📺 "House of Cards" Chapter 52 | Netflix

Watched "House of Cards" Chapter 52 from Netflix
Directed by Jakob Verbruggen. With Jayne Atkinson, Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright, Michael Kelly. As the hostage situation continues, Claire secretly negotiates with an extremist leader. Frank confronts Hammerschmidt.
Reviewing a bit to catch the flow of the coming seasons. Somehow I missed the subsequent season, so now I’ve happily got two seasons to catch up on as the series winds to what I suspect will be an end.

🔖 reveal.js – The HTML Presentation Framework

Bookmarked reveal.js – The HTML Presentation Framework (revealjs.com)
A framework for easily creating beautiful presentations using HTML. Check out the live demo. reveal.js comes with a broad range of features including nested slidesMarkdown contentsPDF exportspeaker notes and a JavaScript API. There's also a fully featured visual editor and platform for sharing reveal.js presentations at slides.com.

👓 Recap of An Introduction to Microformats | gRegorLove.com

Read Recap of An Introduction to Microformats by gRegor MorrillgRegor Morrill (gregorlove.com)
I gave a talk on microformats Wednesday night at the San Diego PHP Meetup group. This was my first time giving a formal talk on the topic. I think it went pretty well and I got some good feedback. There was a lot of information and links covered (and some I forgot) so I decided to make a summary pos...
Wish I could have attended the presentation, but thanks for the recap and links to the resources.

📺 "The Romanoffs" The Royal We | Amazon

Watched "The Romanoffs" The Royal We from Amazon
Directed by Matthew Weiner. With Corey Stoll, Kerry Bishé, Janet Montgomery, Noah Wyle. With their marriage in a rut, a couple finds their own temptations.
Weiner is good at creating uncomfortable moments here. It’s nice that it’s not completely predictable, but sometimes I’m not sure why I’ve bought into it.

📺 "The Romanoffs" The Violet Hour | Amazon

Watched "The Romanoffs" The Violet Hour from Amazon
Directed by Matthew Weiner. With Aaron Eckhart, Marthe Keller, Louise Bourgoin, Inès Melab. Set in Paris, an ancestral home holds the key to a family's future.
A quirkily plotted little show to be sure. I’m curious to see how it’s structured in the long term given what I’ve heard about it.

👓 Does anyone else keep their own knowledge wiki? | Lobsters

Replied to Does anyone else keep their own knowledge wiki? by nikivi (lobste.rs)

I’ve been extending and improving my personal wiki for 1 year now and it has been one of the best things I’ve done. I found writing blog posts was too high friction and very often didn’t finish things because there is so much you can talk about in any given article. But a wiki is just a living document containing your notes and thoughts on things. I also use it as my public bookmark manager as I collect interesting to me links under each topic.

For my wiki, I render everything to the web first with GitBook. And I have a macro I run that automatically commits any changes I’ve made with Sublime Text on the mac and Ulysses on the phone so everything is super easy to edit and publish.

Does anyone else keep their own wiki here? Or you think a blog is enough for you?

I’ve been considering starting a personal wiki after reading The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral by Mike Caulfield a while back. His article has some great set up and philosophy about the wiki versus blog. I’ve been using my own website/blog as a commonplace book for quite a while now to collect everything from what I’m listening to to what I read and even what I’ve highlighted/annotated online. I’ve documented a lot of the pieces I use to create/customize it. (Not everything I write is public either.)

Ultimately, I think that either way, having a solid search functionality becomes important regardless of which direction one chooses.

👓 WordPress 5.0 needs a different timeline | Joost.blog

Read WordPress 5.0 needs a different timeline by Joost de Valk (Joost.blog)
For the last few months, the WordPress developer community has been moving towards a release of WordPress 5.0. This is the highly anticipated release that will contain the new Gutenberg editing experience. It’s arguably one of the biggest leaps forward in WordPress’ editing experience and its de...

👓 Rethinking The Web, The Internet, And Our Roles Within | More Themes Baby

Read Rethinking The Web, The Internet, And Our Roles Within (More Themes Baby)
Go indie, go punk, call it web, notice the good support, and offer an alternative to the old-school, advertising-based, closed internet.
A clarion call on the open internet for more of the open internet (aka IndieWeb.)

👓 IndieWeb and the Log Lolla theme | More Themes Baby

Replied to IndieWeb and the Log Lolla theme (More Themes Baby)
Lately I found myself posting a lot about IndieWeb, and thinking about how useful it could be for the next versions of the Log Lolla theme.
I ran across this article today as the result of a refback of all things (hooray for old web infrastructure!). The site had reposted a few IndieWeb related articles I wrote in the past year.

Since they don’t support webmention and don’t seem to have comments on their site open, I’ll say “Hello!” by syndicating to Twitter. I hope you haven’t given up on the idea of what the IndieWeb stands for and are still thinking of making your Log Lolla theme directly compatible with how the IndieWeb works with WordPress. There are a bunch of us out here who’d love to give you any help and support you need as we’d all love to see more IndieWeb friendly themes in the WordPress repo. Feel free to join us in the #IndieWeb chat or the #WordPress chat to say hello.

📺 This Week with George Stephanopoulos: 11/11/18 | ABC

Watched This Week with George Stephanopoulos: 11/11/18: Top House Dem: 'I don't think' Whitaker appointment is legal from ABC
Guests: Elijah Cummings, Jerrold Nadler, Kellyanne Conway, Mary Bruce, Chris Christie, Matthew Dowd, Sara Fagen, Rahm Emanuel
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👓 The Problem With Feedback | The Atlantic

Read The Problem With Feedback (The Atlantic)
Companies and apps constantly ask for ratings, but all that data may just be noise in the system.
A great framing of a lot of crazy digital exhaust that online services and apps are collecting that don’t do much. I’ve also thought for a while about the idea of signal to noise ratio of these types of data as well as their quantization levels which often don’t make much sense to me. I don’t think that there are any IndieWeb realizations of these sorts of (mostly business) systems in the wild yet, but this is an important area to begin to consider when they do.

👓 A Note on Steve King | Weekly Standard

Read A Note on Steve King (The Weekly Standard)
The congressman disputed a story we reported. We stand by it.
I’m curious about the statistics on the number of people that read this versus the number that listened to the attached audio. I suspect the latter was a tiny fraction, which means that to some extent that the outlet wins. In the end it’s nice to have access to the original sources of reporting like this.

👓 How the GOP Gave Up on Porn | Politico

Read How the GOP Gave Up on Porn (POLITICO Magazine)
Once, the fight against pornography was the beating heart of the American culture war. Now porn is a ballooning industry—and maybe a harmful one—with no real opponents. What happened?

📺 Tunisian Couscous | Milk Street | PBS

Watched Milk Street: Tunisian Couscous from PBS
In this episode, Christopher Kimball and Milk Street Cook Lynn Clark cook up a vibrant and hearty North African Chicken Couscous. Milk Street Cook Bianca Borges prepares one of the most delicious and versatile soups in the world, Chickpea and Harissa Soup (Lablabi). To round out the show, Chris teaches us how to whip up Harissa, a pantry staple that is used in countless Milk Street recipes.
Somehow they’re already in season two?! I remember getting the first copy of the magazine ages ago, so I shouldn’t be so surprised. Kimball is turning out a great product and he’s taking a much different viewpoint. I do miss a bit more of the science background from his Test Kitchen days, but this is very slick, well produced, and has some solid material underpinning it. I’ll have to figure out what to cut out of my rotation to make some room for it.

I notice they’re using a white-labeled version of Vimeo for their streaming video, but it’s marked as private and only viewable on their website.

📺 Coming Home for Christmas | Hallmark Channel

Watched Coming Home for Christmas from Hallmark Channel
Directed by Mel Damski. With Danica McKellar, Neal Bledsoe, Andrew Francis, Lindsay Maxwell. "Lizzie Richfield is at a crossroads when she lands a job as house manager for the exquisite Ashford Estate in the Virginia countryside. While preparing the place for sale, Lizzie plans one final Christmas Eve gala for the Marley family, though they seem to be a family in name only. There's Kip Marley, who never met a party he didn't like; Robert, the handsome but all-business executor of the ...
This one certainly follows all the rules from start to finish. Danica McKellar holds the whole thing together single-handedly. This wasn’t quite as good as Crown For Christmas, but at least the title didn’t quite kill the ending the way the other did.