Notes

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Heavy winds hitting us this morning near the mountains in the Eaton Canyon area of Altadena. Seems to be 30-40+ mph sustained winds which woke me up around 5:30am and continuing on.

From earlier this morning, there’s a high wind warning:

…HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM PDT THIS
AFTERNOON…

* WINDS AND TIMING…Northeast winds increasing to 30 to 45 mph
with gusts to 65 mph. Isolated gusts to 75 mph possible across
favored locations.

* Impacts…Winds this strong may down trees and power lines,
causing property damage or power outages. Cross winds and
blowing dust can make driving difficult, especially for
drivers of high profile vehicles and vehicles towing trailers.
Travel on Interstate 5 and Highway 14 in Los Angeles County
will be affected by the winds.

Excited to encounter my first print copy of ColoradoBoulevard.net in the wild in Pasadena. Congratulations to Wafic and the entire enterprise for making this happen!

I’ve seen lots of publications go from print to online, but rarely seen one go from being online to in print!

A side benefit of going IndieWeb and posting everything to my own site first instead of to social silos like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinboard, Reading.am, Pocket, Mastodon, etc.: It’s pretty easy to rack up big consecutive day posting streaks in WordPress.

Toaster notification on my computer this morning that reads: "WordPress: New achievement -- You're on a 296-day streak"

My streak is probably much longer as the result of some private and draft posts breaking the chain.

I’ll also mention that from a commonplace book standpoint, it’s far easier to search for content I’ve read or interacted with because it’s all right here on my site (with tags and categories) and I don’t need to remember which of hundreds of sites I may have posted it to.

I’ve seen a lot of people freaking out about the Google+ data leak and even more so about it’s pending shut down. In response many are looking at where they’re planning on going next that will give them the functionality they’re looking for. Sadly, however, almost every one of them is contemplating moving to identical types of platforms which are either incredibly similar to or even worse than Google+ given the criterion by which they are considering. They’re simply looking for and prioritizing the wrong types of functionality.

Quit repeating the mistakes of the past, learn from them, and do something different this time around or I guarantee history will be repeating itself.

While there are a handful of reasonable options (and by this I DO NOT mean Mastodon, Diaspora, Pluspora, MeWe, Vero, Twitter, Facebook, or Solid, etc.) I’d recommend looking at some of the ideas and solutions within the IndieWeb movement. For the less technical minded I highly recommend taking a look at a self-hosted WordPress option or micro.blog.

I’m happy to help people out with making the jump when they’re ready or if they need help.

📕 Read pages 177-231 of 288 of Linked: The New Science Of Networks by Albert-László Barabási

📕 Read pages 177-231 of 288 to finish Linked: The New Science Of Networks by Albert-László Barabási

Some generally solid overview of the earlier days of network science. Barabasi is a pretty solid general science writer and makes most of his ideas relatively clear. I’m hoping this is a good intro to some of the background for his new textbook on network science.

While some pieces and ideas seem dated, this was generally enjoyable without getting too deep into the weeds. Naturally there are many sections that could stand for updates, even just a decade or more later.

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