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Wouter Groeneveld (brainbaking.com)Yesterday, after another quick (and disappointing) bicycle ride to the local retro game store, I started wondering: why do I actually still play video games? I’m 36 now, shouldn’t I stop doing that and find another decent and more respected hobby? That is what the funny looks thrown my way make …
Het begon allemaal bij een foto die ik zag op een Discord-server. Ik ben al jaren (tien, ongeveer) een trouw gebruiker van de ingebouwde MacBook toetsenborden en de Magic losse varianten die Apple daarvan verkoopt. Daarmee dus ook Qwerty, de rechtopstaande Enter, en de §/±-knop, die ideaal is voor…
There was a discussion going on in the IndieWeb chat yesterday about feed readers. One big point that I took away is that developers must abstract away from technical terms that mean little to nothing for those who might use a tool. Technical terms are useful for implementation: they help developers…
I have a working proof of concept to take individual book notes from Obsidian, turn them into an OPML list of books, and publish them on this webserver. As I had time off these past days I’ve allowed myself to do some code tinkering, resulting in the set-up shown in the image below.
A sketch of m…
My birthday is coming up soon so it’s that time of the year when friends start reaching out and asking where they should fly to and how we’re going to celebrate.
After a good run in the post-vaccinated-and-boosted part of 2020 that felt relatively “normal”, including traveling almost 200k mi…
Amit Gawande (amitgawande.com)I recently changed the newsletter to a weekly digest instead of every long-form posts with Micro.blog. A fixed schedule is better for me than thinking about whether to include as part of the newsletter every time I post a post with a title. Until there is a better control (via categories) on what po…
Peter Rukavina (ruk.ca)I just picked up a grocery order from Sobeys—the fancy one across the river in Stratford. It was my first time ordering groceries online, but COVID times, and being responsible to a “steady 10” bubble, called for pivoting.
As burnout and new opportunities beckon, newsletter writers navigate the awkward matter of quitting—and issuing refunds. It’s just the latest wrinkle in the digital economy’s complications of work and worth.
Respond to all business e-mail within 24h. Much of this can be simply be an acknowledgement plus an accurate assessment of when you will respond fully. Then respond fully when you said you would. Turn up on time. In the…
Wouter Groeneveld (brainbaking.com)The whispering whizz of mowing scythes startled sleepy birds nesting near the ancient Nile Delta. Workers harvest the papyrus plant quickly and efficiently, before the unbearable heat of the Egyptian sun turns the slave labor into an even bigger nightmare. The fibers of these plants were to be conve…
Merlin’s Wisdom Project (Draft). GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
Today left me wondering if conference backchannels are still a thing and whether organisers need to start organising/designing backchannels to make it useful (again).
I was at the FOSS4GNL conference today, the first large scale event I went to since the Dutch start of the Situation mid March 2020. …
Nu de tuinmannetjes echt wel klaar zijn met de tuin is er een mooi kaal vlak overgebleven van 6 bij 4 meter wat mijn moestuintje aan huis gaat worden. Ik ga daar een beetje over schrijven, gewoon voor de leuk. Schetsen
Bij het schetsen van de indeling ben ik begonnen op papier. Maar dat is hopeloos,…
Wouter Groeneveld (brainbaking.com)I’ve missed the latest IndieWeb popup gathering on digital gardens and streams (thanks Frank for bringing that up). Thankfully, they are intricate note-takers, and it always pays off to poke around in those. As avid journaler, the subject naturally appeals to me. In fact, you could say that Brain …
Peter Rukavina (ruk.ca)From the Counterculture issue of Volume magazine, from a piece by C-Lab about hacking:
As a form of countercultural resistance, hacking makes no claims to ideological coherence. Hacking is inherently impure, working as it does in the gaps within structures. It takes advantage of the piecemeal nature…
Peter Rukavina (ruk.ca)Olivia and I have been in the habit of going to Starbucks every Sunday afternoon for the last year. Starbucks offers some advantages that trump the moribund coffee and aggressive capitalism:
First, we can order online, from the car, through its well-designed app (which Olivia can use without a credi…
A couple of months ago, I started to work on my own webmention receiver. Instead of relying on webmention.io, a service commonly used to receive webmentions, I wanted to challenge myself to create a receiver from scratch. To do so, I realised I would have to read, understand, and interpret a W3C spe…
Posted on Tuesday 7 Sep 2021. 546 words, 4 links. By Matt Webb.
Jeremy Cherfas (jeremycherfas.net)It really is hard sometimes to understand the idiocy of artificial intelligence or machine learning or whatever the flavour of the day is today. This morning, I was slightly alarmed to see a warning from the Instagram gods, to whit:
Warning notice
It seems to think my post “looks like branded cont…
Peter Rukavina (ruk.ca)100 Prince StreetPhotoOlivia
