Month: December 2019

Bookmarked Andrea Palladio (Wikipedia)

Andrea Palladio (/pəˈlɑːdioʊ/ pə-LAH-dee-oh, Italian: [anˈdrɛːa palˈlaːdjo]; 30 November 1508 – 19 August 1580) was an Italian Renaissance architect active in the Venetian Republic. Palladio, influenced by Roman and Greek architecture, primarily Vitruvius, is widely considered to be one of the most influential individuals in the history of architecture. While he designed churches and palaces, he was best known for country houses and villas. His teachings, summarized in the architectural treatise, The Four Books of Architecture, gained him wide recognition.

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Read How to Measure the Correct Hurley Size (cultec.ie)
  • The player stands nice and relaxed with their hands down by their sides.
  • The distance from the ground to their wrist is the correct length.
  • The player should be able to hold the hurley at the top and the hurley should be just touching the ground.

If it is not possible to perform this test e.g. you are buying a present for someone a good rule of thumb is half their height.

If a player is between sizes it is still better to have the hurley too small rather than too big.

Read TiddlyWiki and Roam and my Daily Notes by Jack Baty (baty.blog)
A few notes about differences between TiddlyWiki and Roam related to my daily note taking process. In October, 2018, I created a wiki at rudimentarylathe.org using the wonderful TiddlyWiki. Since then I've written just shy of 1,000 "tiddlers" there and it's been a totally pleasant experience. The original
Watched "The West Wing" Evidence of Things Not Seen from Netflix
Directed by Christopher Misiano. With Dulé Hill, Allison Janney, Joshua Malina, Janel Moloney. Trying to participate in a late-night staff poker game proves difficult as news arrives that an unmanned U.S. spy plane has crashed in a remote part of Russia, and Bartlet and Leo have to deal with an incensed Russian President Chagorin and convince him via phone to let the military go in and recover the plane; C.J. obsesses over the fact that on the exact moment of the spring equinox (today), ...
Read Hyperchatting by Jack BatyJack Baty (baty.blog)
People seem very focused on technological solutions to online communication (ActivityPub, Indieweb, this absurd BlueSky idea), but the hyperconversation approach is trying to prove that the problem is a human problem. If you read and listen to each other and try to respond thoughtfully and carefully - and try to
Listened to Lectures 9 and 10 from The History of the English Language, 2nd Edition by Seth LererSeth Lerer from The Great Courses

Lecture 9: In this fascinating lecture, Professor Lerer looks closely at the changes wrought by the French in English during the 11th to the 14th centuries. In the process, he raises questions about what we might call the "sociology" of language change and contact.
Lecture 10: This lecture presents the central features of Chaucer's English. Its goal is not only to address a particular period in the history of the language (or even in the history of literature) but to allow you to recognize and appreciate the force of Chaucer's poetry and its indelible impact on English linguistic and literary history.

cover of The History of the English Language by Seth Lerer

Lecture 9: What did the Normans do to English?

Words borrowed for two reasons

  • prestige
  • vacant slots with no native words

English words for animals in the countryside, but the words for cooked meats are French

  • cow/beef
  • deer/venison
  • sheep/mutton

Trilingualism: English, French, Latin

Lecture 10 Chaucer’s English

This lecture presents the central features of Chaucer’s English. Its goal is not only to address a particular period in the history of the language (or even in the history of literature) but to allow you to recognize and appreciate the force of Chaucer’s poetry and its indelible impact on English linguistic and literary history.

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Improving the WordPress documentation on the IndieWeb Wiki

I had started it in November 2018, but today I spent a several hours to do some additional documentation and finally migrate the changes and updates to the WordPress pages on the IndieWeb wiki.

The biggest set of changes is for the Getting Started on WordPress page which is hopefully simpler and clearer for the IndieWeb beginner. It was previously arranged around the somewhat jargon-y idea of IndieMark which is a much more developer-centric presentation and much more useful for developers building an IndieWeb site from scratch. This was fine for an earlier generation of IndieWeb adopter.

Now that many of the WordPress plugins have aggregated and become much more mature and robust, many thought we needed a simplified way of approaching things for people who can at least manage a WordPress install in terms of installing and updating themes and plugins. This update to the getting started page is meant to reflect this so that those with either a new site or converting a pre-existing site can get up and going as quickly as possible. As a result this page is very opinionated toward the simplest paths available for the broadest number of people. Naturally once one has a few of the bigger building blocks working and wants to delve in further, there are other pieces of the wiki that can help, and the getting started page has links to many of these.

Because WordPress gives people so much functionality out of the box, the getting started page is now focused on adding bigger building blocks of IndieWeb functionality like IndieAuth, Webmention, Micropub, WebSub, and Microsub. 

Many of the pieces of the older page have been updated and migrated to the Advanced WordPress Set Up page or to other relevant pages within the broader WordPress heirarchy.

Special thanks to Michael Beckwith, Greg McVerry, and many others in the IndieWeb chat for their work and contributions toward this effort as well!

We all look forward to everyone’s thoughts, comments, and further contributions to the wiki as the suite of IndieWeb-related WordPress plugins and tools continue to improve and evolve.

Replied to a tweet by Johannes ErnstJohannes Ernst (Twitter)
There is some pre-existing work for tips, recommendations, reviews, etc. But it would be nice to have an IndieNews sort of hub to aggregate them all.

Maybe I could start by making the first recommendation to use IndieWeb.xyz/en/recommendations?