A quick test to see if ticking the syndicate to mastadon via the Syndication Links plugin works. Like a lot of others I am poking around mastadon again. I think my preference is still POSSE from my own site for social. I didn’t like the way twitter has become the official comms for schools & government before last week.
Category Archives: reaction
Made with Dance Jim Dance
What indeed. I like to see silly things I’ve made used.
Thanks to the mistrust of big tech, the creation of better tools for developers, and the weird and wonderful creativity of ordinary people, we’re seeing an incredibly unlikely comeback: the web is thriving again. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you had to pick the unexpected breakout consumer tech hit of 2022, you could make a pretty strong case for Wordle. In a matter of weeks, the popular word game went from obscurity to ubiquity, grabbing
Read: My Name Is Lucy Barton – Elizabeth Strout ★★★★☆ 📚
So quiet and understated, the whitespace seems to hold the story.
For a few years now, it has been a goal (or more of a dream) to build my own feed reader which integrates directly with the blog making it easy to perform indieweb actions such as likes and replies.
This is a really beautiful looking setup. The best thing, I’d guess, is the integration with Colin’s blog using indieweb actions. The UI looks great. The video of mobile looks perfect.
The upside of a DIY system would be it works just they way you want it. I wonder if something similar could be done for WordPress, using FeedWordPress as a reader perhaps.
Read: We are not in the World by Connor O’Callaghan ★★★☆☆📚
Mysterious or confusing narrative, slips between times & narrators. I struggled to follow. The lurch at then end was a great surprise.
I’ve seen quite a few blackthorn blooming along the road this week.
Read: Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead ★★★☆☆ 📚
Just had a fascinating meeting with @joedale where he shared some audacity workflow wizardry.
A website where you can pay your dues to the pug in a rug, by honoring it with your eyes. - The website https://puginarug.com - The code https://github.com/tholman/puginarug
Pretty delightful video showing how the The Pug In A Rug Site/page was made. Simple enough for me to learn from.
I usually do not use YouTube videos for learning preferring text or text and image. This video hit the sweet spot for me.
It also felt like Tim was working it out as he went along, developing ideas and fixing mistakes.