Greg McVerry (quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com)Had to redo my style sheet https://jgregorymcverry.com/ because Dancing Hamsters are getting no love on hacker news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20545257 forget building for SEO, build for fun. Bring back all the silly animated background images #IndieWeb
The IndieWeb is a thing! They've got a conference coming up and everything. The New Yorker is even writing about it
Liked: IndieWeb and Webmentions | CSS-Tricks
I guess that’s what’s so cool about all this IndieWeb stuff. Like a Progressive Web App, every step you take towards it is useful. The more people that do it, the better it gets for everyone, but it’s useful anyway.
I thought that was rather well put. Every so often, I wonder if my rather casual effort is worth it. The idea that ‘every little counts’ is welcome.
Khürt, I absolutely get a lot of value from my micro.blog account. First of, this is a great community of bloggers, coders, amateur photographers and even one harpist. I’ve found this to be a great continuation of the community I found in app.net, which subsequently splintered into a few groups. ...
micro.blog is an interesting experiment in blog comments.
One of the things about micro.blog I continue to like is it makes me think about blogging in many diverse ways.
The latest Openbeta email includes this quote from Czech author Milan Kundera – Everyone without exception bears a potential writer within him, so that the entire human species has good reason to go down into the streets and shout: we are all writers! One morning (and it will be soon), when everyo...
But we do not as yet lament, because we, the people who sit just outside the noisy streams of the walled gardens, know that the Internet is vast and needs more voices. Voices of those not heard till now, voices of those who can bring a fresh perspective. So no, Milan, there is hope as yet, and noise as yet to be made.
from Quote – Nitin Khanna
Now imagine, for a moment, an environment where a decentralized fabric of connected personal sites allows everyone to publish their own content but also enables each individual to engage in an open discussion – answering, challenging, and acknowledging the ideas of others through this universe of personal sites.
Comprehensive discussion of the ins and outs of running your own website from an IndieWeb perspective.
I’ve been dipping my toes into IndieWeb principles for the past few years I hope this is the direction the internet is going.
“Now this is very interesting, and I don't think at all obvious. Reading challenging texts aloud, and at a fast pace, improved the reading comprehension of all students, but for the lowest achievers, the gains were almost twice as great: https://t.co/TxJ1MZPI4X.”
I’ve noticed I do this less and less as there seems to be more and more you have to do each day. Need to make more time for reading to class next session.
First thing: don’t send money. This app is written for love, not money. :)
NetNewsWire/How to Support NetNewsWire
A lovely piece, Brent Simmons explains how to support his free software.
Donate to charities that promote literacy.
Tell other people about cool blogs and feeds you’ve found.
The New Wilderness (Idle Words). Powerful thinking about the parallels between online/social media problem and environmental ones
I’ve enjoyed dropbox for a long time, but has become less useful to me first stopping the hosting web pages and then when the school network where I worked blocked it. I now use O365 OneDrive for syncing files from home to work quite happily. I’ve quite a few aliased setting files and the like sitting in dropbox, but they are only used from my home mac now. One or two drafts action send text from my phone to dropbox but nothing very important.
I think I’ll be trying to tidy up and drop dropbox over the summer holidays.
Some of the quotes in the linked post drip with sarcasm.
