Fifteen years ago today Elmine Wijnia published a paper “Understanding Weblogs: a Communicative Perspective” (PDF) for the BlogTalk conference based on her master thesis. In it she discusses weblogs as a communications medium and compares their role and potential a.o. with Habermas’ philosophi…
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Jamie Tanna (jvt.me)Some recommendations for how to mark up licensing information with Microformats, for making license information machine-discoverable and machine-readable.
Jamie Tanna faciliteerde een sessie over licenties op het web en hoe Microformats daar voor zijn te gebruiken. Een interessant onderwerp waar ik nog eens meer over lezen en leren
Bookmark: So You Want To Start An Unpopular Blog
Very occasionally I get asked how to start blogging by people who would like to create exciting and engaging articles that will build a following by delighting an audience hungry for more. Perhaps they envision spreading their views far across the face of the web.
To which I always reply, “Have yo…
Voor wie blog je? Voor jezelf of voor je publiek? Of voor zoekmachines?
Bookmark: Glitch
Combining automated deployment, instant hosting & collaborative editing, Glitch gets you straight to coding so you can build full-stack web apps, fast
Vandaag op IndieWebCamp spraken we al kort over Glitch. Een platform waar je relatief eenvoudig je eigen bots, sites en apps kunt maken. Dit is zo’n voorbeeld wat ik eens verder wil ontdekken. Een bot die songteksten op Twitter post.
tl;dr: This is nerding out on Tetris scores, and quite frankly, I don’t think the conclusion holds. But there are nice tables along the way.
I’ve been watching Classic Tetris for a few months now, and as a result, I’m also playing it. I am noticeably better after I watched some pro’s scoring Tetris …
https://www.jwz.org/images/scaled/768/2019/ctyp_65699222328826997_fe5da4bde3.jpg Instagram’s most toxic contribution might be “Link in Bio”. In order to lock you in completely, they took the fundamental defining characteristic of The Web — the hyperlink — and destroyed it.
This dark pattern is the…
I’ve been working on explaining computer things I’m learning on this blog for 6 years. I wrote one of my first posts, what does a shell even do? on Sept 30, 2013. Since then, I’ve written 11 zines, 370,000 words on this blog, and given 20 or so talks. So it seems like I like explaining things …
As part of the Techfestival last week, the Copenhagen 150, which this time included me, came together to write a pledge for individual technologists and makers to commit their professional lives to. A bit like a Hippocratic oath, but for creators of all tech. Following up on the Copenhagen Letter, w…
? Check dit! Kicks Condor interviewt Nadia Eghbal over o.a. Writing Hypertext
My digichat with @nayafia—an essential writer (*imho*) of texts, notes and wonderful roundups.
Echt hoor… als ik groot ben wil ik coole pagina’s op het internet maken zoals Kicks Condor doet. Het is toch heerlijk om steeds weer te worden verrast hoe de layout er uit ziet. Zoals bij dit interview, scroll gewoon naar beneden en zie wat er gebeurt. In elk geval op een laptop. Hoe het…
? Ask HN: Who are your favourite people to follow on Mastodon? | Hacker News
Dat is nog eens een verrassende discussie op HackerNews. Ik had het idee dat de reacties voornamelijk over het obscure karakter van Mastodon zouden gaan, hoe niemand er gebruik van maakt, dat het geen lang leven is beschoren want {insert Silicon Valley BigTech}. Maar je kunt in de reacties een aantal interessante user-accounts vinden en…
The drive to urbanization is an imperative of capitalism, this drive results in ‘a freezing of life’— a static world devoid of spontaneity, the result of land development and bureaucratic zoning laws optimized for rent seeking and increased land valuations, devoid of nature and where its residents have no ability to change their surroundings to suit their daily ways of living
AI can now easily (8 seconds) change the identity of someone in a film or video. Multiple services can now scan a few hours of someone’s voice and then fake any sentence in that person’…
I have a Google Alert set up for my name, to find new mentions of it online. Today I received a mail that my name came up in an article in the South China Morning Post (SCMP), as part of a photo credit. This made me curious.
An article on the amount of time elderly US citizens spend behind their com…
jakedahn (jakedahn.com)Back to Blogging
Hi Friends!
I spent my last few evenings learning about http://indieweb.org, https://micro.blog/, and trying to revive my personal blog. Things are still a little rough around the edges, so bear with me as I slowly customize the theme, and make things nicer.
I’ll write some though…
? How to write zines with simple tools
People often ask me what tools I use to write my zines (the answer is here). Answering this question as written has always felt slightly off to me, though, and I couldn’t figure out why for a long time.
I finally realized last week that instead of “what tools do you use to write zines?” some p…
Mijn nieuwsbrief OPEN kan prima een ‘zine zijn als je er over nadenkt. Het is weer zo’n sideproject wat ik een keer aandacht en tijd moet geven om mogelijk te maken. Julia Evans legt in haar blogpost stap voor stap uit hoe zij het aanpakt. Ik zet het op mijn todo lijst voor de komende…
Bookmark: Nadia Eghbal, Re: Writing Hypertext
"The problem with likes is it naturally draws your eye towards the most-liked stuff, instead of deciding for yourself what’s most interesting. It almost feels like I’d be taking agency away from the reader by doing that." Daar zit een mooie kern van waarheid in. Het hele interview met Nadia is de moeite waard, evenals…
It’s been a while since I posted any shell tricks, so I’m just dumping a few random but useful aliases out here…
Ben Werdmüller (werd.io)I’m back in the habit of reading my feed subscriptions at the beginning of every day. I love blogs: posts are typically more longform and thoughtful, and less led by trending topics on social media sites. It’s usually “here’s what I’ve been thinking about lately,” which is lovely. As Kev…
Bookmark: Things You Didn’t Know About GNU Readline
What is GNU Readline and where did it come from?
Wauw. Ik heb er nooit zo bij stil gestaan dat al die kleine functionaliteiten op je computer toch érgens vandaan moeten komen. Zoals Readline. Ik kende het niet, maar het is best een relevant onderdeel van je dagelijkse computerwerk, zeker als je code schrijft. En nog belangrijker: "Today, it is an important if invisible part…
Bookmark: Glen E. Friedman Looks Back at the Dogtown Days » Whalebone
An expanded edition of a book of Friedman’s classic photographs offers an up-close-and-personal look at the birth of modern skateboarding Glen E. Friedman has taken some of the most iconic skateboarding photos you’ve ever seen. And he was something like all of 14 years old when he took many of t…
Friedman is mijn persoonlijke held. Zijn foto’s en de invloed op popcultuur zijn onmiskenbaar. In dit interview vertelt hij wat meer over de achtergrond van zijn fotografie en welke skaters hém hebben beïnvloed.
On death and Stoicism.
Aaron Parecki has been playing around with sensors in his home. He lists the three principles he applies to how his home automation is set up: Manual override: Everything automated has to still have the ability to be controlled manually Keep it at home: No “cloud” services unless absolutely nece…
