Archives for 2022/02

• Feb 28, 2022, 12:52 AM -05:00

  Like of https://snarfed.org/2022-01-08_happy-10th-birthday-bridgy

  

  Ryan Barrett

  Jan 9, 2022, 1:44 AM -05:00

  Happy 10th Birthday, Bridgy!

  https://snarfed.org/10th_birthday_cake.jpg Today marks 10 years to the day since I first launched Bridgy, my little IndieWeb side project to connect social networks and personal websites. Happy Birthday, Bridgy! I’ve always loved the internet, but I’m not a Very Online person, exactly. I don’t really hang out there. I didn’t fall in love with the people, or the community; I fell in love with the network. The physical reality of packed switched routing, the awkward unlikely miracle of a bunch...

• Feb 27, 2022, 5:51 PM -05:00

  A Place For Everything

  Taming the #indieweb post type zoo

  If you're a programmer of a certain age, you've either read or know about Design Patterns, a book on software architecture popular in the 90s and early 2000's. The book was sort of like a repository of TV tropes for the Object Oriented Programming (OOP) world in that it provided a convenient vocabulary for describing what were usually eminently recognizable software engineering techniques that nonetheless often lacked punchy, easy to remember names.

  Notably, the book was more descriptive than prescriptive. It described preexisting techniques that were already in use in the "wild", so to speak.

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• Feb 24, 2022, 8:25 PM -05:00

  Chicago, summer 2018. Not Greece, but I'll take it.

  
• Feb 24, 2022, 8:10 PM -05:00

  Taken in summer 2015. Wish I were there, in both space and time.

  
• Feb 24, 2022, 3:59 PM -05:00

  Though parts of the Wheel of Time TV series were maddeningly frustrating, I did enjoy it on the whole, though being a fan I was always going to be an easy sell. The people complaining about the diversity of the cast can get bent; the cast was one of the best parts.
• Feb 23, 2022, 9:07 PM -05:00

  I have a very hard time developing new habits. As I have not grown up with plants my whole life, this means that I cannot be trusted to keep a plant alive, as I will inevitably forget to water it.
• Feb 23, 2022, 8:27 PM -05:00

  I am grateful that Wordle exists if for no other reason than it gives me a reason to talk to my mother every day.