In 1986, 1.5 million balloons were released over Cleveland, resulting in an unforeseen tragedy.
Author: Chris Aldrich
I was reminded of a post on citation practices by Sara Ahmed, so I started re-reading it and it struck a chord with reference to my recent keynote on how Virtually Connecting challenges academic Ga…
Not all bots are bad!
After 12 years, I’ve decided to hang it up on Twitter. I started using the site in 2006, when it was all texts sent to your phone, and I remember my first experience was actually kind of awfu…
🔖 ❤️ vilhalmer tweet
You can get an IndieWeb user's avatar in one line of python:
— vil (@vilhalmer) August 10, 2018
site = 'https://t.co/5tn70Ey5Kj'; import bs4, requests, urllib.parse; urllib.parse.urljoin(site, bs4.BeautifulSoup(requests.get(site).content, 'html.parser').select('.h-card .u-photo')[0].attrs['src'])
How many people does it take to make a campaign trend? We dug into the numbers.
📺 Too Much Monkey Business – The Hollies | YouTube
The Hollies live at Shindig.
Link between Autism, math, and systemization borne out in general population.
Egg. On. Face. I just got done with no fewer than 3 articles and 3 YouTube videos bragging about how great my design work has been lately to get a 500% improvement on our conversion rate. And now, I’ve lost a huge chunk of that improvement with some recent changes. Let’s talk about Google AMP. ...
For the most part, the redesigned Gmail that launched in April maintained feature parity with the previous iteration. However, one minor grievance did emerge over the lack of a Google Contacts shortcut. This was an intentional change with Google now removing the Contacts shortcut and experience from legacy Gmail. For several years, Gmail featured a …
📺 Acuna Jr. dazzles with bat, glove in 8-3 win: 8/8/18 | YouTube
Daily Recap: Ronald Acuna Jr. robbed a home run and hit one of his own, while Charlie Culberson and Tyler Flowers also homered in an 8-3 win
An IndieWeb Podcast: Episode 9 30 Days of IndieWeb
Running time: 0h 58m 33s | Download (18.9MB) | Subscribe by RSS | Huffduff
Summary: David is about to head off abroad for a month. We talk about what’s been happening recently and his plans for his upcoming sojourn.
Recorded: August 5, 2018
Shownotes
IndieWeb Camp NYC–September 28-29, 2018–RSVPs are open now
Micropub Plugin work for WordPress
It will include a Media endpoint
Code for integration with the WordPress REST API
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This sketch solution may be an end-around the issue of getting WordPress (or potentially other CMSes) Themes to be microformats 2 compatible, and allow a larger range of inter-compatibility for websites and communication.
Facebook API changes cause breakage of Brid.gy
Ditchbook, a micropub-based tool for exporting data from Facebook and importing into other services
Greg McVerry’s EDU522 course Digital Teaching and Learning Too (🎧 00:47:57)
The education secretary's floating mansion was moored at an Ohio dock but was registered in a Caribbean archipelago.
👓 Make Your Daughter Practice Math. She’ll Thank You Later. | New York Times
The way we teach math in America hurts all students, but it may be hurting girls the most.