Kyle Drake
@kyledrake.com
Made https://neocities.org, https://geocities.restorativland.org, buncha other stuff. Tech/90s computing. Strong opinions loosely held. Old school rubyist.
300 Incredible Things for Beanie Lovers on the Internet (1999)
December 15, 2025 at 5:39 AM
300 Incredible Things for Beanie Lovers on the Internet (1999)
Files have always been the superior interface, this is still true. When I had 100k mp3s I couldn't even use iTunes because the fcking indexer would crash trying to load all of them into the interface. "Songs/Artist/Album Name/01 - Title.mp3" was a perfect interface, fast to load, and easy to use.
hot take: the implementation complexity of POSIX semantics contributed to the decline of "files", and this has been bad for user freedom
August 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Files have always been the superior interface, this is still true. When I had 100k mp3s I couldn't even use iTunes because the fcking indexer would crash trying to load all of them into the interface. "Songs/Artist/Album Name/01 - Title.mp3" was a perfect interface, fast to load, and easy to use.
I'm gonna put you in a postgres transaction deadlock brotherrr
August 16, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I'm gonna put you in a postgres transaction deadlock brotherrr
Reposted by Kyle Drake
Happy Zero Cool Day to all who celebrate
August 10, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Happy Zero Cool Day to all who celebrate
Don't read negative reviews of a restaurant to learn anything about the restaurant, read them to learn how insane the reviewers are.
Check out this full-blown existential crisis about greed, illegal child labor, and the slow death of the American dream for a review of a mom and pop SANDWICH SHOP.
Check out this full-blown existential crisis about greed, illegal child labor, and the slow death of the American dream for a review of a mom and pop SANDWICH SHOP.
August 9, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Don't read negative reviews of a restaurant to learn anything about the restaurant, read them to learn how insane the reviewers are.
Check out this full-blown existential crisis about greed, illegal child labor, and the slow death of the American dream for a review of a mom and pop SANDWICH SHOP.
Check out this full-blown existential crisis about greed, illegal child labor, and the slow death of the American dream for a review of a mom and pop SANDWICH SHOP.
Reposted by Kyle Drake
HTML Day 2025 is this Saturday! If the idea of coding HTML in nature with fun and creative people appeals to you, see if there's a local event happening near you (or create one!)
HTML Energy
HTML Day is on August 2nd, 2025!
html.energy
July 31, 2025 at 4:49 PM
HTML Day 2025 is this Saturday! If the idea of coding HTML in nature with fun and creative people appeals to you, see if there's a local event happening near you (or create one!)
Reposted by Kyle Drake
On Saturday, August 2nd, 2025, we'll be gathering in places around the world to write and celebrate HTML. Join us ❇️
html.energy/html-day/202...
html.energy/html-day/202...
HTML Energy
HTMl Day is on August 2nd, 2025!
html.energy
July 18, 2025 at 8:25 AM
On Saturday, August 2nd, 2025, we'll be gathering in places around the world to write and celebrate HTML. Join us ❇️
html.energy/html-day/202...
html.energy/html-day/202...
Reposted by Kyle Drake
Anyone have some pics to contribute?
OnlyFans - Welcome
only-fans.neocities.org
June 16, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Anyone have some pics to contribute?
Interesting variation on the "give us a link to our shitty spam site so we can improve its page rank" grift. Most of the time it's something like "Hello, I'm a teacher and my students wanted you to add this link!" but this one rolls in like Bluto from Popeye.
May 13, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Interesting variation on the "give us a link to our shitty spam site so we can improve its page rank" grift. Most of the time it's something like "Hello, I'm a teacher and my students wanted you to add this link!" but this one rolls in like Bluto from Popeye.
Trying to figure out how to process this.. I love the idea of simpler browsers but I think that conversation is over.. cutting all of the funding for browser development seems like a great way to shove everyone into hyper addictive social media apps on monopolistic app stores and kill the web.
All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding
Google pays for 80%+ of the development budget of all major web browsers, and soon, the US will force Google to stop supporting their…
danfabulich.medium.com
May 1, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Trying to figure out how to process this.. I love the idea of simpler browsers but I think that conversation is over.. cutting all of the funding for browser development seems like a great way to shove everyone into hyper addictive social media apps on monopolistic app stores and kill the web.
Ruby Jewel ice cream sandwiches are dope, if you're ever in the PNW try one
March 24, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Ruby Jewel ice cream sandwiches are dope, if you're ever in the PNW try one
Small scale (Raspberry Pi) atproto @bad-example.com #atmosphereconf
March 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Small scale (Raspberry Pi) atproto @bad-example.com #atmosphereconf
March 23, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Reposted by Kyle Drake
"You can't scare people into using shit.. you give them cool things that make them love themselves"
@rudyfraser.com #ATmosphereconf
@rudyfraser.com #ATmosphereconf
March 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
"You can't scare people into using shit.. you give them cool things that make them love themselves"
@rudyfraser.com #ATmosphereconf
@rudyfraser.com #ATmosphereconf
Really enjoy @rudyfraser.com's attempt to put DID hash on badge #atmosphereconf
March 23, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Really enjoy @rudyfraser.com's attempt to put DID hash on badge #atmosphereconf
@rudyfraser.com discussing Blacksky #atmosphereconf
March 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
@rudyfraser.com discussing Blacksky #atmosphereconf
There will be an #atmosphereconf breakout session today to build a client that looks like this
March 23, 2025 at 2:22 PM
There will be an #atmosphereconf breakout session today to build a client that looks like this
March 22, 2025 at 9:06 PM
@jay.bsky.team discussing the late John Barry Barlow and the Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace #atmosphereconf
March 22, 2025 at 7:35 PM
@jay.bsky.team discussing the late John Barry Barlow and the Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace #atmosphereconf
March 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
March 22, 2025 at 6:58 PM
March 22, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Attempting an artistic shot of the amazing photographer @danielhuckmann.com #ATmosphereConf
March 22, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Attempting an artistic shot of the amazing photographer @danielhuckmann.com #ATmosphereConf