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Letting go… by Remkus de Vries (Remkus de Vries)

This is just a reminder to let go. To let go of things you’re not going to pursue. Of things that are never going to get the full attention that they deserve. Of things that are cluttering your todo list. Of things that you feel obligated to do because you once thought of them.

Thurday afternoon, blue sky, temperature above 10 ˚C, a perfect afternoon to head to the zoo, making good use of our yearly subscription. A lot of animals were taking it slow for the holiday season, but the real benefit was being able to watch the animals undisturbed. We saw more people working at

Is popular the same as good? Is popular possible? Is popular your goal? There are tens of thousands of humans spending their days trying to be popular on Instagram, buying outfits, wearing hats and…

Anil Dash schreef over de waarde van links op het web, “Link In Bio” is a slow knife: We don’t even notice it anymore — “link in bio”. It’s a pithy phrase, usually found on Instagram, which directs an audience to be aware that a pertinent web link can be found on that user’s profile. …

Wat heerlijk meta is dit, een serie die in de serie zelf een documentaire of film laat zien en die …

Checklist ondernemen: wacht niet langer, begin vandaag! Ik geef je 10 dingen die je vandaag al kunt doen om aan je droom te werken.

How frequently should you post to keep pace with the next decade?

Na tien jaar bloggen en studeren op de concurrentie concludeer ik dat er drie paden zijn die leiden naar gegarandeerd blogsucces en rijkdom.

A new forum about directories and discovery by Brad (indieseek.xyz)

I and a few others have been wrestling with the whole issue of discovery of non-commercial blogs and websites and how to keep said efforts relatively low tech and low cost to stay within the reach of the average user.  Keeping in mind that we are down to only two major search engines with their own…

Ik ben me nooit zo bewust geweest van het verschil tussen mannen en vrouwen. Opgroeiend tussen twee grote broers gedroeg ik mij meer als jongen dan meisje. Dat is eigenlijk altijd zo gebleven. Tussen de mannen ben ik thuis, tussen de vrouwen nog altijd wat ongemakkelijk. Ik vond het dan ook prima om…

If you’ve browsed your Twitter or Facebook page feeds in the last week, you have probably noticed that we changed the presentation of the posts, so they are more coherent with how a microblog post should look like.
Initially, Inoreader started as a pure RSS reader and titles are an essential part …

In Big Tech & people: a complicated relationship of convenience beschrijft Om Malik onze moeizame relatie met technologie. Op persoonlijk niveau maakt het ons leven een stuk makkelijker, maar tegelijkertijd versterkt het ontwikkelingen die op regionaal of (inter)nationaal niveau enorm onwenselijk zijn. In the past, when preparing to go to the airport from my parents …

I’ve been reading through a series of essays on Blogging Infrastructure that are part of CJ Eller’s Blogging Futures. There are some interesting ideas hiding in there including the idea of a

I go to lots of hack days and hackathons. Some are big corporate affairs, some are boutique community events. They all have one thing in common – Geeks suck at giving demos.
You have 3 minutes to convince the judges – or your peers – that you’ve built something brilliant. How do you do that?
One Hun…

An IndieWeb publishing toolkit

https://tantek.com/2019/317/t1/teach-what-hand-can-hold by Tantek Çelik (tantek.com)

Teach to what the hand can hold

Love to what the heart is open to receiving

The first of these was perhaps the most impactful summary saying from my teachers during my 2017 #ytt200 yoga teacher training @YogaFlowSF. The second is my abstracting & re-applying beyond.

The first was spoken in the c…

Last year, I fell in love with Diana Smith’s stunning CSS paintings: Francine, Vignes, and Zigario. (I loved them so much, I asked her to speak at XOXO’s Art+Code event last year.)
This stunning illustration by @cyanharlow is pure HTML/CSS. Every element was typed by hand, drawing with only a te…

I’ve been seeing more tweets lately—particularly from Google Chrome developer Alex Russell—that the web is dying.
I disagree.
The web is a mess. Modern “best practices” are creating a slow, obnoxious experience for users. There a few big, influential companies who have a vested interest in subverting the web or creating a walled garden.
But that’s to say nothing of the platform itself.
The web platform, this beautiful thing that we build sites and apps on, is alive and thriving.