These are the things I spend the most time puzzling about. Ranked by urgency. Updated from time to time.
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I couldn't resist the #dollypartonchallenge!! pic.twitter.com/TJ8O5YGxzh
— Pee-wee Herman (@peeweeherman) January 24, 2020
This may be my favorite version so far!
Aaron Parecki (Aaron Parecki)I've been working towards making Meetable more useful to others by making it easier to configure and deploy. I took a few shortcuts during the initial development that let me finish it faster, primarily by offloading authentication and image resizing to external services. While that's great for me, ...
Smoke (Twitter)I went on a date with a young woman who didn't wanna sneak snacks into the movies. Not sure which direction life has taken her but I hope she's well because I wasn't sticking around for that.
— Smoke (@terrill) January 16, 2020
Amen!
Matt Maldre (Spudart)I’m thinking about giving up tweeting for one week, and instead write out all my thoughts and reactions on my blog. So far this year, I’ve been having a lot of fun blogging more. In the past decade when I have an idea, I would head to Twitter and blurt it out. Now, writing out …
It’s not a complete silo quit, but it’s a start. Matt’s got some great ideas here about why it’s important and useful to write on your own website. I do think there are some building blocks he could add to his site to improve on some of the downsides or replace bits he thinks he’s missing out on though.
Since he doesn’t support Webmentions yet, I’m manually syndicating my reply to his website in support of his efforts.
HongPong (aka scrappy new year - think creatively) (Twitter)NEW #Drupal #indieweb release
— scrappy new year - think creatively (@HongPong) January 14, 2020
Microformats for Drupal 8. v 1.0-alpha1https://www.drupal.org/project/microformats
Many thanks to @mlncn @agaric @drutopiaforgood for contributing time and patches to complete this initial feature set which provides configurable H-card sitewide markup
Brett Terpstra (BrettTerpstra.com)I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but a while back I added a nifty feature to posts on this site which displays activity from Twitter and Mastodon (likes, retweets, replies) on each post. In most cases, more responses to my work happen on social media...
Be careful, because Webmention also means you’ll get responses from other websites too! Congratulations and welcome to the new world. I’ve added a link to your article to the IndieWeb Jekyll page which has some other useful resources too.
Dmitri Shuralyov (Twitter)This is an interesting idea.
— Dmitri Shuralyov (@dmitshur) January 9, 2020
I think there’s some commonality with IndieWeb’s indieweb.org/own_your_data principle.
I’ve observed that issues and their comments are currently owned by issue trackers of projects, and wondered if it’s better they are owned by their authors instead.
Hofstadter & Sander, on the role of analogy in our understanding of situations: pic.twitter.com/C0UdbCiXjX
— Melanie Mitchell (@MelMitchell1) January 11, 2020
In the case that the Twitter image doesn’t live, I’ll excerpt it here in more accessible text:
The fact is, the interpretation of a situation is inseparable from the analogies (or categories) it evokes. Our categories are thus organs of perception; they extend our physiological senses, allowing us to “touch” the external world in a more abstract fashion. They are our means of applying the richness of our past experience to the present; without them, we would flail about helplessly in the world.
—Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking by Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander p.256 (Chapter 5)
A fascinating quote and a cool conceptualization of our ontologies.
Scott Gruber (Twitter)My kind of fun. IndieWebCamp Online 2020 a two day event Feb 8-9 for independent web creators of all kinds, from graphic artists, to designers, UX engineers, coders, hackers, to share ideas and work on your own personal websites. #iwconline #indiewebcamp https://t.co/9QGYu88ZNb
— Scott Gruber (@scott_gruber) January 10, 2020
Jeremy Felt (Twitter)Webmentions are so freaking cool and I've only dipped a toe in
— Jeremy Felt (@jeremyfelt) January 9, 2020
Jamie Tanna (jvt.me)With the help of snarfed.org I've now got brid.gy running locally and syndicating RSVPs from my website to Meetup.com - hopefully it'll be live next week for the rest of the #IndieWeb to enjoy https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy/issues/873
I can’t wait for this. It is awesome.
Vincent Pickering (Twitter)After fixing over 200 typos in old posts related to date formatting I finally got my #eleventy site to build last night. Next up is integrating my existing #IndieWeb functionality.https://t.co/VlZ67L4Y3D
— Vincent Pickering (@vincentlistens) January 9, 2020I have built an #indieweb server. (https://t.co/y1v9HWeYH0)
— Vincent Pickering (@vincentlistens) January 10, 2020
This is a diagram of my architecture https://t.co/ibINpFeAJ6
Basically it’s a way of using open source services to send content directly to websites or to “backfeed” it from social networks
Interesting diagram of set up for an IndieWeb site.
Readwise (Twitter)A great look at our new feature for saving highlights from physical books
— Readwise (@readwiseio) January 10, 2020This is one of the coolest apps I've seen in a long time from @readwiseio
— Farza (@FarzaTV) January 7, 2020
1. Take a picture of a page from a book.
2. Drag and drop markers to literally highlight the passage right on the picture and extract the quote.
3. Store the quote, take notes, attach it to the book. pic.twitter.com/Dzb2x6NQIa
Karen Tongson (Twitter)As of today, I am the first woman of color to have ever been promoted to the rank of full professor in the USC English dept. I promise I will not be the last. Thanks to everyone who wrote for me, mentored me, drank w/ me. It took not only a village, but a world to make it happen.
— Karen Tongson (@inlandemperor) January 7, 2020