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RSS: there’s nothing better

David Yates wrote a great defense of RSS which I completely agree with. To summarize the salient points: RSS is open RSS works RSS is very well-supported by a lot of things RSS is a suitable name as shorthand for “RSS/Atom” because the name “Atom” is overloaded and basically anything that supports Atom also supports RSS and vice-versa (Note that there’s one inaccuracy in that since that article was written, Twitter has moved over to algorithmic manipulation of the timeline. This can currently be disabled but who knows how long that’ll last?) Most IndieWeb folks are also really gung-ho about mf2 and h-feed, and while I don’t see any reason not to support it (and it certainly does have some advantages in terms of it being easier to integrate into a system that isn’t feed-aware or convenient to set up multiple templates), I’ve run into plenty of pitfalls when it comes to actually adding mf2 markup to my own site (for example, having to deal with ambiguities with nesting stuff and dealing with below-the-fold content, not to mention a lot of confusion over things like p-summary vs. e-content), and so far there doesn’t seem to be any real advantage to doing so since everything that supports h-feed also supports RSS/Atom, as far as I’m aware. For me the only obvious advantage to h-feed is that you can add it to one-size-fits-none templating systems like Tumblr where you don’t have any control over the provided RSS feed, but in those situations there’s not really a lot more added flexibility you’re going to get by adding h-feed markup anyway. I guess it also makes sense if you’re hand-authoring your static site, but that just means it becomes even easier to get things catastrophically wrong.
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Buffalo Wild Wings

Pit stop before crossing the country

I’m at the MUNI station and the guy next to me is whistling to “The Wind Beneath My Wings”. Did you ever know that you’re my hero?
I fucked up and got more coffee lol
"One of the reasons why we use Democracy so little may be because Democracy has a very bad user interface and if we improve the user interface of democracy we might be able to use it more." —César Hidalgo boffosocko.com/2019/06/27/557…
Open wiiiide *gulp* 😮 @badboy_ (@ Bubby's Kitchen in Victoria, BC) swarmapp.com/c/jSGXJVDeYn8
Here's what I found in my fortune cookie: "A more open and independent web is yours for the making. #IndieWeb" @ontarioextend #oext372 #oextend #EdTech #DoOO boffosocko.com/2019/06/27/557…
One of my favorite articles of the year so far @AllisonPDavis 👏👏👏
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Hey! Wanted to contact you about a story I'm working on for Business Insider. Do you have an email address I can use? :) @JacobCanfield
While looking forward to @IndieWebSummit this weekend, I take a listen back at the past courtesy of the @ontarioextend & the @great78project at the @internetarchive. #oext374 #oextend boffosocko.com/2019/06/27/557…

There’s more Black youth on the daily that hang by City Hall than in this photo. She literally ran AWAY to find people for this. https://twitter.com/LibbySchaaf/status/1143677933644476416

Morning face?
Morning face.

One pomegranate white tea to start the day.

I got a haircut like two, three days ago? You’d never know now, lol. My hair grows like weeds on a yard. (v2.jacky.wtf/post/b8bcf7fa-…)

I got a haircut like two, three days ago? You’d never know now, lol. My hair grows like weeds on a yard.

A friend put me onto Aquaphor and that shit has been changing the GAME for my skin, tbh.

A friend put me onto Aquaphor and that shit has been changing the GAME for my skin, tbh. (v2.jacky.wtf/post/e46ef867-…)