It's 2020 so I decided to join the 2010's and replace my desktop hard drive with an SSD. Pretty easy, mostly due to Clonezilla. It's...nice. I should probably shake things up more often.
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Jan 5, 2020, 11:39 PM -05:00 Thank you! The link should work now :-)
Jan 5, 2020, 5:02 PM -05:00Thanks for the write-up on the Indieweb principles Desmond. Looking forward to the other posts in the series. I did notice that the initial link to your previous post is not working. It seems the URL is wrong. Shouldn't it be this: https://desmondrivet.com/2019/12/08/intro-to-indie-web ? -
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Jan 5, 2020, 11:06 AM -05:00 Your Website Is Your Castle
In a previous blog post, I gave a very brief introduction to the IndieWeb, hopefully giving a sense of what it is and why it matters. In this post I'll try and zoom in a tiny bit and explain something of the mechanics of how the IndieWeb actually works and what it means to "like" a post or "share" a status update.
I'm deliberately trying to avoid too much detail in this post because, frankly, there's a lot to write, and it's easy to get lost. So I'm going to try and give a rough idea of what an IndieWeb enabled website looks like at a very high level, without going into the weeds. Further posts will go into more detail.
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Dec 31, 2019, 12:02 AM -05:00 
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AnaRodrigues.dev (@ohhelloana) on X
📝New blog post: "Goodbye 2019" https://t.co/de60qhmvPJ -
Dec 28, 2019, 11:45 PM -05:00 I kind of love that @BarackObama is also a Ted Chiang fan. Read Exhalation if you haven't already.
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Dec 27, 2019, 3:48 PM -05:00
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Sara Soueidan (@SaraSoueidan) on X
I used to draw. I have a weakness towards watercolor paints, and used to be kinda good with coal + pencil + ink. I think one of my "New Year Resolutions" should be getting back to the one thing that used to completely get my mind off of everything. -
Dec 26, 2019, 2:29 AM -05:00
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Hank Green (@hankgreen) on X
I was today years old when I learned that a manger is a box animals eat out of. -
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Dec 24, 2019, 12:30 PM -05:00 I find it confusing in general, not just with WordPress (although WordPress is extra confusing since I think you can have both multiple tags and categories, yeah?)
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Dec 22, 2019, 4:43 PM -05:00 In my house, you can tell how cold it is outside by how hot the radiators are.
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Dec 21, 2019, 10:29 PM -05:00 What is it about the Farine Five Rose sign blinking crimson in the darkness that I find so sinister?
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Dec 20, 2019, 7:17 PM -05:00
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Melissa Hunter (@himelissahunter) on X
I really do love this time of year — the Christmas music, the twinkle lights, the woman in front of me in line at Costco who just told her husband, “We can give your cousin a pile of dog shit for all I care.” -
Dec 20, 2019, 5:45 PM -05:00 Look, I like Christmas music, okay? Fight me.
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Dec 17, 2019, 9:38 PM -05:00 Van Gogh immersive exhibit #vangogh
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Dec 10, 2019, 2:28 PM -05:00 I feel this is accurate :-)
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Dec 10, 2019, 12:31 PM -05:00 Definitely not alone. I'm sure everyone had seen this already, but it's too appropos not to share: https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/
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Sara Soueidan (@SaraSoueidan) on X
Fun Fact: it's been almost six years since I started working on the Web and I still suck at git. I get by, but deep down I am secretly hiding the feelings of incompetence and terror I have whenever I use it. 😅 And I "secretly" hope I'm not alone! 😂 -
Dec 8, 2019, 12:46 PM -05:00 In the Beginning Was the Website
I don't think I've ever felt quite as old as I felt when, last year, I discovered the IndieWeb, an online community of people dedicated to resurrecting the personal website.
This makes me feel old because I've maintained some sort of personal web presence/site/blog since around 1998 or so, when I made my first hand-coded HTML pages available online at U of T. Apparently, enough time has past not only for the concept of a "personal website" to have become quaint and old-fashioned (displaced by a cluster of much more convenient social media sites) but also for it to have been picked up again by an enthusiastic band of hobbyists with a taste for the retro and a fondness for old-school fan pages.
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Dec 7, 2019, 4:24 PM -05:00 I think I was listening to "Episode 11: Germanic Ancestors" but I'm not sure how much of it will make sense if you haven't listened to the previous episodes (unless you have a background in this stuff?)
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Dec 7, 2019, 2:59 PM -05:00 Well, as the title suggests, if you are interested in the history of English and other Indo-European languages, including Farsi, then yes :)
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Dec 6, 2019, 5:37 PM -05:00
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Nick Walton (@nickwalton00) on X
AI Dungeon 2 is done! 🐲 This has been the product of hundreds of hours, but it's been completely worth it. AI Dungeon 2 is a first of it's kind completely AI generated text adventure that allows you to enter any action you can imagine. Play it here: https://t.co/Fr8w82g1sG -
Dec 6, 2019, 4:21 PM -05:00 There would be a dramatic bit where some Indo-European suddenly decides to say an "F" instead of a "P" and is henceforth know as "Proto-Germanic-Man". Or some random sheep herder develops a speech impediment and starts saying "S" instead of "K" and they are henceforth "Satem-man".
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Desmond Rivet (@desmondrivet) on X
@englishhistpod It's like, you know how superheroes have catchphrases, and a superhero origin movie will always have a bit where the hero gets to say the catch phrase and that's how you know they're for real now? We need a movie like that for the origin of German or Sanskrit. -
Dec 6, 2019, 4:08 PM -05:00 It's like, you know how superheroes have catchphrases, and a superhero origin movie will always have a bit where the hero gets to say the catch phrase and that's how you know they're for real now? We need a movie like that for the origin of German or Sanskrit.
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Desmond Rivet (@desmondrivet) on X
Learning about Indo-European migration on @englishhistpod and it sometimes feels like I'm listening to DnD prep or superhero origin stories -
Dec 6, 2019, 2:29 PM -05:00 "And here we have the origin of the Germans! Over here we have the very first ancestors of the Celts and the Romans!". I feel like each branch needs a character sheet with all their different powers.
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Desmond Rivet (@desmondrivet) on X
Learning about Indo-European migration on @englishhistpod and it sometimes feels like I'm listening to DnD prep or superhero origin stories -
Dec 6, 2019, 2:21 PM -05:00 Learning about Indo-European migration on @englishhistpod and it sometimes feels like I'm listening to DnD prep or superhero origin stories