Despite being omnipresent, mountain goats are apparently not native to the Olympic Peninsula. So: they’re getting relocated.
I love this amazing photo, by Ramon Dompor, of mountain goats dangling from a helicopter on their way to a new home:
As amusing as that photo is, I’m actually a bit sad to hear about the relocation. When I think of Olympic National Park, I instantly think of mountain goats. One day, while hiking the Klahhane Ridge, Amy and I had to make way for the locals; we happened to capture this video:
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Christina Hartmann, who was born deaf, writes beautifully about her experience of silence in the years after getting a cochlear implant:
Whenever the noise becomes too much, I can turn it off. All it takes is a press of a button. Or, even better, I remove my earpiece entirely. Sound is now off.
This silence is the most absolute that any human can experience, one beyond the best noise-canceling headphones or earplugs. It’s a tranquil state of being, as if I were at a deserted lake on a windless day: still and serene. I do my best thinking here, shielded from the noisy world.
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At 13:20 in IndieWeb with Wordpress Tutorial: Themes and Microformats, the indieweb wordpress themes wiki page is referenced and a fork of the twentysixteen wordpress theme is mentioned. Is that theme the same as this 2016-child-theme-for-indieweb github repo and is it meant to be used with the mf2 wordpress plugin?
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Daring Fireball:
I think Twitter should reverse course on this whole thing. Replace the now-deprecated third-party client APIs with new ones, let third-party clients flourish, and figure out a way to make money from them.
Sadly, we all know that won’t happen. I’m not even sure it’s the right path forward. If we want an ecosystem of third-party microbloggers, I think Manton has found the better path. His micro.blog clients are the first “indie web” apps I’ve run across with a great user experience. The open nature of the service makes it possible and desirable for other great apps, like Icro, to flourish.
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Julia Evans, a talented engineer and illustrator, made a series of programmer ’zines that I’ve happily collected:
I’m reminded a bit of Forrest Mims’ Getting Started in Electronics and a bit of countercultural artifacts from the early PC era.
Apparently Julia just started a company to manage sales. I look forward to reading more of her ’zines in the future.
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Marco Arment seems to have a knack for doing little things that are, upon reflection, actually quite big.
This week, Marco suggested a strategy for designating payment links in podcast show notes; the next version of his Overcast podcast app will have built-in support.
This is a small increment that, if widely adopted, will make the open web meaningfully better. Better still: there’s no reason adoption should be limited to podcasts; that just happens to be the corner of the open web that Marco is most invested in (and that, at least today, has the most traction).
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"html": "<p><a href=\"https://marco.org/\">Marco Arment</a> seems to have a knack for doing little things that are, upon reflection, actually quite big.</p>\n\n<p>This week, Marco suggested a strategy for <a href=\"https://twitter.com/marcoarment/status/1028338966926434304\">designating payment links</a> in podcast show notes; the next version of his <a href=\"https://overcast.fm/\">Overcast</a> podcast app will have <a href=\"https://twitter.com/marcoarment/status/1028451747734409216\">built-in support</a>.</p>\n\n<p>This is a small increment that, if widely adopted, will make the open web meaningfully better. Better still: there\u2019s no reason adoption should be limited to podcasts; that just happens to be the corner of the open web that Marco is most invested in (and that, at least today, has the most traction).</p>",
"text": "Marco Arment seems to have a knack for doing little things that are, upon reflection, actually quite big.\n\nThis week, Marco suggested a strategy for designating payment links in podcast show notes; the next version of his Overcast podcast app will have built-in support.\n\nThis is a small increment that, if widely adopted, will make the open web meaningfully better. Better still: there\u2019s no reason adoption should be limited to podcasts; that just happens to be the corner of the open web that Marco is most invested in (and that, at least today, has the most traction)."
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Revisiting Mastodon three months (and many angry @jack tweets) later:
- I was able to identify 3,786 public Mastodon instances. (Up 44% since May.)
- Across these, there appear to be 1.4M registered accounts. (Up 14%.)
- In the last week, there were 109K accounts that actively published content. (Flat.)
- The majority of the network’s activity is still concentrated in the top 5 instances, although the top instances have shuffled around a bit.
- The entire network reports slightly over 154 million “toots” across Mastodon’s entire history. That’s 33M new “toots” in the past few months, or a 10% uptick in monthly post volume over the past quarter. Mastodon is not a rocket ship but it certainly shows signs of life.
It’s not clear to me what’s driving the growth in instances: my assumption was that disaffected Twitter users would flock to well-known servers (like mastodon.social and mastodon.xyz) but it appears that self-hosting is becoming increasingly common. Perhaps this says something about the kind of Twitter user that considers Mastodon a viable alternative?
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"html": "<p><a href=\"https://davepeck.org/2018/05/03/mastodon-stats/\">Revisiting Mastodon</a> three months (and many <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/08/opinion/twitter-alex-jones-jack-dorsey.html\">angry @jack tweets</a>) later:</p>\n\n<ul><li>I was able to identify 3,786 public Mastodon instances. (Up 44% since May.)</li>\n <li>Across these, there appear to be 1.4M registered accounts. (Up 14%.)</li>\n <li>In the last week, there were 109K accounts that actively published content. (Flat.)</li>\n <li>The majority of the network\u2019s activity is still concentrated in the top 5 instances, although the top instances have shuffled around a bit.</li>\n <li>The entire network reports slightly over 154 million \u201ctoots\u201d across Mastodon\u2019s entire history. That\u2019s 33M new \u201ctoots\u201d in the past few months, or a 10% uptick in monthly post volume over the past quarter. Mastodon is not a rocket ship but it certainly shows signs of life.</li>\n</ul><p>It\u2019s not clear to me what\u2019s driving the growth in instances: my assumption was that disaffected Twitter users would flock to well-known servers (like <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/about\"><code>mastodon.social</code></a> and <a href=\"https://mastodon.xyz/about\"><code>mastodon.xyz</code></a>) but it appears that self-hosting is becoming increasingly common. Perhaps this says something about the kind of Twitter user that considers Mastodon a viable alternative?</p>",
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"name": "Jonathan LaCour",
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"url": "https://botsin.space/@queereye",
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"html": "<p>Again, making a joke using ConceptNet relations. (<a href=\"https://botsin.space/@queereye\">full item here</a>)</p>",
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Sad that I couldn’t make it to #DWebSummit, but I’m enjoying watching the live feeds: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFa_X02QhJnP0FNpFAKyRRg/feed
Also on:
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"text": "Sad that I couldn\u2019t make it to #DWebSummit, but I\u2019m enjoying watching the live feeds: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFa_X02QhJnP0FNpFAKyRRg/feed\n\nAlso on: Twitter icon",
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"published": "2018-07-31T15:37:12-07:00",
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"html": "Attending <a href=\"http://tantek.com/2018/212/e1/indiewebcamp-sf-dweb-hackers-day\">IndieWebCamp SF / #DWeb Hackers Day - Tantek</a>\n\n\n<p>(This is an example, and my test case, for implementing IndieWeb RSVP support on my blog so I can sign up to attend an event through the event web page itself, all powered by the magic of the <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/\">IndieWeb</a>. Go look at that <a href=\"http://tantek.com/2018/212/e1/indiewebcamp-sf-dweb-hackers-day\">event page</a> and you\u2019ll see my RSVP, complete with my picture!)</p>",
"text": "Attending IndieWebCamp SF / #DWeb Hackers Day - Tantek\n\n\n(This is an example, and my test case, for implementing IndieWeb RSVP support on my blog so I can sign up to attend an event through the event web page itself, all powered by the magic of the IndieWeb. Go look at that event page and you\u2019ll see my RSVP, complete with my picture!)"
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"html": "<p>I\u2019m spending the day today at IndieWebCamp SF <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/2018/SF\">Decentralized Web Hackers Day</a> hosted in Mozilla\u2019s San Francisco office as a lead-up to this week\u2019s Distributed Web Summit. My personal adventure today is getting up to speed on IndieWeb basics and enabling as many of them here on orangemoose.com as time (and trial & error) allows.</p>\n<p>Decentralization is one of the core aspects of the <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/\">IndieWeb</a>, which aims at enabling a people-focused alternative to today\u2019s very (if not alarmingly) centralized \u201ccorporate web\u201d, but doing so by applying familiar, existing technologies in careful ways that keep the user in control of their data including identity, posts, code, created content, location, and more.</p>\n<p>Happily today\u2019s Hackers Day is set up to encourage hands-on experimentation and adoption, and the room is full of wonderfully <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/2018/SF#RSVP\">knowledgeable people</a> eager to help. Look for another post after the day is done, and we\u2019ll see how well I do.</p>",
"text": "I\u2019m spending the day today at IndieWebCamp SF Decentralized Web Hackers Day hosted in Mozilla\u2019s San Francisco office as a lead-up to this week\u2019s Distributed Web Summit. My personal adventure today is getting up to speed on IndieWeb basics and enabling as many of them here on orangemoose.com as time (and trial & error) allows.\nDecentralization is one of the core aspects of the IndieWeb, which aims at enabling a people-focused alternative to today\u2019s very (if not alarmingly) centralized \u201ccorporate web\u201d, but doing so by applying familiar, existing technologies in careful ways that keep the user in control of their data including identity, posts, code, created content, location, and more.\nHappily today\u2019s Hackers Day is set up to encourage hands-on experimentation and adoption, and the room is full of wonderfully knowledgeable people eager to help. Look for another post after the day is done, and we\u2019ll see how well I do."
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