Thread by @DefenderOfBasic

Defender @DefenderOfBasic 2024-07-11

I think “personal malleable software” is what I’ve been trying to articulate for the past few months. I think this is why I made this a bookmarklet vs an extension

it can be forked without permission & without the creator even being aware

2024-05-08

I’m sure this is part of some handy twitter chrome extension, but I love this bookmarklet because it means I can tweak it. YOU can tweak it.

You don’t need to wait for me or anyone else to add a feature. If you want it to open a different search them, you can do that yourself

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Defender @DefenderOfBasic 2024-06-17

another recurring theme for me is “No UIs”. I want twitter, and spotify, and my email to offer by default a `/json` page. No API key required, this is for my personal use. I pay for your service, I deserve my own UI. Can we have this world?

2024-06-17

envisioning a future where every website has a /json page that gives you all the data as raw json. I don’t even need to sign up to use the API, it’s just available to everyone by default

I’ll bring my own UI to your data

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Defender @DefenderOfBasic 2024-07-11

One I’m most excited about it is this epiphany that: the entire internet is made of HTML! the average user can just edit it and reshare it! (document.contentEditable = true makes it even easier)

2024-06-28

they can’t stop you from forking articles, adding your notes, and re-sharing the HTML

(this is what the internet archive does, they just copy the HTML and re-host it) x.com/Omar4ur/status…

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Defender @DefenderOfBasic 2024-07-11

I’ve been wanting to organize a little “let’s fork the web!” jam, to kind of break the taboo that it’s wrong to copy parts of the web and edit them

there’s building blocks everywhere. we can collage the web we want to see

https://github.com/OmarShehata/works-in-progress/issues/5…

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Defender @DefenderOfBasic 2024-07-11

this is probably my most useful idea of interaction between LLM and user interface, better reading tools. I really should make a prototype of this and write it up somewhere

2024-06-26

we deserve books that we can zoom in/out of (like google maps)

the “zoomed out” text should be clearly different from the author’s original words (I don’t want to “read” LLM prose, I’m just using it to navigate through the semantic content)