In Contra Chrome, Leah carefully charts this road and its terrain in a funny and easily accessible way. In webcomic form, she documents how over the last decade, Google’s browser has become a threat to user privacy and the democratic process itself.
Contra Chrome is a pretty amazing pice of work from any angle.
The fair use of Scott McCloud‘s Google-commissioned Chrome comic from 2008 is a nice touch.
Had a mooch around Ballagan Glen. Quite spectacular waterfall, behind the trees.
Spring underway, primrose, coltsfoot, dog violets, wood sorrel, wood anemones, barren strawberries and more coming through. walkmap
Primrose
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
The philosopher C. Thi Nguyen believes that to understand modern life, we need to understand how games work.
Huffduffed here.
Listened to this last week, the comments on political twitter echoed loudly today given the clamour about our lawbreaking leaders.
For today's TDC... #tdc3742 #ds106 Crossing Abbey Road https://dlvr.it/SNMcZm
#tdc3742 #ds106time to dig out the dancing @jimgroom machine: Dance Jim Dance
Had a quick walk through Kelvingrove park this morning. Saw this wee thing dipping in the river.
Read: My Name Is Lucy Barton – Elizabeth Strout ★★★★☆ 📚
So quiet and understated, the whitespace seems to hold the story.
Had a walk around the Glen Douglas trio today. Most “up” since I had covid. Photos & notes on the walkmap
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.
