I collect quotes on a quotes page on my website. I add to it every few months. Since I think the quotes page is only linked on one page — my pages page (#meta) — I wanted to publish a post to say it exists. I hope you enjoy the quotes! If you have a collection of quotes on your website, send me an email and let me know.
People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Tales of Debugging: The missing character
I received an interesting bug report this week. A new user of Artemis reported that the letter “n” was missing from all of their post titles. For example, one post title ended in “Oe Moth I” instead, as it should read, “One Month In”. What was causing the bug? I had a hunch.
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Website reflections
Guided by wondering “what would I say to my younger self starting a website?”, I started taking notes. Here they are:
Don’t worry about writing on one topic. You’ll find great joy in exploring new ones. Write what you love — the observations of your life, the things that mak...
Designing my blog post draft web experience
Something I wrote in the W3C Authentic Web Mini Workshop’s Zoom chat:Another implicit assumption (flaw) that is often a part of "purely technical solutions" is the neglect or ignorance (innocent naïveté) of existing technical solutions. A technical proposal should not be prai...
Highly recommend this week's New Yorker Radio Hour interview with Stephen Kotkin of Stanford. He's an expert on Russian history, biographer of Stalin, he talks about what Trump is doing, and as I listened I realized we have not filled in how crazy or challenged the leaders o...
Rêve Coffee in Lafayette, LA. ☕️
Wednesday session in Amsterdam
Wednesday session in Amsterdam
New feature for Micro.blog’s Bluesky cross-posting: preview cards. This is still off by default, but if you flip it on in Sources, Micro.blog will try to figure out the title, description, and og:image for the first link in your post and attach it. Screenshot:
Federico Viticci wonders if Apple should have their own API that could bridge to OpenAI and Anthropic, offering Apple’s own seal of approval on privacy and security. It would be a nice surprise if Apple did something like this. They could wrap together on-device models and private cloud compute too.
I just participated in the first W3C Authentic Web Mini Workshop¹ hosted by the Credible Web Community Group² (of which I’m a longtime member) and up front I noted that our very discussion itself needed to be careful about its own credibility, extra critical of any technologi...
MarsEdit 5.3.3 is out! This release adds support for Micro.blog blog post summaries with a new “excerpt” field in MarsEdit.
Today's song: Starting Over.
I’ve been introduced to the most important staff member at this university.
I’ve been introduced to the most important staff member at this university.
Hello, Amsterdam!
Hello, Amsterdam!
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
I have no complaints about playing in the rain today.
Designing code snippets in technical content
When I was re-designing my website, I thought a lot about the presentation of prose, guided by the intention to build a more focused theme for reading my words. Over the last few months, I have also thought about the design of multimedia content: images and videos. Designing ...
Pattern: Filtering over content firehoses
Every week, BBC Scotland publishes a collection of photos as part of a Your pictures of Scotland series. Readers are invited to submit photos of anywhere in Scotland. The series has opened my eyes to all of the landscapes across the country. From morning frost over the hills ...
Matcha
I am excited by the arrival of spring; a time of flowering and growth and, hopefully sunshine. As it gets (a little bit) warmer, I have been in the mood for my go-to, non-coffee iced drink 1: a matcha latte. Last week, after drinking one, I thought maybe I could try making ic...
Chris Aldrich
• Chris Aldrich
Great! Another evacuation warning. This time instead of for catastrophic fire, it’s for rain and potential mudslides from the burn scar. Fortunately (?) I’m still evacuated from January 7th about 6 miles south.