gRegor Morrill gregorlove.com

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        "text": "Delightful music re-discovery: Emancipator. Good chill, electronic music to work to. Currently listening to 2022\u2019s 11th Orbit.",
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fluffy beesbuzz.biz

Bandcamp Friday, February 2024 edition

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        "text": "I don\u2019t have any new releases on my bandcamp but if you\u2019re interested in a wide variety of music, it is there for the buying, and during Bandcamp Friday none of the money from that goes to Songtradr/Bandcamp.This weekend, you can also buy anything in my discography, including my entire discography, for 50% off using discount code TOOMUCHMUSIC.And as usual I\u2019m also trying to hype up others. This month I\u2019m planning on buying:\nA ska tribute to They Might Be Giants\nPatricia Taxxon\u2019s latest\nSome weird abstract electronic stuff\nAll of the music of Aran P. Ink",
        "html": "<p>I don\u2019t have any new releases on <a href=\"https://sockpuppet.us/\">my bandcamp</a> but if you\u2019re interested in a wide variety of music, it is there for the buying, and during <a href=\"https://isitbandcampfriday.com/\">Bandcamp Friday</a> none of the money from that goes to Songtradr/Bandcamp.</p><p>This weekend, you can also buy anything in my discography, including my entire discography, for 50% off using discount code TOOMUCHMUSIC.</p><p>And as usual I\u2019m also trying to hype up others. This month I\u2019m planning on buying:</p>\n<ul><li><a href=\"https://rudyreboots.bandcamp.com/album/rudy-reboots-giants-a-ska-punk-tribute-to-they-might-be-giants\">A ska tribute to They Might Be Giants</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/album/bicycle\">Patricia Taxxon\u2019s latest</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://mrbill.bandcamp.com/album/the-collaborative-endeavors\">Some weird abstract electronic stuff</a></li>\n<li>All of the music of <a href=\"https://apink.bandcamp.com/music\">Aran P. Ink</a>\n</li>\n</ul>"
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        "html": "<p>My relationship with my city changed when I came to <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/portland\">#Portland</a>. Before that, I always had the general impression that I lived in my \u201chouse\u201d and that house merely happened to be located in a city/town/countryside/etc. But upon moving to Portland, Oregon and really embracing an urban lifestyle, my perspective changed. Now I <em>live in Portland</em>. My house is nothing more than the residence I am physically placed in at various times for sleep, recreation, and remote work. But I also regularly engage in both work and recreation elsewhere in the city, and those places mean every bit as much to me as anywhere I might lay my head at night.</p>\n\n<p>I suppose that may sound quite strange to someone who is very emotionally and nostalgically attached to their literal dwelling. Maybe it\u2019s a personality thing\u2026 All I can tell you\u2014as someone who is currently a renter\u2014I have owned my own home in the past and\u2026I ended up hating it. Resenting it.</p>\n\n<p>My allegiance is to a city\u2026MY city\u2026not any particular residential unit within it.</p>",
        "text": "My relationship with my city changed when I came to #Portland. Before that, I always had the general impression that I lived in my \u201chouse\u201d and that house merely happened to be located in a city/town/countryside/etc. But upon moving to Portland, Oregon and really embracing an urban lifestyle, my perspective changed. Now I live in Portland. My house is nothing more than the residence I am physically placed in at various times for sleep, recreation, and remote work. But I also regularly engage in both work and recreation elsewhere in the city, and those places mean every bit as much to me as anywhere I might lay my head at night.\n\nI suppose that may sound quite strange to someone who is very emotionally and nostalgically attached to their literal dwelling. Maybe it\u2019s a personality thing\u2026 All I can tell you\u2014as someone who is currently a renter\u2014I have owned my own home in the past and\u2026I ended up hating it. Resenting it.\n\nMy allegiance is to a city\u2026MY city\u2026not any particular residential unit within it."
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Aaron Parecki aaronparecki.com

Casa Del Mar Hotel

at Casa Del Mar Hotel

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fluffy beesbuzz.biz

Followup

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        "text": "I contacted CarMax about the missing EVSE, and they pointed me to a hidden compartment for service equipment, thinking it might have been hiding in there. The EVSE wasn\u2019t in there either, but there was the \u201ctire mobility kit,\u201d so it\u2019s good that I have the official one too!Anyway CarMax is going to order me a replacement EVSE as well. Nice.I suspect they saw the NACS adapter and confused it for an EVSE, which is easy to do \u2014 I\u2019d made the same mistake during my test drive and walkaround!But yeah so far I am very happy with the CarMax experience.",
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Jonathan LaCour cleverdevil.io/profile/cleverdevil

🎂 Colette’s Swiftie Birthday

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fluffy beesbuzz.biz

Bye LEAF, Hello Niro

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Tantek Çelik tantek.com

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        "text": "For the #IndieWeb ideals of independence from intermediaries, not requiring corporate platforms or other organizational intermediaries\u00b9, the best systems we have still depend on organizations. However they are all swappable, at will, by the individual:\n\n1. domain names, depend on registrars, which you can switch \n2. web hosts, depend on hosting providers, which you can switch\n3. internet access, depends on internet service providers, which you can switch\n4. web browsing, depends on browsers, which you can switch\n5. personal devices, that have choice of web browser and internet access, which you can switch, upgrade, and use multiples of simultaneously\n\nWhen you can migrate from one provider to another, one device to another, without disruption, without breaking your people-to-people connections, the providers and devices serve you, instead of gatekeeping you.\n\nThis freedom to swap, freedom to choose, depends on practical #interoperability across multiple implementations, multiple services. Open standards are the means to encouraging, testing, and verifying this user-feature interoperability across implementations and services.\n\nThis is post 6 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts\n\n\u2190 https://tantek.com/2024/026/t3/indieweb-for-everyone-internet-of-people\n\u2192 \ud83d\udd2e\n\n\nPost glossary:\n\ndomain name\n\u00a0 https://indieweb.org/personal-domain\ninteroperability\n\u00a0 https://www.w3.org/wiki/Interoperable\nweb host\n\u00a0 https://indieweb.org/web_host\n\n\u00b9 https://tantek.com/2024/026/t3/indieweb-for-everyone-internet-of-people",
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Tantek Çelik tantek.com

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fluffy beesbuzz.biz

Car updates

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Marty McGuire martymcgui.re

Bronx Brewery

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Aaron Parecki aaronparecki.com

Five Pines Dental

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The Mac Turns 40, and My Love Affair Turns 23

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        "html": "<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://res.cloudinary.com/mariposta/image/upload/w_1200,c_limit,q_65/happy-mac.jpg\" /><h2>There are been substantial changes to these products over the decades, but the DNA at the heart of them all\u2014creativity, whimsy, user-friendliness, and consistency\u2014remains ever present.</h2>\n\n<p>It\u2019s crazy to think that I\u2019ve been a Mac fanboy for longer than half the lifespan of the Mac platform at this point. The Mac already felt <em>ancient</em> to me when I finally left the dark side (WinTel) behind in 2001. I came to fully embrace the Mac then because of two things:</p>\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2001/04/macos-x/\">OS X</a>: a modern Unix-powered operating system with a stunning next-gen Aqua interface.</li>\n  <li><a href=\"https://512pixels.net/2013/06/omm-titanium-powerbook/\">\u201cTiBook\u201d G4</a>: a beauty of a laptop which I <em>still</em> think is one of the best-looking computers ever made.</li>\n</ul><p>The trajectory of Apple\u2019s core hardware and software technologies from that time have continued into the present day as I type this out on my iPad\u2019s multitouch display using a Pencil and my fingers\u2014an incredible achievement. Even the iPhone in my pocket is, in many ways, a tiny mobile Mac. And while even in 2001 Apple\u2019s products had changed substantially from the original Macintosh of 1984\u2014thanks mainly to the monumental <del>takeover by</del> acquisition of <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT\">NeXT</a>\u2014that brand DNA of creativity, whimsy, user-friendliness, and consistency has remained the hallmark of the Apple computer experience for 40 years and counting.</p>\n\n<p>Macintosh encouraged us to Think Different\u2122\ufe0f, to see personal computers as <em>personal</em> computers\u2014a \u201cbicycle for the mind.\u201d These weren\u2019t simply more automata, engineered contraptions for accomplishing rote tasks. They were portals into a whole new world. You didn\u2019t just command a Mac. You communicated with it. You manipulated it. It was an instrument. It was a friend. It was \u201cinsanely great.\u201d <strong>It was the computer\u2026for the rest of us.</strong></p>\n\n<p>On this the 40th anniversary of <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcRQWGFJ5YY\">the first Mac\u2019s unveiling</a>, there are many reasons one might find themselves still captivated by the finest lineage of digital machines money can buy, but I\u2019ll simply conclude with this:</p>\n\n<p>You had me at <em>hello</em>.</p>\n\n\n\n<img src=\"https://res.cloudinary.com/mariposta/image/upload/w_2048,c_limit,q_65/steve-jobs-macintosh-launch.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Steve Jobs with the Brand New Macintosh\" /><br /><p>\n    \n      <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/apple\">#Apple</a>\n    \n  </p>",
        "text": "There are been substantial changes to these products over the decades, but the DNA at the heart of them all\u2014creativity, whimsy, user-friendliness, and consistency\u2014remains ever present.\n\nIt\u2019s crazy to think that I\u2019ve been a Mac fanboy for longer than half the lifespan of the Mac platform at this point. The Mac already felt ancient to me when I finally left the dark side (WinTel) behind in 2001. I came to fully embrace the Mac then because of two things:\n\nOS X: a modern Unix-powered operating system with a stunning next-gen Aqua interface.\n  \u201cTiBook\u201d G4: a beauty of a laptop which I still think is one of the best-looking computers ever made.\nThe trajectory of Apple\u2019s core hardware and software technologies from that time have continued into the present day as I type this out on my iPad\u2019s multitouch display using a Pencil and my fingers\u2014an incredible achievement. Even the iPhone in my pocket is, in many ways, a tiny mobile Mac. And while even in 2001 Apple\u2019s products had changed substantially from the original Macintosh of 1984\u2014thanks mainly to the monumental takeover by acquisition of NeXT\u2014that brand DNA of creativity, whimsy, user-friendliness, and consistency has remained the hallmark of the Apple computer experience for 40 years and counting.\n\nMacintosh encouraged us to Think Different\u2122\ufe0f, to see personal computers as personal computers\u2014a \u201cbicycle for the mind.\u201d These weren\u2019t simply more automata, engineered contraptions for accomplishing rote tasks. They were portals into a whole new world. You didn\u2019t just command a Mac. You communicated with it. You manipulated it. It was an instrument. It was a friend. It was \u201cinsanely great.\u201d It was the computer\u2026for the rest of us.\n\nOn this the 40th anniversary of the first Mac\u2019s unveiling, there are many reasons one might find themselves still captivated by the finest lineage of digital machines money can buy, but I\u2019ll simply conclude with this:\n\nYou had me at hello.\n\n\n\n\n\n    \n      #Apple"
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Tantek Çelik tantek.com

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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2024-01-23 17:20-0800",
    "url": "https://tantek.com/2024/023/t1/should-public-posts-flow-across-sites",
    "category": [
        "fediverse",
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        "moderation",
        "publics",
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        "text": "@snarfed.org posted a great overview of thoughtful (and sometimes heated) discussions across blogs and the #fediverse about how freely should \u201cpublic\u201d posts & comments on the web flow across sites:\n\n\u201cModerate people, not code\u201d (https://snarfed.org/2024-01-21_moderate-people-not-code)\n\nIf you are designing or creating any kind of publishing or social features on the web, this post is for you.\n\nIt touches on topics ranging from #contextCollapse to #federation to #moderation and everything in between.\n\nDoes your choice of publishing tool set expectations about where your content might propagate, or whether it will be indexed by search engines? Should it?\n\nDo the limitations of your server (e.g. js;dr) imply limitations of where your posts go, or whether they can be searched or archived? Should they?\n\nWhen you post something publicly, are you truly posting it for a global audience for all time, or only for one or a few more limited #publics for an ephemerality?\n\nWhen you reply to a post, do you expect your reply to only be visible in the context you posted it, or do you expect it to travel alongside that post to anywhere it might propagate to?\n\n\nOn the #IndieWeb, especially for public posts, some of these questions have easier and more obvious answers, because the intent of nearly all public IndieWeb posts is to interact across the web with other posts and sites, typically via the #Webmention protocol. However there are still questions.\n\nAre the expectations for a blog and blogging different from a social media site, whether a silo or an instance on a network?\n\nIs a personal website with posts still just a blog, or does it become something new when you start posting responses from your site, or receiving (e.g. via Webmention) and displaying responses from across the web to your posts on your site? Or is it now a \u201csocial website\u201d?\n\nIf you have a social website, what is your responsibility for keeping it, well, social? Do you moderate Webmentions by default? Do you use the Vouch extension for some automatic moderation?\n\nAre #POSSE & #backfeed different from federation or are they the same thing from a user-perspective, with merely different names hinting at different implementations?\n\nDo you allow anyone from any site to respond or react to your posts? Or do you treat your social website like your home, and follow what I like to call a \u201chouse party protocol\u201d, only letting in those you know, and perhaps allowing them to bring a +1 or 2?\n\nI have many more questions. Each of these deserves thoughtful discussions, documentation of what different tools & services do today that we can try out, learn from, and use to make considered decisions when creating new things to post on and across websites.\n\nThis is post 4 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts\n\n\u2190 https://tantek.com/2024/022/t1/indiewebcamp-brighton-planned\n\u2192 \ud83d\udd2e\n\n\nPost glossary:\n\nbackfeed\n\u00a0 https://indieweb.org/backfeed\n\nblog\n\u00a0 https://indieweb.org/blog\n\nblogging\n\u00a0 https://indieweb.org/blogging\n\u00a0 \ncomments\n\u00a0 https://indieweb.org/comments\n\ncontext collapse\n\u00a0 https://indieweb.org/context_collapse\n\nephemerality\n\u00a0 https://indieweb.org/ephemerality\n\njs;dr\n\u00a0 https://indieweb.org/js;dr\n\nmoderation\n\u00a0 https://indieweb.org/moderation\n\nPOSSE\n\u00a0 https://indieweb.org/POSSE\n\nposts\n\u00a0 https://indieweb.org/posts\n\npublics\n\u00a0 https://indieweb.org/publics\n\nreply\n\u00a0 https://indieweb.org/reply\n\nVouch\n\u00a0 https://indieweb.org/Vouch\n\u00a0 \nWebmention\n\u00a0 https://indieweb.org/Webmention",
        "html": "<a href=\"https://snarfed.org\">@snarfed.org</a> posted a great overview of thoughtful (and sometimes heated) discussions across blogs and the #<span class=\"p-category\">fediverse</span> about how freely should \u201cpublic\u201d posts &amp; comments on the web flow across sites:<br /><br />\u201cModerate people, not code\u201d (<a href=\"https://snarfed.org/2024-01-21_moderate-people-not-code\">https://snarfed.org/2024-01-21_moderate-people-not-code</a>)<br /><br />If you are designing or creating any kind of publishing or social features on the web, this post is for you.<br /><br />It touches on topics ranging from #<span class=\"p-category\">contextCollapse</span> to #<span class=\"p-category\">federation</span> to #<span class=\"p-category\">moderation</span> and everything in between.<br /><br />Does your choice of publishing tool set expectations about where your content might propagate, or whether it will be indexed by search engines? Should it?<br /><br />Do the limitations of your server (e.g. js;dr) imply limitations of where your posts go, or whether they can be searched or archived? Should they?<br /><br />When you post something publicly, are you truly posting it for a global audience for all time, or only for one or a few more limited #<span class=\"p-category\">publics</span> for an ephemerality?<br /><br />When you reply to a post, do you expect your reply to only be visible in the context you posted it, or do you expect it to travel alongside that post to anywhere it might propagate to?<br /><br /><br />On the #<span class=\"p-category\">IndieWeb</span>, especially for public posts, some of these questions have easier and more obvious answers, because the intent of nearly all public IndieWeb posts is to interact across the web with other posts and sites, typically via the #<span class=\"p-category\">Webmention</span> protocol. However there are still questions.<br /><br />Are the expectations for a blog and blogging different from a social media site, whether a silo or an instance on a network?<br /><br />Is a personal website with posts still just a blog, or does it become something new when you start posting responses from your site, or receiving (e.g. via Webmention) and displaying responses from across the web to your posts on your site? Or is it now a \u201csocial website\u201d?<br /><br />If you have a social website, what is your responsibility for keeping it, well, social? Do you moderate Webmentions by default? Do you use the Vouch extension for some automatic moderation?<br /><br />Are #<span class=\"p-category\">POSSE</span> &amp; #<span class=\"p-category\">backfeed</span> different from federation or are they the same thing from a user-perspective, with merely different names hinting at different implementations?<br /><br />Do you allow anyone from any site to respond or react to your posts? Or do you treat your social website like your home, and follow what I like to call a \u201chouse party protocol\u201d, only letting in those you know, and perhaps allowing them to bring a +1 or 2?<br /><br />I have many more questions. Each of these deserves thoughtful discussions, documentation of what different tools &amp; services do today that we can try out, learn from, and use to make considered decisions when creating new things to post on and across websites.<br /><br />This is post 4 of #<span class=\"p-category\">100PostsOfIndieWeb</span>. #<span class=\"p-category\">100Posts</span><br /><br />\u2190 <a href=\"https://tantek.com/2024/022/t1/indiewebcamp-brighton-planned\">https://tantek.com/2024/022/t1/indiewebcamp-brighton-planned</a><br />\u2192 \ud83d\udd2e<br /><br /><br />Post glossary:<br /><br />backfeed<br />\u00a0 <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/backfeed\">https://indieweb.org/backfeed</a><br /><br />blog<br />\u00a0 <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/blog\">https://indieweb.org/blog</a><br /><br />blogging<br />\u00a0 <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/blogging\">https://indieweb.org/blogging</a><br />\u00a0 <br />comments<br />\u00a0 <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/comments\">https://indieweb.org/comments</a><br /><br />context collapse<br />\u00a0 <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/context_collapse\">https://indieweb.org/context_collapse</a><br /><br />ephemerality<br />\u00a0 <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/ephemerality\">https://indieweb.org/ephemerality</a><br /><br />js;dr<br />\u00a0 <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/js;dr\">https://indieweb.org/js;dr</a><br /><br />moderation<br />\u00a0 <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/moderation\">https://indieweb.org/moderation</a><br /><br />POSSE<br />\u00a0 <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/POSSE\">https://indieweb.org/POSSE</a><br /><br />posts<br />\u00a0 <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/posts\">https://indieweb.org/posts</a><br /><br />publics<br />\u00a0 <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/publics\">https://indieweb.org/publics</a><br /><br />reply<br />\u00a0 <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/reply\">https://indieweb.org/reply</a><br /><br />Vouch<br />\u00a0 <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Vouch\">https://indieweb.org/Vouch</a><br />\u00a0 <br />Webmention<br />\u00a0 <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Webmention\">https://indieweb.org/Webmention</a>"
    },
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        "type": "card",
        "name": "Tantek \u00c7elik",
        "url": "https://tantek.com/",
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    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "40080417",
    "_source": "2460"
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "Jared White",
        "url": "https://jaredwhite.com/",
        "photo": null
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    "url": "https://jaredwhite.com/20240123/bad-algorithms",
    "published": "2024-01-23T14:29:21-08:00",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>It\u2019s hard to look back fondly on the Twitter algorithm in the days when it was still considered a \u201ccool\u201d platform to use. I routinely saw how links to blog posts would get <em>far</em> less engagement than content Twitter deemed worthy of promotion like photos, topical tweets, etc. The whole \u201cpost a photo and also a link\u201d instead of just having the link\u2019s graph image come through hack was just that, a hack. (Same issue on Facebook as well.) Perhaps in the early days of the platform this was much less so, but\u2026well, <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/enshittification\">#enshittification</a>.</p>\n\n<p>Blogging and social media algorithms ended up on a collision course last decade, and sadly blogs lost. Thankfully we now have the rare opportunity to correct the mistakes of the past. <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/openweb\">#OpenWeb</a> <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/fediverse\">#Fediverse</a> <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/writing\">#writing</a></p>",
        "text": "It\u2019s hard to look back fondly on the Twitter algorithm in the days when it was still considered a \u201ccool\u201d platform to use. I routinely saw how links to blog posts would get far less engagement than content Twitter deemed worthy of promotion like photos, topical tweets, etc. The whole \u201cpost a photo and also a link\u201d instead of just having the link\u2019s graph image come through hack was just that, a hack. (Same issue on Facebook as well.) Perhaps in the early days of the platform this was much less so, but\u2026well, #enshittification.\n\nBlogging and social media algorithms ended up on a collision course last decade, and sadly blogs lost. Thankfully we now have the rare opportunity to correct the mistakes of the past. #OpenWeb #Fediverse #writing"
    },
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "40080327",
    "_source": "2783"
}

Marty McGuire martymcgui.re

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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2024-01-23T10:10:22-0500",
    "url": "https://martymcgui.re/2024/01/23/101022/",
    "category": [
        "caturday"
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    "video": [
        "https://res.cloudinary.com/schmarty/video/upload/vc_h264/mmmgre/74/44/52/92/76fb1235aa471bbd50cfdca4ac413aac88c448cd8344163bcdcb18e1.mov"
    ],
    "content": {
        "text": "Are you trying to reel it in during eternal Caturday?",
        "html": "<p>Are you trying to reel it in during eternal Caturday?</p>"
    },
    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Marty McGuire",
        "url": "https://martymcgui.re/",
        "photo": "https://martymcgui.re/images/logo.jpg"
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    "post-type": "video",
    "_id": "40077885",
    "_source": "175"
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Tantek Çelik tantek.com

{
    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2024-01-22 23:20-0800",
    "url": "https://tantek.com/2024/022/t1/indiewebcamp-brighton-planned",
    "category": [
        "IndieWebCamp",
        "IndieWeb",
        "100PostsOfIndieWeb",
        "100Posts"
    ],
    "content": {
        "text": "The first IndieWebCamp of the year has been planned!\n\n\ud83c\udfaa IndieWebCamp Brighton\n\ud83d\uddd3 2024-03-09\u202610\n\ud83c\udfe2 The Skiff, Brighton, England\n\ud83c\udf9f Tickets available 2024-02-01!\n\nEvent: https://events.indieweb.org/2024/03/indiewebcamp-brighton-2024-xRTP2hAZOvZd\nWiki: https://indieweb.org/2024/Brighton \n\nQuestions about #IndieWebCamp? Ask in #IndieWeb chat!\n\ud83d\udcac https://chat.indieweb.org/\n\nThis is post 3 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts\n\n\u2190 https://tantek.com/2024/003/t1/2023-indieweb-gift-calendar-numbers\n\u2192 \ud83d\udd2e",
        "html": "The first IndieWebCamp of the year has been planned!<br /><br />\ud83c\udfaa IndieWebCamp Brighton<br />\ud83d\uddd3 2024-03-09\u202610<br />\ud83c\udfe2 The Skiff, Brighton, England<br />\ud83c\udf9f Tickets available 2024-02-01!<br /><br />Event: <a href=\"https://events.indieweb.org/2024/03/indiewebcamp-brighton-2024-xRTP2hAZOvZd\">https://events.indieweb.org/2024/03/indiewebcamp-brighton-2024-xRTP2hAZOvZd</a><br />Wiki: <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/2024/Brighton\">https://indieweb.org/2024/Brighton</a> <br /><br />Questions about #<span class=\"p-category\">IndieWebCamp</span>? Ask in #<span class=\"p-category\">IndieWeb</span> chat!<br />\ud83d\udcac <a href=\"https://chat.indieweb.org/\">https://chat.indieweb.org/</a><br /><br />This is post 3 of #<span class=\"p-category\">100PostsOfIndieWeb</span>. #<span class=\"p-category\">100Posts</span><br /><br />\u2190 <a href=\"https://tantek.com/2024/003/t1/2023-indieweb-gift-calendar-numbers\">https://tantek.com/2024/003/t1/2023-indieweb-gift-calendar-numbers</a><br />\u2192 \ud83d\udd2e"
    },
    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Tantek \u00c7elik",
        "url": "https://tantek.com/",
        "photo": "https://tantek.com/photo.jpg"
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    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "40072027",
    "_source": "2460"
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fluffy beesbuzz.biz

SlimeVR: A brief review of my brief ownership

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    "name": "SlimeVR: A brief review of my brief ownership",
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fluffy beesbuzz.biz

Transformative Meditations to return?!?!

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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2024-01-21T13:38:39-08:00",
    "url": "https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/11377-Transformative-Meditations-to-return",
    "name": "Transformative Meditations to return?!?!",
    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "fluffy",
        "url": "https://beesbuzz.biz/",
        "photo": "https://beesbuzz.biz/static/headshot.jpg"
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    "post-type": "article",
    "_id": "40058807",
    "_source": "2778"
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fluffy beesbuzz.biz

SlimeVR

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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2024-01-21T00:19:20-08:00",
    "url": "https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/9892-SlimeVR",
    "name": "SlimeVR",
    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "fluffy",
        "url": "https://beesbuzz.biz/",
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