So it has come to this.
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Apr 29, 2020, 10:37 PM -04:00
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Apr 28, 2020, 12:52 PM -04:00 Reply to https://twitter.com/jevakallio/status/1254823758784856065?s=20
I maintain website/blog at https://desmondrivet.com It's a statically generated site using @getpelican, hosted on @NetlifyCMS. Updated semi-regularly and cross-posted to Twitter.
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Jani Eväkallio (@jevakallio) on X
HI! Do you have a self-hosted personal website/blog? If yes drop a link in replies! 🙏 I'm also interested what are your main problems in hosting your own website? Effort? Cost? Tech? Getting engagement? -
Apr 28, 2020, 12:01 PM -04:00 Pieces of Thinking
Jan-Lukas Else recently asked the Hacker News community why most of them don't have blogs, and published his thoughts on their answers to his own blog. The conversation was interesting and got me thinking about my own motivations for maintaining this site.
The first thing that stands out for me in the responses is the number of people who said that they quit blogging because they didn't have any readers. It was more than I expected. I don't think I fully realized how important readership was to some people in the technical community, probably because I think can safely say that it's not of great importance to me.
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Apr 27, 2020, 7:35 PM -04:00 Bookmark of https://adactio.com/journal/16803
Apr 25, 2020, 7:10 AM -04:00Reading
At the beginning of the year, Remy wrote about extracting Goodreads metadata so he could create his end-of-year reading list. More recently, Mark Llobrera wrote about how he created a visualisation of his reading history. In his case, he’s using JSON to store the information. This kind of JSON storage is exactly what Tom Critchlow proposes in his post, Library JSON - A Proposal for a Decentralized Goodreads: Thinking through building some kind of “web of books” I realized that we could use... -
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Apr 26, 2020, 1:32 PM -04:00A short post mortem, video and note links, and challenge from The Garden and the Stream IndieWebCamp Pop-up session
Thank you everyone! For those who attended yesterday’s The Garden and the Stream IndieWebCamp session, thank you for participating! I honestly only expected 4 or 5 wiki fans to show up, so I was overwhelmed with the crowd that magically appeared from across multiple countries and timezones. I’ve heard from many–both during the session and privately after–that it was a fantastic and wide-ranging conversation. (I never suspected memory palaces or my favorite 13th century Franciscan tertiary to ... -
Apr 26, 2020, 3:44 PM -04:00 Did you know that the word "Westmount" comes from the Greek meaning "land of houses that Desmond will never own"? :P
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Apr 26, 2020, 1:35 AM -04:00 It ends. Finally.
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Apr 23, 2020, 1:06 AM -04:00 Reply to https://janboddez.tech/notes/ab8cca73e5
Well, this is quite embarrassing. Thank you for the information! Actually, my blog entries on my feed page did have p-names but I think I accidentally made them part of the e-content, and I suspect that's why they were not showing up. And, yes, my published date was embedded in my h-card for silly reasons that I won't get into. Anyway, I think (hope) I've fixed both issues if you want to try again.
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Apr 22, 2020, 1:34 PM -04:00 Bookmark of https://jlelse.blog/posts/why-no-blog/
Apr 19, 2020, 3:31 AM -04:00Why HN readers don’t have a blog
Yesterday, I asked the Hacker News community why they don’t have blogs, even though they have the necessary technical skills.Many Hacker News readers and contributors have the technical skills to run their own blog and post their opinions. But instead they prefer to use Twitter or other social networks. Why is this so? Is it the effort?I want to respond to some of the answers in this post:I don’t want an extremely public record of my personal opinions or thoughts today, because I know they’re... -
Apr 21, 2020, 4:42 PM -04:00 I love how comiccon isn't cancelled, it's just "postponed" until next year.
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Apr 16, 2020, 1:30 PM -04:00 Reply to https://twitter.com/nandini_godara/status/1250471342970785795?s=20
Excellent :-) I seem to recall enjoying Jen Kirkman and Tig Nataro as well
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Nando | 🇵🇸 (@nandini_godara) on X
@desmondrivet I love them both and have watched all their netflix specials already! Haven't watched Oh Hello On Broadway yet though, been hesitant about that one for a while -
Apr 16, 2020, 3:59 AM -04:00 Carrot cake, cut through
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Apr 15, 2020, 5:03 PM -04:00 Reply to https://twitter.com/nandini_godara/status/1250467514221355011?s=20
I'm a big fan of John Mulaney's stand-up. Mike Birbiglia is also really good.
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Nando | 🇵🇸 (@nandini_godara) on X
I'm looking for good stand-up specials to watch, please give suggestions ( not Dave Chappelle or Bill Burr please) -
Apr 14, 2020, 7:31 PM -04:00 First time making carrot cake. And first time doing a crumb coat! Most of my previous caves have been simpler ones like pound cake, with no frosting.
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Apr 13, 2020, 8:10 PM -04:00 Not a good week. https://xkcd.com/2293/
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RIP John Conway
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Apr 13, 2020, 12:03 AM -04:00 Hey everyone! I made roasted potatoes that were actually crispy!
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Apr 12, 2020, 4:08 PM -04:00 Easter brunch with creme egg donut from local fancy donut shop :)
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Apr 9, 2020, 12:39 PM -04:00 It continues
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Apr 9, 2020, 12:27 PM -04:00 Reply to https://twitter.com/nkjemisin/status/1248093656847917057?s=20
Honestly, "The Fifth Season" was one of the few examples of second person writing that I actively enjoyed, and that didn't feel unusual for the sake of unusual.
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Apr 7, 2020, 4:27 PM -04:00 Reply to https://twitter.com/rosielefaive/status/1247521264123531271?s=20
I find that "Learn enough about topic X to have an informed opinion about it" is a too nebulous to be useful. So I don't try to do anything like this. Better would be something like "Read 3 well-regarded books on topic X", and hopefully one's opinion just improves after that.
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Apr 6, 2020, 10:54 PM -04:00 Reply to https://twitter.com/kvlly/status/1247276903544881152?s=19
Heh. I configured my VoIP landline to show up as Batman on call display :) Particularly funny when I use it to make restaurant reservations. (Yes, I have a landline. Leave me alone.)
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Kelly Vaughn (@kvlly) on X
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Apr 4, 2020, 9:30 PM -04:00 How to Have a Conversation on the IndieWeb
If you've read my previous articles on the IndieWeb, you might be forgiven for thinking that its members are, by and large, loners who keep to themselves.
Consider the concept of a "like", for example. On a site like Twitter, a like is an action you perform against another person's content; you click the heart icon next to someone's tweet, and the like counter for that tweet goes up. It's an implicit connection between two people - the one who did the liking and the one who received it.
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Apr 4, 2020, 5:48 PM -04:00 It begins
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Apr 2, 2020, 9:37 PM -04:00 And here is a picture of my cat in a box. You are welcome. @FyreByrde
