of:

* I've spoken to industry lobbyists who say something must be done to enforce copyright
* Article 13 is something
* Therefore Article 13 must pass

It's disappointing. We're not saying nothing needs to be done - the issue is that Article 13 is wildly unfit for purpose, and potentially hugely damaging to the internet as a side effect.

After replacing Twitter and Uber's native apps on my phone with their PWA counterparts, I've just added Mastodon to my homescreen to see if it can replace Tusky. I can't find an obvious way to reach my own profile and preferences screen, though.

I'm moving on from Green Chameleon after 5 incredible years. Thanks to all my fellow Chameleons - past, current, and newly-arrived - for making it such a great place to work. All the best for the future, team! 🦎

I recently converted my website from WordPress to a static site powered by Jekyll. Here's how it went: https://mikebabb.com/migrating-from-wordpress-to-jekyll/

A good few hours of work later and the migration from WordPress to a Jekyll-powered static site is complete! No CMS, no database, no problem 🎉

Operation "convert WordPress site to a static one with Jekyll" took a slight diversion in to "migrate front end build processes from Grunt to Gulp while we're at it", but I'm back on track now 💯👨‍💻

Tomorrow is a big day for the internet as the European Parliament votes on the Copyright Directive, including some terrible proposals in #Article13: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/internet-luminaries-ring-alarm-eu-copyright-filtering-proposal

I've just written to my MEPs to ask them to oppose Article 13, and it's not too late for you to do the same! I used https://www.writetothem.com to email them, and there's info at https://saveyourinternet.eu/home to help.

Let's keep the internet an open platform for sharing and innovation, not a tool for automated surveillance and control of users.

In true developer fashion I've spent an hour tinkering with a thing and decided it's the best thing ever. Jekyll side project and blog post coming up! 🙌

Started the morning pondering ways to speed up a WordPress site and have ended up considering scrapping the whole thing and going fully static instead.

I quite like the convenience of WordPress as a CMS, though. Any recommendations for a convenient, flexible approach to content management that outputs a static site?