Matthias OttJun 28, 2020, 8:06 PM -04:00Fussy Web, True Meaning.
Sarah Drasner just published a fabulous article, In Defense of a Fussy Website, in which she makes the case that we should all design and build websites again that are a joy to visit. Sites with those little details that make you smile, with small delights and touches that really make users stay. When a site is done with care and excitement you can tell. You feel it as you visit, the hum of intention. The craft, the cohesiveness, the attention to det...
Links
A pile of links that I have found interesting for one reason or another.
This is meant to be a much more ephemeral feed than the others - posts may
disappear over time as they become less interesting to me.
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Jun 2, 2020, 8:54 AM -04:00 
Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web - Neustadt.fr
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Jun 1, 2020, 1:33 PM -04:00 
Global and Component Style Settings with CSS Variables
– The personal website of Sara Soueidan, inclusive design engineer -
Jun 1, 2020, 7:38 AM -04:00 Bookmark of https://neustadt.fr/essays/the-small-web/
Rediscovering the Small Web - Neustadt.fr
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May 24, 2020, 7:28 PM -04:00 Alex Ellis' Blog
Deploy your own faasd appliance with cloud-init
In less than 5 minutes flat, we'll deploy our own faasd appliance to DigitalOcean and start deploying containers built for OpenFaaS, but without Kubernetes -
May 24, 2020, 12:12 PM -04:00 Bookmark of http://tttthis.com/blog/if-i-could-bring-one-thing-back-to-the-internet-it-would-be-blogs
Datenstrom Yellow
If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs
Nowadays especially it's nice to have things to read. New things, things from various sources and various voices, various minds talking about their t… -
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May 12, 2020, 7:02 AM -04:00 Venkatesh RaoA Text Renaissance
There is a renaissance underway in online text as a medium. The Four Horsemen of this emerging Textopia are: Roam, a hypertext publishing platform best understood as a medium for composing conspiracy theories and extended universes.Substack, a careful and thorough ground-up neoclassical reconstruction of the age-old email newsletter.Static websites, built out of frameworks like Jekyll or Gatsby (full disclosure: a consulting client).And finally, Threaded Twitter, a user-pioneered hack-tur... -
May 3, 2020, 10:39 PM -04:00 Bookmark of https://doubleloop.net/2020/05/03/read-feeder/
May 3, 2020, 8:31 AM -04:00Read feeder
Ton made a post recently about federated bookshelves, sparked by a post from Tom. It’s an idea that Gregor has done a good bit of thinking about from an IndieWeb perspective. Book recommendations is something I’m always interested in. At base, all it needs is a feed you can follow just of what people have been reading. I’ve set up a channel in my social reader called ‘Good Reads’, and subscribed to Ton’s list of books, as the sci-fi focus looks right up my street. If anyone else has a feed of... -
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 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... -
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Feb 24, 2020, 3:39 AM -05:00Exploring Pine.blog
I’d noticed Pine.blog before at a previous IndieWebCamp, but not had time to delve into it very deeply. Seeing some of what Brian Schrader has been working on while following IndieWebCamp Austin remotely this weekend has reminded about the project. As a result, I’ve been spending some time tonight to check out some of the functionality that it’s offering. In part, I’m curious how similar, or not, it is to what Micro.blog is offering specifically with respect to the idea of IndieWeb as a Servi... -
Feb 23, 2020, 6:27 PM -05:00 
X (formerly Twitter)
feminist next door (@emrazz) on X
Following people with a different perspective than you is an easy, low effort way to broaden your horizons. Amplifying people with the same opinions or interests as you but speaking from an underrepresented group is an easy way to put more of those voices into public discourse.