Giri Sreenivas just publicly launched his new product, The Helm. It’s a personal email server with a novel approach to security and privacy. The hardware looks stunning:

The Helm Personal Email Server Hardware Design

My chapter with Jeffrey Boase and @tkobyashi was just published in the the Oxford Handbook of Networked Communication:  Multiplying the Medium: Tie Strength, Social Role, and Mobile Media Multiplexity

 

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I still have my tickets from the game at the Orange Bowl. I attended with my late grandfather, and will never forget the experience! Hoping to frame all of this eventually.

Syndication!

Micro.blog webmentions

My baby girl keeps growing up!

[Notes] Why I'm excited about decentralized social networks

Happy fifth birthday William! 🎂🍄🎉

A Programmable IndieWeb

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William’s fifth birthday is coming up, so we took a trip to a lake resort and Legoland together to celebrate. It’s been special!

Here’s a short slow improv riffing on the harmonies in Wayne Shorter’s Speak No Evil and Miles Davis’ Nefertiti:

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There’s been a flurry of recent articles about RSS and ActivityPub:

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:

Ramon Dompor -- Seattle Times -- Mountain Goats And Helicopters

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:


Hey hey, Fenway 👋🏼

Soccer boy ⚽️🍊

Behind the scenes

A time for tinkering

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.

Great Success with twentysixteen-indieweb Wordpress Theme

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?