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👓 Webrings | Charlie Owen
Charlie Owen (sonniesedge.net)Let’s say I wanna bring back webrings. How should I build it? First communities are gonna be #a11y, #PerfMatters, #CSSGrid, and #BoyBandWebmasters. (ICYMI: Webrings were curated communities with dope badges that you could explore with simple `< prev` and `next >` links.)— Tatiana Mac (@Tatiana...
👓 WordPress.com and Jetpack Launch New Activity Feature for Monitoring Website Changes | WP Tavern
WordPress.com launched a new Activity feature today, a tool for monitoring changes that occur on the site and actions initiated through the admin. It’s also available for Jetpack-enabled site…
👓 In which I almost waste four dollars at Amazon | quomodocumque
Instructive anecdote. I needed a somewhat expensive book and the UW library didn’t have it. So I decided to buy it. Had the Amazon order queued up and ready to go, $45 with free shipping, then had a pang of guilt about the destruction of the publishing industry and decided it was worth paying a li...
👓 Creating GitHub-Style Contribution Graphs for Anything | schwertly.com
You can use akerl’s excellent GithubChart tool from GitHub to create contribution graphs using any data you want. Compare my current GitHub streak: Your browser does not support SVG versus all of my repos, public and private: Your browser does not support SVG (You’ll notice differences on the ...
👓 I’m trying to modify @benbalter’s WordPress Jekyll Export plugin to extract serialzed data from post_meta values | Miklb Mindless Ramblings
Michael Bishop (Miklb Mindless Ramblings)Instead of rubber ducking, I’m writing it out here… I’m trying to modify @benbalter’s WordPress Jekyll Export plugin to extract serialzed data from post_meta values. It seems most (all?) of the IndieWeb WordPress plugins use serialized values so it’s necessary to migrate. Otherwise I wind ...
👓 ‘Blue Bloods’ Alum Amy Carlson Weighs in on Major Linda Reagan Reveal
Blue Bloods alum Amy Carlson is weighing in on the big reveal surrounding her onscreen counterpart [...]
👓 A President of the People or a President of His People? | New York Times
While his predecessors sought to broaden their public support, President Trump appears to be heading into his re-election campaign sticking with his own tribe.
👓 Inclusive: what is it? | Jess Mitchell
Jess Mitchell (Medium)The topic I want to talk to you about today is inclusive. It’s an adjective, so it has to describe the qualities of something, some noun, right? In school I always remembered adjectives as those things that answer:
How many?
What kind?
Which one?
Nice piece on inclusivity.
👓 The Most Measured Person in Tech Is Running the Most Chaotic Place on the Internet | New York Times
YouTube’s C.E.O. spends her days contemplating condoms and bestiality, talking advertisers off the ledge and managing a property the size of Netflix.
👓 Scoping Out Basics of #IndieWeb Search | Greg McVerry
Greg McVerry (quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com)Over the weekend I met with the CEO of BLUR Search Technologies . Jaime is also my brother-in-Law, and has sponsored IndieWebCamp NYC in 2018. We mainly gathered for Thanskgiving, the second Thanksgiving, and finally leftovers. As we all played clean the fridge we snuck away to scope out a possibl...
👓 How Jack Dorsey plans to change Twitter | Axios
The CEO and founder is looking to change the focus from following specific individuals to topics of interest, a significant shift.
👓 Former Mozilla exec: Google has sabotaged Firefox for years | ZDNet
Former and current Mozilla engineers are reaching their boiling points.
👓 New File Library for Windows | iA Writer: The Focused Writing App
iA Writer for Windows came out one year ago. We launched version 2 and called it 1.1. It comes with a cleaner UI, sweeter typography, tighter templates, better word export, and… …a very powerful file library. At first sight, it just looks like we’ve closed a gap to its older sibling, the Mac app.
👓 Thousands of leaked Facebook documents show Mark Zuckerberg as ‘master of leverage’ in plan to trade user data | NBC News
Facebook’s leaders seriously discussed selling access to user data — and privacy was an afterthought.
The story somehow just gets worse and worse and still they just apologize and continue on as usual… It’s shocking to see so many who raised ethical issues along the way are remaining silent now, ostensibly because they are still on the gravy train and are enriching themselves by staying silent.