Author: Approaching Utopia Staff

The IndieWeb is the idea and movement that we don’t have to leave all of our online data to corporate control.

This site will give you the down-low on it, as well as how you can get started. Or, if you’re like us, get involved.

A Fediverse Guide for those who have no idea what the Fediverse even is.

It’s really cool. We love it, and we believe it is the future of the internet.

Web 3.0?

Really excited about this list we found today. 

We’re looking into getting back into game design and development, and these tools could get us there.

If links are what makes the web special, it’s up to us to make sure they work for everyone! 

Gian delivers the last word in accessible links .

Today we were reading an article about a hacker kid who made fake bomb threats and ran a DDoS-for-hire group that attacked protonmail servers at least once. 

They were also ProtonMail users. 

It turns out ProtonMail, our encrypted mail service of choice (and vpn) colluded w/ government(s) to catch him. 

Is that okay? We did some digging.

Our music is now free!

Not only is it free for you to download and enjoy, but you can also use it in any non-commercial project you want.

That means:

As long as they’re not commercial and you give proper attribution.

Dark Patterns are tricks used in websites and apps that make you buy or sign up for things that you didn’t mean to. 

The purpose of this site is to spread awareness and to shame companies that use them.

This guy figured out the path to making money while working on Free Open Source Software full time.

It’s a tough path, but it’s possible.

Automattic Inc, the parent company of WordPress.com, is joining with other news industry leaders to develop an advanced open-source publishing and revenue-generating platform for news organizations. 

The effort is designed to address some of the persistent obstacles to creating economically sustainable models for journalism, particularly at the local level. 

Guidelines for web design that adhere to the tenets and ethos of Brutalism.

This has inspired us to being working on our own manifesto of sustainable and accessible web design and development.

Stay subscribed and we’ll let you know when it’s ready!

Despite all of the other things I’ve tried to be in my life, I’ve always been a writer.

But it took me a while to figure that out.

Here’s the story… (A personal blog post from Garrett)