Theft in Denver. On to the next one, but I’m pretty livid. Nothing pisses me off more than officials that suck at their job changing the outcome of a game. Ugh.
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The “but this time Meta seems different” crowd is at it again, doing their best impression of Charlie Brown attempting to kick Lucy’s football. No, I don’t want Muse. No, I don’t care how “cute” it is. I’ve seen this a dozen times and they always show their true colors eventually.
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As I was scrolling along yesterday, a post about the lovely Professional Elite typeface popped up in my feed on Reddit. It linked back to Tom Fasano's website, so I read the original there. I noticed a syndication icon at the bottom and stopped dead in my tracks! Had I run into a fully featured IndieWeb website in the wild?!?
I peeked at the code and saw a Webmention endpoint hiding in there and nearly fell over. Webmention is a web standard that allows any website to talk directly to any other website as if they were social media peers on the same platform.
I immediately fired up my new-to-me 1959 Olympia SM3 which also has a Professional Elite No. 41 typeface to dash off a note to Tom and his typewriter. I posted it to my website as a typecast reply. But most importantly, my website sent a webmention (think @mention/notification) to Tom that I had replied to his post. Voila! My reply was in his comments section just moments later, as if by magic. I've only done this a few times as there aren't many typewriter collector/typecasting bloggers out there who've added the technology to their sites yet, but this certainly opens up a new space for typewriter social networking by way of the web rather than just via post.
The careful observer will also notice that because Tom syndicated his original post to Reddit and included a syndication link, he's getting replies from Reddit back into his website via Webmention using a service called Brid.gy. So if you want to type up a reply to his post, or even this one, and post it to the Reddit thread you can participate that way (if your website doesn't have the capability yet.)
Who else in the typosphere has a website that supports webmention? Let's start a chat.
[caption id="attachment_55836705" align="aligncenter" width="660"] A new use for your typewriter's @ key: to send @mentions by typewriter on the web![/caption]
If you'd like to go deeper into the subject of Webmention, try this article in A List Apart: "Webmentions: Enabling Better Communication on the Internet".
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Started reading the Dungeon Crawler Carl series and am really enjoying it. Sorta reminds me of a cross between Hitchhiker’s Guide, D&D, and The Dresden Files. About halfway through book two already.
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Usually I'm so busy chatting and marveling when I visit Helmut that I totally forget to take a few photos. Fortunately someone stopped in for some ribbon on a Hermes yesterday, so I took a moment to document some of the density of typewriters in Helmut's spectacular typewriter shop. I only got photos of about half of the space, but tried to cover all the various refurbished machines ready for sale. Generally not pictured are the client machines for repair.
If you're looking for a really great refurbished machine, then this is the place to stop in and try out almost anything ever manufactured.
I have to admit, even for an experienced collector, this shop is overwhelming, so perhaps do yourself the favor of browsing what he's got listed online to make a shopping list before you go! Without some prep you could easily spend a week here and not see everything much less try out a tiny fraction of what's on offer.
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A new use for your typewriter's @ key: to send @mentions by typewriter on the web![/caption]
If you'd like to go deeper into the subject of Webmention, try this article in A List Apart: "Webmentions: Enabling Better Communication on the Internet".
