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Olly@olly@indieweb.social

Pagecord foundling. FreeAgent co-founder. Photographer.

https://pagecord.com. Blog without the slog! ✨️

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Home Page: https://olly.world
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Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/olly.world Joined: 2026-08-05 00:18:15 70 notes, 0 following, 1 followers

Olly@olly@indieweb.social (2026-08-22 05:45:57) RE: https://social.lol/@neatnik/117135441219012644

wtaf?

Reply to @mcg@social.lol Olly@olly@indieweb.social (2026-08-22 05:42:20) @mcg nothing about the pounding on me in this place today feels in good faith either

Olly@olly@indieweb.social (2026-08-22 05:29:48) #witchhunt

Reply to @cris@social.lol Olly@olly@indieweb.social (2026-08-22 05:29:06) RE: https://social.lol/@cris/117135380097845054

thanks, i appreciate your kind words. there are absolutely no bigots on here, of course.

Reply to @mcg@social.lol Olly@olly@indieweb.social (2026-08-22 05:26:57) @mcg enlighten me

Reply to @neatnik@social.lol Olly@olly@indieweb.social (2026-08-22 05:23:24) RE: https://social.lol/@neatnik/117135339758894949

Fuck me, I'm being stalked and openly judged by someone I've never met and know nothing about (and who knows nothing about me).

Yes, I bought 2 months of X premium for half price to test Grok. Does this make me a bad person?

You know, I never believed it until today but all those people saying this place is even more toxic than X have a point... jeez

Reply to @olly@indieweb.social Olly@olly@indieweb.social (2026-08-22 05:08:16) Go and look at all of my code, critique it, tell me what's slop, explain how it could be better.

Then make your code open source and I'll do the same.

Olly@olly@indieweb.social (2026-08-22 04:55:31) Building software with LLMs is just using modern tech to do a job. Like programmers have always done. It doesn’t mean you’re reliant upon the LLM. If they went away tomorrow I’d just return to hand cranking the code and being 5-10x slower at my job.

There’s also a massive difference between “vibe coding” and LLM assistance. I review (almost 😅) every line of code, tweak it, make sure it’s as good as I think it can be. Just as I’ve always done. I just do things faster and with more notification.

Olly@olly@indieweb.social (2026-08-22 04:51:25) RE: https://social.lol/@neatnik/117135225955027442

So much beef, I don’t get it 🥩

Reply to @shannonkay@bookstodon.com Olly@olly@indieweb.social (2026-08-22 03:35:05) @shannonkay @sylvia impressive hosting from home! 👏

Reply to @shannonkay@bookstodon.com Olly@olly@indieweb.social (2026-08-22 03:34:32) @shannonkay I’m all for people doing weird things! I’m one of those people :)

Reply to @raeubervater@social.lol Olly@olly@indieweb.social (2026-08-22 03:33:27) @raeubervater @markhysted it has to insert the anchor link itself which requires html :)

Olly@olly@indieweb.social (2026-08-22 02:24:50) This is wild! https://omarchy.org/news/2026/08/omacom-foundation-launches-with-8-million/

Reply to @gobino@social.lol Olly@olly@indieweb.social (2026-08-22 01:44:06) @gobino i plan to write about pagecord not going away, maybe next week or the one after. it's in a perfect position to be maintained by a community i think

Reply to @jan@mastodon.scot Olly@olly@indieweb.social (2026-08-22 01:43:27) @jan it's the tone of some the replies. i can't bear social media tbh. i'll probably stick around at some level, but won't engage and just block. best way to follow pagecord is the weekly email :)

Reply to @raeubervater@social.lol Olly@olly@indieweb.social (2026-08-22 01:41:49) @raeubervater @markhysted really? how odd. you can change the class names, maybe that will fix it? which ad blocker? I use ublock lite and it's fine

Reply to @olly@indieweb.social Olly@olly@indieweb.social (2026-08-22 01:31:11) @raeubervater @markhysted added a variant on my site, and decided to redesign the site while i was at it https://olly.world/hardcore-about-the-indieweb-ethos

Reply to @raeubervater@social.lol Olly@olly@indieweb.social (2026-08-22 00:40:44) @raeubervater @markhysted here's a CSS version that I think does what you want :) https://gist.github.com/lylo/d8b298a24877714233c7c6de76c0daa2

Reply to @katafrakt@ruby.social Olly@olly@indieweb.social (2026-08-21 18:44:02) @katafrakt @citizen428 @neatnik same

Olly@olly@indieweb.social (2026-08-21 18:36:22) I really don’t need a mastodon account. Maybe I’m a flake who can’t handle the heat, but one hour of character assassinations is actually more than enough for me to take my bat and ball home. Grim.

Heading into the (internet free!) lab to scan a load of film. Then I’ll decide on whether I want to expend any of my time and energy here going forward. Probably not tbh. 👋

Olly@olly@indieweb.social boosted: @olly@indieweb.social (2026-08-21 18:32:42) @katafrakt @citizen428 @neatnik I’ve removed “pay”, fair point. I’ll also add insincere to the list of accusations being made in this place against my character, thanks.

Reply to @katafrakt@ruby.social Olly@olly@indieweb.social (2026-08-21 18:32:42) @katafrakt @citizen428 @neatnik I’ve removed “pay”, fair point. I’ll also add insincere to the list of accusations being made in this place against my character, thanks.

Reply to @jan@mastodon.scot Olly@olly@indieweb.social (2026-08-21 18:13:22) @jan i don't think there are bots on mastodon

Olly@olly@indieweb.social (2026-08-21 18:03:07) I'm sat here trying to defend myself to strangers about a throwaway blog post I wrote because I've already been accused of being anti-human, anti-learning, and patronising to non-techies. Is this normal? It's not an enjoyable experience.

Reply to @taichara@turnipheap.loneknight.quest Olly@olly@indieweb.social (2026-08-21 17:59:34) @taichara @neatnik harsh. where did i suggest that non-techies can't follow instructions? i just said "it's more complicated" for non-techies than techies naturally think.

Reply to @tnjh@mastodon.social Olly@olly@indieweb.social (2026-08-21 17:58:12) @tnjh @neatnik learning skills is a wonderful thing to do. indeed i state that doing your own website yourself gets you a new skill. you're reading it wrong, sorry if my writing isn't good enough

Olly@olly@indieweb.social boosted: @olly@indieweb.social (2026-08-21 17:45:34) @citizen428 @neatnik harsh. what on earth is "anti human"? because I suggested using an LLM?

my take is that the vast majority of non-techies who face a problem with HTML/CSS/FTP/DNS (the things you will encounter when 'simply' putting a web page on the internet) will now use an LLM to solve it, wittingly or unwittingly. google is essentially an LLM now, and most people default to chatgpt. you might avoid it, but most humans don't. that's the reality i'm afraid.

Reply to @citizen428@chaos.social Olly@olly@indieweb.social (2026-08-21 17:45:34) @citizen428 @neatnik harsh. what on earth is "anti human"? because I suggested using an LLM?

my take is that the vast majority of non-techies who face a problem with HTML/CSS/FTP/DNS (the things you will encounter when 'simply' putting a web page on the internet) will now use an LLM to solve it, wittingly or unwittingly. google is essentially an LLM now, and most people default to chatgpt. you might avoid it, but most humans don't. that's the reality i'm afraid.

Reply to @tnjh@mastodon.social Olly@olly@indieweb.social (2026-08-21 17:41:04) @tnjh @neatnik nice, thanks

Reply to @raeubervater@social.lol Olly@olly@indieweb.social (2026-08-21 17:37:53) @raeubervater @neatnik even with a server in your closet you're going to depend on 3rd party companies in the stack somewhere – email, ISP, DNS, etc etc...

Anyway it's just my opinion in a crappy blog post that's probably weakly positioned... I hate debates on social media.
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