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Wednesday it was 18 years ago that I first posted in this space. The pace of writing has varied over the years, obviously intensively at the start, and in the past 3 years I have been blogging much more frequently again (with a correlated drop off in my Facebook activity to 0), more than at the star…
I’ve been using Obsidian a little over 100 days now. So, with over three months of daily use it’s good to review the experience. I will do this in some detail, and it will span several blogposts. To explain both the evolution over time, as well as how I currently work with Obsidian in practice i…
I have been using the webmention.io dashboard to check my webmentions. This is all I needed in a webmention reader. I’d check my webmentions every now and again because it was uncommon that I would receive one. When I did receive a webmention, I’d add writing a response to my mental to-do list a…
There’s a website from 2001 for making zines with your friends that, at this point, only exists in my head, if it ever existed honestly, but I wish it were in the world, because in this age of WhatsApp and Slack and whatever, we need it. There are ideas at the bottom of this post.
I am presently sitting with nothing else to do. I enjoy writing so here I am again, back for another (short) blog post.
I added a colophon to my site earlier today. My colophon replaced my privacy page. I originally wrote the privacy page so that users of this site could learn about my thoughts on p…
Long-time readers will know that I’m a big fan of RSS feeds. An RSS reader has been essential to my web experience since I first came online, and I’ve doggedly stuck to using them even as the web has centralised onto a few platforms and much digital ink spilt about the “death of RSS”. Luckil…
When you subscribe to multiple feeds covering the same topic, it’s often the case to see duplicates or near-duplicates in your feed. Usually, it becomes immediately obvious when you read your feeds within a folder. Consider the following case with two feeds from Ars Technica posting the same story…
Ben Werdmüller (werd.io)Firefox matters. The other major browsers are all subject to a larger corporation’s business interests: Safari is built in the context of the App Store, Chrome must support Google’s ad targeting business, and Edge fills a gap in the Windows ecosystem. But Firefox is here to fight for the users: it s…
If you’re running WordPress and use the wonderful IndieAuth plugin to issue tokens for all of your IndieWeb services, here’s how you can automatically invalidate—destroy, in fact—these tokens.
Why? Some applications will automatically log you out after an hour or so, and request you again au…
Ben Werdmüller (werd.io)It’s impossible to ignore.
Federal agents dressed in military gear have been bundling protesters into unmarked vehicles (allegedly rented from Enterprise) in Portland, with additional reports from Chicago and San Diego. The White House has announced that they’ll be rolling these troops out nationwi…
Neil Mather (doubleloop.net)I’m reading through Future Histories at the moment. The chapter linking the work of Frantz Fanon to the ideas of digital self-determination is very interesting and I am getting my head around some of the ideas. Solid and personal data pods get a namecheck, which is pretty much IndieWeb just unde…
Two Pearl Jam fans, Jason Kerepesi and Paul Ghiglieri, started a podcast last month for the super fan that digs into the minutia of all …
I’m a big fan of the whole IndieWeb movement. You own your content. Always. I believe we have a better future ahead of us when we start publishing our content independent of the big “news” outlets again like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. If you’ve never looked into it, I’d start here.
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Yesterday I participated in, or more accurately listened in on, a IndieWeb conversation on wikis and their relationship to blogs (session notes).
I didn’t feel like saying much so kept quiet, other than at the start during a (too long) intro round where I described how I’ve looked at and used wi…
Chris Aldrich (boffosocko.com)What is a Webmention?
Webmention is a relatively recent web standard (or W3C recommendation) that allows notifications when one website mentions a URL on another website. Think of it like @mentions on social platforms, but instead of just working within a particular website from one account to anoth…
This one’s all about text and typography!
Create beautiful street art.
Google en Apple voegen half mei nieuwe functionaliteit toe aan Android en iOS om het registreren van mogelijke coronavirus-contacten mogelijk te maken. Contact tracing, noemen ze het. En het wordt een privacy-vriendelijker optie gebaseerd op Bluetooth LE (nerdy PDF alert). De Nederlandse corona-apps Die gedeelde aankondiging sluit natuurlijk perfect aan op het nieuws van afgelopen …
So, you wanted to follow this nice website for new content, but it doesn’t have an RSS feed yet? Don’t worry, because Inoreader got you covered, again! Introducing Web feeds
Whenever you see a web page with a series of updates, be it news articles, blog posts, classifieds, product updates, weath…
In Europe, officials, doctors and engineers are looking at how smartphones could be enlisted in the war against the spread of the new coronavirus.
Chris Aldrich (boffosocko.com)TiddlyWiki is most often used as a private wiki for personal note taking and creating private journals.
Because it is a single text file usually named index.html written in HTML, CSS and some JavaScript, I thought it would make an ideal candidate for a simple-to-use personal website that can be ho…
Ben Werdmüller (werd.io)Everything changed in the blink of an eye.
I remember when I experienced my first earthquake. I was standing in a house in Berkeley, all white plaster over wooden walls, and it was like a wave suddenly passed through it. In an instant, the walls flexed and curved like butter. My reassuring knowledg…
We’ve been in ‘soft lock-down’ for just over 2 weeks now. Soft, because it is lock-down in all but name. You can still be outside, but not anywhere with more than 2 at the same time at the suggested distance of at least 1.5 meters (except if you’re a family). In practice it means only going …
