So what does the #indieweb use for storing photos/albums? I run a micropub media server on a remote machine, storing the photos on disk. Any advantage to switching to the cloud (a bucket, for example)?
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Jan 9, 2022, 1:44 AM -05:00Happy 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
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.
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Feb 24, 2022, 8:10 PM -05:00 Taken in summer 2015. Wish I were there, in both space and time.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Dec 5, 2021, 9:02 PM -05:00 I understand the sentiment but really, what's wrong with garlic in your soul? Garlic is good.
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Nov 27, 2021, 2:29 PM -05:00 Why does every Greek letter sound so ominous?
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Oct 31, 2021, 4:11 PM -04:00 
Henry Sotheran Ltd (@Sotherans) on X
the other day a very nice lady came in with her grandson because she was taking him on a 'smell tour of London' and she wanted a book for them to smell, so I fetched them a book, they smelled it, and I've been having an existential crisis about where my life is at ever since -
Oct 30, 2021, 11:12 AM -04:00 TIL I learned that the word "senate" is derived from the Latin word "senex" meaning "old man".
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Oct 29, 2021, 10:25 AM -04:00 
Oct 27, 2021, 1:26 PM -04:00On the IndieWeb front there are some interesting evolving examples and state of the art documented at: https://indieweb.org/personal_library https://indieweb.org/read In particular, I quite enjoy the micropub client IndieBookClub for posting reading updates to my WordPress site (it supports other platforms with Micropub support too.) More details: https://indieweb.org/indiebookclub. Here’s an example of how I’m tracking what I read on my own site: https://boffosocko.com/kind/read/ or if you... -
Oct 7, 2021, 10:14 AM -04:00 TIL that Betty White is older than sliced bread. Also, her and Rue McClanahan were originally offered their respective parts on The Golden Girls.
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Sep 18, 2021, 1:51 PM -04:00 I know this sounds patronizing but the Spanish word for small (pequeño/a) is super cute.
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Sep 14, 2021, 8:11 AM -04:00 Unoaked whiskey. Isn't that just...vodka?
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Sep 13, 2021, 12:17 PM -04:00 Tree Corridor. Mansonville, Quebec
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Sep 13, 2021, 8:23 AM -04:00 Mansonville, Quebec
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Sep 9, 2021, 1:02 PM -04:00 Cool. I think I remember reading that Moderna was also developing an mRNA HIV vaccine too.
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Sep 8, 2021, 7:43 AM -04:00 
Chris Aldrich (@ChrisAldrich) on X
I’d like to invite the following and hope they can attend: @Eastgate @loopdouble @KicksCondor @tomcritchlow @Holden @BillSeitz @swyx @bonkerfield @AndySylvester99 @AndreJaenisch @KevinMarks @Xtof @VaillancourtMax @desmondrivet @mappletons @_jonesian https://t.co/rYJw6FaoCd -
Sep 5, 2021, 9:32 PM -04:00 
Rebecca Traister (@rtraister) on X
The @thenation ran Justice Sotomayor’s full dissent as its own piece and you should read every urgent word of it: https://t.co/jLMJ2fjZft -
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Sep 2, 2021, 1:30 PM -04:00 I'll admit I gave up on the series after...book11? Still excited, though :-)
The Wheel Of Time – Official Teaser | Prime Video
The Wheel of Time arrives on Prime Video November 19, 2021.About The Wheel of Time: The lives of five young villagers change forever when a strange and power... -
Aug 31, 2021, 6:02 PM -04:00 I've been doing Spanish on Duolingo since December of last year, and I STILL have trouble mentally translating "Yo tengo" as "I have" as opposed to "You tango?"
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Aug 25, 2021, 9:17 PM -04:00 Git is Terrible
If I say that my professional life has spanned RCS, CVS, Mercurial and Git, this tell you something (depressing) about my age.
Like everyone else, I'm now a git user, but I still say that Mercurial was the most elegant of the bunch, at least in terms of its emmiently predictable and well-designed CLI, even if the software itself gave up the ghost years ago.
Back in the day, when version control systems were still duking it out, I used to try and defend Mercurial to rabid git fans, mostly to no avail. I always felt that I was at a bit of a disadvantage in those conversation (cue the git fans yelling "Yeah, cuz mercurial SUCKS!"), because I was always willing to concede, despite appreciating Mercurial's virtues, that git actually did have its strengths as well as its weaknesses, while the git fans were rarely so magnanimous with any other VCS.
