If a Pulitzer-nominated 34-part series of investigative journalism can vanish from the web, anything can.
[The Web] is a constantly changing patchwork of perpetual nowness. ❧
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Is it possible to extract the closed caption transcript from YouTube videos? We have over 200 webcasts on YouTube and each is at least one hour long. YouTube has closed caption for all videos but it
The case of Joseph Henry Loveless, who sawed his way out of jail in 1916, is among the oldest solved using genetic genealogy.
His shelves are mostly empty, but Mitoshi Matsumoto plans to continue his fight against the company to change Japan’s tough convenience store culture.
Welcome to The Independent Variable, a digital publication for news that doesn’t matter written by me, mynameiskev.in (I may or may not matter). I also have a propensity for completenonsen.se (but that’s just between you and me). I call this here thing a digital publication, but in all honesty, you‘ll just find things like link and video posts from across the interwebs along with the occasional list (who doesn’t love to hate lists?) and maybe even an article or two. All posts are tagged according to the icon key in case you ever get confused, lost, or completely fed up with me.
I wish there was a way to subscribe to writers the same way you can use RSS. Obviously twitter gets you the closest, but usually a whole lot more than just the articles they’ve written. It would be awesome if every time Danny Chau or Wesley Morris published a piece I’d know.
Here's what you really need to do to start 2020 off right
On the outside, the mansion looks normal enough. But once you venture inside, that's when the fever dream truly begins.
So much money, so little taste.
God Mode is a handy way to access multiple Windows commands in one single window. Here's how to use it.
A good reminder that I haven’t re-added this to my current laptop…
The IndieWeb movement had become somewhat a big deal for me in 2019. Potentially the biggest life change for the calendar year.
Michael has written a great overview of the IndieWeb for folks who are already relatively aware of WordPress and how it works. A great jumping off point for owning your online identity.
Legal scholars are increasingly adopting and creating free textbooks in an attempt to increase affordability for students. But are these textbooks considered open educational resources?
Jan-Lukas Else (jlelse.blog)After thinking about it, I finally figured out how to PESOS from Pocket to my own site using IFTTT. The first step was to retrieve an IndieAuth access token using the tool Gimme a token. Then I created a IFTTT applet with the a new favorite item on Pocket as the trigger and a Webhook to execute. I f...
Following in Charlotte’s footsteps?
It's been a long time. How have you been?
I left Twitter over one year ago, with the intent that I would reappear on some more open platform. Mastodon seemed like the obvious choice, but profile migration still doesn't exist, and I didn't want to join what was effectively yet another silo.
Congratulations Bill!
About three years ago, Chiu-Ki and I were wondering around Copenhagen and we came up with the idea for Technically Speaking. We sent the first issue to ~100 people from the hotel lobby in Malmö, Sweden (we were both speaking at Øredev). It’s been such a great experience t...
Henrique Dias (Henrique Dias (@hacdias))Just published two minimal packages to help building micropub applications!
The first one is called micropub-parser and it's basically a port from @aaronpk's pk3-micropub package to JavaScript.
The second one is a small IndieAuth middleware that can be easily plugged into an Express.js app!