📚 Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan Very enjoyable, pulled me along. Detail from several fascinating aspects of history (crime, war, merchant ships, diving) in the period. The drawing together at the end happened at a faster rate, perhaps too quick? ★ ★ ★ ★
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the @wp_glasgow meet up tonight was good. A chance to sit with Gutenberg for a while beside other folk was very useful & has slightly mollified my knee jerk grumpiness.
With the lovely emoji tags on micro.blog I wonder if someone could create a WordPress plugin or snippet that would apply an #indieweb post kind to different emoji in posts? I’ve got one that applies a category if it contains a string, but I don’t know how to set post kinds.
Micro Monday: @colinwalker, consistently interesting posts on a wide spectrum of topics, helpful WordPress code snippets at a level I can just about get. Great microcast voice.
Clouds, snow on the hills, heather. Cashel Loch Lomond.

Replying on Micro.blog is a bit like being able to comment on someone’s site from your RSS reader. It is nice to have so many ways & places to chat.
Comment directly.
Via micro.blog.
On own site via webmentions when you want to own your thought or add it to another bubble.
Maybe there were some things that I would have changed, however considering the current state of things, I was again pretty lucky this year. Personally, our children have continued to grow up. The youngest has progressed from learning how to climb the ladder to get on the trampoline to now utilisin...
A great read and review of Aaron’s year. Just following the links from his newspaper will take some time, but it will be well spent. Aaron’s take and his pull quotes make fascinating reading.
Fascinating read: The man who can’t face the internet – BBC News

