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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. …
Drummer and Micro.blog
Manton Reece (manton.org)Drummer is a new outliner (with companion blogging system) from Dave Winer. As I’ve watched some folks on Micro.blog play with Drummer, I thought I’d take a look at how we could make it easier to use an outline in Drummer to write new blog posts for Micro.blog.
The result is an experimental feat…
Heerlijk hoe onafhankelijke platformen samenwerken. "Write in Drummer, publish to a blog hosted on Micro.blog."
Bookmark: IoT Hacking and Rickrolling My High School District
This is the story of how I created a botnet of IPTVs to rickroll 10,000+ students for my senior prank.
Niet alleen je klas Rickrollen, maar het complete school-district. De reactie van de leiding en het technische team is 👍🏼. In plaats van strafkampen en boetes, krijgen de hackers de mogelijkheid om hun bevindingen en aanbevelingen aan het team te presenteren. Ook dat is goed onderwijs.
Bookmark: A Triumph For Blogging
Wouter Groeneveld (brainbaking.com)Since taking blogging a bit more serious a few years ago, I’ve had the opportunity to meet some truly wonderful people. This is a short ode to blogging. It might spark others to start writing for themselves too. There are lots of “you should really start your own blog” posts out there, but tha…
Een fraaie ode aan bloggen! “By blogging, I try to spread the word, like how to write books and academic papers in Markdown, which ended up being used by other writers. Some articles resulted in feedback, which resulted in more learning and improvements” Zo zie je, op elk klein stukje internet met je eigen stem…
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,…
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…
Bookmark: Scripting News: Thursday, October 7, 2021
It’s even worse than it appears.
Ik ben echt heel benieuwd naar Drummer, de nieuwe outliner/blogtool van Dave Winer. Als het goed is kan ik het morgen testen. Aangezien ik een luie zondag heb gepland, komt dat dus prima samen!
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.
Bookmark: an attempt to create a squabble between some chunk of the altweb and indieweb folks…. was made
…s on HotGlue; and much more. Over on the IndieWeb wiki, Tantek Çelik claims the small web is just what they’ve been doing, under another name. Uh, no. Hands off. You already have a community, with a fancy brand name, international events and so on. Leave us alone. The small web is for the rest…
Ik hou me al een tijdje niet meer heel actief bezig met de Indieweb community. Tijd, energie, maar vooral omdat ik steeds meer merkte hoe technisch-introvert de community is. Ik heb geprobeerd het naar buiten te brengen. Minder technisch onderlegden mee laten doen. Maar het ging me niet snel genoeg. Of misschien ben ik te…
Bookmark: Getting things done
Jeroen Sangers (jeroensangers.com)Any personal effectiveness system that gets tasks out of the mind is Getting Things Done.
Related: Tools for thought, Effectiveness, Monthly map
Jeroen deelt al een paar dagen korte bytesized tips en inzichten over goed leven, gezond werk, effectiviteit en de balans in alles om je heen. Waardevol om jezelf periodiek aan te herinneren!
Bookmark: How Your Desk Helps You Think
A year and a half into remote work, a cultural divide has emerged: Most people either love it or hate it. A recent survey by the New York Times found 31% of people want to stay home permanently…
Er zijn inmiddels interessante inzichten gedaan op het gebied van thuiswerk vs kantoorwerk. Wat ik meeneem uit het artikel van Clive Thompson is het belang van eigenaarschap over je werkplek. Zowel je fysieke werkplek als je digitale.
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…
Bookmark: I Stopped By Your Memory Palace. It Looks Like Shit By The Way
Hey, man. Yeah, it’s good to see you, too. I stopped by your memory palace the other day. You know, that method of loci you employ to enhance your powers of recall? Recalling information more readily and without prompting because you attach it to an elaborate and detailed visualization of familiar environments, as the Greeks and Romans of old? Looks like dog shit, man.
Een heerlijk ironische waterval van kritiek op de vele memory palaces en in de slipstream Digital Gardens, Commonplace Books en persoonlijke wikipedia’s. Kennis opslaan is één ding, het goed onderhouden en vindbaar maken is de kunst. It honestly looks like a medieval woodcut threw up in a Scandinavian modernist design firm, dude, and it fucking…
Peter Rukavina (ruk.ca)100 Prince StreetPhotoOlivia
Bookmark: Build that blog already
Sia Karamalegos (twitter.com)What’s holding you back from starting your blog? Sort through the real issues from the noise and start today.
De bezwaren om een blog te starten veranderen weinig door de jaren. Gelukkig zijn er altijd mensen die geduldig antwoord blijven geven. De conclusie is er een on te onthouden: Your blog isn’t the goddess Athena. It’s not going to pop fully formed and all grown up out of your head. You aren’t Zeus. Zo…
