I think we're such good friends because we're both so humble.

Two old men, in black and white, watching the Oscars

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My IndieWebCamp Austin Demo

My two projects for today's IndieWebCamp Austin were 1) write stuff and 2) mock up a CSS Grid photo gallery.

Showing off how easily quill.p3k.io can post to my site

Really enjoying the live stream of IndieWebCamp Austin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGENDlYMnm4

Seems like a lot of new faces, and some of the homepage demos highlighted the political (and emotional) stakes of carving out one’s own space on the Internet.  I’ll be tuning in all day and chatting at https://chat.indieweb.org/

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IndiewebCamp Austin is this weekend!

I’m attending “San Diego Green Drinks: Turning Citizens into Scientists” on

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The things we do to read 💩 emoji

Awesome! See you there.

Sorry to hear that. Depression is a bitch and also a liar.

@davemillar Hey, David, are you still planning on coming to IndieWebCamp Austin? Would be great to see you there! https://2019.indieweb.org/austin

Amanda’s Thai Peanut

Gibraltar. Breve. ☕️🥛

@anniefdowns I feel like the Relevant podcast guys went extra hard on you this past Tuesday. Maybe it was all good fun, but wanted to tell you I appreciate your slices and your voice on the show! #downwiththeslicesczar

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.