"It has a nice side-effect of being a public declaration of priorities. It’s a good link to give people when saying no to invitations and distractions."
(Noting for the idea although not sure how often most would keep this up).
Unsurprising, but good to have explicitly laid out:
"The overall effect of looking at my Substack dashboard is 'wow, Substack is really getting me an audience! If I leave Substack, half of my subscription channel will dry up.' It’s clear that this is the impression other writers, the media, and investors are getting as well, because they praise Substack about it all the time."
Love that styling external links is becoming more of a thing! :)
The « preview on hover » thing is something I have enabled on Wikipedia a real long time ago and I can't browse that site without it anymore… but I never thought of doing it on my own blog. Hmm… maybe this should be one of my future projects.
I have now installed the Openheart protocol to my blog, which means you can click the little heart emoji and it will make me happy. (Nothing else.)
Huge thanks to Tracy for her step-by-step tutorial, I only had to find where to put the code snippet in my theme (which is very different from hers) but everything else was incredibly simple!
presenting an archive of vitriol, negativity, and embarrassment circa 2008; it's fascinating to see my thoughts from so long ago. #livejournal#blogging
The search for a slim, fast and modern browser might have come to an end. Ungoogled-chromium feels just like what I want. Even better than Vivaldi. But the setup process is a bit more nerdy.
After a couple of weeks break from posting a blog, I'm back.
This week's blog post is my roadtrip to the 45˚ Fibre Festival in Gore at the beginning of May. It features knitting and spinning and buying crafty things, and winning a raffle prize.
@beardedtechguy and myself are looking for someone to help us grow #AllThingsTech in every way possible. This includes our blog, our instance, our wiki, our Discord and our community in general.
We're looking for someone that is super active here on Mastodon and will continue to do so going forward.
We're looking for someone that is willing to talk about the instance, advertise the instance and recruit for the instance if possible. (cont...)
We want someone with ideas, thoughts, suggestions and everything similar! We want you to be a part of something awesome and to help make it amazing!
If you feel you are this person and have the time to do things like this, we'd certainly love to have a chat with you. Reach out to myself or @beardedtechguy and let's have a chat!
Here's a blog that is 27-years-old this year written by an IU alumnus who was one of the authors of VAX utilities I used back when the 'net was a vast wilderness of opportunity and optimism.
Part of me wishes I had kept blogs from years past and other parts are super glad they have gone into an Internet blackhole never to be seen again.
I have a WordPress blog but honestly the interface isn't meeting my needs very well any more -- text entry on the web is just laggy enough that it makes writing frustrating, and the app did so many api calls that I got auto-blocked by my host... None of this is insurmountable but also I'm getting tired of it. And the ongoing issues with the CEO hassling trans people and the corporate AI moves have made me less inclined to work around problems.
Anyone got blog software they love? I'm debating going back to some kind of static site thing but think I need a way to write drafts from my phone and have them live on the server.
As the #indieweb continues to grow in popularity and mindshare, more and more folks new to the scene have shown apprehension, shyness, disillusionment and alienation with respect to being "part of the community". This seems to stem from a fundamental misunderstanding of what the IndieWeb is. It's not some fancy protocol or construct on a website, it's just you being you on a site you own. The following note is a response to one such lamentation