My mother passed away nearly 20 years ago. I still miss her. A lot.

But as I was in the car chatting with my kids about our own ages and growing older as a #family is wont to do, it occurred to me that if my mother were still alive, she’d be 73 years old. And the notion of having a 73-year-old “Mom” suddenly struck me as absurdist, loony, perhaps even a little frightening.

I have no idea what a 73-year-old Mom would be like! And would I even like her, the way I did when she was in her 50s and I was in my 20s?

And that idea made me giggle a little. It’s easier to miss her now, because I miss her in a special way I simply wouldn’t if she were different, older, and here.

🐦 Progress on the birdhouse

For IndieWebCamp San Diego’s Create Day, I worked on cleaning up some code for indiewebify.me and pushed it to a branch on my GitHub.

The readme there has more details, but this is basically an in-progress update to use the SlimPHP framework. It is probably only about 30% complete, but some parts of it are functional. Pushing this to Github will make it easier for the community to collaborate on and decide how to move forward.

IndieWebCamp San Diego 2024 Project Goals

Typed Index card that reads: IndieWeb Camp San Diego 2024 Project Goals   I missed the first day of camp due to a family ob-ligation. But with Sunday free, I've driven down to San Diego from Los Angeles to participate in create day. Naturally, I've brought a couple of typewriters to continue on with my project from last year: Improving my posting work flow for typecasting (i.e. posting to my website by using the User Interface of a typewriter.) Since I've been doing more work via typewriter, improving this workflow will be a nice feature to have. Let's see how this goes.

Typed Index card that reads: IndieWeb Camp San Diego 2024 Project Goals   I missed the first day of camp due to a family ob-ligation. But with Sunday free, I've driven down to San Diego from Los Angeles to participate in create day. Naturally, I've brought a couple of typewriters to continue on with my project from last year: Improving my posting work flow for typecasting (i.e. posting to my website by using the User Interface of a typewriter.) Since I've been doing more work via typewriter, improving this workflow will be a nice feature to have. Let's see how this goes.
#indieweb #note-taking #social-stream #indiewebcamp-san-diego #typecasts #typewriters

My 2025 Goal: Daily Blogging

Stuff, and things

#disability #pain #web design #vertigo #home repair #security
The new iOS app icons dark mode is really messing with my brain. I can't recognize any of the icons at a glance anymore, it's like having to re-learn all the branding.

Link: The Sparse Pacific Coast of Colombia

Harry Reid International Airport (LAS)

at Harry Reid International Airport (LAS)

I appreciate The Birthday Massacre’s consistency in their album covers. #purple

Scarpetta

at Scarpetta

TODO

#todo #plans #projects
Elara by Hilton Grand Vacations

at Elara by Hilton Grand Vacations

Mod Pizza

at Mod Pizza

Portland International Airport (PDX)
Last trip of the year

New music site!

#music #Sockpuppet #web dev

TIL the term “smishing” (SMS phishing) while looking up info on those spam text messages claiming to be from the USPS about a missed package. Never click the links in those, of course. You can also report them to the postal inspector.

Checking out a new podcast, Public Health is Dead. Sounds promising so far.

“Public Health is Dead is a forward-thinking autopsy on how we’ve f*cked up in public health. How do we prepare for future pandemics while we’re already in the thick of one? And how do we reinvent systems that place some of us closer to death?”

#podcast #Covid #LongCovid

Video: Rejuvenation After a Hard Year

This is a summary curation of prior posts of mine on why post, what to post, and how to post, as well as some bits I wrote on the #IndieWeb wiki. This post assumes you already have a blog — if you don’t have one and wonder why you should, that’s a different blog post.

If you have a blog and ever feel stuck about why you should post, what to post next, or how to write your post, hopefully this post will help you get unstuck, and publish your post.


Why Post

There is a whole wiki page on the topic:
* https://indieweb.org/why_post — which could use some gardening

Here are a few reasons why to post:

* Wean yourself off social media. Post to your own site instead of social media. If you already post on social media, into someone else’s garage¹, then you already have reason enough to post. So post on your own site first, and optionally syndicate² to that silo, only if you have friends who still use it to read posts.
* Search everything you write. Do you post long comments or issues on GitHub? Do you post on public mailing lists? Post such things to your own site, so you can more easily search everything you’ve written on a topic. Then post a copy to those external destinations.
* All the reasons to own your data: https://indieweb.org/own_your_data


What to Post

* Post positive things promptly: https://tantek.com/2018/357/t3
  * … from that day first: https://tantek.com/2018/364/t1
  * … in time order: https://tantek.com/2018/364/t5
* Make and share lists. People like lists
* Post to learn in public, and pass on what you learn


How to Post

* Use a local text editor
* Capture first, edit & publish later: https://tantek.com/2023/365/t1/
* Do something positive (in-person), then post about it: https://tantek.com/2018/002/t1
* Single topic post
* Short and to the point. Edit and remove anything distracting from the main point.
* Quotable post title
* Summary opening paragraph
* Put tangents aside
* Quotable sentences and multi-sentence paragraphs
* Subheadings help cluster related paragraphs
* Use a footer for updates, terminology, previous posts, additional reading, and citations.
  * Move definitions, citations, etc. to the footer unless including them inline either provides little risk of distraction or significantly helps reading flow
  * Use footer sections: Previously, Post Glossary, References, Additional Reading
* Check your references


Each of these points could be its own blog post. There are many more whys, whats, and hows. This is a start.
* https://indieweb.org/why_post
* https://indieweb.org/what_to_post
* https://indieweb.org/how_to_post

Add your own to each, and help organize them.


Glossary

mailing list
  https://indieweb.org/mailing_list
own your data
  https://indieweb.org/own_your_data
post footer
  https://indieweb.org/posts#Footer_sections
silo
  https://indieweb.org/silo
social media
  https://indieweb.org/social_media


References

¹ https://tantek.com/2023/001/t1/own-your-notes
² https://indieweb.org/POSSE


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