Read standing in the shadow of giants (ideolalia.com)
The narrative fallacy is that past events prefigure the future. It is especially common in biographies, where the subject’s early life is reduced down to a collection of events that suggest that their future path was obvious, if you only knew how to look. It ignores all the other people who did almost the same thing, and ended up somewhere else entirely.
Raphael Luckom in Early December Check-in ()
Read Goodbye WordPress, I've Switched To Jekyll by Kevq (kevq.uk)
After lots of thought and consideration, I have decided to leave my trusty WordPress site behind and switch to a Jekyll based static site.
I mostly wonder how long it takes him to move to Hugo, or some other platform. If you’re as enamored of the shiny bits as much as he indicates, it’s only a minute or two before you’re moving on to the next platform…
Bookmarked Web Data Render by gpiresnt (webdatarender.com)

This website is a valid JSON!

Check the source code. Instead of the habitual HTML and CSS, you will see just a plain JSON with the website's information.

WDR is a format to separate the website's information and design.

The website is readily available to be consumed outside the browser via JSON, but also still presentable to users accessing through the web browser.

An interesing(?) idea, but there’s not much I can do with this page because of it’s structure. I’d need a huge amount of infrastructure to be able to parse and read this page with so many tools I use on a regular basis. Even my website parser chokes on it. Ugh…

While it seems nice in concept, it just isn’t compatible with much else on the web… What problem is this really fixing? I only see it making new problems.

Read 04/12/2020, 07:25 by Colin WalkerColin Walker (colinwalker.blog)
# I'm up early because the supermarket changed our delivery slot and "on this day" reminds me that it's now been over four years since I last posted to Twitter; almost three since I finally deleted my account. I've hemmed and hawed over the years about whether I'd want to go back but that I haven't...
Bookmarked Velox Theme by David WolfpawDavid Wolfpaw (GitHub)
Development repository for the Velox Theme for WordPress - davidwolfpaw/velox-theme

Cool! Looks like another IndieWeb friendly WordPress theme on the horizon. I’ll need to take a look at it soon.

David Wolfpaw in #80945 (THEME: Velox – 1.0.5) – WordPress Themes ()

Bookmarked Linguistic Profiling by John BaughJohn Baugh (Black Linguistics: Language Society and Politics in Africa and the Americas (Routledge))
The concept of "linguistic profiling" is introduced here as the auditory equivalent of visual “racial profiling.” We ultimately argue that linguistic profiling is more finely tuned to diversity among Americans than are dissatisfactory racial classifications that have been used in the courts and for controversial...
Thinking a bit this morning about the cognitive biases involved in dialect differences and how they impact racist ideas and help effect racist policies. John Baugh’s work on linguistic profiling seems like a good place to start. 
Read Place names describe Scandinavia in the Iron and Viking Ages (HeritageDaily - Archaeology News)
Every now and then, researchers are lucky enough to experience a Eureka moment — when a series of facts suddenly crystallize into a an entirely new pattern.
Place names can be quite important if we still remember what any of them still mean. I was looking at some place names in Welsh recently which are more descriptive if you know the Welsh.
Read Chevy Chase is 74, sober and ready to work. The problem? Nobody wants to work with him. (Washington Post)
The man who helped revolutionize TV comedy with SNL in the ’70s is a tangle of contradictions.
I remember him being pretty grumpy during my CAA years… The world has moved past him and now he’s the penultimate grumpy old man. Maybe we should have that movie? Grumpy Old Men 5: Chevy Chase!
Read Will the coronavirus help mRNA and DNA vaccines prove their worth? by Ryan Cross (Chemical & Engineering News)
As gene-based vaccines are being designed and tested at unprecedented speeds to fight COVID-19, scientists wonder if this will be the technology’s make-or-break moment.
Great overview of what is going on in the designer vaccine space.