The Programmer's Fulcrum 09 October, 2026
This post originally appeared on The Fulcrum.
Welcome to this week's The Programmer's Fulcrum.
It's your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Open Social development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism.
As usual, 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), Open Social, 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 open social and use the hell out of them. And do the same with a RSS feed reader.
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.
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:
There is a third path: community self-hosting. And this is actually how much of the Fediverse has worked for the last decade. A local group, cooperative, union, neighbourhood, or affinity group can share the cost, skills and responsibility of running services.
This is a way of taking the original “self-hosting” idea further, from individual self-hosting → community hosting → federation → native P2P.
The answer to the dotcons isn’t everyone becoming a sysadmin
But, the more of us that do, the better it is for the rest of us. Self-hosting skills are vital. Someone has to run community hosting.
Dead Simple Tech writes:
Using my experience in the tech world along with my exposure to humanist modes of analysis, then, I've tried to have a look as to how enshittification works from the inside: what beliefs, what attitudes and what mentalities lead to enshittifiers coming to be and reproducing themselves?
More (detailed) explanation of why techbros and developers are clueless shits and what to do about it.
Molily writes:
Many independent educators who used to earn a living from web development training and developer relations have reported that GenAI has ruined their business.
The death of web development education
All of you fucks who use GenAI are ruining your own career and everyone else's. No to mention the thievery and environment destroying. So, fuck you!
CMSs
Faircamp announces:
The first Faircamp 2 sites are coming online after the release
From Anna is:
Making a quick and easy website!
Publii introduces:
Isabella: a website theme for working photographers
Thomas Kräftner shares his experience at KirbyKon:
Pika announces:
WordPress
Souverain explores:
De WordPress au site statique : remettre le Web à plat avec Silex
While creating a Silex site is simple, connecting it to a WordPress backend is not.
IndieWeb
O Hello Ana examines moving:
Towards a personal online third-space
Nice site design, Ana.
Ghost
Ghost shares:
Build Awesome / 11ty
Richard Djarbeng demonstrates:
Building a Modern Blog with Eleventy 3.x (Liquid Edition)
Leaflet
Sygnyn shows us how to:
Use your own domain name in Leaflet
Tools
Chat / Team Chat
About Signal reports on:
Cloud
OpenTech(AUC) is:
Nextcloud has:
Introducing Nextcloud Academy: Free online courses for Nextcloud contributors
Nextcloud app development beginner’s guide: What you should know before building your first app
Writing
And:
Creative
Lou Lüeder shares:
Notre pipeline de production des PDFs imprimeur est 100% libre
Linux / Open Android
PostmarketOS (now Nura) looks at:
The road to daily-drivable mainline phones
9to5Linux reports:
Ubuntu Summit for Ubuntu 26.10 Takes Place on November 12-13, 2026
Hosting / Serving
Selfh.st opens the:
2026 Self-Host User Survey: Open for Submissions
Programming
Sheets.work reveals:
The people holding up the internet
David Bushnell wants a:
A sustainable web career, for when all this blows over
On a similar note, Deciphering Glyph correctly states:
Base 31 shows us:
Fighting Link Rot: How to Build Websites That Last
Steve Fenton explores:
Vadim Makeev shares:
One SVG, nine posters: CSS linked parameters
Git
Linux Web News has:
Looking forward to Git 2.56 — and 3.0
Markdown
Nextcloud announces:
Nextcloud Text adds comments in Markdown files
HTML
Open Surveys opens the:
Calibre App examines:
Lazy Loading Images and Media: How Far Ahead Browsers Fetch
Dave Rupert
Recursion is DEAD and HTML killed it
CSS
Master.dev looks at:
A Beautiful Site explores:
Named Breakpoints Without Sass
Amber Weinberg explains:
Optimizing CSS with Modern Selectors
JavaScript
Master.dev
Testing an iframe’s postMessage Handler
AI
Jacobin explores:
David Bushell examines:
Other
OpenProject has:
XWiki announces:
Release Notes for XWiki 18.4.6
ActivityPub
The Social Web Foundation is working on:
Internationalized Webfinger Handles in ActivityPub
Call for Proposals: Fediverse Multimedia Grants
Fedify announces:
Fedify 2.4.0: FEP-ef61 portable objects, background tasks, media uploads, and inbox request reports
Fabio Manganiello announces:
Grow Your Own Services covers:
A new very lightweight Fediverse platform that's just been released called littleFedi
And LittleFedi has all the details:
The Little Computer People Present littleFedi: Our First Public Release
This is going to be similar to Stirling.
ActivityPub for WordPress announces:
9.3.0 — Modern Signatures and a Summer of Security Reports
And Journey of the Wolf and Raven announces:
Activity Relay 3.1.0 and Activity Relay Directory 1.3.0 are released!
Permanent aside here (unfortunately)
This is a perpetual pet peeve because many people aren't able to comprehend ⬇️:
- The Fediverse is for communities (private, semi-private, formal, informal, or otherwise)
- and the Atmosphere is for the masses (unwashed, washed, or otherwise).
- and corporate social media is for naive fools and intentional techcunts.
So, recognize their natures and don't ask the two protocols to go against them. This is also why we have accounts on both platforms and use them differently.
Fediverse
Hamish Campbell covers:
Composting the Last Five Years of the Fediverse
The Fediverse's tech is decentralized. The power over it is not. And it will slowly be enshittified if this doesn't change.
Connected Places has:
I discovered Epsilon.Social from the article above:
The European social network, sovereign and built to respect you
It will be very interesting to see where this goes. Here are its TOS with details on the founder.
Bonfire
Apache (the Dutch media version) reports:
Mediahuis gebruikt én kopieert big tech
Linux Magazine reports:
How the Fediverse Found Parts for Its Platforms
More
WAFRN shows us:
ATProto
The Public Ledger of Credentials shares the:
First steps of the PLC organization
Jola is:
Building an atproto link aggregator
Building [at] Habitat shares:
Habitat's road to release: 08 search
Atmosphere
The Modal Foundation is:
Skyreader shares a:
Skyreader update - From your follows, Bluesky posting, and more
And Cosmik shares:
Cosmik Updates: September 2026
P2P
P2Panda has:
XMPP
Tubercule shares:
Avoir un compte de messagerie XMPP
Element announces:
Smoother collaboration with integrations
Matrix
Computer Weekly reports:
French local authorities to replace WhatsApp with ‘sovereign’ encrypted messaging
Democracy Tech
Blacksky has:
CTAs
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