i am facing the bitter truth, self hosting is pretty hard. all kinds of technical issues can come up. i restarted my wordpress, and images are kept in an uploads folder. I deleted the folder, and all of the images from my prior posts got deleted. self hosting comes with all kinds of struggles like…

web10 has a lot of similarities to wordpress because web10 and wordpress are so similar, i look at wordpress to learn from what it does very well, specifically their design philosophy. the wordpress philosophy resulted in actual features of the platform, the three below features being the ones that believe are most important to its…

Nurnberg, chapter 4, pg. 74

this is a post about the people who have good work life balance. you have a job, perhaps it is even fully remote. you have enough time to fit in a second job, or at least maybe half of one. that empty space is what companies will advertise as work life balance. taking a step…

this is my review of bluesky social after using it all week. bluesky social is the federated twitter x mastodon jack dorsey clone. i got similar vibes from bluesky as i did the first time using mastodon. the new wave social platforms, whether it is this, mastodon, or truth social attract extremes. https://bsky.app/profile/jacobhoffman.bsky.social/post/3kkxcms3a3h2g “i can’t…

obviously, this is the web10 blog. we want the future of social media to be on web10, but when cool things / social platforms come out that are in the right direction, you have to give applause. jack dorsey the former c.e.o. of twitter just put out a new social media platform called bluesky, and…

If America is like the Roman Republic, will generations of feudalism be our future? It’s hard not to feel pretty darn lucky these days. 2005 and Barry Bonds getting juiced doesn’t seem so bad right now. Some things feel like they are in a delicate balance, the free world being one of them. If I…

“as it was” the objective of web10 is to make the internet fun for me again. it has been a long time since i have had really good fun on the internet. as a 97 baby i have nostalgia being a 13 year old in 2010 poking people on facebook, watching ray william johnson =3,…

san francisco is the city of startups. it is a place where someone lives to finance “building something fun and new”. new york city is the city of endups. it is a city for companies that have succeeded to capitalize on past achievement. companies will come to nyc to fight legal battles over their past…

blog.web10.app posts are uploaded weekly; this schedule provides a very simple example of a “pattern of safety”. building a succesful project, community, or business is about building strong “patterns of safety”. what are “patterns of safety”? think about a consistent family vacation, an annual vacation that your family takes to the same place every year.…