Learn to play the ukulele at your own pace with our step-by-step approach featuring over 500 hours of video lessons from the best teachers in the world. Head Instructor Aldrine Guerrero will help you become the musician you want to be.
December 22,
Jack Baty (baty.net)TiddlyWiki is an amazing, powerful, flexible, fun bit of software. I use it for various project notes and logs, but mostly I use it for my wiki at rudimentarylathe.wiki. I like pretty much everything about TiddlyWiki except the fact that saving the files can be a challenge. A TiddlyWiki is just a simple HTML file. That’s it. It’s permanent, portable, and about as future-proof as anything. But, making edits in a browser and then saving those changes presents a problem.
Greg McVerry (quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com)I had my first #ukulele lesson with Aldrine Guerrero today. As a goal we wanted to develop a curriculum for my playing. I decided to take
I’ve been debating learning either the ukulele or the banjo lately, so this definitely resonates (or should I say twangs?) with me. Thanks for the perspective Greg!
Photo taken: December 19, 2020 at 10:18AM
A profound statement of consumerism and framing of first world problems.
We asked editors and bloggers of Black Perspectives to select the best books published in 2020 on Black History, and they delivered! Check out this extraordinary list of great books from 2020 that offer varied historical perspectives on the Black experience in the United States and across the globe.
A good looking list. I’ve already got a few in my pile for the new year.
David Shanske (david.shanske.com)Released some minor bugfix editions today.
Simple Location
- Rounds all numbers to a maximum of two decimal points, as I introduced a bug in the last version that would fail to fill in numbers in the post editor due form validation requirements.
- Extracts additional location information from Compass…mostly the information I store when I’m on a plane, to generate a better description of the location. It also passes this info to WordPress more effectively so it could do more in future.
- I also introduced a new location provider. If set, if you enter a 3 letter airport code in the location name box, it will replace it with the location and name of that airport, as well as the weather. In future, I may add a similar reverse address lookup for people.
- Misc bug fixes
Syndication Links
- Some bug fixes introduced in 4.2.0
- Due to the request to allow syndication provider checkboxes to be checked by default, I introduced two new filters: syndication_link_checked and syndication_link_disabled. The first parameter of each is a boolean that if true, will set either checked or disabled on that Syndication Provider. The second and third parameter is the uid of the provider and the post_id of the post.
Hooray!
The Upper Valley Ukulele Club, aka: uvUkeClub, is a free club for anyone that wants to play the ukulele in the Upper Valley region of Vermont and New Hampshire.
Perhaps this is a reminder that I need to finally commit to learning the ukulele?
hat tip: Joe Jenett
Jan-Lukas Else (jlelse.blog)My IndieWeb setup is continuing to evolve. I just added support for syndication (this post should appear on IndieNews) and JSON-posting to my Hugo backend and theme.
Congratulations! I’m sure you’ve found lots of documentation, but keep in mind that micro.blog is built on Hugo. If it helps I noticed that Steve Layton wrote a piece the other day about adding Webmention to micro.blog/Hugo with lots of code and details. It looks like you may have some of that already, but seeing the previously worn paths and knowing where to turn can help a lot!
A feed of all the people I'm following on micro.blog.
Taking a crack at following my micro.blog feed within a feed reader rather than natively on the web or in the app. An interesting experience that helps put more emphasis on the longer form material rather than the here-and-now.
Are there other ways to follow micro.blog feeds outside of the traditional outlets?
Happy Hanukkah!
YOU KNOW SHIT IS GOING DOWN WHEN @NYTIMES RUNS ALL CAPS HEADLINES
An interesting way to track only the BIGGEST NEWS.
🔖 Roam Research – A note taking tool for networked thought.
As easy to use as a word document or bulleted list, and as powerful for finding, collecting, and connecting related ideas as a graph database. Collaborate with others in real time, or store all your data locally.
Sadly this doesn’t look like it’s very strong in the “own your data” front.
I love that Charlie provides a wealth of different things you can subscribe to from her website. My favorite is not just her “firehose”, but how she describes it in her code:
<link data-react-helmet="true" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Subscribe to everything (and I mean EVERYTHING - it is a fucking firehose)" href="https://www.sonniesedge.net/rss/everything.xml"/>
I wish more people provided multiple custom feeds for the content on their websites.
In Charlie’s case, I vote for subscribing to EVERYTHING!
A few of my colleagues have been raving about the relatively new, Chromium-based Brave browser lately, so I decided to try it out. I initially didn’t pay much attention because I’m pretty happy using Firefox as my primary browser. That said, I like a browser that blocks tracker crud on the Web, ...
I should be testing out more browsers like this as well.