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.
Kilpatrick Braes. Had a short walk this morning. Cold and bright, a few more signs of spring. 3 roe in the woods, one with very patchy hair.
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.