"This is a tool for generating a webring from RSS feeds, so you can link to other blogs you like on your own blog. It's designed to be fairly simple and integrate with any static site generator."
Month: September 2020
San Francisco in Blade Runner 2020
Not my video, I simply put Blade Runner 2049's soundtrack over it.
Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSreOPz0Zcs
Song is "2049" by Hans Zimmer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3clrkLNTSA
Tide and Bounce hiding in the back of the cart
View of my grocery cart full of bread, cheese, raisins, soda, and other miscellanea
I’d hoped to have this for lunch, but the time came and went, so here we are at dinner.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Experts at the St. Louis Zoo are trying to figure out how a 62-year-old ball python laid seven eggs despite not being near a male python for at least two decades. Mark...
Efforts to stop covid-19 have had at least one welcome side-effect
I’ve been wondering when we might start to see this sort of data and effects.
Ed Yong (The Atlantic)As the U.S. heads toward the winter, the country is going round in circles, making the same conceptual errors that have plagued it since spring.
This is possibly one of the best overviews I’ve seen on the United States’ multiple problems with handling the pandemic.
This is such a wonderful and whimsical little story.
I want to get started with #indieweb what is the easiest way to do that? Esp wrt syndication tools
— the big cauchy/cosh(y) couch (@fourierfiend) September 10, 2020
Hello fellow mathematician!
There are lots of ways to syndicate content, some dependent on which platform(s) you’re using and where you’re syndicating to/from. Your best bet is to swing by the IndieWeb Dev chat and ask that very question.
Theorem: Syndication is easy.
Proof: “It’s easy to show” (I’m waving my hands here) that there are a lot of assumptions and baggage that go with the word “easiest.” ∎
I’ve personally found there’s generally an inverse relationship between ease/simplicity of syndication and control over exact display for most platforms. You could go low-fi and pipe your feed into something like IFTTT/Zapier for cross-posting all the way up to customized integration with available APIs for each platform. Many take a middle-of-the-road approach that I notice Jeremy recommended as I’m writing this.
The cross-posting wiki page will give you some useful terminology and definitions which may help you decide on how to syndicate what/where. Based on the context of the URL in your Twitter profile, the IndieWeb wiki pages for static site generator and syndication will give you some ideas and options to think about and explore.
Some of the pages about specific static site generators will give you some code and ideas for how to implement syndication. For example Max Böck has an article Indieweb pt1: Syndicating Content to Twitter, which is Eleventy and Twitter specific, but which could likely be modified for your purposes. SSGs may have some specific peculiarities for syndication that I’m not as familiar with coming from the more dynamic side of the fence.
Since you indicate a language preference for your current site, there’s also a page for Flask with a few users noted there. You might ask Fluffy (usually around in chat) for some advice as I know she syndicates to a few platforms and may have some ideas or even tools/code to share from the Flask perspective.
Q.E.D., right!?
(p.s.: Great Twitter handle!)
In mathematics, the tombstone, halmos, end-of-proof, or Q.E.D. symbol "∎" (or "□") is a symbol used to denote the end of a proof, in place of the traditional abbreviation "Q.E.D." for the Latin phrase "quod erat demonstrandum", meaning "which was to be demonstrated". In magazines, it is one of the various symbols used to indicate the end of an article. In Unicode, it is represented as character U+220E ∎ END OF PROOF (HTML ∎). Its graphic form varies, as it may be a hollow or filled rectangle or square.
-30- has been traditionally used by journalists in North America to indicate the end of a story or article that is submitted for editing and typesetting. It is commonly employed when writing on deadline and sending bits of the story at a time, via telegraphy, teletype, electronic transmission, or paper copy, as a necessary way to indicate the end of the article. It is also found at the end of press releases.
The venture capitalist and Facebook board member staked his reputation on a Trump presidency. Now what does he have to show for it?
Someone seems to have rigged Amazon system to get orders first
Operation reflects ferocious rivalry for gigs in a bad economy
They believe an unidentified person or entity is acting as an intermediary between Amazon and the drivers and charging drivers to secure more routes, which is against Amazon’s policies. ❧
Surely this would be the case as someone would potentially need to watch the phones in the tree to ensure they aren’t stolen. That may represent a larger cost in potential loss that the potential gain.
Annotated on September 11, 2020 at 08:39AM
A Flex driver who has been monitoring the activity said the company needs to take steps to make sure all drivers are treated fairly.“Amazon knows about it,” the driver said, “but does nothing.” ❧
Orders don’t necessarily need to be proximity based at the level of 20 feet, so Amazon should be able to make the changes at the level of several miles to prevent against something like this.
Annotated on September 11, 2020 at 08:42AM
@ChrisAldrich https://t.co/EupGhPN4Bx just suggested I add you as a friend on that platform b/c we both had the same top song last week!
— Aram Zucker-Scharff (@Chronotope) September 11, 2020
I’m guessing it may have been because I took your recommendation?
One of my fav French bands dropped an album just recently and if you’re looking for something good to listen to this weekend, allow me to recommend it! https://open.spotify.com/album/1Eru3N6Rg0rxbV3DMdhhKU?si=OghhDlbOQ3ewu5o6fYpeVg
— Aram Zucker-Scharff (@Chronotope) August 28, 2020
Thanks, by the way!
When we are young we first learn the language from the people around us. This helps us to communicate, share ideas and learn from them. Most of the time just this is just one, but it can be more than one. The last decades the network of people that human being know (due to globalisation) has shifted from knowing just the people in your local area to people all across the world. In order to effectively communicate with other people from across the world it is useful to speak a shared language.
Finding data ❧
You’re right about data here. I follow some research out of the MIT Media lab by Cesar Hidalgo who may have some interesting data resources if you poke around.
Some additional starting points:
- https://boffosocko.com/2016/02/01/global-language-networks/
- https://boffosocko.com/2015/06/08/a-world-of-languages-and-how-many-speak-them-infographic/
Annotated on September 11, 2020 at 09:52AM