Thanks to Joe, if like me you occasionally stumble around with php -S localhost:8080 or the like: this is simple.
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Short walk around lunchtime near Cochno, dreich, drizzle & rain, good to be out.
According to my Books page, I read 43 books last year, three less than the year before year. A list of 5 star books (weight by my enjoyment, pretty vague) using the lovely display posts plugin.
- Demon Copperhead
- Hungry Ghosts
- You Have a Friend in 10A
- The Apparition Phase
- The Secret History
- The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
At the end of 2022 I saw a note somewhere about someone who wrote down the first bird they saw every day. I decided to note one natural thing I saw everyday. Baring a few days here and there I managed it.
Wonderful site by @mdvfunes come to an end after 3108 daily suggestions to find stillness!
#SilentSunday
As has become custom I’ve made a video of my years flickr photos. I edited the script a little to use larger images & added a different sound track.
Read Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver ★★★★★ 📚
David Copperfield about the opioid problem in Appalachia. I was sucked in by Demon’s voice. Glad I knew a happy ending for at least some characters was expected. I”ll wait a bit but rereading Dickens is on my list for 2024.
a blog post of meandering paths and uncertain destinations
Hi Alan, What better type of post could there be. Surprisingly, being a Scot, I prefer RSS porridge to the real thing. Your post is full of tasty discursions (I grabbed the NYT bookmarklet worked a treat to follow the reading).
Seeing the link to River of News, you might be interested in Dave Winer’s feedland.com. I’ve been playing with it and there is a lot to like about this RSS reader. (I also use inoreader and NetNewsWire). I use nitter to pass a few twitter feeds into Feedland as it supports RSS.
Thinking about online community, commercialization & size I keep coming back to theDS106 model & micro.blog. Both in essence or part are RSS readers. I think, without knowing the details, I prefer the simplicity of RSS over ActivityPub. For example a smaller Goodreads could just aggregate a tag/category of a set of blogs using some agreed taxonomies.