Currently reading: Bitten By a Camel by Kent Dobson (ISBN 9781506417745)

This is very relatable. Negative self-talk can be so difficult to overcome. Have you read any Brene Brown? I recently finished her book Daring Greatly and recommend it.

Finished reading: Artemis by Andy Weir (ISBN 9780553448146)

Review: Artemis
★★★☆☆

This was a decent heist-on-the-moon story, but I didn’t love most of the characters, unfortunately. I appreciate the effort to make the protagonist more diverse — a Muslim woman in her twenties — but she still came across to me as clearly written by a dude. She makes a lot of jokes you would expect from a junior high boy, so she didn’t seem very authentic. For example, describing drinking water while in a space suit:

I turned my head inside the helmet, bit a nipple (try not to get excited), and sucked some water out.

There were a lot of little jokes and commentaries delivered in this awkward, parenthetical way, like she’s abruptly addressing the reader directly. That took me out of the story at times.

IndiewebCamp Austin 2019

Celebrated this cool lady’s birthday tonight and briefly stole her shades. Happy birthday, @starwalker5!

Milk of Abraham

I’m attending “Virtual Homebrew Website Club” on

January 2019 Report: Brexit and Pink Couch Edition

I love this part of the NWS flood warning telling you not to drive through flooded roadways: “Turn around...Don’t drown.”

oooh I just saw this on twitter and now I want indiepay.me to do it too....

Tomorrow I’m giving an informal talk about Bridgy and the IndieWeb at the Ryerson Journalism Research Centre:

Thanks to @schnarfed for talking with me about Bridgy’s development

Bridgy is an IndieWeb tool for syndicating content between a personal website and platforms such as Twitter, GitHub, Flickr, and Instagram.  Until last year, it supported Facebook, but this feature was removed when Facebook tightened their API in light of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

I’ll be talking about how Bridgy navigated challenges working with Facebook’s API from 2014-2018. I’m interested in how Bridgy uses Facebook’s API in ways that Facebook’s operators may not expect. I see IndieWeb’s syndication strategy (see POSSE on IndieWeb.org) as simultaneously antagonistic and dependent upon corporate platforms. By delving into this relationship, I’m trying to understand positive ways forward for building Internet tools that reflect their creator’s values. (In my case, I identify strongly with IndieWeb’s principles)

Event info:

Lunch and Learn with Jack Jamieson
to at
The Catalyst,80 Gould St. RCC 230,
Toronto,Ontario,Canada

Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2025753487721764/

Also on:

Media Layoffs Galore

#links #journalism #social-media

I was the tits for about 15 minutes tonight at a white elephant gift exchange when I got this amazing ornament. Then someone stole it from me. That’s okay, I know I’m still the tits.

Check out @ra.makes profile, which has a link to her Etsy shop so you can buy your own.

Changing my reading habits

Hank’s Guide to the Cold

#videos #hank-green #vlogbrothers #winter

Part Mermaid 🧜‍♀️🧢

Current status 🏊🍹🌞

I want to read 24 books in 2019.