Color Theme Switcher by Max Böck

Bookmarked Color Theme Switcher by Max BöckMax Böck (mxb.dev)
Let users customize your website with their favorite color scheme! Your site has a dark mode? That's cute. Mine has ten different themes now, and they're all named after Mario Kart race tracks.
I love the idea of this sort of color theme switcher. Reminiscent of the sort of functionality built into TiddlyWiki. I suspect that some of the code built into WordPress’ Customizer could be repurposed to give people the ability to do this in the WordPress world.
Watched I, Tonya (2017) from Netflix
Directed by Craig Gillespie. With Margot Robbie, Sebastian Stan, Allison Janney, Julianne Nicholson. Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the activity is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.

Rating: ★★★★
 
Well done all around, particularly with a relatively unknown cast. Breaking the fourth wall was done relatively well here. 
This could have been a low rent MOW, but it worked out incredibly well as a feature. 
Come hear more about the wisdom that @MrChuckD is dropping. Join us for IndieWebCamp in two weeks.

#OneHackAway #OwnYourDomain

Watched Lecture 19. The "Household" Paul: The Pastorals by Dale B. Martin from RLST 152: Introduction to the New Testament History and Literature

Introduction to New Testament (RLST 152) In the undisputed Pauline epistles, marriage is seen as a way to extirpate sexual desire - neither as a means for procreation nor as the preferred social status. The Pastoral Epistles, written to instruct in the pastoring of churches and appointing of church offices, presents quite un-Pauline attitudes. In the Pastoral Epistles, the church, rather than an ecclesia, becomes a household, a specifically patriarchal structure in which men hold offices and women are not to have authority over them. They present a pro-family, anti-ascetic message in contrast to the Pauline epistles.

  • 00:00 - Chapter 1. Marriage, Family, Sex, and Women in Paul's Letters
  • 21:01 - Chapter 2. The Pro-Family and Anti-Ascetic Stance in the Pastoral Epistles
  • 26:50 - Chapter 3. The Pastoral Epistles and the Jewish Law
  • 29:53 - Chapter 4. The Church as Household
Watched Take a tour of HEY by Basecamp from YouTube
Email's been broken for years. Not anymore — we fixed it. HEY’s fresh approach transforms email into something you want to use, not something you’re forced to deal with. HEY.com.
A cool looking reimagining of an email client.

I like the idea of being able to annotate my emails.

Replied to a post by rnv rnv (micro.blog)

@richnewman My concern is that simply avoiding a word will not banish the thought of it or its reality. To believe so is to engage in magical thinking — the likes of which are lampooned in the movie Beetlejuice, where speaking a name summons the person. There is no banishment, only suppression, and if you drive a thing underground, you can’t be sure where or how or when it will erupt again. Except you can be sure it will.

(That said, I took a quick glance at the etymology of “master” and, even though the word’s provenance predates specifically race-based slavery by maybe four or five hundred years, the idea of domination and subjugation seems to be pretty well baked into its definition, so... yes: tainted and probematic. I guess this can be another reason why I can be glad I never got a Masters degree?) //@bruce @simonwoods @johnphilpin

@rnv I seem to recall master having an etymology that went through old French and then back to classical Latin magister which means master in the sense of “teacher”. However after over 2,000 years, it’s going to shift, twist, and even break in its meanings over time. I’d be willing to bet there are easily 5-10 different definitions and shades of meaning on the word now (some even archaic), but some of which are  now problematic in how they relate to power dynamics in society. 

Of course if you want to really go crazy on historical linguistics, I recently ran across an etymology for the word Lord which was totally not what I was expecting but which is historically fascinating. 

 

Replied to a post by Amit GawandeAmit Gawande (amitgawande.com)
The only way for you to Indiewebify your WordPress blog is to subscribe to a business plan? That can’t be right because that plan’s not cheap. #indieweb
You could always do managed hosting from any number of WordPress hosts. The ~$5/month should be easier and much less expensive than WordPress.com business packages. 

@nitinkhanna, “True” IndieWeb is really just owning your domain name/URL and being able to download or export one’s content. All the other IndieWeb building blocks are just gravy if you want/need them.

Watched "The Brady Bunch" The Honeymoon from CBS
Directed by John Rich. With Robert Reed, Florence Henderson, Ann B. Davis, Maureen McCormick. When two widowed people get married, both of their families and their houskeeper become one.
Introducing Evie to a whole new television show. She thought it was uproariously funny. I still remember all the lyrics to the theme song.