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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.

Not a good week. https://xkcd.com/2293/

Hey everyone! I made roasted potatoes that were actually crispy!

Easter brunch with creme egg donut from local fancy donut shop :)

It continues

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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It begins

And here is a picture of my cat in a box. You are welcome. @FyreByrde

Cats and boxes, amirite?

First time making split pea soup!

Remember when outside wasn't dangerous? Good times.

I am really not sure what my street is going to look like in 6 months.

Saw Trevor Noah doing the Daily Show from his apartment and holy shit why is it that this is what makes me more anxious than literally anything else?

I cannot imagine what it would be like to self-quarantine without the Internet. Or maybe I just don't want to.

Not crowded at Canadian Tire today. Lacking subtext, I have to say I don't hate it.

I think I'm more afraid of societal breakdown then I am of actually getting infected with the Corona virus.

Leche Desserts makes me happy

One of the themes that crops up again and again in the IndieWeb community is that your personal domain, with its attendant website, should form the nexus of your online existence. Of course, people can and do maintain separate profiles on a variety of social media platforms, but these should be subordinate to the identity represented by your personal website, which remains everyone's one-stop-shop for all things you and the central hub out of which your other identities radiate.

Part of what this means in practice is that your domain should function as a kind of universal online passport, allowing you to sign in to various services and applications simply by entering your personal URL.

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Watching Paradise Lost! #CentaurTheatre

The modern manifestation of a Turing Machine is an algorithm, not a computer.  The modern manifestation of a computer is a Universal Turing Machine, i.e. a Turing machine that can simulate and run any other Turing Machine.  #Turing

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.

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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I kind of love that @BarackObama is also a Ted Chiang fan. Read Exhalation if you haven't already.

In my house, you can tell how cold it is outside by how hot the radiators are.

What is it about the Farine Five Rose sign blinking crimson in the darkness that I find so sinister?