{ "type": "entry", "published": "2020-12-31T09:59:53Z", "url": "https://adactio.com/journal/17723", "category": [ "2020", "writing", "blogging", "publishing", "words", "sharing", "indieweb" ], "syndication": [ "https://adactio.medium.com/543ab10f53f9" ], "name": "Words I wrote in 2020", "content": { "text": "Once again I wrote over a hundred blog posts this year. While lots of other activities dropped off significantly while my main focus was to just keep on keepin\u2019 on, I still found solace and reward in writing and publishing. Like I said early on in The Situation, my website is an outlet for me:\n\n\n While you\u2019re stuck inside, your website is not just a place you can go to, it\u2019s a place you can control, a place you can maintain, a place you can tidy up, a place you can expand. Most of all, it\u2019s a place you can lose yourself in, even if it\u2019s just for a little while.\n\n\nHere are some blog posts that turned out alright:\n\n\nArchitects, gardeners, and design systems. Citing Frank Chimero, Debbie Chachra, and Lisa O\u2019Neill. \n\nHydration. Progressive enhancement. I do not think it means what you think it means.\n\nLiving Through The Future. William Gibson, Arthur C.Clarke, Daniel Dafoe, Stephen King, Emily St. John Mandel, John Wyndham, Martin Cruz-Smith, Marina Koren and H.G. Wells.\n\nPrinciples and priorities. Using design principles to embody your priorities.\n\nHard to break. Brittleness is the opposite of resilience. But they both share something in common.\n\nIntent. Black lives matter.\n\nAccessibility. Making the moral argument.\n\nT E N \u018e T. A spoiler-filled look at the new Christopher Nolan film.\n\nPortals and giant carousels. Trying to understand why people think they need to make single page apps.\n\nClean advertising. The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that behavioural advertising is more effective than contextual advertising.\nI find it strangely comforting that even in a year as shitty as 2020, I can look back and see that there were some decent blog posts in there. Whatever 2021 may bring, I hope to keep writing and publishing through it all. I hope you will too.", "html": "<p><a href=\"https://adactio.com/journal/16270\">Once again</a> I wrote <a href=\"https://adactio.com/journal/archive/2020/\">over a hundred blog posts this year</a>. While lots of other activities dropped off significantly while my main focus was to just keep on keepin\u2019 on, I still found solace and reward in writing and publishing. Like I said early on in The Situation, <a href=\"https://adactio.com/journal/16585\">my website is an outlet for me</a>:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>While you\u2019re stuck inside, your website is not just a place you can go to, it\u2019s a place you can control, a place you can maintain, a place you can tidy up, a place you can expand. Most of all, it\u2019s a place you can lose yourself in, even if it\u2019s just for a little while.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Here are some blog posts that turned out alright:</p>\n\n<ul><li>\n<a href=\"https://adactio.com/journal/16369\">Architects, gardeners, and design systems</a>. Citing Frank Chimero, Debbie Chachra, and Lisa O\u2019Neill. </li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https://adactio.com/journal/16404\">Hydration</a>. Progressive enhancement. I do not think it means what you think it means.</li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https://adactio.com/journal/16655\">Living Through The Future</a>. William Gibson, Arthur C.Clarke, Daniel Dafoe, Stephen King, Emily St. John Mandel, John Wyndham, Martin Cruz-Smith, Marina Koren and H.G. Wells.</li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https://adactio.com/journal/16811\">Principles and priorities</a>. Using design principles to embody your priorities.</li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https://adactio.com/journal/16910\">Hard to break</a>. Brittleness is the opposite of resilience. But they both share something in common.</li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https://adactio.com/journal/16986\">Intent</a>. Black lives matter.</li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https://adactio.com/journal/17132\">Accessibility</a>. Making the moral argument.</li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https://adactio.com/journal/17379\">T E N \u018e T</a>. A spoiler-filled look at the new Christopher Nolan film.</li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https://adactio.com/journal/17573\">Portals and giant carousels</a>. Trying to understand why people think they need to make single page apps.</li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https://adactio.com/journal/17658\">Clean advertising</a>. The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that behavioural advertising is more effective than contextual advertising.</li>\n</ul><p>I find it strangely comforting that even in a year as shitty as 2020, I can look back and see that there were some decent blog posts in there. Whatever 2021 may bring, I hope to keep writing and publishing through it all. I hope you will too.</p>" }, "author": { "type": "card", "name": "Jeremy Keith", "url": "https://adactio.com/", "photo": "https://adactio.com/images/photo-150.jpg" }, "post-type": "article", "_id": "17400748", "_source": "2", "_is_read": true }
{ "type": "entry", "author": { "name": "Ton Zijlstra", "url": "https://www.zylstra.org/blog", "photo": null }, "url": "https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2020/12/week-notes-2052/", "published": "2020-12-27T19:43:47+01:00", "content": { "html": "<p>This week was nominally not a working week, but some administrative stuff still seeped through. Other than that we spend a lot of time with just the three of us. We are quarantining rather strictly at the moment, so that we will be able to visit E\u2019s parents for New Years Eve. I\u2019ll keep it short.</p>\n<p>This week I:</p>\n<ul><li>Did some invoicing</li>\n<li>Paid salaries to our team</li>\n<li>Spent quite some time on the phone getting my bank\u2019s identifier replaced (the batteries ran out, and then it needs to be replaced entirely)</li>\n<li>Went to the notary to sign some things w.r.t. the shareholders in our company. Also created and submitted some additional documents for the notary.</li>\n<li>Had my sister and niece visit</li>\n<li>Had the winter tires mounted on the car</li>\n<li>Ordered a new laptop, as my 7yr old Macbook\u2019s battery is very much giving up. I also made some additional redundant back-ups from what\u2019s on that laptop.</li>\n<li>Exchanged gifts on Christmas day, which was nice and beautiful</li>\n<li>Spending Christmas with just the three of us, was very pleasant and relaxed I find.</li>\n<li>Ordered a cheap tablet, to be able to do some work away from my laptop. As the new laptop may take several weeks to arrive, and I don\u2019t want to rely on just E\u2019s laptop in between.</li>\n<li>Ordered 9 photo frames, to put more photos on the two window sills in my office room at home. It\u2019s a hack basically, as I hope it will prevent me from storing random paper work on the window sills, which then remains there forever.</li>\n</ul><p>Merry Christmas to all of you!</p>\n<p>One short week until 2021.</p>\n<br />This is a RSS only posting for regular readers. Not secret, just unlisted. Comments / webmention / pingback all ok.<br /><a href=\"https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2019/09/joining-rss-club-as-an-experiment/\">Read more about RSS Club</a>", "text": "This week was nominally not a working week, but some administrative stuff still seeped through. Other than that we spend a lot of time with just the three of us. We are quarantining rather strictly at the moment, so that we will be able to visit E\u2019s parents for New Years Eve. I\u2019ll keep it short.\nThis week I:\nDid some invoicing\nPaid salaries to our team\nSpent quite some time on the phone getting my bank\u2019s identifier replaced (the batteries ran out, and then it needs to be replaced entirely)\nWent to the notary to sign some things w.r.t. the shareholders in our company. Also created and submitted some additional documents for the notary.\nHad my sister and niece visit\nHad the winter tires mounted on the car\nOrdered a new laptop, as my 7yr old Macbook\u2019s battery is very much giving up. I also made some additional redundant back-ups from what\u2019s on that laptop.\nExchanged gifts on Christmas day, which was nice and beautiful\nSpending Christmas with just the three of us, was very pleasant and relaxed I find.\nOrdered a cheap tablet, to be able to do some work away from my laptop. As the new laptop may take several weeks to arrive, and I don\u2019t want to rely on just E\u2019s laptop in between.\nOrdered 9 photo frames, to put more photos on the two window sills in my office room at home. It\u2019s a hack basically, as I hope it will prevent me from storing random paper work on the window sills, which then remains there forever.\nMerry Christmas to all of you!\nOne short week until 2021.\n\nThis is a RSS only posting for regular readers. Not secret, just unlisted. Comments / webmention / pingback all ok.\nRead more about RSS Club" }, "name": "Week Notes 20#52", "post-type": "article", "_id": "17334604", "_source": "474", "_is_read": true }
I couldn't sleep so got up for a drink and did a little more work on the non-WordPress version of the.
It's still intrinsically linked to WordPress because it currently just retrieves the post sections from the database that are created within the main site but, ultimately, I'd like to make it a fully self-contained system.
I'll need to sort out some kind of functionality for logging in and will need to rethink posting and how sections are stored. What will be a little more problematic is working out commenting should I decide to include it.
I would also lose webmentions because my coding skills really don't extend as far as rolling my own solution for that. This, in turn, means that I would lose the current "related posts" feature.
I'm not entirely sure where I'm going with all of this, or what compromises I'm willing to make, but it would be nice to be able to say I use my own blogging engine.
{ "type": "entry", "author": { "name": "Colin Walker", "url": "https://colinwalker.blog/", "photo": null }, "url": "https://colinwalker.blog/27-12-2020-0717/", "published": "2020-12-27T07:17:00+00:00", "content": { "html": "<p>I couldn't sleep so got up for a drink and did a little more work on the <a href=\"https://colinwalker.blog/blog.php\">non-WordPress version of the</a>.</p>\n<p>It's still intrinsically linked to WordPress because it currently just retrieves the post sections from the database that are created within the main site but, ultimately, I'd like to make it a fully self-contained system.</p>\n<p>I'll need to sort out some kind of functionality for logging in and will need to rethink posting and how sections are stored. What will be a little more problematic is working out commenting should I decide to include it.</p>\n<p>I would also lose webmentions because my coding skills really don't extend as far as rolling my own solution for that. This, in turn, means that I would lose the current \"related posts\" feature.</p>\n<p>I'm not entirely sure where I'm going with all of this, or what compromises I'm willing to make, but it would be nice to be able to say I use my own blogging engine.</p>", "text": "I couldn't sleep so got up for a drink and did a little more work on the non-WordPress version of the.\nIt's still intrinsically linked to WordPress because it currently just retrieves the post sections from the database that are created within the main site but, ultimately, I'd like to make it a fully self-contained system.\nI'll need to sort out some kind of functionality for logging in and will need to rethink posting and how sections are stored. What will be a little more problematic is working out commenting should I decide to include it.\nI would also lose webmentions because my coding skills really don't extend as far as rolling my own solution for that. This, in turn, means that I would lose the current \"related posts\" feature.\nI'm not entirely sure where I'm going with all of this, or what compromises I'm willing to make, but it would be nice to be able to say I use my own blogging engine." }, "post-type": "note", "_id": "17324483", "_source": "237", "_is_read": true }
I’ve released version 0.0.3 of mf2 to iCalendar, a library to convert h-event microformats into iCalendar.
It no longer throws an Exception if no h-event microformats are found. Instead it will generate a minimal, “empty” iCalendar. I had run into an instance where an upcoming events page was empty and the URL for the iCalendar was returning the Exception message.
I also changed the default domain to example.com, did some minor code cleanup, and renamed the git master branch to main.
{ "type": "entry", "published": "2020-12-23 11:40-0800", "url": "https://gregorlove.com/2020/12/ive-released-version/", "category": [ "indieweb", "microformats" ], "content": { "text": "I\u2019ve released version 0.0.3 of mf2 to iCalendar, a library to convert h-event microformats into iCalendar.\n\nIt no longer throws an Exception if no h-event microformats are found. Instead it will generate a minimal, \u201cempty\u201d iCalendar. I had run into an instance where an upcoming events page was empty and the URL for the iCalendar was returning the Exception message.\n\nI also changed the default domain to example.com, did some minor code cleanup, and renamed the git master branch to main.\n\nPreviously", "html": "<p>I\u2019ve released version 0.0.3 of <a href=\"https://github.com/gRegorLove/mf2-to-iCalendar\">mf2 to iCalendar</a>, a library to convert h-event microformats into iCalendar.</p>\n\n<p>It no longer throws an Exception if no h-event microformats are found. Instead it will generate a minimal, \u201cempty\u201d iCalendar. I had run into an instance where an upcoming events page was empty and the URL for the iCalendar was returning the Exception message.</p>\n\n<p>I also changed the default domain to example.com, did some minor code cleanup, and renamed the git master branch to main.</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://gregorlove.com/2018/03/new-release-of-mf2-to-icalendar/\">Previously</a></p>" }, "author": { "type": "card", "name": "gRegor Morrill", "url": "https://gregorlove.com/", "photo": "https://gregorlove.com/site/assets/files/3473/profile-2016-med.jpg" }, "post-type": "note", "_id": "17270699", "_source": "95", "_is_read": true }
{ "type": "entry", "author": { "name": "Ton Zijlstra", "url": "https://www.zylstra.org/blog", "photo": null }, "url": "https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2020/12/week-notes-2051/", "published": "2020-12-20T20:34:50+01:00", "content": { "html": "<p>A week in which I felt much better than the previous weeks, and now looking forward with E and Y to christmas and the new year. As expected the country went into a renewed lockdown in the middle of the week, and in a stricter form than in March. For us nothing much has changed, we weren\u2019t going anywhere anyway, except that Y\u2019s holiday started a few days earlier, and will be at home until January 19th at least. Clients indicate they don\u2019t expect to re-open their offices until next summer (when they estimate a large part of the workforce will be inoculatd.).<br />I used the week to finish up some things, to get ready to let go for a while. The coming week I will still do a few things, meeting payroll, writing a project proposal for next year, arranging a few things concerning the company with a notary, do some invoicing, and getting the winter tires on the car, but other than that it\u2019s will be two weeks off until January 4th.</p>\n<p>This week I</p>\n<ul><li>Submitted the new statutes of the Open NL association to the notary to have them registered</li>\n<li>Submitted the needed material to the notary to change a few things in my company\u2019s ownership structure</li>\n<li>Sent in the revised proposal for a citizen science project to start in January</li>\n<li>Brought a new laptop to a colleague</li>\n<li>Had a board meeting with the Open NL association</li>\n<li>Had the weekly client meetings</li>\n<li>Had the christmas tree delivered and decorated it with E and Y</li>\n<li>Participated in a training session on presenting</li>\n<li>Wrote a brief plan for the publication of opening up disaggregated bird counting data for a province</li>\n<li>Had a end-of-year video call with the team</li>\n<li>Discussed and approved the 2021 budget and employee planning for the NGO I chair</li>\n<li>Did some gardening, pruning and mulching</li>\n<li>Made a weekend walk with E an Y in the woods, as well as several through the neighborhood during the week</li>\n</ul><a href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/tonz/50741206007/in/dateposted/\"><img src=\"https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50741206007_07978eb07f_z.jpg\" alt=\"2020-12-20_08-28-12\" /></a><br /><em>Trees holding hands</em>\n<a href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/tonz/50740364588/in/dateposted/\"><img src=\"https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50740364588_6eaa5876f7_z.jpg\" alt=\"2020-12-20_08-27-43\" /></a><br /><em><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calocera_viscosa\">Yellow stagshorn</a>, or \u2018sticky corral fungus\u2019 in Dutch</em>\n<p>(images from during our walk today)</p>\n<br />This is a RSS only posting for regular readers. Not secret, just unlisted. Comments / webmention / pingback all ok.<br /><a href=\"https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2019/09/joining-rss-club-as-an-experiment/\">Read more about RSS Club</a>", "text": "A week in which I felt much better than the previous weeks, and now looking forward with E and Y to christmas and the new year. As expected the country went into a renewed lockdown in the middle of the week, and in a stricter form than in March. For us nothing much has changed, we weren\u2019t going anywhere anyway, except that Y\u2019s holiday started a few days earlier, and will be at home until January 19th at least. Clients indicate they don\u2019t expect to re-open their offices until next summer (when they estimate a large part of the workforce will be inoculatd.).\nI used the week to finish up some things, to get ready to let go for a while. The coming week I will still do a few things, meeting payroll, writing a project proposal for next year, arranging a few things concerning the company with a notary, do some invoicing, and getting the winter tires on the car, but other than that it\u2019s will be two weeks off until January 4th.\nThis week I\nSubmitted the new statutes of the Open NL association to the notary to have them registered\nSubmitted the needed material to the notary to change a few things in my company\u2019s ownership structure\nSent in the revised proposal for a citizen science project to start in January\nBrought a new laptop to a colleague\nHad a board meeting with the Open NL association\nHad the weekly client meetings\nHad the christmas tree delivered and decorated it with E and Y\nParticipated in a training session on presenting\nWrote a brief plan for the publication of opening up disaggregated bird counting data for a province\nHad a end-of-year video call with the team\nDiscussed and approved the 2021 budget and employee planning for the NGO I chair\nDid some gardening, pruning and mulching\nMade a weekend walk with E an Y in the woods, as well as several through the neighborhood during the week\n\nTrees holding hands\n\nYellow stagshorn, or \u2018sticky corral fungus\u2019 in Dutch\n(images from during our walk today)\n\nThis is a RSS only posting for regular readers. Not secret, just unlisted. Comments / webmention / pingback all ok.\nRead more about RSS Club" }, "name": "Week Notes 20#51", "post-type": "article", "_id": "17208377", "_source": "474", "_is_read": true }
{ "type": "entry", "published": "2020-12-21T00:13:24+00:00", "url": "https://werd.io/2020/a-known-update", "category": [ "https://news.indieweb.org/en" ], "name": "A Known update", "content": { "text": "I believe in the independent web - which was born thirty years ago today - more than any other technology.Earlier today, I shared an update with collaborators, advisors, and investors in Known. Here's what's up:Recently, I filed paperwork to officially dissolve Known, Inc, the Delaware C-Corporation. It is expected that this will be complete by the end of the year. It was one of the most personally rewarding journeys of my life, and I\u2019m grateful for every moment. But it\u2019s long past time to shut down the company.I\u2019ve come to an arrangement where I will purchase all of the intellectual property currently held by Known, Inc. As well as source code, the name, websites, domain names, logos, etc, this includes the hosted service, which has not taken revenue or new users in years, but continues to support a modest number of bloggers. I will take more of a direct role in keeping that online, at least until there is a viable, self-serve offramp for users to move to other providers. I hope to work with the open source community to create this.I\u2019ll also spend more of my time working on the open source project. The rise of platforms like Substack - and Medium\u2019s recent transformation - indicates a need for a platform for people to host their own content online. WordPress is a website builder with an ecommerce industry built around it; Ghost has become focused on corporate and commercial blogging; I\u2019m excited for Known to be a more personal platform for hobbyists and enthusiasts.Honestly, I\u2019m also excited to work on it without any pressure to make money or find sustainability. Known will not be my job or a source of any income. In fact, I expect to donate more to the Open Collective monetarily as well as spending more of my time. I'm excited to concentrate on supporting the needs of the community.(As well as import / export, my priorities include ditching Bootstrap, revisiting the interface, improving indieweb interoperability, and experimenting with how to better bring the principles of human-centered design into the open source development process. But that\u2019ll be a conversation for elsewhere.)Cross-posted to IndieNews.", "html": "<p>I believe in the independent web - which was born thirty years ago today - more than any other technology.</p><p>Earlier today, I shared an update with collaborators, advisors, and investors in Known. Here's what's up:</p><p>Recently, I filed paperwork to officially dissolve Known, Inc, the Delaware C-Corporation. It is expected that this will be complete by the end of the year. It was one of the most personally rewarding journeys of my life, and I\u2019m grateful for every moment. But it\u2019s long past time to shut down the company.</p><p>I\u2019ve come to an arrangement where I will purchase all of the intellectual property currently held by Known, Inc. As well as source code, the name, websites, domain names, logos, etc, this includes the hosted service, which has not taken revenue or new users in years, but continues to support a modest number of bloggers. I will take more of a direct role in keeping that online, at least until there is a viable, self-serve offramp for users to move to other providers. I hope to work with the open source community to create this.</p><p>I\u2019ll also spend more of my time working on the open source project. The rise of platforms like Substack - and Medium\u2019s recent transformation - indicates a need for a platform for people to host their own content online. WordPress is a website builder with an ecommerce industry built around it; Ghost has become focused on corporate and commercial blogging; I\u2019m excited for Known to be a more personal platform for hobbyists and enthusiasts.</p><p>Honestly, I\u2019m also excited to work on it without any pressure to make money or find sustainability. Known will not be my job or a source of any income. In fact, I expect to donate more to the Open Collective monetarily as well as spending more of my time. I'm excited to concentrate on supporting the needs of the community.</p><p>(As well as import / export, my priorities include ditching Bootstrap, revisiting the interface, improving indieweb interoperability, and experimenting with how to better bring the principles of human-centered design into the open source development process. But that\u2019ll be a conversation for elsewhere.)</p><p><a class=\"u-category\" href=\"https://news.indieweb.org/en\">Cross-posted to IndieNews.</a></p>" }, "author": { "type": "card", "name": "Ben Werdm\u00fcller", "url": "https://werd.io/profile/benwerd", "photo": "https://werd.io/file/5d388c5fb16ea14aac640912/thumb.jpg" }, "post-type": "article", "_id": "17208256", "_source": "191", "_is_read": true }
{ "type": "entry", "published": "2020-12-19T19:09:34-0500", "url": "https://martymcgui.re/2020/12/19/a-slightly-messy-visit-to-the-decentralized-web/", "category": [ "decentralized-web", "web", "DWeb", "Beaker", "Agregore", "IPFS", "Namecoin", "DAT", "hyper" ], "name": "A slightly messy visit to the decentralized web", "content": { "text": "Maybe closing some tabs will help with what feels to be an unending anxiety?\nHere goes a few.\nAt the beginning of December the Internet Archive hosted a Decentralized Web (aka DWeb) Meetup online with lightning talks from 12 different groups / projects.\nYou can find the full video of the event at archive.org and one of the attendees captured some notes covering their takeaways.\nHere are some of the highlights, from my perspective.\nBeaker is now 1.0!\nThe Beaker Browser has been through some major changes and is now at 1.0. They've fully migrated from dat:// URLs (and some related under-the-hood tech) to hyper:// URLs (and under-the-hood tech). There's a migration tool to move dat:// sites to hyper:// but it seems like several of the APIs will have changed, so while it makes these tools accessible at hyper:// URLs, many of them won't work without some rewriting.\nPaul Frazee gave the Beaker lightning talk at the DWeb Meetup spent most of the time talking about what did not ship in 1.0. For a while the Beaker team has been working on building in social features including profiles and microblogs and much more and in the end they decided to rip it all out in order to focus on a simpler experience - being good at creating decentralized websites. The plan seems to be to let those features move into their own apps, possibly at the hands of the community.\nOne thing that stood out to me was a comment that the team seemed to hit some barriers with the underlying approach they were taking to build these social features: merging files from lots of shared and synced \"drives\" into a singular experience. I have yet to dip my toes into the waters of building on hyper, but from the little bits I've absorbed, this is one of the few approaches that I think I understand and if its creators are having performance issues I don't have high hopes of figuring it out myself. There was mention of a new approach called hyperbee, but it still feels very Computer Science to me at the moment. I look forward to seeing some new stuff built on it, though! \nThese details and many more are discussed in the videos from the summer DAT Conference, including an earlier talk about Beaker, and a great interactive workshop on building stuff with Dat-SDK by Mauve.\nIn general I am excited about stuff that is happening in DAT / hyper, but I think a few things are stopping me from getting into it. Beaker seems, to me, to be a kind of flagship experience for DAT and hyper and the big leap they just made to hyper left an unknown number of projects behind. That's a big filter, and it doesn't give me confidence in the longevity of any new project I might build at the moment.\nHello Agregore!\n\n At both the DWeb Meetup and the summer's DAT Conference, Mauve gave some great introductions to Agregore, \"a minimal web browser for the distributed web\".\n \n\nI am infatuated with this project, which I will attempt to explain here, badly. Agregore is a browser that focuses on making it easy to build and use apps based on distributed web technologies like hyper, IPFS, and many, many more. This is made possible through a plugin-based architecture that makes it easy to add new protocols to the browser, and by a set of libraries which abstract away the complexities of each protocol behind an HTTP-like interface.\n\n What I find really fun about this is it encourages mashing up these different technologies. You can link freely between regular HTTP sites and sites on decentralized protocols. You could build a web app on hyper:// that offloads large media files onto IPFS. Heck, even though IPFS has been getting money and hype for years, I think Agregore was the first app I was able to just download and immediately access IPFS content. It's even got a protocol handler for Gemini, a kind of baffling (to me) alternate universe version of Markdown blogs on Gopher. And more protocols \u2014 and related alternative tech like DNS via .eth domains (maybe someday .bit and .onion?) \u2014 are in the works.\n \n\n\n I can hardly think of a better web sandbox. I love the focus on \"web apps\" because HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and media in a browser are super flexible. The ability to make apps that bridge across the classic web, decentralized protocols, and maybe even local files, feels like it opens up new worlds of possibilities.\n \n\nI still have lots of questions about how to make things stick around on protocols like hyper:// and ipfs:// and ipns:// and I don't think I'll be doing much more than tinkering until I understand those features better.\nSpeaking of Sticking Around\n\n Through the IndieWeb chat I caught a reference to a blog series on decentralized web tech that is now a few years out of date at decentralized.blog. In a series called \"blockchain train journal\", the author sets out to build their blog on decentralized tech, evaluates several of the technologies available at the time (in 2017), and discusses some experiments on publishing.\n \n\nI found this one post, trying out a handful of ways of making human-friendly names for content on IPFS, particularly interesting. In that post, and others, the author makes reference to the URLs of several bits of content that they had published via IPFS and IPNS, including some experiments on resolving IPFS content via regular DNS.\n\n A couple of years later and... that content seems to be gone. I haven't been able to resolve any of the IPFS or IPNS versions of any of these blog posts. There seems to be no DNS entry pointing to an IPFS/IPNS content. One of the main \"features\" of decentralized networks like IPFS, hyper (and many more) is that they forget content extremely quickly. If you're not paying a service to host it for you, or taking care to host it yourself, it simply fades away.\n \n\n\n However, the blog continues to be available on the plain-old web \u2014 at https://decentralized.blog/ \u2014 with one interesting caveat. When I visited decentralized.blog for the first time my browser warned me that the connection was not secure because the certificate that it uses to encrypt HTTPS traffic and assert its identity has expired. It seems that the site is configured to redirect plain HTTP traffic to HTTPS. Thankfully my browser, for now, allows me to ignore this warning and read the site, despite the author failing to pay this HTTPS admin tax.\n \n\nAnd on my own forgetting...\nThe decentralized.blog writeup on .bit domains and Namecoin reminded me that, at about the same time this blogger was exploring IPFS and more, I was excited about a sort of Beaker-competitor called ZeroNet. I had made a simple demo site for myself, played around with making profiles on the demo sites which kind of emulated Twitter, Reddit, and more.\nI even got around to figuring out how to buy some Namecoin and register and configured my own domain. So you could find my little test site at schmarty.bit.\nHowever, beyond the initial configuration, Namecoin also has some upkeep requirements! Every 5-6 months (ish) I would have to open up my Namecoin wallet and let it sync the last 5-6 months of transactions before spending a tiny amount of the coin in my wallet to keep the record up to date.\nOf course, my focus eventually moved to other things. I got a new laptop and stopped using the one with my Namecoin wallet, and I eventually let it expire. It took about 8 months before a spammer grabbed it to advertise bitcoin services. About 8 months after that it was updated to note that it was being squatted and available for purchase.\nI doubt I'll get around to trying to negotiate for its return. Something about the whole thing feels a little hopeless to me.\n\n But it's on a blockchain, so you can go revisit the story of schmarty.bit any time you like. For as long as people keep mining Namecoin.", "html": "<p>Maybe closing some tabs will help with what feels to be an unending anxiety?</p>\n<p>Here goes a few.</p>\n<p>At the beginning of December the Internet Archive hosted a Decentralized Web (aka DWeb) Meetup online with lightning talks from 12 different groups / projects.</p>\n<p>You can find the <a href=\"https://archive.org/details/dweb-meetup-dec-2020-dweb-lightning-talks\">full video of the event at archive.org</a> and one of the attendees captured some <a href=\"https://horacioh.github.io/braindump/2020-12-dweb-meetup\">notes covering their takeaways</a>.</p>\n<p>Here are some of the highlights, from my perspective.</p>\n<h2>Beaker is now 1.0!</h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"https://beakerbrowser.com/\">Beaker Browser</a> has been through some major changes and is now at 1.0. They've fully migrated from dat:// URLs (and some related under-the-hood tech) to hyper:// URLs (and under-the-hood tech). There's a migration tool to move dat:// sites to hyper:// but it seems like several of the APIs will have changed, so while it makes these tools accessible at hyper:// URLs, many of them won't work without some rewriting.</p>\n<p>Paul Frazee gave the Beaker lightning talk at the DWeb Meetup spent most of the time talking about what <i>did not</i> ship in 1.0. For a while the Beaker team has been working on building in social features including profiles and microblogs and much more and in the end they decided to rip it all out in order to focus on a simpler experience - being good at creating decentralized websites. The plan seems to be to let those features move into their own apps, possibly at the hands of the community.</p>\n<p>One thing that stood out to me was a comment that the team seemed to hit some barriers with the underlying approach they were taking to build these social features: merging files from lots of shared and synced \"drives\" into a singular experience. I have yet to dip my toes into the waters of building on hyper, but from the little bits I've absorbed, this is one of the few approaches that I think I understand and if its creators are having performance issues I don't have high hopes of figuring it out myself. There was mention of a new approach called <a href=\"https://github.com/mafintosh/hyperbee\">hyperbee</a>, but it still feels very Computer Science to me at the moment. I look forward to seeing some new stuff built on it, though! </p>\n<p>These details and many more are discussed in the <a href=\"https://events.dat.foundation/2020/stream/\">videos from the summer DAT Conference</a>, including an <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL7sG5SCUNyeYx8wnfMOUpsh7rM_g0w_cu&v=BswvvptLYrU&feature=youtu.be\">earlier talk about Beaker</a>, and a great interactive workshop on <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyHk4aImd_I&list=PL7sG5SCUNyeYx8wnfMOUpsh7rM_g0w_cu&index=20\">building stuff with Dat-SDK by Mauve</a>.</p>\n<p>In general I am excited about stuff that is happening in DAT / hyper, but I think a few things are stopping me from getting into it. Beaker seems, to me, to be a kind of flagship experience for DAT and hyper and the big leap they just made to hyper left an unknown number of projects behind. That's a big filter, and it doesn't give me confidence in the longevity of any new project I might build at the moment.</p>\n<h2>Hello Agregore!</h2>\n<p>\n At both the DWeb Meetup and the summer's DAT Conference, <a href=\"https://ranger.mauve.moe/\">Mauve</a> gave some great introductions to <a href=\"https://agregore.mauve.moe/\">Agregore</a>, \"a minimal web browser for the distributed web\".\n <br /></p>\n<p>I am<i> infatuated</i> with this project, which I will attempt to explain here, badly. Agregore is a browser that focuses on making it easy to build and use apps based on distributed web technologies like hyper, IPFS, and many, many more. This is made possible through a plugin-based architecture that makes it easy to add new protocols to the browser, and by a set of libraries which abstract away the complexities of each protocol behind an HTTP-like interface.</p>\n<p>\n What I find really fun about this is it encourages <i>mashing up </i>these different technologies. You can link freely between regular HTTP sites and sites on decentralized protocols. You could build a web app on hyper:// that offloads large media files onto IPFS. Heck, even though IPFS has been getting money and hype for years, I think Agregore was the first app I was able to just <a href=\"https://github.com/AgregoreWeb/agregore-browser/releases\">download</a> and immediately access IPFS content. It's even got a protocol handler for <a href=\"https://gemini.circumlunar.space/\">Gemini</a>, a kind of baffling (to me) alternate universe version of Markdown blogs on Gopher. And more protocols \u2014 and related alternative tech like DNS via .eth domains (maybe someday .bit and .onion?) \u2014 are in the works.\n <br /></p>\n<p>\n I can hardly think of a better web sandbox. I love the focus on \"web apps\" because HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and media in a browser are super flexible. The ability to make apps that bridge across the classic web, decentralized protocols, and maybe even local files, feels like it opens up new worlds of possibilities.\n <br /></p>\n<p>I still have lots of questions about how to make things <i>stick around</i> on protocols like hyper:// and ipfs:// and ipns:// and I don't think I'll be doing much more than tinkering until I understand those features better.</p>\n<h2>Speaking of Sticking Around</h2>\n<p>\n Through the <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/discuss\">IndieWeb chat</a> I caught a reference to a blog series on decentralized web tech that is now a few years out of date at <a href=\"https://decentralized.blog/\">decentralized.blog</a>. In a series called \"blockchain train journal\", the author sets out to build their blog on decentralized tech, evaluates several of the technologies available at the time (in 2017), and discusses some experiments on publishing.\n <br /></p>\n<p>I found this one post, <a href=\"https://decentralized.blog/ten-terrible-attempts-to-make-ipfs-human-friendly.html\">trying out a handful of ways of making human-friendly names for content on IPFS</a>, particularly interesting. In that post, and others, the author makes reference to the URLs of several bits of content that they had published via IPFS and IPNS, including some experiments on resolving IPFS content via regular DNS.</p>\n<p>\n A couple of years later and... that content seems to be gone. I haven't been able to resolve any of the IPFS or IPNS versions of any of these blog posts. There seems to be no DNS entry pointing to an IPFS/IPNS content. One of the main \"features\" of decentralized networks like IPFS, hyper (and many more) is that they forget content extremely quickly. If you're not paying a service to host it for you, or taking care to host it yourself, it simply fades away.\n <br /></p>\n<p>\n However, the blog continues to be available on the plain-old web \u2014 at https://decentralized.blog/ \u2014 with one interesting caveat. When I visited decentralized.blog for the first time my browser warned me that the connection was not secure because the certificate that it uses to encrypt HTTPS traffic and assert its identity has expired. It seems that the site is configured to redirect plain HTTP traffic to HTTPS. Thankfully my browser, for now, allows me to ignore this warning and read the site, despite the author failing to pay this HTTPS <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/admin_tax\">admin tax</a>.\n <br /></p>\n<h3>And on my own forgetting...</h3>\n<p>The decentralized.blog writeup on .bit domains and Namecoin reminded me that, at about the same time this blogger was exploring IPFS and more, I was excited about a sort of Beaker-competitor called <a href=\"https://zeronet.io/\">ZeroNet</a>. I had made a simple demo site for myself, played around with making profiles on the demo sites which kind of emulated Twitter, Reddit, and more.</p>\n<p>I even got around to figuring out how to buy some Namecoin and register and configured my own domain. So you could find my little test site at schmarty.bit.</p>\n<p>However, beyond the initial configuration, Namecoin also has some upkeep requirements! Every 5-6 months (ish) I would have to open up my Namecoin wallet and let it sync the last 5-6 months of transactions before spending a tiny amount of the coin in my wallet to keep the record up to date.</p>\n<p>Of course, my focus eventually moved to other things. I got a new laptop and stopped using the one with my Namecoin wallet, and I eventually let it expire. It took about 8 months before a spammer grabbed it to advertise bitcoin services. About 8 months after that it was updated to note that it was being squatted and available for purchase.</p>\n<p>I doubt I'll get around to trying to negotiate for its return. Something about the whole thing feels a little hopeless to me.</p>\n<p>\n But it's on a blockchain, so you can go revisit <a href=\"https://namecha.in/name/d/schmarty\">the story of schmarty.bit</a> any time you like. For as long as people keep mining Namecoin.\n <br /></p>" }, "author": { "type": "card", "name": "Marty McGuire", "url": "https://martymcgui.re/", "photo": "https://martymcgui.re/images/logo.jpg" }, "post-type": "article", "_id": "17192027", "_source": "175", "_is_read": true }
Tending this website keeps me sane. I think of it as a digital garden, a kind of sanctuary. … And if my site is a kind of garden, then I see myself as both gardener and architect, in so much as I make plans and prepare the ground, then sow things that grow in all directions. Some things die, but others thrive, and that’s how my garden grows. And I tend it for me; visitors are a bonus.
A thoughtful and impassioned plea from Colly for more personal publishing:
I know that social media deprived the personal site of oxygen, but you are not your Twitter profile, nor are you your LinkedIn profile. You are not your Medium page. You are not your tiny presence on the company’s About page. If you are, then you look just like everyone else, and that’s not you at all. Right?
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{ "type": "entry", "published": "2020-12-14T21:56:29Z", "url": "https://barryfrost.com/2020/12/micropublish-indieauth", "category": [ "micropublish", "indieauth", "indieweb" ], "name": "Micropublish: IndieAuth updates and supported properties feature", "content": { "text": "Yesterday I pushed a new release of Micropublish to include recent updates for clients to the IndieAuth specification, as summarised in Aaron Parecki\u2019s IndieAuth 2020 write-up. Read\u00a0full\u00a0post\u2026", "html": "<p>Yesterday I pushed a new release of <a href=\"https://micropublish.net\">Micropublish</a> to include recent updates for clients to the <a href=\"https://indieauth.spec.indieweb.org/\">IndieAuth specification</a>, as summarised in <a href=\"https://aaronparecki.com\">Aaron Parecki</a>\u2019s <a href=\"https://aaronparecki.com/2020/12/03/1/indieauth-2020\">IndieAuth 2020 write-up</a>.</p> <a href=\"https://barryfrost.com/2020/12/micropublish-indieauth\">Read\u00a0full\u00a0post\u2026</a>" }, "author": { "type": "card", "name": "Barry Frost", "url": "https://barryfrost.com/", "photo": "https://barryfrost.com/barryfrost.jpg" }, "post-type": "article", "_id": "17078951", "_source": "189", "_is_read": true }
{ "type": "entry", "author": { "name": "Ton Zijlstra", "url": "https://www.zylstra.org/blog", "photo": null }, "url": "https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2020/12/week-notes-2050/", "published": "2020-12-13T21:47:48+01:00", "content": { "html": "<p>This week started on the wrong foot, as Y fell ill and had a very bad night from Sunday on Monday. As a result I didn\u2019t sleep from the many interruptions to tend to her either. The week did get gradually better after Tuesday, taking better care of myself, and by the weekend I felt much better than last week. Clearing out my schedule, and keeping only the necessary things helped a lot. Leads me to think I should try and be more \u2018minimalist\u2019 by default. Meanwhile Germany has announced a strict lock-down again, until mid January. Given the strong rise in cases here in the Netherlands, I am working on the assumption that we\u2019ll have something similar here too as of mid next week, and that Y\u2019s school will stay shut for at least a week into the new year. So I stocked up on the basics again, the third time this year, ensuring we don\u2019t need to go to the shops much for a few weeks.</p>\n<p>This week I</p>\n<ul><li>Had our monthly \u2018finance and project acquisition\u2019 stand-up, in which I showed the team our financial situation. We\u2019ve done very well this year. Also discussed new projects to land, which is looking good too.</li>\n<li>The treadmill arrived, which I\u2019ve installed underneath a standing desk in our attic space</li>\n<li>Had the weekly confcalls with clients</li>\n<li>Worked on a client\u2019s assessment report about digital transformation for sustainable infrastructure</li>\n<li>Presented the first general results of that assessment report to the client. Will work on the details and deliver the final report early January</li>\n<li>Discussed a citizen science project proposal I submitted earlier with the prospective client. We\u2019ve agreed some changes, I\u2019ll adapt the proposal next week. But other than that it\u2019s accepted, and we\u2019ll start late January.</li>\n<li>Discussed a potential role with a novel client, based on my earlier European work this year. Got asked to write a proposal next week, with a prospective start late January as well. If this happens, then in combination with the project above and existing work, it seems I\u2019ll be fully booked for the next year.</li>\n<li>Did a range of things around the house. Y wanted more Christmas lighting in the garden, so we did that. Replaced the external light next to the front door. Fixed a wooden shelf to the wall in the hallway, for photo frames and things Y makes at school. Seems to me that doing things like that in and around the house mostly consists of drilling ever more holes into your home\u2026</li>\n<li>Spent very little time on writing Notions, against my plans but in alignment with my energy level this week. Next week I will work only the first half and then take time off until the new year, so I will likely spend more time writing Notions in the second half of the week.</li>\n</ul><p><strong>This week in \u2026 1901*</strong><br />Marconi received the first transatlantic radio signal (the three dots of the letter S in Morse code) at Signal Hill, in <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._John%27s,_Newfoundland_and_Labrador\">St. John\u2019s, Newfoundland</a> Canada. It was <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poldhu\">sent from Poldhu</a>, Cornwall UK.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/nspaul/11388788595/\"><img src=\"https://live.staticflickr.com/3685/11388788595_27b5e3b55e_z.jpg\" alt=\"Signal Hill\" /></a><br /><em>Signal Hill on Newfoundland, image by Paul, <a href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/nspaul/\">license CC-BY</a></em></p>\n<p>(<strong>*</strong> I show an openly licensed image with some Week Notes posting, to showcase more open cultural material. See here <a href=\"https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2020/01/the-openly-licensed-images-of-2020s-week-notes/\">why, and how I choose the images for 2020</a>.)</p>\n<br />This is a RSS only posting for regular readers. Not secret, just unlisted. Comments / webmention / pingback all ok.<br /><a href=\"https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2019/09/joining-rss-club-as-an-experiment/\">Read more about RSS Club</a>", "text": "This week started on the wrong foot, as Y fell ill and had a very bad night from Sunday on Monday. As a result I didn\u2019t sleep from the many interruptions to tend to her either. The week did get gradually better after Tuesday, taking better care of myself, and by the weekend I felt much better than last week. Clearing out my schedule, and keeping only the necessary things helped a lot. Leads me to think I should try and be more \u2018minimalist\u2019 by default. Meanwhile Germany has announced a strict lock-down again, until mid January. Given the strong rise in cases here in the Netherlands, I am working on the assumption that we\u2019ll have something similar here too as of mid next week, and that Y\u2019s school will stay shut for at least a week into the new year. So I stocked up on the basics again, the third time this year, ensuring we don\u2019t need to go to the shops much for a few weeks.\nThis week I\nHad our monthly \u2018finance and project acquisition\u2019 stand-up, in which I showed the team our financial situation. We\u2019ve done very well this year. Also discussed new projects to land, which is looking good too.\nThe treadmill arrived, which I\u2019ve installed underneath a standing desk in our attic space\nHad the weekly confcalls with clients\nWorked on a client\u2019s assessment report about digital transformation for sustainable infrastructure\nPresented the first general results of that assessment report to the client. Will work on the details and deliver the final report early January\nDiscussed a citizen science project proposal I submitted earlier with the prospective client. We\u2019ve agreed some changes, I\u2019ll adapt the proposal next week. But other than that it\u2019s accepted, and we\u2019ll start late January.\nDiscussed a potential role with a novel client, based on my earlier European work this year. Got asked to write a proposal next week, with a prospective start late January as well. If this happens, then in combination with the project above and existing work, it seems I\u2019ll be fully booked for the next year.\nDid a range of things around the house. Y wanted more Christmas lighting in the garden, so we did that. Replaced the external light next to the front door. Fixed a wooden shelf to the wall in the hallway, for photo frames and things Y makes at school. Seems to me that doing things like that in and around the house mostly consists of drilling ever more holes into your home\u2026\nSpent very little time on writing Notions, against my plans but in alignment with my energy level this week. Next week I will work only the first half and then take time off until the new year, so I will likely spend more time writing Notions in the second half of the week.\nThis week in \u2026 1901*\nMarconi received the first transatlantic radio signal (the three dots of the letter S in Morse code) at Signal Hill, in St. John\u2019s, Newfoundland Canada. It was sent from Poldhu, Cornwall UK.\n\nSignal Hill on Newfoundland, image by Paul, license CC-BY\n(* I show an openly licensed image with some Week Notes posting, to showcase more open cultural material. See here why, and how I choose the images for 2020.)\n\nThis is a RSS only posting for regular readers. Not secret, just unlisted. Comments / webmention / pingback all ok.\nRead more about RSS Club" }, "name": "Week Notes 20#50", "post-type": "article", "_id": "17052994", "_source": "474", "_is_read": true }
On your personal website, you own your work. You decide what and when to publish. You decide when to delete things. You are in control. Your work, your rules, your freedom.
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{ "type": "entry", "published": "2020-12-11T11:11:24-0500", "summary": "\ud83d\udd16 Bookmarked Personal Data Warehouses: Reclaiming Your Data https://simonwillison.net/2020/Nov/14/personal-data-warehouses/", "url": "https://martymcgui.re/2020/12/11/personal-data-warehouses-reclaiming-your-data/", "category": [ "indieweb", "ownyourdata", "datasette", "dogsheep" ], "bookmark-of": [ "https://simonwillison.net/2020/Nov/14/personal-data-warehouses/" ], "author": { "type": "card", "name": "Marty McGuire", "url": "https://martymcgui.re/", "photo": "https://martymcgui.re/images/logo.jpg" }, "post-type": "bookmark", "_id": "17016739", "_source": "175", "_is_read": true }
Amber describes how she implemented webmentions on her (static) site. More important, she describes why!
{ "type": "entry", "published": "2020-12-10T09:38:43Z", "url": "https://adactio.com/links/17678", "category": [ "webmentions", "indieweb", "personal", "independent", "publishing", "eleventy", "ssg", "static", "sharing", "community" ], "bookmark-of": [ "https://amberwilson.co.uk/blog/grow-the-indieweb-with-webmentions/" ], "content": { "text": "Grow the IndieWeb with Webmentions | Amber Wilson\n\n\n\nAmber describes how she implemented webmentions on her (static) site. More important, she describes why!", "html": "<h3>\n<a class=\"p-name u-bookmark-of\" href=\"https://amberwilson.co.uk/blog/grow-the-indieweb-with-webmentions/\">\nGrow the IndieWeb with Webmentions | Amber Wilson\n</a>\n</h3>\n\n<p>Amber describes how she implemented webmentions on her (static) site. More important, she describes <em>why</em>!</p>" }, "author": { "type": "card", "name": "Jeremy Keith", "url": "https://adactio.com/", "photo": "https://adactio.com/images/photo-150.jpg" }, "post-type": "bookmark", "_id": "16980641", "_source": "2", "_is_read": true }
{ "type": "entry", "published": "2020-12-09 11:49:48 +0000 UTC", "summary": "Announcing the release of my personal IndieAuth server, and what I've spent my time on.", "url": "https://www.jvt.me/posts/2020/12/09/personal-indieauth-server/", "category": [ "www.jvt.me", "indieauth.jvt.me", "indieauth" ], "name": "Creating a Personal IndieAuth Server", "author": { "type": "card", "name": "Jamie Tanna", "url": "https://www.jvt.me", "photo": "https://www.jvt.me/img/profile.png" }, "post-type": "article", "_id": "16958674", "_source": "2169", "_is_read": true }
{ "type": "entry", "author": { "name": "Ton Zijlstra", "url": "https://www.zylstra.org/blog", "photo": null }, "url": "https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2020/12/week-notes-2049/", "published": "2020-12-06T21:08:33+01:00", "content": { "html": "<p>I had a bad week. It started out ok on Monday, but since then I\u2019ve felt really awful. Too much stuck behind my desk, no flow, no creativity. No time to do something just for fun and for myself. It\u2019s been a very very long time since I felt this bad. I think, with the grey weather I\u2019ve been cooped up too much, and keeping everything afloat in this odd time has been wearing me down. So I started clearing out my schedule, keeping just the necessary parts, and deciding I won\u2019t be doing anything in addition until the new year. Stating that and communicating it to others already helped. Around the weekend I focused on spending time with Y and E, and doing more tangible things like cooking food, and hanging a framed picture on the wall (see photo). That helped too.</p>\n<p>This week I:</p>\n<ul><li>Prepared and delivered a training session on ethics w.r.t. to data, contextualised to a client\u2019s organisation</li>\n<li>Processed feedback on a project proposal and wrote a memo suggesting how we might adapt the proposal for further discussion with the client</li>\n<li>Had a preparatory conversation for a session next week on the results of an assessment for the sustainable infrastruture team of a client</li>\n<li>Had some of the weekly team meetings with clients, but also skipped one</li>\n<li>Started journaling more to write myself out of my low mood</li>\n<li>Had a client conversation about a visualisation tool I built with colleague S to simultaneously show the strategic and operational aspects of digital transformation work for a client. It\u2019s turning into a sort of <a href=\"https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2018/06/in-search-of-macroscopes/\">macroscope</a> for this organisations digital transformation efforts.</li>\n<li>Started going through the material for a session on Monday, which I\u2019m taking over for a client\u2019s colleague who has left the organisation. Turns out it\u2019s more material than I anticipated, so better make it an early start tomorrow.</li>\n<li>Ordered a treadmill, to get some more movement even if I can\u2019t leave my desk. It\u2019s a flat one that I can use with my standing desk.</li>\n</ul><p><a href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/tonz/50687926636/in/dateposted/\"><img src=\"https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50687926636_b3cc7d9157_z.jpg\" alt=\"Unprecedented\" /></a> <br /><em>Unprecedented, a <a href=\"https://shop.queensquarepress.ca/product/unprecedented-broadside\">print</a> by <a href=\"https://ruk.ca/\">Peter Rukavina</a>, with a <a href=\"https://ruk.ca/content/3d-printing-siert-cura-monoprice-select-mini-raspberry-pi-zero-and-youtube\">role for 3d printing</a> to <a href=\"https://ruk.ca/content/unprecedented-printing\">make it work on a letterpress</a>. </em></p>\n<br />This is a RSS only posting for regular readers. Not secret, just unlisted. Comments / webmention / pingback all ok.<br /><a href=\"https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2019/09/joining-rss-club-as-an-experiment/\">Read more about RSS Club</a>", "text": "I had a bad week. It started out ok on Monday, but since then I\u2019ve felt really awful. Too much stuck behind my desk, no flow, no creativity. No time to do something just for fun and for myself. It\u2019s been a very very long time since I felt this bad. I think, with the grey weather I\u2019ve been cooped up too much, and keeping everything afloat in this odd time has been wearing me down. So I started clearing out my schedule, keeping just the necessary parts, and deciding I won\u2019t be doing anything in addition until the new year. Stating that and communicating it to others already helped. Around the weekend I focused on spending time with Y and E, and doing more tangible things like cooking food, and hanging a framed picture on the wall (see photo). That helped too.\nThis week I:\nPrepared and delivered a training session on ethics w.r.t. to data, contextualised to a client\u2019s organisation\nProcessed feedback on a project proposal and wrote a memo suggesting how we might adapt the proposal for further discussion with the client\nHad a preparatory conversation for a session next week on the results of an assessment for the sustainable infrastruture team of a client\nHad some of the weekly team meetings with clients, but also skipped one\nStarted journaling more to write myself out of my low mood\nHad a client conversation about a visualisation tool I built with colleague S to simultaneously show the strategic and operational aspects of digital transformation work for a client. It\u2019s turning into a sort of macroscope for this organisations digital transformation efforts.\nStarted going through the material for a session on Monday, which I\u2019m taking over for a client\u2019s colleague who has left the organisation. Turns out it\u2019s more material than I anticipated, so better make it an early start tomorrow.\nOrdered a treadmill, to get some more movement even if I can\u2019t leave my desk. It\u2019s a flat one that I can use with my standing desk.\n \nUnprecedented, a print by Peter Rukavina, with a role for 3d printing to make it work on a letterpress. \n\nThis is a RSS only posting for regular readers. Not secret, just unlisted. Comments / webmention / pingback all ok.\nRead more about RSS Club" }, "name": "Week Notes 20#49", "post-type": "article", "_id": "16905151", "_source": "474", "_is_read": true }
{ "type": "entry", "published": "2020-12-04T19:30:00+0000", "url": "https://www.jvt.me/mf2/2020/12/aijfm/", "category": [ "indieauth" ], "bookmark-of": [ "https://aaronparecki.com/2020/12/03/1/indieauth-2020" ], "author": { "type": "card", "name": "Jamie Tanna", "url": "https://www.jvt.me", "photo": "https://www.jvt.me/img/profile.png" }, "post-type": "bookmark", "_id": "16866889", "_source": "2169", "_is_read": true }
{ "type": "entry", "author": { "name": "Ton Zijlstra", "url": "https://www.zylstra.org/blog", "photo": null }, "url": "https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2020/12/garden-of-remembrance/", "published": "2020-12-04T12:11:53+01:00", "content": { "html": "<p>Peter <a href=\"https://ruk.ca/content/4949-sylvan-esso\">points me</a> to a <a href=\"https://youtu.be/Wc1uWYaa7Sc\">chatty video by music duo Sylvan Esso</a>. Early on <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_(singer)\">Fish</a> is mentioned. I almost only listen to Fish on early Marillion albums, his solo albums never really worked for me. YT tells me Fish released a new album this year, and as a first result the song Garden of Remembrance comes up. It is a beautiful song about dementia, and the \u2018making of\u2019 video is worthwile too.</p>\n\n\n<p>Dementia is no stranger to my family, I\u2019ve seen it both in my father\u2019s and my mother\u2019s family. Fish\u2019 song evokes for me the slow growing absence of my grandfather. His phase of sudden bursts of anger, when his brain was already failing him but it seemed to him as if others conspired to loose items or deny the truth of his memories. The moment my grandmother rang up in tears she couldn\u2019t handle it at home with him anymore. The much softer, kinder and tender phase after that. Him falling back into his native Frisian exclusively, so other residents in the care home couldn\u2019t understand him. Some of them started calling him \u2018the Frenchman\u2019 because anything you don\u2019t understand must be French, right? Beauty too. Singing children\u2019s songs with him one afternoon. Visiting one time with my grandmother. He didn\u2019t recognise her anymore, but during their conversations told her he liked her and if he hadn\u2019t been married already would like to ask her out. He could still see what he saw in my grandmother as a young man way back in the late 1920\u2019s. </p>\n<p>Whe he passed away we were there with him, my grandmother sitting next to him. A while after his last breath my grandmother let go of his hand, grabbed her handbag very tightly, and walked upright out of the room. I\u2019d never seen such a loneliness as had suddenly abruptly descended on her, even if it had been a slow gradual goodbye stretched over several years. Solid resolve she exuded strongly as well, to go on, to carry it, walking down the corridor, after some 65 years together. It\u2019s been almost 30 years, that image of her in those moments is still with me. </p>\n<p>Walking in a garden of remembrance this morning. </p>\n<br />This is a RSS only posting for regular readers. Not secret, just unlisted. Comments / webmention / pingback all ok.<br /><a href=\"https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2019/09/joining-rss-club-as-an-experiment/\">Read more about RSS Club</a>", "text": "Peter points me to a chatty video by music duo Sylvan Esso. Early on Fish is mentioned. I almost only listen to Fish on early Marillion albums, his solo albums never really worked for me. YT tells me Fish released a new album this year, and as a first result the song Garden of Remembrance comes up. It is a beautiful song about dementia, and the \u2018making of\u2019 video is worthwile too.\n\n\nDementia is no stranger to my family, I\u2019ve seen it both in my father\u2019s and my mother\u2019s family. Fish\u2019 song evokes for me the slow growing absence of my grandfather. His phase of sudden bursts of anger, when his brain was already failing him but it seemed to him as if others conspired to loose items or deny the truth of his memories. The moment my grandmother rang up in tears she couldn\u2019t handle it at home with him anymore. The much softer, kinder and tender phase after that. Him falling back into his native Frisian exclusively, so other residents in the care home couldn\u2019t understand him. Some of them started calling him \u2018the Frenchman\u2019 because anything you don\u2019t understand must be French, right? Beauty too. Singing children\u2019s songs with him one afternoon. Visiting one time with my grandmother. He didn\u2019t recognise her anymore, but during their conversations told her he liked her and if he hadn\u2019t been married already would like to ask her out. He could still see what he saw in my grandmother as a young man way back in the late 1920\u2019s. \nWhe he passed away we were there with him, my grandmother sitting next to him. A while after his last breath my grandmother let go of his hand, grabbed her handbag very tightly, and walked upright out of the room. I\u2019d never seen such a loneliness as had suddenly abruptly descended on her, even if it had been a slow gradual goodbye stretched over several years. Solid resolve she exuded strongly as well, to go on, to carry it, walking down the corridor, after some 65 years together. It\u2019s been almost 30 years, that image of her in those moments is still with me. \nWalking in a garden of remembrance this morning. \n\nThis is a RSS only posting for regular readers. Not secret, just unlisted. Comments / webmention / pingback all ok.\nRead more about RSS Club" }, "name": "Garden of Remembrance", "post-type": "note", "_id": "16859944", "_source": "474", "_is_read": true }
{ "type": "entry", "published": "2020-12-03T18:55:00-08:00", "summary": "This year, the IndieWeb community has been making progress on iterating and evolving the IndieAuth protocol. IndieAuth is an extension of OAuth 2.0 that enables it to work with personal websites and in a decentralized environment.", "url": "https://aaronparecki.com/2020/12/03/1/indieauth-2020", "category": [ "indieauth", "indieweb", "oauth" ], "syndication": [ "https://news.indieweb.org/en" ], "name": "IndieAuth Spec Updates 2020", "author": { "type": "card", "name": "Aaron Parecki", "url": "https://aaronparecki.com/", "photo": "https://aperture-media.p3k.io/aaronparecki.com/41061f9de825966faa22e9c42830e1d4a614a321213b4575b9488aa93f89817a.jpg" }, "post-type": "article", "_id": "16850667", "_source": "16", "_is_read": true }
My favorite aspect of websites is their duality: they’re both subject and object at once. In other words, a website creator becomes both author and architect simultaneously. There are endless possibilities as to what a website could be. What kind of room is a website? Or is a website more like a house? A boat? A cloud? A garden? A puddle? Whatever it is, there’s potential for a self-reflexive feedback loop: when you put energy into a website, in turn the website helps form your own identity.
{ "type": "entry", "published": "2020-12-03T09:19:56Z", "url": "https://adactio.com/links/17670", "category": [ "indieweb", "websites", "personal", "publishing", "metaphor", "creativity" ], "bookmark-of": [ "https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/laurel-schwulst-my-website-is-a-shifting-house-next-to-a-river-of-knowledge-what-could-yours-be/" ], "content": { "text": "My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be?\n\n\n\n\n My favorite aspect of websites is their duality: they\u2019re both subject and object at once. In other words, a website creator becomes both author and architect simultaneously. There are endless possibilities as to what a website could be. What kind of room is a website? Or is a website more like a house? A boat? A cloud? A garden? A puddle? Whatever it is, there\u2019s potential for a self-reflexive feedback loop: when you put energy into a website, in turn the website helps form your own identity.", "html": "<h3>\n<a class=\"p-name u-bookmark-of\" href=\"https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/laurel-schwulst-my-website-is-a-shifting-house-next-to-a-river-of-knowledge-what-could-yours-be/\">\nMy website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be?\n</a>\n</h3>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>My favorite aspect of websites is their duality: they\u2019re both subject and object at once. In other words, a website creator becomes both author and architect simultaneously. There are endless possibilities as to what a website could be. What kind of room is a website? Or is a website more like a house? A boat? A cloud? A garden? A puddle? Whatever it is, there\u2019s potential for a self-reflexive feedback loop: when you put energy into a website, in turn the website helps form your own identity.</p>\n</blockquote>" }, "author": { "type": "card", "name": "Jeremy Keith", "url": "https://adactio.com/", "photo": "https://adactio.com/images/photo-150.jpg" }, "post-type": "bookmark", "_id": "16831304", "_source": "2", "_is_read": true }
{ "type": "entry", "published": "2020-12-02T23:12:04+0000", "url": "http://known.kevinmarks.com/2020/always-nice-to-see-a-new-webmention", "in-reply-to": [ "https://christine.website/blog/webmention-support-2020-12-02" ], "content": { "text": "Always nice to see a new webmention implementation" }, "author": { "type": "card", "name": "Kevin Marks", "url": "http://known.kevinmarks.com/profile/kevinmarks", "photo": "http://known.kevinmarks.com/file/9255656669173b7867ab839ee6556f9e" }, "post-type": "reply", "_id": "16827417", "_source": "205", "_is_read": true }