Month: June 2019

👓 A Better Way to Keep Track of Your Tasks? Check! | Simplenote

Read A Better Way to Keep Track of Your Tasks? Check! by Dan (Simplenote)
Simplenote is great for keeping your life organized without getting in your way. Now, it gives you a whole new way to stay on top of your tasks: Checklists! Here’s one in action: Adding a checklist in the macOS app. On our mobile apps, you’ll find a new button in the editor toolbar to add a chec...
Spurred on by a note from Joseph Dickson, I went over to Simplenote and discovered that indeed, they do support checklists! Sadly, there’s no source code for the web app in GitHub though they do have some code for the individual mobile apps.​
Read Blogging with Simplenote by Melissa S (Simplenote)
Simplenote is powered by Automattic, which also runs WordPress.com — so as you can imagine, we love blogging. I’ve written for a few different sites, some using WordPress and some not. No matter where I publish my posts, I have a great, consistent writing experience by drafting in Simplenote fir...
Read A ‘Bridge’ to China, and Her Family’s Business, in the Trump Cabinet (New York Times)
Elaine Chao has boosted the profile of her family’s shipping company, which benefits from industrial policies in China that are roiling the Trump administration.
If this were written into a spy thriller, you probably wouldn’t believe it.

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Read A Kind of Emoji by Aaron DavisAaron Davis (Read Write Respond)
A reflection on using emojis as a way to provide visual information about blog posts. I have dived into my latest #IndieWeb venture of saving links on my own site. I thought that I would simply use the Bookmark post kind to save my links, but I soon realised not every link needed some form of commen...
Read Dunbar Number by Ton ZijlstraTon Zijlstra (zylstra.org)
In many discussions on social networks the number 150 comes up as a ‘natural’ limit to how much social interaction a person on average can handle. Intuitively I always felt uneasy with this number, and have on several occasions suggested that this could only be a limit in a spe...
Followed The Shrink Next Door by Joe Nocera (The Shrink Next Door (Bloomberg|Wondery))

Veteran journalist Joe Nocera’s neighbor in the Hamptons was a therapist named Ike. Ike counted celebrities and Manhattan elites as his patients. He’d host star-studded parties at his eccentric vacation house. But one summer, Joe discovered that Ike was gone and everything he’d thought he’d known about his neighbor -- and the house next door --  was wrong. From Wondery, the company behind Dirty John and Dr. Death, and Bloomberg, “The Shrink Next Door” is a story about power, control and turning to the wrong person for help for three decades. Written and hosted by Joe Nocera, a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion, “The Shrink Next Door” premieres on May 21st.

Album cover art for The Shrink Next Door

This looks interesting and it’s hard to go wrong with Nocera.
Read Reading about lurking, it’s great to be part of this community by Frank MeeuwsenFrank Meeuwsen (Digging the Digital)
Posts like these make me happy to be part of the Indieweb community. I have vivid memories of the late 90’s and early 00’s when things like RSS, comments, Atom, blogrolls and other sorts of blog-pieces were coming together. People were just figuring this stuff out, not companies. It all happened bottom-up, trying to fix ones own problems instead of building a solution in search of a problem.
Watched "Restaurant: Impossible" When Life Gives You Lemons ... from Food Network
With Robert Irvine, Tom Bury, Cheryl Torrenueva. Robert takes on a two-in-one challenge, when he travels to Downers Grove, Illinois, to fix a grocery store with a full-service bistro, owned by two best friends who are failing at both sides of the business, causing their relationship to deteriorate as well.
Listened to Introducing The Shrink Next Door by Joe Nocera from The Shrink Next Door (Bloomberg|Wondery)

Veteran journalist Joe Nocera’s neighbor in the Hamptons was a therapist named Ike. Ike counted celebrities and Manhattan elites as his patients. He’d host star-studded parties at his eccentric vacation house. But one summer, Joe discovered that Ike was gone and everything he’d thought he’d known about his neighbor -- and the house next door --  was wrong. From Wondery, the company behind Dirty John and Dr. Death, and Bloomberg, “The Shrink Next Door” is a story about power, control and turning to the wrong person for help for three decades. Written and hosted by Joe Nocera, a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion, “The Shrink Next Door” premieres on May 21st.

Album cover art for The Shrink Next Door

Liked IndieAuth for WordPress Question by David ShanskeDavid Shanske (david.shanske.com)
Thinking about the necessity of maintaining IndieAuth code in the Micropub plugin and now the Yarns Microsub plugin for WordPress. I wanted to put out to any WordPress user for some input. The IndieAuth plugin creates an IndieAuth endpoint inside your WordPress installation. This means that you logi...
Great article David. I’m posting this as an example for someone.