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"text": "With Jonathan away, it\u2019s time for you to play! Can you solve the mysterious Facebook comment thread in this week\u2019s We Have to Ask Podcast?\n\nhttps://wehavetoask.com/episodes/2019-04-24/",
"html": "<p>With <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/JMonroe06\">Jonathan</a> away, it\u2019s time for you to play! Can you solve the mysterious Facebook comment thread in this week\u2019s <a href=\"https://wehavetoask.com/\">We Have to Ask Podcast</a>?</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://wehavetoask.com/episodes/2019-04-24/\">https://wehavetoask.com/episodes/2019-04-24/</a></p>"
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"published": "2019-04-23T13:57:56-07:00",
"url": "https://aaronparecki.com/2019/04/23/12/summit",
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"text": "Only two months until IndieWeb Summit in Portland! \n\n\ud83d\udcc5 June 29-30, 2019 \n\ud83d\udccc Portland, Oregon \n\ud83c\udf9f https://2019.indieweb.org/summit \n\nWe even have a travel assistance program this year, so if you're on the fence about coming because of the cost, please take a look! \n\nhttps://2019.indieweb.org/summit#travel-assistance",
"html": "Only two months until IndieWeb Summit in Portland! <br /><br /><a href=\"https://aaronparecki.com/emoji/%F0%9F%93%85\">\ud83d\udcc5</a> June 29-30, 2019 <br /><a href=\"https://aaronparecki.com/emoji/%F0%9F%93%8C\">\ud83d\udccc</a> Portland, Oregon <br />\ud83c\udf9f <a href=\"https://2019.indieweb.org/summit\"><span>https://</span>2019.indieweb.org/summit</a> <br /><br />We even have a travel assistance program this year, so if you're on the fence about coming because of the cost, please take a look! <br /><br /><a href=\"https://2019.indieweb.org/summit#travel-assistance\"><span>https://</span>2019.indieweb.org/summit#travel-assistance</a>"
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Once upon a time, people would fill their spare time with hobbies, things they do because they enjoy doing it. They could be passive, like watching TV, or they could be active, like knitting or playing piano, or they could even be a side gig for extra income, like woodworking or painting.
When the Internet came about that made for many more varieties of things that people could do for their spare-time hobbies. They could make weird little videos for YouTube or they could record music and produce albums that other people could listen to (and maybe even buy), or they could stream their video game playing to hang out with others or to compete online.
Somewhere along the line, as a society we seem to have decided that all of those activities must be done as a source of income. You can’t just “make videos on YouTube” or “stream on Twitch,” you are expected to become “a YouTuber” or “a Twitch streamer.” If you make things as a hobby it’s expected that you set up an Etsy store to sell them online; if you collect books or figurines or old video games it’s for making a collection you can sell on eBay. If you record music and put it online you have to put it on all the streaming services and market yourself to make it worth your while, because otherwise how will anyone discover it? Oh, you want your friends to listen to it? Well they’re all using Spotify now, and they’re only going to listen if The Algorithm tells them to.
If you’re not spending all your time doing marketing or sales or producing Content for the Content Gods you are Doing It Wrong.
Every time you post a video to YouTube it goads you about how far you are from monetization. Every time you do a Twitch stream it follows up with an email about how far you are from making Affiliate. I don’t know what Affiliates get after their streams – probably something about their monetization stats or how far they are from Partner or something. I don’t know. I don’t think I care. But whenever I attend the local Twitch streamers meetup, invariably all of the discussion revolves around how recently everyone got Affiliate, or how far away everyone is, and how sad it is that I’ve been streaming on and off for years and don’t have it yet and I have got to Find My Audience. It feels like a cult.
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"summary": "Once upon a time, people would fill their spare time with hobbies, things they do because they enjoy doing it. They could be passive, like watching TV, or they could be active, like knitting or playing piano, or they could even be a side gig for extra income, like woodworking or painting.\nWhen the Internet came about that made for many more varieties of things that people could do for their spare-time hobbies. They could make weird little videos for YouTube or they could record music and produce albums that other people could listen to (and maybe even buy), or they could stream their video game playing to hang out with others or to compete online.\nSomewhere along the line, as a society we seem to have decided that all of those activities must be done as a source of income. You can\u2019t just \u201cmake videos on YouTube\u201d or \u201cstream on Twitch,\u201d you are expected to become \u201ca YouTuber\u201d or \u201ca Twitch streamer.\u201d If you make things as a hobby it\u2019s expected that you set up an Etsy store to sell them online; if you collect books or figurines or old video games it\u2019s for making a collection you can sell on eBay. If you record music and put it online you have to put it on all the streaming services and market yourself to make it worth your while, because otherwise how will anyone discover it? Oh, you want your friends to listen to it? Well they\u2019re all using Spotify now, and they\u2019re only going to listen if The Algorithm tells them to.\nIf you\u2019re not spending all your time doing marketing or sales or producing Content for the Content Gods you are Doing It Wrong.\nEvery time you post a video to YouTube it goads you about how far you are from monetization. Every time you do a Twitch stream it follows up with an email about how far you are from making Affiliate. I don\u2019t know what Affiliates get after their streams \u2013 probably something about their monetization stats or how far they are from Partner or something. I don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t think I care. But whenever I attend the local Twitch streamers meetup, invariably all of the discussion revolves around how recently everyone got Affiliate, or how far away everyone is, and how sad it is that I\u2019ve been streaming on and off for years and don\u2019t have it yet and I have got to Find My Audience. It feels like a cult.",
"url": "https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/1286-The-commoditization-of-free-time",
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"published": "2019-04-23 12:18-0700",
"url": "https://gregorlove.com/2019/04/want-to-read-the-divide/",
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"text": "Want to read: The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions by Jason Hickel (ISBN 9781785151125)",
"html": "<p>Want to read: <span class=\"p-read-of h-cite\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://gregorlove.com/isbn/9781785151125\">The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions</a> by <span class=\"p-author\">Jason Hickel</span> (ISBN <span class=\"p-uid\">9781785151125</span>)</span></p>"
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Finally received my XDA Oblique keycaps in the mail and put them on my NightFox keyboard that I use at home. Inspired by Apple keyboards of old, such as the famed Apple Extended Keyboard II.
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"text": "Finally received my XDA Oblique\u00a0keycaps in the mail and put them on my NightFox\u00a0keyboard that I use at home. Inspired by Apple keyboards of old, such as the famed Apple Extended Keyboard II.",
"html": "<a href=\"https://cleverdevil.io/2019/retro-apple-inspired-keycaps-for-my-nightfox-keeb\"></a>\n \n \n <a href=\"https://cleverdevil.io/2019/retro-apple-inspired-keycaps-for-my-nightfox-keeb\"></a>\n \n <p>Finally received my <a href=\"https://www.keychatter.com/2018/08/01/vintage-apple-inspired-xda-oblique-keycap-gb-closes-august-5/\">XDA Oblique</a>\u00a0keycaps in the mail and put them on my <a href=\"https://kono.store/products/nightfox-mechanical-keyboard\">NightFox</a>\u00a0keyboard that I use at home. Inspired by Apple keyboards of old, such as the famed <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Extended_Keyboard\">Apple Extended Keyboard II</a>.</p>"
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"text": "We\u2019ve been learning from the amazing Elana Fishbein for 8 weeks! Now come see us do a show!\n\nBest of all: it\u2019s free!\n\nSee you at:\n\nMagnet Training Center & Rehearsal Space\n\n22 W 32nd St, Fl 10th\n\nNew York, NY 10001",
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Here is a javascript bookmarklet that will save the current page to the Internet Archive. This opens a new window so you can continue browsing while it's being archived.
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"text": "Here is a javascript bookmarklet that will save the current page to the Internet Archive. This opens a new window so you can continue browsing while it's being archived.\n\nDrag this link to your browser's bookmarks: Internet Archive This!\n\nHere's the code for the bookmarklet if you prefer to copy/paste/tweak it:\n\njavascript:var w=window.open('https://web.archive.org/save/'+location.href,'','scrollbars=1,status=0,resizable=1,location=0,toolbar=0');",
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@cameronstrang I don’t think you meant it this way, but “porcelain doll” is a racist stereotype of Asian women so should probably be avoided (this was in Relevant #699).
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"text": "New York City's second Homebrew Website Club of April met at The Bean at Cooper Union on April 17th, with me playing host. \n \n\n\n We didn't really have a \"broadcast\" portion of the meetup, but we discussed some things and worked on personal projects!\n \n\n\n mfgriffin.com (new!) \u2014 Has been to IndieWeb events in the past, but is looking to get re-started. Went over his past notes about some of his hopes and plans for his site, and how he wants to use it for personal notes, writing, drawing, and blogging projects, and more. Got started on a stripped-down system of using Hugo to track plaintext notes, with tags, so he can worry about how to organize it more later. \n \n\n\n dmitri.shuralyov.com \u2014 Interested in being \"done\" with his notification system updates. In general, wants to be able to iterate faster on his site updates, and finds that a lot of his time is absorbed in HTML/CSS design processes. Started working on some text-only designs, which get a minimal amount of styling by being converted from Markdown to HTML. By using text and emojis, he was able to prototype a couple of quick things during the meetup.\n \n\n\n martymcgui.re \u2014 Recently decided that he disagrees with how Granary processes his site's feed (which is HTML+Microformats2) into JSON Feed and Atom. The result is that his feeds often have missing info and show up as weirdly empty posts on micro.blog or in Atom feed readers. At the meetup, finished writing and adapter that will take his main feed and spit out a JSON Feed. Managed to break his site's build process trying to integrate it, but will get it working soon enough.\n \n\nOther discussion:\nA couple Dmitri's cool game projects\n The recent release of the original source for Zork and other Infocom games, as they would have been worked on originally, for a compiler that no longer exists. Really neat to see how that info is organized.\n We want to start later! Folks often need until 6 or 6:30pm to arrive.\n \n We're also open to venue options!\n \n\nLeft-to-right: dmitri.shuryalov.com, martymcgui.re, mfgriffin.comThanks to everyone who came out! We look forward to seeing you at our next meetup on Wednesday, May 1st from 6:30pm - 8:30pm!",
"html": "<p>\n New York City's second <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/events/2019-04-17-homebrew-website-club-nyc\">Homebrew Website Club of April</a> met at <a href=\"https://www.thebeannyc.com/location/the-bean-3rd-ave/\">The Bean at Cooper Union</a> on April 17th, with me playing host. \n <br /></p>\n<p>\n We didn't really have a \"broadcast\" portion of the meetup, but we discussed some things and worked on personal projects!\n <br /></p>\n<p>\n mfgriffin.com (new!) \u2014 Has been to IndieWeb events in the past, but is looking to get re-started. Went over his past notes about some of his hopes and plans for his site, and how he wants to use it for personal notes, writing, drawing, and blogging projects, and more. Got started on a stripped-down system of using Hugo to track plaintext notes, with tags, so he can worry about how to organize it more later. \n <br /></p>\n<p>\n dmitri.shuralyov.com \u2014 Interested in being \"done\" with his notification system updates. In general, wants to be able to iterate faster on his site updates, and finds that a lot of his time is absorbed in HTML/CSS design processes. Started working on some text-only designs, which get a minimal amount of styling by being converted from Markdown to HTML. By using text and emojis, he was able to prototype a couple of quick things during the meetup.\n <br /></p>\n<p>\n martymcgui.re \u2014 Recently decided that he disagrees with how Granary processes his site's feed (which is HTML+Microformats2) into JSON Feed and Atom. The result is that his feeds often have missing info and show up as weirdly empty posts on micro.blog or in Atom feed readers. At the meetup, finished writing and adapter that will take his main feed and spit out a JSON Feed. Managed to break his site's build process trying to integrate it, but will get it working soon enough.\n <br /></p>\n<p>Other discussion:</p>\n<ul><li>A couple Dmitri's cool game projects</li>\n <li>The recent release of the <a href=\"https://github.com/historicalsource/zork1\">original source for Zork</a> and other Infocom games, as they would have been worked on originally, for a compiler that no longer exists. Really neat to see how that info is organized.</li>\n <li>We want to start later! Folks often need until 6 or 6:30pm to arrive.</li>\n <li>\n We're also open to venue options!\n <br /></li>\n</ul><img class=\"u-featured\" src=\"https://aperture-proxy.p3k.io/9a2809122a4ff69fcc4082d3d2c78c2c8c1a82ad/68747470733a2f2f6d656469612e6d617274796d636775692e72652f39622f39642f35612f63322f66663737363466623764313838393165316339316132303439303930646235333433333932623235616331636166346361363139656434392e6a7067\" alt=\"Dmitri, Marty, and Matt smile for the camera in front of a background of a busy coffee shop.\" />Left-to-right: dmitri.shuryalov.com, martymcgui.re, mfgriffin.com<p>Thanks to everyone who came out! We look forward to seeing you at our next meetup on Wednesday, May 1st from 6:30pm - 8:30pm!</p>"
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