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Reading, watching, playing, using: September, 2022

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        "text": "This is my monthly roundup of the books, articles, and streaming media I found interesting. Here's my list for September, 2022.Apps + WebsitesAIHave I Been Trained? I plugged my own face into the site, and sure enough, I\u2019m part of the training set. It also showed me pictures of my friends. Feels weird. See if you can generate something involving me?GamesReturn to Monkey Island. A splendid, absolutely fitting sequel. Nostalgic, funny, fresh, engrossing: everything I wanted it to be.IndiewebMeridian. Meridian is a developer platform that finds places based on a user\u2019s latitude and longitude - and is open source and distributed, so doesn't leak user location to a third party.BooksNonfictionWake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts, by Rebecca Hall and Hugo Mart\u00ednez. A very personal exploration of a facet of history that still has so many unheard stories. The portion set in England pulls no punches, in a way that makes me want to force all my friends there to read this. I learned so much, and felt so much: it does its job and more.Gender Queer: A Memoir, by Maia Kobabe. A heartfelt memoir that I wish more kids had access to. Its place to the top of banned book lists is a travesty. I was surprised how emotional I found it; the last few pages brought me to tears unexpectedly. I find this kind of raw honesty to be very inspiring.StreamingRadioThe Liz Truss BBC Local Radio Interviews. Fantastic job by BBC local radio interviewers. Terrifying listening, straight out of The Thick of It.MusicKat White - In the Eye of the Owl. Years ago, I commissioned a song about capybara for this lovely animal-themed children\u2019s album. And now I get to listen to it with my actual child. Magic.PodcastsBook Exploder. A podcast that could have been made just for me. What I found most striking in all of these author accounts is how personal these book projects all are. Writing is a detailed exercise in craft, but also a phenomenal act of empathy.Notable ArticlesBusinesseBay exec sentenced in cyberstalking attack on Natick couple. \u201cThe couple said they were sent disturbing items, including live bugs, a bloody pig mask, a funeral wreath and a book about coping with the loss of a spouse.\u201dOne of the Hottest Trends in the World of Investing Is a Sham. On ESGs: \u201cInstead of measuring the risks that environmental and social developments pose to companies, raters and investors should measure the risks to humanity posed by companies.\u201dClimateClimate change is turning the trees into gluttons. \u201cAlthough other factors like climate and pests can somewhat affect a tree\u2019s volume, the study found that elevated carbon levels consistently led to an increase of wood volume in 10 different temperate forest groups across the country. This suggests that trees are helping to shield Earth\u2019s ecosystem from the impacts of global warming through their rapid growth.\u201dPatagonia Founder Gives Away the Company to Fight Climate Change. \u201cRather than selling the company or taking it public, Mr. Chouinard, his wife and two adult children have transferred their ownership of Patagonia, valued at about $3 billion, to a specially designed trust and a nonprofit organization. They were created to preserve the company\u2019s independence and ensure that all of its profits \u2014 some $100 million a year \u2014 are used to combat climate change and protect undeveloped land around the globe.\u201dNew technique shows old temperatures were much hotter than thought. \u201cMeckler\u2019s warmer temperatures suggest that CO2\u2019s capacity to warm during that time in Earth\u2019s past was higher than was found in earlier studies. \u201cThis would lead to a higher climate sensitivity to atmospheric CO2,\u201d the paper says.\u201dCultureHundreds Of Authors Ask Publishers To Stop Attacking Libraries. \u201cTons of authors, including some very big names like Neil Gaiman, saying that the publishers need to not just stop going after libraries, but especially that they need to stop doing so in the name of authors.\u201d\u2018We can continue Pratchett\u2019s efforts\u2019: the gamers keeping Discworld alive. \u201cNot only does it feature most of the key locations, from the city of Ankh-Morpork to areas such as Klatch and the Ramtops, it has seven guilds, player-run shops, and countless quests and adventures featuring many of the Discworld\u2019s most notable characters. It even has its own newspaper.\u201dArtist receives first known US copyright registration for latent diffusion AI art. \u201cIn what might be a first, a New York-based artist named Kris Kashtanova has received US copyright registration on their graphic novel that features AI-generated artwork created by latent diffusion AI.\u201dBanned in the USA: The Growing Movement to Censor Books in Schools. \u201cSome groups appear to feed off work to promote diverse books, contorting those efforts to further their own censorious ends. They have inverted the purpose of lists compiled for teachers and librarians interested in introducing a more diverse set of reading materials into the classroom or library.\u201d Despicable.How \u2018Star Trek: The Motion Picture\u2019 Finally, After 43 Years, Got Completed. \u201cThe problem with the theatrical cut was, simply, it wasn\u2019t done. It feels long and slow because the movie hadn\u2019t been edited properly. Scenes that may only last two or three seconds too long, or literally one frame, add up over the course of a movie to make it feel long. Now, after 1500 or so edits, Star Trek: The Motion Picture is a film that finally feels properly paced, looks stunning, and, after long last, no longer keeps the viewer at arm\u2019s length.\u201dHuman Capital. \u201cTED was for bearing hearts, not souls.\u201d A fun short story from the world of Reap3r.Food Means Home. A recipe book collated by 30 unaccompanied minor asylum seekers. Just completely lovely.The Reactionary Geeks Are Mad About 'Rings of Power'. \u201cThe refrain \u201cGo woke, go broke\u201d offers a tidy summary of this argument, wokeness gone mad being a useful euphemism for a demand like \u201cresegregate popular entertainment,\u201d which might turn people off.\u201dDemocracyMaggie Haberman: A Reckoning With Donald Trump. \u201cI was curious when Trump said he had kept in touch with other world leaders since leaving office. I asked whether that included Russia\u2019s Vladimir Putin and China\u2019s Xi Jinping, and he said no. But when I mentioned North Korea\u2019s Kim Jong-un, he responded, \u201cWell, I don\u2019t want to say exactly, but \u2026\u201d before trailing off. I learned after the interview that he had been telling people at Mar-a-Lago that he was still in contact with North Korea\u2019s supreme leader, whose picture with Trump hung on the wall of his new office at his club.\u201dMost Republicans Support Declaring the United States a Christian Nation. \u201cFully 61 percent of Republicans supported declaring the United States a Christian nation. In other words, even though over half of Republicans previously said such a move would be unconstitutional, a majority of GOP voters would still support this declaration.\u201dThe smoking gun in Martha's Vineyard. \u201cMigrants from Venezuela were provided with false information to convince them to board flights chartered by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R). The documents suggest that the flights were not just a callous political stunt but potentially a crime.\u201dDHS built huge database from cellphones, computers seized at border. \u201cThe rapid expansion of the database and the ability of 2,700 CBP officers to access it without a warrant \u2014 two details not previously known about the database \u2014 have raised alarms in Congress about what use the government has made of the information, much of which is captured from people not suspected of any crime. CBP officials told congressional staff the data is maintained for 15 years.\u201dAmerican Democracy doesn\u2019t need saving \u2014 it needs creating. \u201cBut when we shift our perspective and begin to see our task as creating and cultivating democracy, more accessible and meaningful options become available to ordinary people and the institutions that represent them and are meant to serve them.\u201dI was arrested after asking \"who elected him?\" at the proclamation of King Charles. \u201cWhat other freedoms can be suppressed in the name of monarchy? Who else will be arrested under the vile Police, Crime, Sentencing & Courts Act?\u201dA Black protester voiced anger at police in South Carolina. She got 4 years in prison. \u201cYou have people who stormed the Capitol, who led to the death of law enforcement, who tried to overturn an election and fracture democracy. And they\u2019re getting two months, three months, six months. And Brittany Martin gets four years.\u201dHealthI\u2019m a psychologist \u2013 and I believe we\u2019ve been told devastating lies about mental health. \u201cIf a plant were wilting we wouldn\u2019t diagnose it with \u201cwilting-plant-syndrome\u201d \u2013 we would change its conditions. Yet when humans are suffering under unliveable conditions, we\u2019re told something is wrong with us, and expected to keep pushing through. To keep working and producing, without acknowledging our hurt.\u201dMediaAxios's 'Smart Brevity' and Questionable Book-Selling Tactics. \u201cThe intrigue: An internal Axios memo encouraged each employee to buy six copies of the trio\u2019s new book. Workers could then get those purchases expensed by the company\u2014a practice that could cost Axios more than $70,000, according to Defector.\u201d Savage.Inside podcasters' explosive audience growth.\u00a0\u201cEach time a player taps on one of these fleeting in-game ads\u2014and wins some virtual loot for doing so\u2014a podcast episode begins downloading on their device. The podcast company, in turn, can claim the gamer as a new listener to its program and add another coveted download to its overall tally.\u201dAmericans see media as critical to democracy, 19th News/SurveyMonkey poll says. \u201cAn increasingly diverse country does not see itself reflected in the media. Communities of color, LGBTQ+ people and marginalized groups are still underrepresented in both who covers the news and what news is covered.\u201dHow we know journalism is good for democracy. \u201cWhen respondents have the least information, candidates of color\u2014particularly Black candidates\u2014are disadvantaged, among respondents across party, ideological, and racial attitude lines.\u201dWelcome to the new Verge. \u201cWe also thought about where we came from and how we built The Verge into what it is today. And we landed on: well shit, we just need to blog more.\u201d Love.Make Your Voter Guide ICONIC. \u201cThis kind of user-friendly experience is something we keep dreaming that more newsroom voter guides will feature.\u201dScienceScientists Have Bad News About All These Energy Efficient LEDs. \u201cFocusing on the suppression of melatonin \u2014 the hormone that regulates sleep cycles \u2014 star visibility, and insects\u2019 response to light, the researchers found that all categories were negatively affected. The level of melatonin suppression in humans has gone up since 2013, stars are less visible, and the insects\u2019 response to light was unnaturally altered.\u201dSocietyCapitalism and extreme poverty: A global analysis of real wages, human height, and mortality since the long 16th century. \u201cThe rise of capitalism from the long 16th century onward is associated with a decline in wages to below subsistence, a deterioration in human stature, and an upturn in premature mortality. [\u2026] Where progress has occurred, significant improvements in human welfare began only around the 20th century. These gains coincide with the rise of anti-colonial and socialist political movements.\u201dCalifornia's dead will have a new burial option: Human composting. \u201cThis new law will provide California\u2019s 39 million residents with a meaningful funeral option that offers significant savings in carbon emissions, water and land usage over conventional burial or cremation.\u201dMore US Employers Are Trapping Workers in a New Form of Indentured Servitude. \u201cBosses in industries such as retail, health care and logistics are reverting to an old tactic and trapping people in miserable jobs by threatening to saddle them with debt if they quit. Workers across the United States in fields ranging from nursing to trucking have been discouraged from leaving jobs they hate or can\u2019t afford to keep because employers vow to charge them for training costs if they quit before an arbitrary deadline.\u201d\u2018Reverse Freedom Rides\u2019 echo DeSantis Martha\u2019s Vineyard migrant flights. Fascinating piece about the racist history of \u201creverse freedom rides\u201d to Cape Cod that are now echoed by Ron DeSantis\u2019s policies in Florida. I\u2019ve been going to the Cape my entire life and I\u2019m ashamed to say I had no idea.Britain and the US are poor societies with some very rich people. \u201cThe rich in the US are exceptionally rich \u2014 the top 10 per cent have the highest top-decile disposable incomes in the world, 50 per cent above their British counterparts. But the bottom decile struggle by with a standard of living that is worse than the poorest in 14 European countries including Slovenia.\u201dLindsey Graham's national abortion ban has exceptions that won't work, experts say. \u201cBut exceptions for the life of the pregnant person are notoriously difficult to receive; physicians have said the requirement of providing abortions only in an emergency can force them to wait until a patient is in dire condition before providing them needed care. And the rape and incest exceptions written into the bill \u2014 much like the ones that exist in a handful of state abortion bans \u2014 are nominal at best, sexual violence and abortion policy experts said. They require reporting and paperwork that does not occur in the majority of sexual assault cases.\u201dU.S. Approval of Labor Unions at Highest Point Since 1965. This feels like a sign of progress to me (and also a sign that ordinary workers need help).Netherlands Plans to Launch Slavery Apology Fund for Awareness Projects. \u201cThe fund will be announced after the nation officially apologizes for its role in slavery by the end of this year or the beginning of next year, according to people familiar with the matter. It may be as big as 200 million euros ($204 million), the people said, speaking on condition of anonymity.\u201dTechnologyElon Musk\u2019s Texts Shatter the Myth of the Tech Genius. \u201cIt\u2019s been a general Is this really how business is done? There\u2019s no real strategic thought or analysis. It\u2019s just emotional and done without any real care for consequence.\u201dRohingya seek reparations from Facebook for role in massacre. \u201cBut a new and comprehensive report by Amnesty International states that Facebook\u2019s preferred narrative is false. The platform, Amnesty says, wasn\u2019t merely a passive site with insufficient content moderation. Instead, Meta\u2019s algorithms \u201cproactively amplified and promoted content\u201d on Facebook, which incited violent hatred against the Rohingya beginning as early as 2012.\u201dFacebook Report: Censorship Violated Palestinian Rights. \u201cMeta deleted Arabic content relating to the violence at a far greater rate than Hebrew-language posts, confirming long-running complaints of disparate speech enforcement in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The disparity, the report found, was perpetuated among posts reviewed both by human employees and automated software.\u201dUS Military Bought Mass Monitoring Tool That Includes Internet Browsing, Email Data. \u201cMultiple branches of the U.S. military have bought access to a powerful internet monitoring tool that claims to cover over 90 percent of the world\u2019s internet traffic.\u201dPentagon reviews psychological operations amid Facebook, Twitter complaints. \u201cThe Pentagon has ordered a sweeping audit of how it conducts clandestine information warfare after major social media companies identified and took offline fake accounts suspected of being run by the U.S. military in violation of the platforms\u2019 rules.\u201dThe Internet We Could Have Had. \u201cThe internet we do have, however, is figured much differently. It is figured as a tool of political domination. It is the apotheosis of the forms of domination secretly hidden inside the stories of progress and liberation. It is capitalism, colonialism, imperialism, slavery, and environmental destruction all rolled into one hideous hydra whose heads are Zuckerberg, Bezos, Pichai, Cook, with Musk and Thiel at the ass end.\u201dGender differences and bias in open source: pull request acceptance of women versus men. \u201cSurprisingly, our results show that women\u2019s contributions tend to be accepted more often than men\u2019s. However, for contributors who are outsiders to a project and their gender is identifiable, men\u2019s acceptance rates are higher. Our results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists nonetheless.\u201dHow a news investigation shed light on potential patient\u00a0privacy\u00a0violations. \u201cThe health system said the tracking tool was intended to help track the success of a promotional campaign to connect more patients to its MyChart patient portal, which involved Facebook advertisements. But it was configured improperly, which allowed Meta to obtain patient information such as email addresses, phone numbers, computer IP addresses, contact information and appointment details.\u201dWordPress+IndieWeb as the OS of the Open Social Web. Nice indieweb thoughts and presentation. As an aside, I\u2019ve added Hypothesis annotations to my site, inspired by Ton\u2019s site.5th Circuit Rewrites A Century Of 1st Amendment Law To Argue Internet Companies Have No Right To Moderate. \u201cIt effectively says that companies no longer have a 1st Amendment right to their own editorial policies. Under this ruling, any state in the 5th Circuit could, in theory, mandate that news organizations must cover certain politicians or certain other content. It could, in theory, allow a state to mandate that any news organization must publish opinion pieces by politicians. It completely flies in the face of the 1st Amendment\u2019s association rights and the right to editorial discretion.\u201dPrompt injection attacks against GPT-3. \u201cA surprising thing about working with GPT-3 in this way is that your prompt itself becomes important IP. It\u2019s not hard to imagine future startups for which the secret sauce of their product is a carefully crafted prompt.\u201dIt's hard to imagine better social media alternatives, but Scuttlebutt shows change is possible. \u201cBecause it\u2019s not a company, Scuttlebutt doesn\u2019t need to make a profit. There is no persuasive design trying to keep you hooked, no advertising, and it doesn\u2019t collect, process or sell users\u2019 personal data. Instead, data are stored and controlled on users\u2019 own devices.\u201dQuality Is Systemic. \u201cIf your team is producing defective code, consider that it may not be because they all suck at their jobs. It\u2019s probably because the environment isn\u2019t allowing them to produce quality software.\u201dLaunch House, a tech startup incubator, sold entrepreneurs on the promise of community. This is a cult.Take Care of Your Blog. \u201cThere are no rules to blogging except this one: always self-host your website because your URL, your own private domain, is the most valuable thing you can own. Your career will thank you for it later and no-one can take it away.\u201dJack Dorsey\u2019s Former Boss Is Building A Decentralized Twitter. \u201cIt\u2019s not about machine learning, or AI, generating the perfect viral media, it\u2019s about groups of people getting together and finding meaning with each other.\u201d Rabble is doing important work.",
        "html": "<p>This is my monthly roundup of the books, articles, and streaming media I found interesting. Here's my list for September, 2022.</p><h3>Apps + Websites</h3><h4>AI</h4><p><a href=\"https://haveibeentrained.com\">Have I Been Trained?</a> I plugged my own face into the site, and sure enough, I\u2019m part of the training set. It also showed me pictures of my friends. Feels weird. See if you can generate something involving me?</p><h4>Games</h4><p><a href=\"https://returntomonkeyisland.com\">Return to Monkey Island.</a> A splendid, absolutely fitting sequel. Nostalgic, funny, fresh, engrossing: everything I wanted it to be.</p><h4>Indieweb</h4><p><a href=\"https://latl.ong\">Meridian.</a> Meridian is a developer platform that finds places based on a user\u2019s latitude and longitude - and is open source and distributed, so doesn't leak user location to a third party.</p><h3>Books</h3><h4>Nonfiction</h4><p><a href=\"https://bookshop.org/a/7949/9781982115197\">Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts, by Rebecca Hall and Hugo Mart\u00ednez.</a> A very personal exploration of a facet of history that still has so many unheard stories. The portion set in England pulls no punches, in a way that makes me want to force all my friends there to read this. I learned so much, and felt so much: it does its job and more.</p><p><a href=\"https://bookshop.org/a/7949/9781549304002\">Gender Queer: A Memoir, by Maia Kobabe.</a> A heartfelt memoir that I wish more kids had access to. Its place to the top of banned book lists is a travesty. I was surprised how emotional I found it; the last few pages brought me to tears unexpectedly. I find this kind of raw honesty to be very inspiring.</p><h3>Streaming</h3><h4>Radio</h4><p><a href=\"https://bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0d3flmh\">The Liz Truss BBC Local Radio Interviews.</a> Fantastic job by BBC local radio interviewers. Terrifying listening, straight out of The Thick of It.</p><h4>Music</h4><p><a href=\"https://katwhitekidsmusic.com/home#music\">Kat White - In the Eye of the Owl.</a> Years ago, I commissioned a song about capybara for this lovely animal-themed children\u2019s album. And now I get to listen to it with my actual child. Magic.</p><h4>Podcasts</h4><p><a href=\"https://bookexploder.com\">Book Exploder.</a> A podcast that could have been made just for me. What I found most striking in all of these author accounts is how personal these book projects all are. Writing is a detailed exercise in craft, but also a phenomenal act of empathy.</p><h3>Notable Articles</h3><h4>Business</h4><p><a href=\"https://wcvb.com/article/ebay-exec-sentenced-in-cyberstalking-attack-on-natick-couple/41444951\">eBay exec sentenced in cyberstalking attack on Natick couple.</a> \u201cThe couple said they were sent disturbing items, including live bugs, a bloody pig mask, a funeral wreath and a book about coping with the loss of a spouse.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://nytimes.com/2022/09/29/opinion/esg-investing-responsibility.html\">One of the Hottest Trends in the World of Investing Is a Sham.</a> On ESGs: \u201cInstead of measuring the risks that environmental and social developments pose to companies, raters and investors should measure the risks to humanity posed by companies.\u201d</p><h4>Climate</h4><p><a href=\"https://news.osu.edu/climate-change-is-turning-the-trees-into-gluttons\">Climate change is turning the trees into gluttons.</a> \u201cAlthough other factors like climate and pests can somewhat affect a tree\u2019s volume, the study found that elevated carbon levels consistently led to an increase of wood volume in 10 different temperate forest groups across the country. This suggests that trees are helping to shield Earth\u2019s ecosystem from the impacts of global warming through their rapid growth.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://nytimes.com/2022/09/14/climate/patagonia-climate-philanthropy-chouinard.html\">Patagonia Founder Gives Away the Company to Fight Climate Change.</a> \u201cRather than selling the company or taking it public, Mr. Chouinard, his wife and two adult children have transferred their ownership of Patagonia, valued at about $3 billion, to a specially designed trust and a nonprofit organization. They were created to preserve the company\u2019s independence and ensure that all of its profits \u2014 some $100 million a year \u2014 are used to combat climate change and protect undeveloped land around the globe.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/08/ancient-deep-ocean-may-have-been-hotter-than-we-thought/?fbclid=IwAR0udLvjTydWfmv4o9-BvFKtPPJJylguqj8J27uxv4hZS4wkzYpn31xof98\">New technique shows old temperatures were much hotter than thought.</a> \u201cMeckler\u2019s warmer temperatures suggest that CO2\u2019s capacity to warm during that time in Earth\u2019s past was higher than was found in earlier studies. \u201cThis would lead to a higher climate sensitivity to atmospheric CO2,\u201d the paper says.\u201d</p><h4>Culture</h4><p><a href=\"https://techdirt.com/2022/09/30/hundreds-of-authors-ask-publishers-to-stop-attacking-libraries\">Hundreds Of Authors Ask Publishers To Stop Attacking Libraries.</a> \u201cTons of authors, including some very big names like Neil Gaiman, saying that the publishers need to not just stop going after libraries, but especially that they need to stop doing so in the name of authors.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://theguardian.com/games/2022/sep/28/we-can-continue-pratchetts-efforts-the-gamers-keeping-discworld-alive\">\u2018We can continue Pratchett\u2019s efforts\u2019: the gamers keeping Discworld alive.</a> \u201cNot only does it feature most of the key locations, from the city of Ankh-Morpork to areas such as Klatch and the Ramtops, it has seven guilds, player-run shops, and countless quests and adventures featuring many of the Discworld\u2019s most notable characters. It even has its own newspaper.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/09/artist-receives-first-known-us-copyright-registration-for-generative-ai-art\">Artist receives first known US copyright registration for latent diffusion AI art.</a> \u201cIn what might be a first, a New York-based artist named Kris Kashtanova has received US copyright registration on their graphic novel that features AI-generated artwork created by latent diffusion AI.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://pen.org/report/banned-usa-growing-movement-to-censor-books-in-schools\">Banned in the USA: The Growing Movement to Censor Books in Schools.</a> \u201cSome groups appear to feed off work to promote diverse books, contorting those efforts to further their own censorious ends. They have inverted the purpose of lists compiled for teachers and librarians interested in introducing a more diverse set of reading materials into the classroom or library.\u201d Despicable.</p><p><a href=\"https://uproxx.com/movies/star-trek-the-motion-picture-directors-cut\">How \u2018Star Trek: The Motion Picture\u2019 Finally, After 43 Years, Got Completed.</a> \u201cThe problem with the theatrical cut was, simply, it wasn\u2019t done. It feels long and slow because the movie hadn\u2019t been edited properly. Scenes that may only last two or three seconds too long, or literally one frame, add up over the course of a movie to make it feel long. Now, after 1500 or so edits, Star Trek: The Motion Picture is a film that finally feels properly paced, looks stunning, and, after long last, no longer keeps the viewer at arm\u2019s length.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://vice.com/en/article/m7g94q/human-capital\">Human Capital.</a> \u201cTED was for bearing hearts, not souls.\u201d A fun short story from the world of Reap3r.</p><p><a href=\"https://bl.uk/projects/food-means-home\">Food Means Home.</a> A recipe book collated by 30 unaccompanied minor asylum seekers. Just completely lovely.</p><p><a href=\"https://theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/09/lord-of-the-rings-rings-of-power-fantasy-sci-fi-racist-criticism/671421\">The Reactionary Geeks Are Mad About 'Rings of Power'.</a> \u201cThe refrain \u201cGo woke, go broke\u201d offers a tidy summary of this argument, wokeness gone mad being a useful euphemism for a demand like \u201cresegregate popular entertainment,\u201d which might turn people off.\u201d</p><h4>Democracy</h4><p><a href=\"https://theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/09/donald-trump-maggie-haberman-mar-a-lago/671510\">Maggie Haberman: A Reckoning With Donald Trump.</a> \u201cI was curious when Trump said he had kept in touch with other world leaders since leaving office. I asked whether that included Russia\u2019s Vladimir Putin and China\u2019s Xi Jinping, and he said no. But when I mentioned North Korea\u2019s Kim Jong-un, he responded, \u201cWell, I don\u2019t want to say exactly, but \u2026\u201d before trailing off. I learned after the interview that he had been telling people at Mar-a-Lago that he was still in contact with North Korea\u2019s supreme leader, whose picture with Trump hung on the wall of his new office at his club.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://politico.com/news/magazine/2022/09/21/most-republicans-support-declaring-the-united-states-a-christian-nation-00057736\">Most Republicans Support Declaring the United States a Christian Nation.</a> \u201cFully 61 percent of Republicans supported declaring the United States a Christian nation. In other words, even though over half of Republicans previously said such a move would be unconstitutional, a majority of GOP voters would still support this declaration.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://popular.info/p/the-smoking-gun-in-marthas-vineyard\">The smoking gun in Martha's Vineyard.</a> \u201cMigrants from Venezuela were provided with false information to convince them to board flights chartered by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R). The documents suggest that the flights were not just a callous political stunt but potentially a crime.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/09/15/government-surveillance-database-dhs\">DHS built huge database from cellphones, computers seized at border.</a> \u201cThe rapid expansion of the database and the ability of 2,700 CBP officers to access it without a warrant \u2014 two details not previously known about the database \u2014 have raised alarms in Congress about what use the government has made of the information, much of which is captured from people not suspected of any crime. CBP officials told congressional staff the data is maintained for 15 years.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://link.medium.com/Tr9mOAsWltb\">American Democracy doesn\u2019t need saving \u2014 it needs creating.</a> \u201cBut when we shift our perspective and begin to see our task as creating and cultivating democracy, more accessible and meaningful options become available to ordinary people and the institutions that represent them and are meant to serve them.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://bright-green.org/2022/09/11/i-was-arrested-after-asking-who-elected-him-at-the-proclamation-of-king-charles\">I was arrested after asking \"who elected him?\" at the proclamation of King Charles.</a> \u201cWhat other freedoms can be suppressed in the name of monarchy? Who else will be arrested under the vile Police, Crime, Sentencing &amp; Courts Act?\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://npr.org/2022/09/06/1121322520/a-black-protester-voiced-anger-at-police-in-south-carolina-she-got-4-years-in-pr\">A Black protester voiced anger at police in South Carolina. She got 4 years in prison.</a> \u201cYou have people who stormed the Capitol, who led to the death of law enforcement, who tried to overturn an election and fracture democracy. And they\u2019re getting two months, three months, six months. And Brittany Martin gets four years.\u201d</p><h4>Health</h4><p><a href=\"https://theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/06/psychologist-devastating-lies-mental-health-problems-politics?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other\">I\u2019m a psychologist \u2013 and I believe we\u2019ve been told devastating lies about mental health.</a> \u201cIf a plant were wilting we wouldn\u2019t diagnose it with \u201cwilting-plant-syndrome\u201d \u2013 we would change its conditions. Yet when humans are suffering under unliveable conditions, we\u2019re told something is wrong with us, and expected to keep pushing through. To keep working and producing, without acknowledging our hurt.\u201d</p><h4>Media</h4><p><a href=\"https://theatlantic.com/books/archive/2022/09/axios-smart-brevity-best-seller-list/671577\">Axios's 'Smart Brevity' and Questionable Book-Selling Tactics.</a> \u201cThe intrigue: An internal Axios memo encouraged each employee to buy six copies of the trio\u2019s new book. Workers could then get those purchases expensed by the company\u2014a practice that could cost Axios more than $70,000, according to Defector.\u201d Savage.</p><p><a href=\"https://bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-27/inside-podcasters-explosive-audience-growth?leadSource=uverify\">Inside podcasters' explosive audience growth.</a>\u00a0\u201cEach time a player taps on one of these fleeting in-game ads\u2014and wins some virtual loot for doing so\u2014a podcast episode begins downloading on their device. The podcast company, in turn, can claim the gamer as a new listener to its program and add another coveted download to its overall tally.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://19thnews.org/2022/09/poll-analysis-americans-news-media-democracy\">Americans see media as critical to democracy, 19th News/SurveyMonkey poll says.</a> \u201cAn increasingly diverse country does not see itself reflected in the media. Communities of color, LGBTQ+ people and marginalized groups are still underrepresented in both who covers the news and what news is covered.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://democracyfund.org/idea/how-we-know-journalism-is-good-for-democracy\">How we know journalism is good for democracy.</a> \u201cWhen respondents have the least information, candidates of color\u2014particularly Black candidates\u2014are disadvantaged, among respondents across party, ideological, and racial attitude lines.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://theverge.com/2022/9/13/23349876/the-verge-website-redesign-new-newsfeed-blogs-logo\">Welcome to the new Verge.</a> \u201cWe also thought about where we came from and how we built The Verge into what it is today. And we landed on: well shit, we just need to blog more.\u201d Love.</p><p><a href=\"https://medium.com/we-are-hearken/make-your-voter-guide-iconic-54f481d99b34\">Make Your Voter Guide ICONIC.</a> \u201cThis kind of user-friendly experience is something we keep dreaming that more newsroom voter guides will feature.\u201d</p><h4>Science</h4><p><a href=\"https://futurism.com/the-byte/scientists-bad-news-leds\">Scientists Have Bad News About All These Energy Efficient LEDs.</a> \u201cFocusing on the suppression of melatonin \u2014 the hormone that regulates sleep cycles \u2014 star visibility, and insects\u2019 response to light, the researchers found that all categories were negatively affected. The level of melatonin suppression in humans has gone up since 2013, stars are less visible, and the insects\u2019 response to light was unnaturally altered.\u201d</p><h4>Society</h4><p><a href=\"https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X22002169\">Capitalism and extreme poverty: A global analysis of real wages, human height, and mortality since the long 16th century.</a> \u201cThe rise of capitalism from the long 16th century onward is associated with a decline in wages to below subsistence, a deterioration in human stature, and an upturn in premature mortality. [\u2026] Where progress has occurred, significant improvements in human welfare began only around the 20th century. These gains coincide with the rise of anti-colonial and socialist political movements.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://latimes.com/california/story/2022-09-18/will-california-allow-human-composting-the-decision-is-in\">California's dead will have a new burial option: Human composting.</a> \u201cThis new law will provide California\u2019s 39 million residents with a meaningful funeral option that offers significant savings in carbon emissions, water and land usage over conventional burial or cremation.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://truthout.org/articles/more-us-employers-are-trapping-workers-in-a-new-form-of-indentured-servitude\">More US Employers Are Trapping Workers in a New Form of Indentured Servitude.</a> \u201cBosses in industries such as retail, health care and logistics are reverting to an old tactic and trapping people in miserable jobs by threatening to saddle them with debt if they quit. Workers across the United States in fields ranging from nursing to trucking have been discouraged from leaving jobs they hate or can\u2019t afford to keep because employers vow to charge them for training costs if they quit before an arbitrary deadline.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://washingtonpost.com/history/2022/09/16/reverse-freedom-rides-marthas-vineyard-desantis\">\u2018Reverse Freedom Rides\u2019 echo DeSantis Martha\u2019s Vineyard migrant flights.</a> Fascinating piece about the racist history of \u201creverse freedom rides\u201d to Cape Cod that are now echoed by Ron DeSantis\u2019s policies in Florida. I\u2019ve been going to the Cape my entire life and I\u2019m ashamed to say I had no idea.</p><p><a href=\"https://ft.com/content/ef265420-45e8-497b-b308-c951baa68945\">Britain and the US are poor societies with some very rich people.</a> \u201cThe rich in the US are exceptionally rich \u2014 the top 10 per cent have the highest top-decile disposable incomes in the world, 50 per cent above their British counterparts. But the bottom decile struggle by with a standard of living that is worse than the poorest in 14 European countries including Slovenia.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://19thnews.org/2022/09/lindsey-graham-national-abortion-ban-exceptions\">Lindsey Graham's national abortion ban has exceptions that won't work, experts say.</a> \u201cBut exceptions for the life of the pregnant person are notoriously difficult to receive; physicians have said the requirement of providing abortions only in an emergency can force them to wait until a patient is in dire condition before providing them needed care. And the rape and incest exceptions written into the bill \u2014 much like the ones that exist in a handful of state abortion bans \u2014 are nominal at best, sexual violence and abortion policy experts said. They require reporting and paperwork that does not occur in the majority of sexual assault cases.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/398303/approval-labor-unions-highest-point-1965.aspx\">U.S. Approval of Labor Unions at Highest Point Since 1965.</a> This feels like a sign of progress to me (and also a sign that ordinary workers need help).</p><p><a href=\"https://bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-12/dutch-government-plans-to-launch-slavery-apology-fund\">Netherlands Plans to Launch Slavery Apology Fund for Awareness Projects.</a> \u201cThe fund will be announced after the nation officially apologizes for its role in slavery by the end of this year or the beginning of next year, according to people familiar with the matter. It may be as big as 200 million euros ($204 million), the people said, speaking on condition of anonymity.\u201d</p><h4>Technology</h4><p><a href=\"https://theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/09/elon-musk-texts-twitter-trial-jack-dorsey/671619\">Elon Musk\u2019s Texts Shatter the Myth of the Tech Genius.</a> \u201cIt\u2019s been a general Is this really how business is done? There\u2019s no real strategic thought or analysis. It\u2019s just emotional and done without any real care for consequence.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-bangladesh-myanmar-c5af9acec46a3042beed7f5e1bc71b8a\">Rohingya seek reparations from Facebook for role in massacre.</a> \u201cBut a new and comprehensive report by Amnesty International states that Facebook\u2019s preferred narrative is false. The platform, Amnesty says, wasn\u2019t merely a passive site with insufficient content moderation. Instead, Meta\u2019s algorithms \u201cproactively amplified and promoted content\u201d on Facebook, which incited violent hatred against the Rohingya beginning as early as 2012.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://theintercept.com/2022/09/21/facebook-censorship-palestine-israel-algorithm\">Facebook Report: Censorship Violated Palestinian Rights.</a> \u201cMeta deleted Arabic content relating to the violence at a far greater rate than Hebrew-language posts, confirming long-running complaints of disparate speech enforcement in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The disparity, the report found, was perpetuated among posts reviewed both by human employees and automated software.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://vice.com/en/article/y3pnkw/us-military-bought-mass-monitoring-augury-team-cymru-browsing-email-data\">US Military Bought Mass Monitoring Tool That Includes Internet Browsing, Email Data.</a> \u201cMultiple branches of the U.S. military have bought access to a powerful internet monitoring tool that claims to cover over 90 percent of the world\u2019s internet traffic.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/09/19/pentagon-psychological-operations-facebook-twitter\">Pentagon reviews psychological operations amid Facebook, Twitter complaints.</a> \u201cThe Pentagon has ordered a sweeping audit of how it conducts clandestine information warfare after major social media companies identified and took offline fake accounts suspected of being run by the U.S. military in violation of the platforms\u2019 rules.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://networkcultures.org/blog/2022/09/15/christopher-kelty-the-internet-we-could-have-had\">The Internet We Could Have Had.</a> \u201cThe internet we do have, however, is figured much differently. It is figured as a tool of political domination. It is the apotheosis of the forms of domination secretly hidden inside the stories of progress and liberation. It is capitalism, colonialism, imperialism, slavery, and environmental destruction all rolled into one hideous hydra whose heads are Zuckerberg, Bezos, Pichai, Cook, with Musk and Thiel at the ass end.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://peerj.com/articles/cs-111\">Gender differences and bias in open source: pull request acceptance of women versus men.</a> \u201cSurprisingly, our results show that women\u2019s contributions tend to be accepted more often than men\u2019s. However, for contributors who are outsiders to a project and their gender is identifiable, men\u2019s acceptance rates are higher. Our results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists nonetheless.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://healthjournalism.org/blog/2022/09/how-a-news-investigation-shed-light-on-potential-patient-privacy-violations\">How a news investigation shed light on potential patient\u00a0privacy\u00a0violations.</a> \u201cThe health system said the tracking tool was intended to help track the success of a promotional campaign to connect more patients to its MyChart patient portal, which involved Facebook advertisements. But it was configured improperly, which allowed Meta to obtain patient information such as email addresses, phone numbers, computer IP addresses, contact information and appointment details.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://zylstra.org/blog/2022/09/wordpressindieweb-as-the-os-of-the-open-social-web\">WordPress+IndieWeb as the OS of the Open Social Web.</a> Nice indieweb thoughts and presentation. As an aside, I\u2019ve added Hypothesis annotations to my site, inspired by Ton\u2019s site.</p><p><a href=\"https://techdirt.com/2022/09/16/5th-circuit-rewrites-a-century-of-1st-amendment-law-to-argue-internet-companies-have-no-right-to-moderate\">5th Circuit Rewrites A Century Of 1st Amendment Law To Argue Internet Companies Have No Right To Moderate.</a> \u201cIt effectively says that companies no longer have a 1st Amendment right to their own editorial policies. Under this ruling, any state in the 5th Circuit could, in theory, mandate that news organizations must cover certain politicians or certain other content. It could, in theory, allow a state to mandate that any news organization must publish opinion pieces by politicians. It completely flies in the face of the 1st Amendment\u2019s association rights and the right to editorial discretion.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://simonwillison.net/2022/Sep/12/prompt-injection\">Prompt injection attacks against GPT-3.</a> \u201cA surprising thing about working with GPT-3 in this way is that your prompt itself becomes important IP. It\u2019s not hard to imagine future startups for which the secret sauce of their product is a carefully crafted prompt.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://theconversation.com/its-hard-to-imagine-better-social-media-alternatives-but-scuttlebutt-shows-change-is-possible-190351\">It's hard to imagine better social media alternatives, but Scuttlebutt shows change is possible.</a> \u201cBecause it\u2019s not a company, Scuttlebutt doesn\u2019t need to make a profit. There is no persuasive design trying to keep you hooked, no advertising, and it doesn\u2019t collect, process or sell users\u2019 personal data. Instead, data are stored and controlled on users\u2019 own devices.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://jacobian.org/2022/sep/9/quality-is-systemic\">Quality Is Systemic.</a> \u201cIf your team is producing defective code, consider that it may not be because they all suck at their jobs. It\u2019s probably because the environment isn\u2019t allowing them to produce quality software.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://vox.com/the-goods/2022/9/11/23340917/launch-house-sexual-assault-web3-community\">Launch House, a tech startup incubator, sold entrepreneurs on the promise of community.</a> This is a cult.</p><p><a href=\"https://robinrendle.com/notes/take-care-of-your-blog-\">Take Care of Your Blog.</a> \u201cThere are no rules to blogging except this one: always self-host your website because your URL, your own private domain, is the most valuable thing you can own. Your career will thank you for it later and no-one can take it away.\u201d</p><p><a href=\"https://forbes.com/sites/michaeldelcastillo/2022/09/11/jack-dorseys-former-boss-is-building-a-decentralized-twitter/?fbclid=IwAR1XkbI3xQJC6gnbNUxpk4YHJWOdkD07ucL63hOgTzPUej03wR9Ia6v1c00&amp;sh=bc8b59f57c33\">Jack Dorsey\u2019s Former Boss Is Building A Decentralized Twitter.</a> \u201cIt\u2019s not about machine learning, or AI, generating the perfect viral media, it\u2019s about groups of people getting together and finding meaning with each other.\u201d Rabble is doing important work.</p>"
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Ben Werdmüller werd.io/profile/benwerd

My internet eras

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        "text": "My relationship to the internet falls into a few distinct eras:Down the rabbit hole (1994-1999)Connecting to other teenagers on Usenet and IRC\nLearning HTML and building my first websites\nBuilding a thriving local news website in 1994, complete with classified ads\nWriting small shareware games and setting them loose on the network\nReleasing an internet magazine about technology and interviewing celebrities who had literally no idea I was fifteen years old\nStarting to blog\nChoosing to study computer science at university purely because of my love of the internet\nBuilding community (2000-2004)Maintaining my own website but mostly posting on Livejournal, multiple times a day\nAccidentally creating a very popular website that gets millions of pageviews a day, with no real idea what to do with it - but it\u2019s real cool\n\nLetting the lines blur and meeting a bunch of people in real life that I\u2019ve been speaking to online\nGraduating and going to work on edtech for the university because there\u2019s no substantial internet industry in Edinburgh in 2002\nBuilding a career (2004-2009)Realizing that all edtech absolutely stinks and everyone involved resents it at best, but people are learning from each other on the emerging social web, so maybe let\u2019s use those same principles to help people really learn?\nBuilding a prototype, offering it to the university, getting laughed out of the office\nQuitting and starting my first startup\nBuilding an open source social networking platform that\u2019s translated into multiple languages and used all over the world\nDeveloping my underlying principles of distributed ownership, un-predatory business models through open source, and avoiding centralized lock-in\nRaising money and having a terrible experience with investors, falling out with my co-founder in the process\nMedia (2010-2015)Leaving my startup to save my sanity\nGoing to work as first employee of a tech company for the first time, in an industry I care about but have no experience in (news)\nBuilding a tool that NBC News (among others) uses to send video back to the newsroom, and learning a ton in the process\nBecoming part of the indieweb, a community that\u2019s completely in line with the principles I developed in the previous era\nGoing back to found my second startup - another open source communications platform\nLearning about design thinking and raising money for the startup\nWinning awards with our customers\nGetting serious (2016-2018)Acquihired by Medium\nFirst time working in a big VC-backed startup with insane amounts of money, a whisky shelf, and kombucha on tap\nWake up one day to realize I\u2019ve lost my love for the internet without: without the scrappiness and the punk sensibility of building something better than what all those rich people can manage, the joy for me is gone\nBecome a VC at the firm that funded my last startup, end up teaching other startups and media companies how to approach problems using design thinking\nRe-codify my principles: I want to work on projects with the potential to create a more informed, more equal world\nBecome first employee at a blockchain-related startup\nLife happens (2019-2021)My mother\u2019s terminal illness becomes the primary concern\nI don\u2019t have time or mental energy to build interesting things on the internet anymore\nI take a job that is not really, let\u2019s face it, what I\u2019m here in the world to do, but it\u2019ll keep me going while everything else is happening\nReinvigorated (2022-)Hired by The 19th, fully in line with my principles!\nExperimenting with networked technology in new ways\nBuilding projects in my spare time\nBaby arrives! I get to think about what kind of world we\u2019re building for him\nExcited for everything again\nLet\u2019s see what happens?",
        "html": "<p>My relationship to the internet falls into a few distinct eras:</p><p><strong>Down the rabbit hole (1994-1999)</strong></p><ul><li>Connecting to other teenagers on Usenet and IRC</li>\n<li>Learning HTML and building my first websites</li>\n<li>Building a thriving local news website in 1994, complete with classified ads</li>\n<li>Writing small shareware games and setting them loose on the network</li>\n<li>Releasing an internet magazine about technology and interviewing celebrities who had literally no idea I was fifteen years old</li>\n<li>Starting to blog</li>\n<li>Choosing to study computer science at university purely because of my love of the internet</li>\n</ul><p><strong>Building community (2000-2004)</strong></p><ul><li>Maintaining my own website but mostly posting on Livejournal, multiple times a day</li>\n<li>Accidentally creating a very popular website that gets millions of pageviews a day, with no real idea what to do with it - but <a href=\"https://words.werd.io/we-are-the-monkeys-of-rum-70f81d4a02df\">it\u2019s real cool</a>\n</li>\n<li>Letting the lines blur and meeting a bunch of people in real life that I\u2019ve been speaking to online</li>\n<li>Graduating and going to work on edtech for the university because there\u2019s no substantial internet industry in Edinburgh in 2002</li>\n</ul><p><strong>Building a career (2004-2009)</strong></p><ul><li>Realizing that all edtech absolutely stinks and everyone involved resents it at best, but people are learning from each other on the emerging social web, so maybe let\u2019s use those same principles to help people really learn?</li>\n<li>Building a prototype, offering it to the university, getting laughed out of the office</li>\n<li>Quitting and starting my first startup</li>\n<li>Building an open source social networking platform that\u2019s translated into multiple languages and used all over the world</li>\n<li>Developing my underlying principles of distributed ownership, un-predatory business models through open source, and avoiding centralized lock-in</li>\n<li>Raising money and having a terrible experience with investors, falling out with my co-founder in the process</li>\n</ul><p><strong>Media (2010-2015)</strong></p><ul><li>Leaving my startup to save my sanity</li>\n<li>Going to work as first employee of a tech company for the first time, in an industry I care about but have no experience in (news)</li>\n<li>Building a tool that NBC News (among others) uses to send video back to the newsroom, and learning a ton in the process</li>\n<li>Becoming part of the indieweb, a community that\u2019s completely in line with the principles I developed in the previous era</li>\n<li>Going back to found my second startup - another open source communications platform</li>\n<li>Learning about design thinking and raising money for the startup</li>\n<li>Winning awards with our customers</li>\n</ul><p><strong>Getting serious (2016-2018)</strong></p><ul><li>Acquihired by Medium</li>\n<li>First time working in a big VC-backed startup with insane amounts of money, a whisky shelf, and kombucha on tap</li>\n<li>Wake up one day to realize I\u2019ve lost my love for the internet without: without the scrappiness and the punk sensibility of building something better than what all those rich people can manage, the joy for me is gone</li>\n<li>Become a VC at the firm that funded my last startup, end up teaching other startups and media companies how to approach problems using design thinking</li>\n<li>Re-codify my principles: I want to work on projects with the potential to create a more informed, more equal world</li>\n<li>Become first employee at a blockchain-related startup</li>\n</ul><p><strong>Life happens (2019-2021)</strong></p><ul><li>My mother\u2019s terminal illness becomes the primary concern</li>\n<li>I don\u2019t have time or mental energy to build interesting things on the internet anymore</li>\n<li>I take a job that is not really, let\u2019s face it, what I\u2019m here in the world to do, but it\u2019ll keep me going while everything else is happening</li>\n</ul><p><strong>Reinvigorated (2022-)</strong></p><ul><li>Hired by The 19th, fully in line with my principles!</li>\n<li>Experimenting with networked technology in new ways</li>\n<li>Building projects in my spare time</li>\n<li>Baby arrives! I get to think about what kind of world we\u2019re building for him</li>\n<li>Excited for everything again</li>\n<li>Let\u2019s see what happens?</li>\n</ul>"
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Jeremy Keith adactio.com

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        "text": "Indiepeople\n\n\n\n\n  I believe strongly in the indieweb principles of distributed ownership, control, and independence. For me, the important thing is that this is how we get to a diverse web. A web where everyone can define not just what they write but how they present is by definition far more expressive, diverse, and interesting than one where most online content and identities must be squished into templates created by a handful of companies based on their financial needs. In other words, the open web is far superior to a medium controlled by corporations in order to sell ads. The former encourages expression; the latter encourages consumerist conformity.",
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Vika fireburn.ru

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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2022-09-28T21:02:08.513843116+03:00",
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        "text": "Since Kittybox (or more precisely, its IndieAuth library) doesn\u2019t support omitting PKCE, I found myself unable to log into some apps like Together. Kinda sad, but that\u2019s the price of being on the bleeding edge of the spec, with almost no support for legacy clients.\n\nHad to add authorization_endpoint and token_endpoint links into the header though, because it might be that I am pretty much the only one to use the newest spec and properly implement it. For now.\n\nNext step could probably be actually making webmentions work...",
        "html": "<p>Since Kittybox (or more precisely, its IndieAuth library) doesn\u2019t support omitting PKCE, I found myself unable to log into some apps like <a href=\"https://alltogethernow.io/\">Together</a>. Kinda sad, but that\u2019s the price of being on the bleeding edge of the spec, with almost no support for legacy clients.</p>\n\n<p>Had to add <code>authorization_endpoint</code> and <code>token_endpoint</code> links into the header though, because it might be that I am pretty much the only one to use the newest spec and properly implement it. For now.</p>\n\n<p>Next step could probably be actually making webmentions work...</p>"
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        "type": "card",
        "name": "Vika",
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Vika fireburn.ru

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        "text": "test\n\nif u see this i have implemented indieauth and can now do stuff",
        "html": "<p>test</p>\n\n<p>if u see this i have implemented indieauth and can now do stuff</p>"
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Ben Werdmüller werd.io/profile/benwerd

Indiepeople

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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2022-09-27T06:29:43+00:00",
    "url": "https://werd.io/2022/indiepeople",
    "name": "Indiepeople",
    "content": {
        "text": "I\u2019ve long been a member of the indieweb, a community based around encouraging people to own their spaces on the web rather than trusting their content to centralized services that may spy on them, use their content for their own ends, or randomly go out of business. Indieweb technologies do a good job of undercutting supplier power over identity online without imposing a single technological approach, business model, or product.I believe strongly in the indieweb principles of distributed ownership, control, and independence. For me, the important thing is that this is how we get to a diverse web. A web where everyone can define not just what they write but how they present is by definition far more expressive, diverse, and interesting than one where most online content and identities must be squished into templates created by a handful of companies based on their financial needs. In other words, the open web is far superior to a medium controlled by corporations in order to sell ads. The former encourages expression; the latter encourages consumerist conformity.Of course, these same dynamics aren\u2019t limited to the web, and this conflict didn\u2019t originate there. Yes, a website that you control for your own purposes has far more possibilities than one controlled by corporations for their financial gain. A web full of diverse content and identities is richer and fuller. But you can just as easily swap out the word \u201cwebsite\u201d for \u201clife\u201d: a life that you control for your own purposes has far more possibilities than one controlled by corporations for their financial gain, too. A world full of diverse people is richer and fuller.Consider identity. There are a set of norms, established over centuries, over how we describe ourselves; we\u2019re expected to fit into boxes around gender, religion, orientation, and so on. But these boxes necessarily don\u2019t describe people in full, and depending on your true identity, may be uncomfortably inaccurate. So these days, it\u2019s becoming more acceptable to define your own gender (and accompanying descriptive pronouns), orientation, personality, etc - and rightly so. Once again it comes down to the expressive self vs the templated self. There\u2019s no need to keep ourselves to the template, so if it doesn\u2019t fit, why not shed it? Who wrote these templates anyway? (The answer, of course, is the people who they fit most cleanly, and who would benefit the most from broad adherence.) People talk about \u201cidentity politics\u201d, but they\u2019re the politics of who gets to define who you are. You should.I\u2019ve been thinking a lot about radicalism lately. While there have been protests over the last few years over racial inequality, systemic injustices, reproductive rights, and the rise of Christian nationalism, most people have been relatively docile. These are changes that either affect you today or will affect you soon, so the relative quiet has seemed strange to me. But the answer is obvious: I mean, who has the time? Really, who?The most pervasive templates going are the ones that seek to define how people create a life for themselves, enforced by a context that makes it impossible to do just about anything else. Millions upon millions of people get up at the crack of dawn to go to work, commute in their cars for an hour a day, put in their hours, potentially go to a second job and do the same, and then go to bed to do it all again the next day. It\u2019s sold as the right way to do things, but when the pay you take home barely covers your costs, and when you\u2019re forced to work until you die, there\u2019s very little life left. It\u2019s an exploitative culture that enforces conformity, and in doing so is inherently undemocratic. A thriving democracy is one where citizens can express themselves, protest for what they think is right, and enact change through building community - which is impossible if everyone has no time to do anything but work, and is too scared that they will lose their jobs to break conformity. This way of living isn\u2019t for us; in the same way that the web is templated to the decisions made by big corporations like Facebook so they can sell more ads, the way we live is templated to the needs of large financial interests, too.Who should get to choose how you live? You should. But just as many people argue for the conformist vision of identity, there are scores of people ready to argue that the exploitative version of labor is the right one.Let\u2019s continue to use the web as an analogy. It\u2019s an open platform, run in the public interest by a changing group of people, on which we can build our own identities, profiles, content, tools, and businesses. Standards are established through a kind of social contract between entities. This is the way I see government, too: contrary to, say, a libertarian view of the world, I think we need a common infrastructure to build on top of. Representative democratic government is (assuming an engaged electorate and free and open elections) an expression of the will of the people. More than that, it\u2019s infrastructure for us to build on: a common layer built in the public interest, upon which we can grow and build.What\u2019s a part of that platform has a direct relationship to what can be built. If the web didn\u2019t define links, we\u2019d spend all our time thinking of new ways to build them. But the web does define links, and we can spend our time building much more advanced interfaces and specifications because we don\u2019t have to worry about them. If government didn\u2019t provide roads, we\u2019d have to worry about what basic transit looked like; the same goes for public transport, education, or healthcare. We can reach for the stars and be far more ambitious when our basic needs are taken care of. But those needs must be open and in the public interest, rather than proprietary and designed for profit. (What would the web look like if link tags had been owned by AOL?)Perhaps it\u2019s a tortured analogy, but in a way it\u2019s not an analogy at all: the way the web evolved is a reflection of the larger societal dynamics around it. We can create an indieweb movement, and our websites may be free and open. But the real work is to create a free and open culture that serves everyone, where everyone has the right and freedom to be themselves, and where we can all reach for the stars together.The principles of openness, collaboration, independence, expression, and distributed ownership are not just about software. Really they\u2019re not about software at all. At their best, they\u2019re a glimpse at what a different kind of life might look like. One where we\u2019re free.\u00a0Photo by Ehimetalor Akhere Unuabona on Unsplash",
        "html": "<p><img src=\"https://werd.io/file/633298c4c4d6980614191722/thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" /></p><p>I\u2019ve long been a member of the <a href=\"https://indieweb.org\">indieweb</a>, a community based around encouraging people to own their spaces on the web rather than trusting their content to centralized services that may spy on them, use their content for their own ends, or randomly go out of business. Indieweb technologies do a good job of undercutting <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porter%27s_five_forces_analysis#Bargaining_power_of_suppliers\">supplier power</a> over identity online without imposing a single technological approach, business model, or product.</p><p>I believe strongly in the indieweb principles of distributed ownership, control, and independence. For me, the important thing is that this is how we get to a diverse web. A web where everyone can define not just <em>what</em> they write but <em>how</em> they present is by definition far more expressive, diverse, and interesting than one where most online content and identities must be squished into templates created by a handful of companies based on their financial needs. In other words, the open web is far superior to a medium controlled by corporations in order to sell ads. The former encourages expression; the latter encourages consumerist conformity.</p><p>Of course, these same dynamics aren\u2019t limited to the web, and this conflict didn\u2019t originate there. Yes, a website that you control for your own purposes has far more possibilities than one controlled by corporations for their financial gain. A web full of diverse content and identities is richer and fuller. But you can just as easily swap out the word \u201cwebsite\u201d for \u201clife\u201d: a <em>life</em> that you control for your own purposes has far more possibilities than one controlled by corporations for their financial gain, too. A world full of diverse people is richer and fuller.</p><p>Consider identity. There are a set of norms, established over centuries, over how we describe ourselves; we\u2019re expected to fit into boxes around gender, religion, orientation, and so on. But these boxes necessarily don\u2019t describe people in full, and depending on your true identity, may be uncomfortably inaccurate. So these days, it\u2019s becoming more acceptable to define your own gender (and accompanying descriptive pronouns), orientation, personality, etc - and rightly so. Once again it comes down to the expressive self vs the templated self. There\u2019s no <em>need</em> to keep ourselves to the template, so if it doesn\u2019t fit, why not shed it? Who wrote these templates anyway? (The answer, of course, is the people who they fit most cleanly, and who would benefit the most from broad adherence.) People talk about \u201cidentity politics\u201d, but they\u2019re the politics of who gets to define who you are. <em>You</em> should.</p><p>I\u2019ve been thinking a lot about radicalism lately. While there have been protests over the last few years over racial inequality, systemic injustices, reproductive rights, and the rise of Christian nationalism, most people have been relatively docile. These are changes that either affect you today or <em>will</em> affect you soon, so the relative quiet has seemed strange to me. But the answer is obvious: I mean, who has the <em>time</em>? Really, <em>who</em>?</p><p>The most pervasive templates going are the ones that seek to define how people create a life for themselves, enforced by a context that makes it impossible to do just about anything else. Millions upon millions of people get up at the crack of dawn to go to work, commute in their cars for an hour a day, put in their hours, potentially go to a <em>second</em> job and do the same, and then go to bed to do it all again the next day. It\u2019s sold as the right way to do things, but when the pay you take home barely covers your costs, and when you\u2019re forced to work until you die, there\u2019s very little life left. It\u2019s an exploitative culture that enforces conformity, and in doing so is inherently undemocratic. A thriving democracy is one where citizens can express themselves, protest for what they think is right, and enact change through building community - which is impossible if everyone has no time to do anything but work, and is too scared that they will lose their jobs to break conformity. This way of living isn\u2019t for us; in the same way that the web is templated to the decisions made by big corporations like Facebook so they can sell more ads, the way we live is templated to the needs of large financial interests, too.</p><p>Who should get to choose how you live? <em>You</em> should. But just as many people argue for the conformist vision of identity, there are scores of people ready to argue that the exploitative version of labor is the right one.</p><p>Let\u2019s continue to use the web as an analogy. It\u2019s an open platform, run in the public interest by a changing group of people, on which we can build our own identities, profiles, content, tools, and businesses. Standards are established through a kind of social contract between entities. This is the way I see government, too: contrary to, say, a libertarian view of the world, I think we need a common infrastructure to build on top of. Representative democratic government is (assuming an engaged electorate and free and open elections) an expression of the will of the people. More than that, it\u2019s infrastructure for us to build on: a common layer built in the public interest, upon which we can grow and build.</p><p>What\u2019s a part of that platform has a direct relationship to what can be built. If the web didn\u2019t define links, we\u2019d spend all our time thinking of new ways to build them. But the web <em>does</em> define links, and we can spend our time building much more advanced interfaces and specifications because we don\u2019t have to worry about them. If government didn\u2019t provide roads, we\u2019d have to worry about what basic transit looked like; the same goes for public transport, education, or healthcare. We can reach for the stars and be far more ambitious when our basic needs are taken care of. But those needs must be open and in the public interest, rather than proprietary and designed for profit. (What would the web look like if link tags had been owned by AOL?)</p><p>Perhaps it\u2019s a tortured analogy, but in a way it\u2019s not an analogy at all: the way the web evolved is a reflection of the larger societal dynamics around it. We can create an indieweb movement, and our websites may be free and open. But the real work is to create a free and open culture that serves everyone, where everyone has the right and freedom to be themselves, and where we can all reach for the stars together.</p><p>The principles of openness, collaboration, independence, expression, and distributed ownership are not just about software. Really they\u2019re not about software at all. At their best, they\u2019re a glimpse at what a different kind of life might look like. One where we\u2019re free.</p><p>\u00a0</p><p><em>Photo by <a href=\"https://unsplash.com/@theeastlondonphotographer?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Ehimetalor Akhere Unuabona</a> on <a href=\"https://unsplash.com/s/photos/democracy?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash</a></em></p>"
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Ben Werdmüller werd.io/profile/benwerd

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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2022-09-26T18:15:23+00:00",
    "url": "https://werd.io/2022/meridian",
    "category": [
        "Indieweb"
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    "bookmark-of": [
        "https://latl.ong/"
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    "content": {
        "text": "Meridian finds places based on a user\u2019s latitude and longitude - and is open source and distributed. Useful for all kinds of purposes, not least indieweb checkin apps. #Indieweb",
        "html": "<p>Meridian finds places based on a user\u2019s latitude and longitude - and is open source and distributed. Useful for all kinds of purposes, not least indieweb checkin apps. <a href=\"https://werd.io/tag/Indieweb\" class=\"p-category\">#Indieweb</a></p>"
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gRegor Morrill gregorlove.com

Add img srcset parsing

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        "text": "Parse img.srcset per parsing issue #7. MicroMicro now supports this, so once we have 2+ implementations and rough consensus, we can update the parsing specification.",
        "html": "<p>Parse <code>img.srcset</code> per <a href=\"https://github.com/microformats/microformats2-parsing/issues/7\">parsing issue #7</a>. MicroMicro now <a href=\"https://github.com/jgarber623/micromicro/releases/tag/v3.1.0\">supports</a> this, so once we have 2+ implementations and rough consensus, we can update the parsing specification.</p>"
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Jeremy Keith adactio.com

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    "url": "https://adactio.com/links/19466",
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        "text": "Web UI Engineering Book - toheeb.com\n\n\n\nI like the way this work-in-progress is organised\u2014it\u2019s both a book and a personal website that\u2019ll grow over time.",
        "html": "<h3>\n<a class=\"p-name u-bookmark-of\" href=\"https://www.toheeb.com/\">\nWeb UI Engineering Book - toheeb.com\n</a>\n</h3>\n\n<p>I like the way this work-in-progress is organised\u2014it\u2019s both a book and a personal website that\u2019ll grow over time.</p>"
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Ben Werdmüller werd.io/profile/benwerd

WordPress+IndieWeb as the OS of the Open Social Web

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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2022-09-18T21:18:16+00:00",
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    "content": {
        "text": "Nice indieweb thoughts and presentation. As an aside, I\u2019ve added Hypothesis annotations to my site, inspired by Ton\u2019s site.  #Technology",
        "html": "<p>Nice indieweb thoughts and presentation. As an aside, I\u2019ve added Hypothesis annotations to my site, inspired by Ton\u2019s site.  <a href=\"https://werd.io/tag/Technology\" class=\"p-category\">#Technology</a></p>"
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Manton Reece www.manton.org

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    "author": {
        "name": "Manton Reece",
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        "photo": "https://micro.blog/manton/avatar.jpg"
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    "url": "https://www.manton.org/2022/09/16/i-like-these.html",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p><a href=\"https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2022/09/wordpressindieweb-as-the-os-of-the-open-social-web/\">I like these slides</a> from a talk by <a href=\"https://micro.blog/ton\">@ton</a> about enabling more IndieWeb features in WordPress\u2026 Includes Micro.blog screenshot too!</p>",
        "text": "I like these slides from a talk by @ton about enabling more IndieWeb features in WordPress\u2026 Includes Micro.blog screenshot too!"
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Jeremy Keith adactio.com

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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2022-09-12T09:03:39Z",
    "url": "https://adactio.com/links/19440",
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        "sharing",
        "blogging",
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    "bookmark-of": [
        "https://www.robinrendle.com/notes/take-care-of-your-blog-/"
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        "text": "Take Care of Your Blog\n\n\n\n\n  Blog!\n  \n  Blog your heart! Blog about something you\u2019ve learned, blog about something you\u2019re interested in.\n\n\nExcellent advice from Robin:\n\n\n  There are no rules to blogging except this one: always self-host your website because your URL, your own private domain, is the most valuable thing you can own. Your career will thank you for it later and no-one can take it away.",
        "html": "<h3>\n<a class=\"p-name u-bookmark-of\" href=\"https://www.robinrendle.com/notes/take-care-of-your-blog-/\">\nTake Care of Your Blog\n</a>\n</h3>\n\n<blockquote>\n  <p>Blog!</p>\n  \n  <p>Blog your heart! Blog about something you\u2019ve learned, blog about something you\u2019re interested in.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Excellent advice from Robin:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n  <p>There are no rules to blogging except this one: always self-host your website because your URL, your own private domain, is the most valuable thing you can own. Your career will thank you for it later and no-one can take it away.</p>\n</blockquote>"
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        "name": "Jeremy Keith",
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gRegor Morrill gregorlove.com

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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2022-09-07 16:22-0700",
    "url": "https://gregorlove.com/2022/09/this-is-one-way-of-several/",
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        "text": "This is one way of several based on the authorship spec (https://indieweb.org/authorship-spec#Algorithm). The p-author h-card inside the h-feed might make the most sense in your case, but you could also have a u-author property inside each h-entry that links to a page that has your author h-card. I do this with my posts, with an invisible link to my homepage.",
        "html": "<p>This is one way of several based on the authorship spec (<a href=\"https://indieweb.org/authorship-spec#Algorithm\">https://indieweb.org/authorship-spec#Algorithm</a>). The <code>p-author h-card</code> inside the <code>h-feed</code> might make the most sense in your case, but you could also have a <code>u-author</code> property inside each <code>h-entry</code> that links to a page that has your author <code>h-card</code>. I do this with my posts, with an invisible link to my homepage.</p>"
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    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "gRegor Morrill",
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Manton Reece www.manton.org

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    "url": "https://www.manton.org/2022/09/04/watching-the-locationsvenues.html",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Watching the <a href=\"https://archive.org/details/locations-venues-indie-web-camp-berlin-2022\">locations/venues session video</a> from IndieWebCamp Berlin. I wasn\u2019t able to participate in this one, even remotely, but glad to see IndieWeb folks were able to get together.</p>",
        "text": "Watching the locations/venues session video from IndieWebCamp Berlin. I wasn\u2019t able to participate in this one, even remotely, but glad to see IndieWeb folks were able to get together."
    },
    "published": "2022-09-04T09:45:32-05:00",
    "post-type": "note",
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gRegor Morrill gregorlove.com

{
    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2022-08-31 19:12-0700",
    "url": "https://gregorlove.com/2022/08/indieweb-rocks-issues/",
    "category": [
        "indieweb"
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    "in-reply-to": [
        "https://ragt.ag/code/indieweb.rocks"
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        "text": "A couple issues I noticed on https://indieweb.rocks/gregorlove.com:\n\nUninterpreted h-card properties: nickname\n\n\tUninterpreted h-entry properties: post-type article\n\nOn the second one I\u2019m not sure what it\u2019s finding. My posts don\u2019t have microformats properties \"post-type\" or \"article.\" If it doesn\u2019t understand how to process articles, the error message could be clarified so it doesn\u2019t sound like an issue in the published post.",
        "html": "<p>A couple issues I noticed on <a href=\"https://indieweb.rocks/gregorlove.com\">https://indieweb.rocks/gregorlove.com</a>:</p>\n\n<ol><li>Uninterpreted h-card properties: <code>nickname</code>\n</li>\n\t<li>Uninterpreted h-entry properties: <code>post-type article</code>\n</li>\n</ol><p>On the second one I\u2019m not sure what it\u2019s finding. My posts don\u2019t have microformats properties \"post-type\" or \"article.\" If it doesn\u2019t understand how to process articles, the error message could be clarified so it doesn\u2019t sound like an issue in the published post.</p>"
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Sebastiaan Andeweg seblog.nl

Storing posts by juggling with Git internals

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        "text": "I have been wanting to rework the core of this website for a couple of years now, but since the current setup still works, and since I have many other things to do, and finally since I am very picky about how I want it to work, I have never really finished this part at all. This makes me stuck at the save version of this site, both visually as behind the scenes.\nNow that I am in between jobs I wanted to work on it a bit more, but I still do not have time enough to fully finish it. I guess it all comes down to a few choices I have to make regarding trade-offs. In order to make better decisions, I wanted document my current storage and the one I have been working on. After I wrote it all out I think I am deciding not to use it, but it was a nice exploration so I will share it anyway.\nThe description heavily leans on some knowledge about Git, which is software for versioning your code, or in this case, plain text files. I will try to explain a bit along the way but it is useful to have some familiarity with it already.\ntl;dr: I did fancy with Git but might not pursue.\nHow it is currently done\nAt the time of writing, my posts are stored in a plain text format with a lot of folders. It is derived from the format which the Kirby CMS expects: folders for pages with text files within it, of which the name of the text file dictates the template that is being used to render the page. In my case, it is always entry.txt.\nI have one folder per year, one folder per day of the year and one folder per post of the day. In that last folder is the entry.txt and some other files related to the post, like pictures, but also metadata like received and sent Webmentions.\nAn example of the tree view is below. It shows two entries on two days in one year. Note that days and years also have their own .txt file that is actually almost empty and pretty much useless in this setup, but still required for Kirby to work properly. The first day of the year my site is broken because it does not automatically create the required year.txt (or did I fix that finally?).\n./content\n\u2514\u2500\u2500 2022\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u251c\u2500\u2500 001\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u251c\u2500\u2500 1\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u2514\u2500\u2500 entry.txt\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u251c\u2500\u2500 .webmentions\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u251c\u2500\u2500 1641117941-f6bc3209f3f33f0cb8e4d92e5d46b5090b53aa11.json\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u2514\u2500\u2500 pings.json\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u2514\u2500\u2500 day.txt\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u251c\u2500\u2500 002\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u251c\u2500\u2500 1\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u251c\u2500\u2500 some_image.jpg\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u2514\u2500\u2500 entry.txt\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u2514\u2500\u2500 day.txt\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2514\u2500\u2500 year.txt\nAlso note that there is a hidden .webmentions folder which contains a pings.json for all the sent webmentions and a JSON file with timestamp and content hash in the name for every received webmention. Not in the diagram but also present are some other folders for pages like ./login/login.txt (because that is how Kirby works) and ./isbn/9780349411903/book.txt (for books).\nAll these files are stored in a Git repository, which I manually update every so often (more bimonthly than weekly, sadly) via SSH to my server. I give it a very generic commit name (\u2019sync\u2019 or so) and push to a private repo on Github, which takes a while because the commits and the repo contain all those images and all those folders.\nWhat is wrong with this\nThe main point of wanting to move off of this structure by Kirby, is that it requires those placeholder pages in my content folder. I have no need for a ./login/login.txt: the login page is just a feature of the software and should be handled by that part of the code. But at least that file contains some text for that page: the files for year.txt and day.txt are completely useless.\nAnother point is that I want to make the Git commits automatically with every Micropub request: Git provides me with a history, but only if I actually commit the files once I changed them. Also, if I do not push the changes to Github, I have no backup of recent posts.\nThe metadata of the received and sent Webmentions are now also available in the repo. This is nice, as it stores the information right next to the post it belongs to, but on the other hand it feels kind of polluting: these Webmentions contain content by others, where as the rest of the content is by me. There is some other external content hidden in the entry.txt file but I\u2019ll get to that later.\nThe last point is that the full size images are stored in the repo and every book and article about Git says that you should not use it to store big files in it. Doing a git status takes a while and also the pushes are much slower than any other Git repository I work with.\nGit history: the Git Object Model\nBefore I go further into the avenue I am taking to solve the problem, I need to explain a bit about the Git Object Model, also known as \u2018how Git works under the hood\u2019. For a more thorough explanation, see this chapter in the Git Book.\nAs you\u2019ll learn from that chapter, every object is represented as a file, referenced by the SHA1 hash of its contents. And there are three (no, four) types of objects:\n\nblobs, which are the contents of files tracked by Git (and thus also the versions of those files)\n\ntrees, which are listings of filenames with references to blobs or other trees. These trees together create the file structure of a version.\n\ncommits, which are versions. A commit contains a reference to the root tree of the files you are tracking, a parent commit (the previous version) and a message and some metadata.\n\ntags, are not mentioned by the chapter, but do exists: these look like commits, but create a way to store a message with a tag (making annotated tags, I\u2019ll explain plain tags soon).\nNote that Git does not store diffs, it always stores the full contents of every version of the file, albeit zlib compressed and sometimes even packed in a single file, but let\u2019s not get into that right now.\nGit\u2019s tags and branches are just files and folders (they can have / in their names) which contain the hashes (names) of the specific commits they point to. The tags can also point to a tag object, which will then contain a message about the tag (which makes them \u2018annotated tags\u2019).\nThis all brings me to the final point about my storage: for every new post, Git has to create a lot of files. First, it needs to add a blob for the entry.txt, possibly also a blob for the image and blobs for other metadata. Then it needs to create a tree for the entry folder, listing entry.txt and if present the filenames of the images and metadata files. Then it creates a new tree for the day, with all the existing entries plus the newly created one. Then it creates a new tree for the year, to point to this new version (tree) of the day. Then it creates a new tree for the root, with this new version of the year in it. And finally it also needs to create a commit object to point to that new root tree. Every update requires all these new trees. The trees are cheap, but it feels wasteful.\nAlso note that a version of a file always relies on the version of all other files. This is what you want for code (code is designed to work with other code), but it does not feel like the right model for posts (I might come back on this tho).\nAnd there is also the question of identifiers: currently, my posts are identified as year, day of year, number (2022/242/1), but especially that number can only be found in the name of the folder and thus in the tree, not in the blob. I have not yet found a good solution for this, but maybe I am seeing too many problems.\nThe new setup\nTo get rid of some of the trees, I tried to apply my knowledge of the Git Object Model to store my posts in another way. To do this, I used the commands suggested by the chapter in the Git Book in a script that looped over all my files, to store them in a new blank repo to try things out.\nFor each year, for each day, for each post, I would find the entry.txt and put the contents in a Git blob with git hash-object -w ./content/2022/242/1/entry.txt. The resulting hash I used in the command git update-index --add --cacheinfo 100644 $hash entry.txt to stage the file for a new tree. I would do that too for all images and related files, and then I would run git write-tree to write the tree and get the hash for it and git commit-tree $hash -m \"commit\" to create a commit based on it (with a bad message indeed). With that last hash I would run git update-ref refs/heads/2022/242/1 $hash to create a branch for that commit. (I contemplate adding an annotated tag in between, for storing some metadata like \u2018published at\u2019 date.)\nThis would result in a Git repository with over 10,000 branches (I have many posts) neatly organised in folders per year and day. When one were to check out one of these branches, just the files of that posts will appear in the root of your repo: there are no folders. When you check out another branch, other files will appear. This is not how Git usually works, but it decouples all posts from one-another.\nMultiple types of pages\nThe posts I describe above all follow the year-day-number pattern because they are posts: they are sequential entries tied to a date. There are other objects I track, though, that are not date-specific. One example is topical wiki-style pages: these pages may receive edits over time, but their topic is not tied to a date. (I don\u2019t have these yet.)\nAnother example is the books that I track to base my \u2018read\u2019 posts off. I haven\u2019t posted them in a while, but I would like to expand this book collection to also include other types of objects to reference, such as movies, games or locations. These objects also have no date to them attached, at least not a date meaningful to my posts.\nI could generate UUIDs for these objects and pages, and store branches for those commits in the same way Git does store it\u2019s objects internally, with a folder per first two characters of the hash (or UUID) and a filename of the rest:\n./refs/heads\n\u251c\u2500\u2500 0a\n\u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u251c\u2500\u2500 8342d2-d6f1-4363-a287-a32948d04eaa\n\u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u2514\u2500\u2500 edcb13-433c-48d2-b683-a407c3a88f57\n\u2514\u2500\u2500 3d\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u251c\u2500\u2500 243a27-114e-4eee-9bd8-2a51b01939e6\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u251c\u2500\u2500 25965b-2da5-422d-abce-f3337fa97fc4\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2514\u2500\u2500 611b59-499a-48a0-b931-afe06192e778\nI could even reference the same post/object with multiple identifiers this way. Maybe I want to give every book a UUID, but also reference it by its ISBN. The downside to that, however, is that I need to update both branches to point to the same commit once I make an update do the book-page.\nDrawbacks of the approach\nThe multiple identifiers are probably not feasible, but there are some other drawbacks too. My main concern is that it is much harder to know whether or not you pushed all the changes: one would have to loop over all 10,000+ branches and perform a push or check. In this loop you would probably have to check out the branch as well. It is of course better to just push right after you make a change, but my point is that the \u2018just for sure\u2019 push is a lot of work.\nAnother drawback is actually the counter to what I initially was seeking: wiki-style pages might actually reference each other, and thus their version may depend on a version of another page. In this case, you would want the history to capture all the pages, just as the normal Git workings do. My problem was with the date-specific posts, but once you are mixing date-specific and wiki-style pages, you might be better off with the all-file history.\nOne problem this whole setup still does not solve is that of large files. The git status command is much faster for it does not have to check all the blobs in the repo to get an answer, but the files are still in the repo, taking up space. And there do exist other solutions for big files in git, such as Git LFS, the Large File Storage extension.\nAlso, I am still not 100% sure it is a good idea to store metadata in the Git commits and tags. When we already store the identifier in the tree objects, I thought I could also add the \u2018published at\u2019 date into the commit. Information about the author is already present, and as my site supports private posts, it also seemed like a reasonable location to store lists of people who can view the post. But again, maybe that should be stored in another way, and not be so deeply integrated with Git.\nConclusion\nIt was very helpful to write this all out, for by doing so I made up my mind: this is just all a bit too complicated and way too much deeply coupled to Git internals. I would be throwing out the \u2018just plain text files\u2019 principle, because I would store a lot of data in Git\u2019s objects, which are actually not plain text, since they are compressed with a certain algorithm.\nMy favourite Git GUI Fork is able to work with the monstrous repository my script produced, but many of the features are now strange and unusable, because the repo is so strangely set up. I would have to create my own software to maintain the integrity of the repo and that could lead to bugs and thus faulty data and maybe even data loss.\nI still think there are some nice properties to the system I describe above, but I won\u2019t be using it. But I learned a few new things about Git internals along the way, and I hope you did too.",
        "html": "<p>I have been wanting to rework the core of this website for a couple of years now, but since the current setup still works, and since I have many other things to do, and finally since I am very picky about how I <em>want</em> it to work, I have never really finished this part at all. This makes me stuck at the save version of this site, both visually as behind the scenes.</p>\n<p>Now that I am in between jobs I wanted to work on it a bit more, but I still do not have time enough to fully finish it. I guess it all comes down to a few choices I have to make regarding trade-offs. In order to make better decisions, I wanted document my current storage and the one I have been working on. After I wrote it all out I think I am deciding not to use it, but it was a nice exploration so I will share it anyway.</p>\n<p>The description heavily leans on some knowledge about Git, which is software for versioning your code, or in this case, plain text files. I will try to explain a bit along the way but it is useful to have some familiarity with it already.</p>\n<p><em>tl;dr: I did fancy with Git but might not pursue.</em></p>\n<h2>How it is currently done</h2>\n<p>At the time of writing, my posts are stored in a plain text format with a lot of folders. It is derived from the format which the <a href=\"https://getkirby.com\">Kirby CMS</a> expects: folders for pages with text files within it, of which the name of the text file dictates the template that is being used to render the page. In my case, it is always <code>entry.txt</code>.</p>\n<p>I have one folder per year, one folder per day of the year and one folder per post of the day. In that last folder is the <code>entry.txt</code> and some other files related to the post, like pictures, but also metadata like received and sent <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Webmention\">Webmentions</a>.</p>\n<p>An example of the <code>tree</code> view is below. It shows two entries on two days in one year. Note that days and years also have their own <code>.txt</code> file that is actually almost empty and pretty much useless in this setup, but still required for Kirby to work properly. The first day of the year my site is broken because it does not automatically create the required <code>year.txt</code> (or did I fix that finally?).</p>\n<pre><code>./content\n\u2514\u2500\u2500 2022\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u251c\u2500\u2500 001\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u251c\u2500\u2500 1\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u2514\u2500\u2500 entry.txt\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u251c\u2500\u2500 .webmentions\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u251c\u2500\u2500 1641117941-f6bc3209f3f33f0cb8e4d92e5d46b5090b53aa11.json\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u2514\u2500\u2500 pings.json\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u2514\u2500\u2500 day.txt\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u251c\u2500\u2500 002\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u251c\u2500\u2500 1\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u251c\u2500\u2500 some_image.jpg\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u2514\u2500\u2500 entry.txt\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u2514\u2500\u2500 day.txt\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2514\u2500\u2500 year.txt</code></pre>\n<p>Also note that there is a hidden <code>.webmentions</code> folder which contains a <code>pings.json</code> for all the sent webmentions and a JSON file with timestamp and content hash in the name for every received webmention. Not in the diagram but also present are some other folders for pages like <code>./login/login.txt</code> (because that is how Kirby works) and <code>./isbn/9780349411903/book.txt</code> (for <a href=\"https://seblog.nl/isbn/9780349411903\">books</a>).</p>\n<p>All these files are stored in a Git repository, which I <em>manually</em> update every so often (more bimonthly than weekly, sadly) via SSH to my server. I give it a very generic commit name (\u2019sync\u2019 or so) and push to a private repo on Github, which takes a while because the commits and the repo contain all those images and all those folders.</p>\n<h2>What is wrong with this</h2>\n<p>The main point of wanting to move off of this structure by Kirby, is that it requires those placeholder pages in my content folder. I have no need for a <code>./login/login.txt</code>: the login page is just a feature of the software and should be handled by that part of the code. But at least that file contains some text for that page: the files for <code>year.txt</code> and <code>day.txt</code> are completely useless.</p>\n<p>Another point is that I want to make the Git commits automatically with every <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Micropub\">Micropub</a> request: Git provides me with a history, but only if I actually commit the files once I changed them. Also, if I do not push the changes to Github, I have no backup of recent posts.</p>\n<p>The metadata of the received and sent Webmentions are now also available in the repo. This is nice, as it stores the information right next to the post it belongs to, but on the other hand it feels kind of polluting: these Webmentions contain content by <em>others</em>, where as the rest of the content is by me. There is some other external content hidden in the <code>entry.txt</code> file but I\u2019ll get to that later.</p>\n<p>The last point is that the full size images are stored in the repo and every book and article about Git says that you should not use it to store big files in it. Doing a <code>git status</code> takes a while and also the pushes are much slower than any other Git repository I work with.</p>\n<h2>Git history: the Git Object Model</h2>\n<p>Before I go further into the avenue I am taking to solve the problem, I need to explain a bit about the Git Object Model, also known as \u2018how Git works under the hood\u2019. For a more thorough explanation, see <a href=\"https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Git-Objects\">this chapter</a> in the Git Book.</p>\n<p>As you\u2019ll learn from that chapter, every object is represented as a file, referenced by the SHA1 hash of its contents. And there are three (no, four) types of objects:</p>\n<ul><li>\n<strong>blobs</strong>, which are the contents of files tracked by Git (and thus also the versions of those files)</li>\n<li>\n<strong>trees</strong>, which are listings of filenames with references to blobs or other trees. These trees together create the file structure of a version.</li>\n<li>\n<strong>commits</strong>, which are versions. A commit contains a reference to the root tree of the files you are tracking, a parent commit (the previous version) and a message and some metadata.</li>\n<li>\n<strong>tags</strong>, are not mentioned by the chapter, but do exists: these look like commits, but create a way to store a message with a tag (making annotated tags, I\u2019ll explain plain tags soon).</li>\n</ul><p>Note that Git does not store diffs, it always stores the full contents of every version of the file, albeit zlib compressed and sometimes even packed in a single file, but let\u2019s not get into that right now.</p>\n<p>Git\u2019s tags and branches are just files and folders (they can have <code>/</code> in their names) which contain the hashes (names) of the specific commits they point to. The tags can also point to a tag object, which will then contain a message about the tag (which makes them \u2018annotated tags\u2019).</p>\n<p>This all brings me to the final point about my storage: for every new post, Git has to create a lot of files. First, it needs to add a blob for the <code>entry.txt</code>, possibly also a blob for the image and blobs for other metadata. Then it needs to create a tree for the entry folder, listing <code>entry.txt</code> and if present the filenames of the images and metadata files. Then it creates a new tree for the day, with all the existing entries plus the newly created one. Then it creates a new tree for the year, to point to this new version (tree) of the day. Then it creates a new tree for the root, with this new version of the year in it. And finally it also needs to create a commit object to point to that new root tree. Every update requires all these new trees. The trees are cheap, but it feels wasteful.</p>\n<p>Also note that a version of a file always relies on the version of all other files. This is what you want for code (code is designed to work with other code), but it does not feel like the right model for posts (I might come back on this tho).</p>\n<p>And there is also the question of identifiers: currently, my posts are identified as year, day of year, number (<code>2022/242/1</code>), but especially that number can only be found in the name of the folder and thus in the tree, not in the blob. I have not yet found a good solution for this, but maybe I am seeing too many problems.</p>\n<h2>The new setup</h2>\n<p>To get rid of some of the trees, I tried to apply my knowledge of the Git Object Model to store my posts in another way. To do this, I used the commands suggested by the chapter in the Git Book in a script that looped over all my files, to store them in a new blank repo to try things out.</p>\n<p>For each year, for each day, for each post, I would find the <code>entry.txt</code> and put the contents in a Git blob with <code>git hash-object -w ./content/2022/242/1/entry.txt</code>. The resulting hash I used in the command <code>git update-index --add --cacheinfo 100644 $hash entry.txt</code> to stage the file for a new tree. I would do that too for all images and related files, and then I would run <code>git write-tree</code> to write the tree and get the hash for it and <code>git commit-tree $hash -m \"commit\"</code> to create a commit based on it (with a bad message indeed). With that last hash I would run <code>git update-ref refs/heads/2022/242/1 $hash</code> to create a branch for that commit. (I contemplate adding an annotated tag in between, for storing some metadata like \u2018published at\u2019 date.)</p>\n<p>This would result in a Git repository with over 10,000 branches (I have many posts) neatly organised in folders per year and day. When one were to check out one of these branches, just the files of that posts will appear in the root of your repo: there are no folders. When you check out another branch, other files will appear. This is not how Git usually works, but it decouples all posts from one-another.</p>\n<h2>Multiple types of pages</h2>\n<p>The posts I describe above all follow the year-day-number pattern because they are posts: they are sequential entries tied to a date. There are other objects I track, though, that are not date-specific. One example is topical wiki-style pages: these pages may receive edits over time, but their topic is not tied to a date. (I don\u2019t have these yet.)</p>\n<p>Another example is the books that I track to base my \u2018read\u2019 posts off. I haven\u2019t posted them in a while, but I would like to expand this book collection to also include other types of objects to reference, such as movies, games or locations. These objects also have no date to them attached, at least not a date meaningful to my posts.</p>\n<p>I could generate UUIDs for these objects and pages, and store branches for those commits in the same way Git does store it\u2019s objects internally, with a folder per first two characters of the hash (or UUID) and a filename of the rest:</p>\n<pre><code>./refs/heads\n\u251c\u2500\u2500 0a\n\u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u251c\u2500\u2500 8342d2-d6f1-4363-a287-a32948d04eaa\n\u2502\u00a0\u00a0 \u2514\u2500\u2500 edcb13-433c-48d2-b683-a407c3a88f57\n\u2514\u2500\u2500 3d\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u251c\u2500\u2500 243a27-114e-4eee-9bd8-2a51b01939e6\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u251c\u2500\u2500 25965b-2da5-422d-abce-f3337fa97fc4\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2514\u2500\u2500 611b59-499a-48a0-b931-afe06192e778</code></pre>\n<p>I could even reference the same post/object with multiple identifiers this way. Maybe I want to give every book a UUID, but also reference it by its ISBN. The downside to that, however, is that I need to update both branches to point to the same commit once I make an update do the book-page.</p>\n<h2>Drawbacks of the approach</h2>\n<p>The multiple identifiers are probably not feasible, but there are some other drawbacks too. My main concern is that it is much harder to know whether or not you pushed all the changes: one would have to loop over all 10,000+ branches and perform a push or check. In this loop you would probably have to check out the branch as well. It is of course better to just push right after you make a change, but my point is that the \u2018just for sure\u2019 push is a lot of work.</p>\n<p>Another drawback is actually the counter to what I initially was seeking: wiki-style pages might actually reference each other, and thus their version may depend on a version of another page. In this case, you would want the history to capture all the pages, just as the normal Git workings do. My problem was with the date-specific posts, but once you are mixing date-specific and wiki-style pages, you might be better off with the all-file history.</p>\n<p>One problem this whole setup still does not solve is that of large files. The <code>git status</code> command is much faster for it does not have to check all the blobs in the repo to get an answer, but the files are still in the repo, taking up space. And there do exist other solutions for big files in git, such as <a href=\"https://git-lfs.github.com/\">Git LFS</a>, the Large File Storage extension.</p>\n<p>Also, I am still not 100% sure it is a good idea to store metadata in the Git commits and tags. When we already store the identifier in the tree objects, I thought I could also add the \u2018published at\u2019 date into the commit. Information about the author is already present, and as my site supports private posts, it also seemed like a reasonable location to store lists of people who can view the post. But again, maybe that should be stored in another way, and not be so deeply integrated with Git.</p>\n<h2>Conclusion</h2>\n<p>It was very helpful to write this all out, for by doing so I made up my mind: this is just all a bit too complicated and way too much deeply coupled to Git internals. I would be throwing out the \u2018just plain text files\u2019 principle, because I would store a lot of data in Git\u2019s objects, which are actually not plain text, since they are compressed with a certain algorithm.</p>\n<p>My favourite Git GUI <a href=\"https://git-fork.com/\">Fork</a> is able to work with the monstrous repository my script produced, but many of the features are now strange and unusable, because the repo is so strangely set up. I would have to create my own software to maintain the integrity of the repo and that could lead to bugs and thus faulty data and maybe even data loss.</p>\n<p>I still think there are some nice properties to the system I describe above, but I won\u2019t be using it. But I learned a few new things about Git internals along the way, and I hope you did too.</p>"
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Jeremy Keith adactio.com

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    "published": "2022-08-30T07:52:54Z",
    "url": "https://adactio.com/links/19401",
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        "text": "html energy\n\n\n\nCan you feel the energy?",
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Ben Werdmüller werd.io/profile/benwerd

Farewell, house

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    "content": {
        "text": "Well, we sold the house. A new family gets to enjoy the space, and the incredible surrounds. It\u2019s the start of a new chapter for us, too.I was there over the weekend, and the memories were overwhelming: the four walls of my parents\u2019 former bedroom held newly-staged furniture for show, but I could hear the laughter, remember talking to my mother at the end of the day, could hear her feeding tube apparatus rolling across the floor. So much happened there. It\u2019s sad to see it go, but the memories stay with us. All we\u2019re really leaving behind is wood, stone, and plaster.Throughout the sale, our agent Florence Sheffer was wonderful. She held our hands through the whole process, and was as fun to work with as she was knowledgable and connected. She consistently went above and beyond to help us. I\u2019d recommend her to anyone who wants to buy or sell a home in Santa Rosa and the surrounding area.I\u2019m not sure what I\u2019ll end up doing with the indieweb website that I made for the house. Probably I\u2019ll just let the domain expire. Here it is, archived for posterity on the Internet Archive.",
        "html": "<p><img src=\"https://werd.io/file/630449e5482c4b7bd97e0532/thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" /></p><p>Well, we sold <a href=\"https://werd.io/2022/my-indieweb-real-estate-website-part-two\">the house</a>. A new family gets to enjoy the space, and the <a href=\"https://5405spainave.com/our-experiences.html\">incredible surrounds</a>. It\u2019s the start of a new chapter for us, too.</p><p>I was there over the weekend, and the memories were overwhelming: the four walls of my parents\u2019 former bedroom held newly-staged furniture for show, but I could hear the laughter, remember talking to my mother at the end of the day, could hear her feeding tube apparatus rolling across the floor. So much happened there. It\u2019s sad to see it go, but the memories stay with us. All we\u2019re really leaving behind is wood, stone, and plaster.</p><p>Throughout the sale, our agent <a href=\"https://www.coldwellbankerhomes.com/ca/santa-rosa/agent/florence-sheffer/aid_37212/\">Florence Sheffer</a> was wonderful. She held our hands through the whole process, and was as fun to work with as she was knowledgable and connected. She consistently went above and beyond to help us. I\u2019d recommend her to anyone who wants to buy or sell a home in Santa Rosa and the surrounding area.</p><p>I\u2019m not sure what I\u2019ll end up doing with <a href=\"https://5405spainave.com\">the indieweb website that I made for the house</a>. Probably I\u2019ll just let the domain expire. <a href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20220000000000*/5405spainave.com\">Here it is, archived for posterity on the Internet Archive.</a></p>"
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Jeremy Keith adactio.com

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    "published": "2022-08-22T10:08:45Z",
    "url": "https://adactio.com/links/19387",
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        "text": "A Well-Known Links Resource - Jim Nielsen\u2019s Blog\n\n\n\nI really like this experiment that Jim is conducting on his own site. I might try to replicate it sometime!",
        "html": "<h3>\n<a class=\"p-name u-bookmark-of\" href=\"https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2022/well-known-links-resource/\">\nA Well-Known Links Resource - Jim Nielsen\u2019s Blog\n</a>\n</h3>\n\n<p>I really like this experiment that Jim is conducting on his own site. I might try to replicate it sometime!</p>"
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Ben Werdmüller werd.io/profile/benwerd

A home on the web, revisited

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    "published": "2022-08-21T16:25:37+00:00",
    "url": "https://werd.io/2022/a-home-on-the-web-revisited",
    "name": "A home on the web, revisited",
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        "text": "I\u2019ve been thinking a lot about redesigning my website, or even moving platforms. That\u2019s a bit of an emotional decision, because my website runs on Known, a codebase I mostly wrote myself, and started while I was taking care of my mother post-lung-transplant. It\u2019s the reason I\u2019m connected to the indieweb community, and the Matter community, and a lot of people I care deeply about. All those things are separable from this codebase now, but it got me there, and I\u2019m hugely grateful for that.The design is looking a little long in the tooth: I can make tweaks, and would commit them upstream into the open source project for other people to use, but I think there\u2019s something to be said for starting again completely, knowing what I know now.If I had unlimited time and energy - which, sadly isn\u2019t my situation; time and energy are both in very short supply right now - I\u2019d rebuild Known in something like Node, with a cleaner codebase. For now, I think I\u2019ll live with it, and clean what I can.Incidentally, I also cleaned up my public Obsidian site at werd.cloud. I intend to do more with non-linear, unbloggy writing there.",
        "html": "<p>I\u2019ve been thinking a lot about redesigning my website, or even moving platforms. That\u2019s a bit of an emotional decision, because my website runs on <a href=\"https://withknown.com\">Known</a>, a codebase I mostly wrote myself, and started while I was taking care of my mother post-lung-transplant. It\u2019s the reason I\u2019m connected to the indieweb community, and the Matter community, and a lot of people I care deeply about. All those things are separable from this codebase now, but it got me there, and I\u2019m hugely grateful for that.</p><p>The design is looking a little long in the tooth: I can make tweaks, and would commit them upstream into the open source project for other people to use, but I think there\u2019s something to be said for starting again completely, knowing what I know now.</p><p>If I had unlimited time and energy - which, sadly isn\u2019t my situation; time and energy are both in very short supply right now - I\u2019d rebuild Known in something like Node, with a cleaner codebase. For now, I think I\u2019ll live with it, and clean what I can.</p><p>Incidentally, I also cleaned up my public Obsidian site at <a href=\"https://werd.cloud\">werd.cloud</a>. I intend to do more with non-linear, unbloggy writing there.</p>"
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