{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@jasonmcfadden",
        "url": "https://mastodon.world/@jasonmcfadden",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mastodon.world/@jasonmcfadden/111664262278182711",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>My 2023 Blogging Retrospect</p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.world/tags/blogging\">#<span>blogging</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.world/tags/wordpress\">#<span>wordpress</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.world/tags/fediverse\">#<span>fediverse</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.world/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> </p><p><a href=\"https://jasonjournals.com/2023/12/29/my-2023-blogging-retrospect/\"><span>https://</span><span>jasonjournals.com/2023/12/29/m</span><span>y-2023-blogging-retrospect/</span></a></p>",
        "text": "My 2023 Blogging Retrospect#blogging #wordpress #fediverse #indieweb https://jasonjournals.com/2023/12/29/my-2023-blogging-retrospect/"
    },
    "published": "2023-12-29T14:50:23+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "39841104",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@KevinMarks",
        "url": "https://xoxo.zone/@KevinMarks",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://xoxo.zone/@KevinMarks/111664119871753345",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://mastodon.social/@gavinanderegg\">@<span>gavinanderegg</span></a></span> <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://social.lol/@robb\">@<span>robb</span></a></span> you're both very welcome at chat.indieweb.org if you want to join in with the <a href=\"https://xoxo.zone/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> ongoing chat and regular meetups. We have a special <a href=\"https://xoxo.zone/tags/dev\">#<span>dev</span></a> channel for builders too</p>",
        "text": "@gavinanderegg @robb you're both very welcome at chat.indieweb.org if you want to join in with the #indieweb ongoing chat and regular meetups. We have a special #dev channel for builders too"
    },
    "published": "2023-12-29T14:14:10+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "39840854",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@CM30",
        "url": "https://ohai.social/@CM30",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://ohai.social/@CM30/111664041092273475",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Given my support for the <a href=\"https://ohai.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a>, personal websites and self hosting, you might wonder why I don\u2019t have my own site there.</p><p>And the answer is twofold:</p><p>1. Almost anything valuable I do or say online can fall under the Gaming Reinvented umbrella, so I see no reason to post it on a personal account.</p><p>2. I\u2019m very much someone who doesn\u2019t like my name and \u2018real life\u2019 identity to be too well known online, and most personal sites revolve around those identities by default.</p>",
        "text": "Given my support for the #indieweb, personal websites and self hosting, you might wonder why I don\u2019t have my own site there.And the answer is twofold:1. Almost anything valuable I do or say online can fall under the Gaming Reinvented umbrella, so I see no reason to post it on a personal account.2. I\u2019m very much someone who doesn\u2019t like my name and \u2018real life\u2019 identity to be too well known online, and most personal sites revolve around those identities by default."
    },
    "published": "2023-12-29T13:54:08+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "39840630",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@liztai",
        "url": "https://hachyderm.io/@liztai",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://hachyderm.io/@liztai/111663739101932811",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>I reflect on the concepts and ideas that have improved my life in 2023.<br />Among the things I talk about in this post:<br /><a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/tags/SocialMedia\">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a> <a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/tags/Fediverse\">#<span>Fediverse</span></a> <a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/tags/PKM\">#<span>PKM</span></a> <a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/tags/Obsidian\">#<span>Obsidian</span></a> <a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/tags/Writing\">#<span>Writing</span></a> <a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/tags/Health\">#<span>Health</span></a> <a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/tags/CDramas\">#<span>CDramas</span></a> <a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/tags/Tech\">#<span>Tech</span></a> <a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/tags/TechnicalWriting\">#<span>TechnicalWriting</span></a> </p><p><a href=\"http://elizabethtai.com/2023/12/29/2023-recap-concepts-and-discoveries-that-made-the-year-better-for-me/\"><span>http://</span><span>elizabethtai.com/2023/12/29/20</span><span>23-recap-concepts-and-discoveries-that-made-the-year-better-for-me/</span></a></p>",
        "text": "I reflect on the concepts and ideas that have improved my life in 2023.\nAmong the things I talk about in this post:\n#SocialMedia #Fediverse #PKM #Obsidian #Writing #IndieWeb #Health #CDramas #Tech #TechnicalWriting http://elizabethtai.com/2023/12/29/2023-recap-concepts-and-discoveries-that-made-the-year-better-for-me/"
    },
    "published": "2023-12-29T12:37:20+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "39840191",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@keelan",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/@keelan",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mastodon.social/@keelan/111663635567366817",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>I'm very interested in <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/openweb\">#<span>openweb</span></a> and <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> movements. </p><p>Optimistic takes on a more decentralized web seem to be more frequent lately, though very often read as \"return to the good ol' days,\" like this article. </p><p>I do love the coined term \"poor man's web.\" </p><p><a href=\"https://zserge.com/posts/small-web/\"><span>https://</span><span>zserge.com/posts/small-web/</span><span></span></a></p>",
        "text": "I'm very interested in #openweb and #indieweb movements. Optimistic takes on a more decentralized web seem to be more frequent lately, though very often read as \"return to the good ol' days,\" like this article. I do love the coined term \"poor man's web.\" https://zserge.com/posts/small-web/"
    },
    "published": "2023-12-29T12:11:01+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "39839963",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@bekopharm",
        "url": "https://social.tchncs.de/@bekopharm",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://social.tchncs.de/@bekopharm/111663618071531287",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://sonomu.club/@lislegaard\">@<span>lislegaard</span></a></span> sounds like <a href=\"https://social.tchncs.de/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> principles to me.</p><p><a href=\"https://indieweb.org/\"><span>https://</span><span>indieweb.org/</span><span></span></a></p>",
        "text": "@lislegaard sounds like #IndieWeb principles to me.https://indieweb.org/"
    },
    "published": "2023-12-29T12:06:34+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "39839964",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@josemurilo",
        "url": "https://mato.social/@josemurilo",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mato.social/@josemurilo/111663599803208132",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Here goes very well thought tips to use the Web.<br />Not the web that is \"literally the cornerstone of all commerce and communications in the modern world.\" But \"the open web. The come-do-cool-things-with-our-api web. The open standards web. The <a href=\"https://mato.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a>.\" By <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://social.lol/@robb\">@<span>robb</span></a></span></p><p><a href=\"https://rknight.me/blog/the-web-is-fantastic/\"><span>https://</span><span>rknight.me/blog/the-web-is-fan</span><span>tastic/</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Here goes very well thought tips to use the Web.\nNot the web that is \"literally the cornerstone of all commerce and communications in the modern world.\" But \"the open web. The come-do-cool-things-with-our-api web. The open standards web. The #indieweb.\" By @robbhttps://rknight.me/blog/the-web-is-fantastic/"
    },
    "published": "2023-12-29T12:01:55+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "39839965",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}

Social Web 101

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": null,
        "url": "https://herestomwiththeweather.com/",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://herestomwiththeweather.com/2023/12/28/social-web-101/",
    "published": "2023-12-28T18:51:10+00:00",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Whether it\u2019s the <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndieWeb\">Indieweb</a> or the <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse\">Fediverse</a>, you should not expect to be able to make a reply or do anything else other than view posts on someone else\u2019s domain (e.g. example.com).  If you end up on someone else\u2019s domain and wish to interact with them, in general, you should hop back to your site or app and interact with them from there.  It\u2019s like riding a bike and you\u2019ll soon forget it was ever a challenge.</p>",
        "text": "Whether it\u2019s the Indieweb or the Fediverse, you should not expect to be able to make a reply or do anything else other than view posts on someone else\u2019s domain (e.g. example.com).  If you end up on someone else\u2019s domain and wish to interact with them, in general, you should hop back to your site or app and interact with them from there.  It\u2019s like riding a bike and you\u2019ll soon forget it was ever a challenge."
    },
    "name": "Social Web 101",
    "post-type": "article",
    "_id": "39838474",
    "_source": "246",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@jame",
        "url": "https://wetdry.world/@jame",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://wetdry.world/@jame/111661606454615430",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Hey, check out Livakivi on YouTube.</p><p>He makes videos about a few topics, such as learning Japanese, learning art, working out, etc. But at their core, he makes videos about self-improvement and working to be better, to expand your mind and body every day.</p><p>I was very, very inactive not only on the blog, but on all projects and skills I'm learning in November and part of December. What helped me get back into the swing of things and with better disclipine was his videos.</p><p>Mainly, these two:</p><ul><li>Do Art for No Reason at All (Art for Practical People <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jAUoh2AdIs\"><span>https://www.</span><span>youtube.com/watch?v=4jAUoh2AdI</span><span>s</span></a>)</li><li>What if You Had Started Earlier? <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3muXFhIyoCU\"><span>https://www.</span><span>youtube.com/watch?v=3muXFhIyoC</span><span>U</span></a>)</li></ul><p>He does also make videos about whatever, like <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZl_gQumb28\">reviewing a mechanical keyboard (An Honest Review of the Lofree Flow)</a> or <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYLTtm-WITnmJxIVLsDB-Ns96OGLeVG50\">renovating an old Soviet store into an house</a>. Livakivi's channel is a very blog type of channel, if that makes sense.</p><p>I don't even do weightlifting (I probably should) and Japanese (though I am learning Italian), but I greatly appreciate the way he describes that core topic, self-improvement. There are lots of resources online for getting better, but being able to see someone's growth across weeks, months, even years, told to you in a very personal way, reassures me in a way books, news articles, and other sources don't.</p> <p>(This is just a short post on my website I copied over, you can read it there at <a href=\"https://realja.me/dailynote/livakivi.html\"><span>https://</span><span>realja.me/dailynote/livakivi.h</span><span>tml</span></a>)</p><p>Thanks for reading this wall of text!!</p><p><a href=\"https://wetdry.world/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href=\"https://wetdry.world/tags/dailynote\">#<span>dailynote</span></a> <a href=\"https://wetdry.world/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://wetdry.world/tags/motivation\">#<span>motivation</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Hey, check out Livakivi on YouTube.He makes videos about a few topics, such as learning Japanese, learning art, working out, etc. But at their core, he makes videos about self-improvement and working to be better, to expand your mind and body every day.I was very, very inactive not only on the blog, but on all projects and skills I'm learning in November and part of December. What helped me get back into the swing of things and with better disclipine was his videos.Mainly, these two:Do Art for No Reason at All (Art for Practical People https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jAUoh2AdIs)What if You Had Started Earlier? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3muXFhIyoCU)He does also make videos about whatever, like reviewing a mechanical keyboard (An Honest Review of the Lofree Flow) or renovating an old Soviet store into an house. Livakivi's channel is a very blog type of channel, if that makes sense.I don't even do weightlifting (I probably should) and Japanese (though I am learning Italian), but I greatly appreciate the way he describes that core topic, self-improvement. There are lots of resources online for getting better, but being able to see someone's growth across weeks, months, even years, told to you in a very personal way, reassures me in a way books, news articles, and other sources don't. (This is just a short post on my website I copied over, you can read it there at https://realja.me/dailynote/livakivi.html)Thanks for reading this wall of text!!#blog #dailynote #indieweb #motivation"
    },
    "published": "2023-12-29T03:34:59+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "39837748",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}

2023 in review

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "Paul Robert Lloyd",
        "url": "https://paulrobertlloyd.com",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2023/362/a1/2023_in_review/",
    "published": "2023-12-28T21:40:00+00:00",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>So concludes another circuit around the Sun and with it an arbitrary point in time to reflect upon and review the year gone by. That being said, I\u2019m struggling a little knowing how best to recap what was personally a fairly uneventful year peppered with a few highlights. Maybe I\u2019ll start with one of those\u2026</p><p>In January I took my eldest niece to see <a href=\"http://abbavoyage.com/\">ABBA Voyage</a>, a brilliant demonstration of <a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2023/008/n1/\">technology being used in service of pure, unadulterated joy</a>. I arrived with heightened expectations yet still left thoroughly impressed (with my niece suitably embarrassed by my dancing). Another visit is surely needed before the temporary venue is dismantled and shipped to another country, possibly next year.</p><p>In August we undertook another musical pilgrimage, this time to <a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2023/241/p1/\">see items previously owned by Freddie Mercury</a> and being <a href=\"https://www.sothebys.com/en/series/freddie-mercury-a-world-of-his-own\">auctioned at Sotherby\u2019s</a>. We also visited Abbey Road, requiring me to jump in front of traffic to get the iconic photo alongside throngs of other tourists attempting the same.</p><p><a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2023/004/a1/2022_in_review/\">Last year\u2019s review</a> concluded with my disillusionment with web conferences as well as general anxiety in big crowds. Well, not only did I end up attending <em>and</em> enjoying 3 conferences, but I also spoke at another: UX London.</p><p>Having worked at Clearleft during the event\u2019s founding and seeing the calibre of people invited to speak, I felt honoured when Jeremy asked me to be part of this year\u2019s line up, albeit on a topic I felt had little mileage: design histories. Joking that it could be summed up in one slide (\u201cwrite things down so you don\u2019t forget\u201d), I used this as an opportunity to lay some ghosts to rest.</p><p>In effect, this presentation allowed me to revisit my time at the Department of Education and extract lessons learnt the hard way about cultivating a team culture through design. It was also an opportunity to publicly celebrate parts of that programme that made it a success. I\u2019m pretty happy with <a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2023/174/s1/ux_london/\">how the talk turned out</a>. I especially enjoyed the time I spent with my fellow speakers whose talks neatly dovetailed together.</p><p>Speaking in front of an audience of peers helped boost confidence in my ability and usefulness \u2013 <a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2023/208/n1/\">I\u2019m enough and I\u2019m great at doing stuff</a> \u2013 at a time when my job could be summarised as getting paid more to achieve less.</p><p>They say never meet your heroes, perhaps the same is true for working in policy areas. An advocate for sustainability and protecting the environment, I was excited <a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2023/027/a1/air/\">to join <abbr title=\"Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs\">DEFRA</abbr></a> and work on a programme seeking to improve how the government disseminates information and educates the public about air quality.</p><p>Unfortunately \u2013 and as I quickly discovered navigating layers of middlemen involved in my hiring \u2013 this is a deeply dysfunctional organisation. Trying to exit their offices in Bristol to get some lunch was like a scene from Brazil, The Thick of It and Fawlty Towers combined, but there were plenty of other embarrassing, unintentionally comedic examples I could mention. A poorly conducted service assessment \u2013 during which I was asked why our prototype wasn\u2019t optimised for search engines \u2013 turned out to be entirely pointless as the new service would be canned just a few days later.</p><p>In a team overrun by architects, and in a programme frustrated by indecision and politicking, I spent 5 months working with my head in my hands. There\u2019s something to be said for perseverance, but facing 6 weeks of well-paid thumb twiddling while the senior leadership team decided what not to do next \u2013 and inspired by <a href=\"https://pod.link/1665265193/episode/f9e48d52cc4495a5842c94fc952eeec6\">Kate Raworth speaking about only pushing on doors that open</a> \u2013 I threw in the towel and got on a train.</p><p>I wrote a number of posts about my train trip around Italy, so I\u2019ll save reposting my thoughts here besides restating my desire to spend more time in Germanic parts of Europe in 2024. I returned from Nuremberg in October but part of me is still there, enjoying the language, architecture and culture.</p><p>As I look back on another year of travel, I\u2019m glad that most trips resulted in a blog post: <a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2023/106/a1/birmingham/\">Birmingham\u2019s disappearing brutalism</a>, <a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2023/225/a1/turin/\">Turin\u2019s Olympic leftovers</a>, <a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2023/236/a1/milan-como-zurich/\">Milan\u2019s majestic chapels</a>, <a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2023/290/a1/south_downs/\">beauty to be found closer to home along the South Downs</a>.</p><p>In September I joined some former colleagues from the <abbr title=\"Department for Education\">DfE</abbr> to work on another pointless transformation exercise within government. While that may or may not be true \u2013 we\u2019ll soon find out \u2013 regular trips to London and working in an office alongside familiar and friendly faces means I can say that, from a work perspective, the year ended better than it started. And with a few more ghosts slain for good measure.</p><p>While my day job was one of fruitless frustration, I found joy in the many side projects I tended to. <a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2023/347/n1/\">Perhaps too much</a>.</p><p><a href=\"https://github.com/getindiekit/indiekit/releases\">Indiekit</a> saw a few updates as I slowly move towards something I deem worthy of being declared 1.0; scope creep and other distractions prevented that from happening this year. I did however scratch a long festering itch by proposing <a href=\"https://github.com/getindiekit/indieweb-icons\">a set of icons to represent the different IndieWeb building blocks</a>, which seemed to go down well with the community.</p><p>Distractions included <a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2023/054/a1/lume/\">rebuilding my website using Lume</a>, a static site generator built on Deno. As that rebuild languished, I ported a few improvements and changes over to the current site, <a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2023/098/a1/embedding/\">one of which I wrote about</a>, others not making it beyond the drafts folder. I\u2019ll undoubtedly spend more time on my website next year; perhaps I\u2019ll unveil a new design and publish those posts.</p><p>One project that did ship, and in the space of a few hours, was <a href=\"https://classnames.paulrobertlloyd.com/\">Classnames</a>. Unfortunately it got picked up by Hacker News where the uninformed yet highly opinionated displayed their typical levels of ignorance (my second appearance this year, I must be doing something wrong). Besides that, I enjoyed <a href=\"https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2023/272/a1/classnames/\">the challenge of a one-day build</a> and having \u2018finished\u2019 a side project.</p><p>Towards the end of the year, and with one eye on completing Section <abbr title=\"three\">III</abbr>, I rebuilt <a href=\"https://bradshaws.guide/\">Bradshaw\u2019s Guide</a>. Untouched in 5 years, this turned out to be an exercise in discovering how much the web has progressed, with numerous hacks and workarounds able to be removed.</p><p>Indeed, I\u2019ve spent the last few months refactoring side projects to use <a href=\"https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_components\">web components</a>. I\u2019ve never been more excited by a web technology since learning about CSS and web standards at the turn of the century. While others choose to market bullshit \u2018upgrades\u2019 like web3, <abbr title=\"original gangster\">OG</abbr> Web 1.0 \u2013 iterated and improved over 30 years \u2013 continues to be a brilliantly performant, resilient, accessible and expressive toolset you can use to build delightfully digital things with if treated with respect.</p><p>Proven technologies were easily lost in a year when attention focused on artificial intelligence (emphasis on \u2018artificial\u2019). With lines drawn between artists and technologists, I find myself increasingly on the side of the former, somewhat resentful that the materials and products of my profession are continually co-opted by charlatans who wield them to ill effect.</p><p>I like to think back to the opening ceremony of the London 2012 and the pride I felt seeing fellow creatives elevate the national mood, with Tim Berners-Lee\u2019s invention being celebrated, not bemoaned. Near that same spot a decade later, art and technology are again being combined to bring ABBA to the stage and entertain people in breathtaking technicolour.</p><p>That\u2019s how I intend to go in to the New Year, avoiding illusionary and artificially inflated distractions and instead seeking out proven technologies and tools that allow me to be creative; maybe spending more time behind a lens than before a screen and exploring a world beyond pixels and code.</p><p>I said much the same last year.</p><p>Reply via email</p>",
        "text": "So concludes another circuit around the Sun and with it an arbitrary point in time to reflect upon and review the year gone by. That being said, I\u2019m struggling a little knowing how best to recap what was personally a fairly uneventful year peppered with a few highlights. Maybe I\u2019ll start with one of those\u2026In January I took my eldest niece to see ABBA Voyage, a brilliant demonstration of technology being used in service of pure, unadulterated joy. I arrived with heightened expectations yet still left thoroughly impressed (with my niece suitably embarrassed by my dancing). Another visit is surely needed before the temporary venue is dismantled and shipped to another country, possibly next year.In August we undertook another musical pilgrimage, this time to see items previously owned by Freddie Mercury and being auctioned at Sotherby\u2019s. We also visited Abbey Road, requiring me to jump in front of traffic to get the iconic photo alongside throngs of other tourists attempting the same.Last year\u2019s review concluded with my disillusionment with web conferences as well as general anxiety in big crowds. Well, not only did I end up attending and enjoying 3 conferences, but I also spoke at another: UX London.Having worked at Clearleft during the event\u2019s founding and seeing the calibre of people invited to speak, I felt honoured when Jeremy asked me to be part of this year\u2019s line up, albeit on a topic I felt had little mileage: design histories. Joking that it could be summed up in one slide (\u201cwrite things down so you don\u2019t forget\u201d), I used this as an opportunity to lay some ghosts to rest.In effect, this presentation allowed me to revisit my time at the Department of Education and extract lessons learnt the hard way about cultivating a team culture through design. It was also an opportunity to publicly celebrate parts of that programme that made it a success. I\u2019m pretty happy with how the talk turned out. I especially enjoyed the time I spent with my fellow speakers whose talks neatly dovetailed together.Speaking in front of an audience of peers helped boost confidence in my ability and usefulness \u2013 I\u2019m enough and I\u2019m great at doing stuff \u2013 at a time when my job could be summarised as getting paid more to achieve less.They say never meet your heroes, perhaps the same is true for working in policy areas. An advocate for sustainability and protecting the environment, I was excited to join DEFRA and work on a programme seeking to improve how the government disseminates information and educates the public about air quality.Unfortunately \u2013 and as I quickly discovered navigating layers of middlemen involved in my hiring \u2013 this is a deeply dysfunctional organisation. Trying to exit their offices in Bristol to get some lunch was like a scene from Brazil, The Thick of It and Fawlty Towers combined, but there were plenty of other embarrassing, unintentionally comedic examples I could mention. A poorly conducted service assessment \u2013 during which I was asked why our prototype wasn\u2019t optimised for search engines \u2013 turned out to be entirely pointless as the new service would be canned just a few days later.In a team overrun by architects, and in a programme frustrated by indecision and politicking, I spent 5 months working with my head in my hands. There\u2019s something to be said for perseverance, but facing 6 weeks of well-paid thumb twiddling while the senior leadership team decided what not to do next \u2013 and inspired by Kate Raworth speaking about only pushing on doors that open \u2013 I threw in the towel and got on a train.I wrote a number of posts about my train trip around Italy, so I\u2019ll save reposting my thoughts here besides restating my desire to spend more time in Germanic parts of Europe in 2024. I returned from Nuremberg in October but part of me is still there, enjoying the language, architecture and culture.As I look back on another year of travel, I\u2019m glad that most trips resulted in a blog post: Birmingham\u2019s disappearing brutalism, Turin\u2019s Olympic leftovers, Milan\u2019s majestic chapels, beauty to be found closer to home along the South Downs.In September I joined some former colleagues from the DfE to work on another pointless transformation exercise within government. While that may or may not be true \u2013 we\u2019ll soon find out \u2013 regular trips to London and working in an office alongside familiar and friendly faces means I can say that, from a work perspective, the year ended better than it started. And with a few more ghosts slain for good measure.While my day job was one of fruitless frustration, I found joy in the many side projects I tended to. Perhaps too much.Indiekit saw a few updates as I slowly move towards something I deem worthy of being declared 1.0; scope creep and other distractions prevented that from happening this year. I did however scratch a long festering itch by proposing a set of icons to represent the different IndieWeb building blocks, which seemed to go down well with the community.Distractions included rebuilding my website using Lume, a static site generator built on Deno. As that rebuild languished, I ported a few improvements and changes over to the current site, one of which I wrote about, others not making it beyond the drafts folder. I\u2019ll undoubtedly spend more time on my website next year; perhaps I\u2019ll unveil a new design and publish those posts.One project that did ship, and in the space of a few hours, was Classnames. Unfortunately it got picked up by Hacker News where the uninformed yet highly opinionated displayed their typical levels of ignorance (my second appearance this year, I must be doing something wrong). Besides that, I enjoyed the challenge of a one-day build and having \u2018finished\u2019 a side project.Towards the end of the year, and with one eye on completing Section III, I rebuilt Bradshaw\u2019s Guide. Untouched in 5 years, this turned out to be an exercise in discovering how much the web has progressed, with numerous hacks and workarounds able to be removed.Indeed, I\u2019ve spent the last few months refactoring side projects to use web components. I\u2019ve never been more excited by a web technology since learning about CSS and web standards at the turn of the century. While others choose to market bullshit \u2018upgrades\u2019 like web3, OG Web 1.0 \u2013 iterated and improved over 30 years \u2013 continues to be a brilliantly performant, resilient, accessible and expressive toolset you can use to build delightfully digital things with if treated with respect.Proven technologies were easily lost in a year when attention focused on artificial intelligence (emphasis on \u2018artificial\u2019). With lines drawn between artists and technologists, I find myself increasingly on the side of the former, somewhat resentful that the materials and products of my profession are continually co-opted by charlatans who wield them to ill effect.I like to think back to the opening ceremony of the London 2012 and the pride I felt seeing fellow creatives elevate the national mood, with Tim Berners-Lee\u2019s invention being celebrated, not bemoaned. Near that same spot a decade later, art and technology are again being combined to bring ABBA to the stage and entertain people in breathtaking technicolour.That\u2019s how I intend to go in to the New Year, avoiding illusionary and artificially inflated distractions and instead seeking out proven technologies and tools that allow me to be creative; maybe spending more time behind a lens than before a screen and exploring a world beyond pixels and code.I said much the same last year.Reply via email"
    },
    "name": "2023 in review",
    "post-type": "article",
    "_id": "39836989",
    "_source": "3686",
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{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@hamatti",
        "url": "https://mastodon.world/@hamatti",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mastodon.world/@hamatti/111659827174071526",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>One more website update before the end of 2023.</p><p>I added a blog roll page <a href=\"https://hamatti.org/blog/roll/\"><span>https://</span><span>hamatti.org/blog/roll/</span><span></span></a> and a randomly picked blog from the roll on the sidebar on any of my blog main page or individual post (on wider screens).</p><p>For a future feature, I'd like to display the latest blog post from their RSS feeds but that will be a project for another day.</p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.world/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.world/tags/Blogroll\">#<span>Blogroll</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.world/tags/Blogging\">#<span>Blogging</span></a></p>",
        "text": "One more website update before the end of 2023.I added a blog roll page https://hamatti.org/blog/roll/ and a randomly picked blog from the roll on the sidebar on any of my blog main page or individual post (on wider screens).For a future feature, I'd like to display the latest blog post from their RSS feeds but that will be a project for another day.#IndieWeb #Blogroll #Blogging"
    },
    "published": "2023-12-28T20:02:29+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "39835229",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@triptych",
        "url": "https://social.yesterweb.org/@triptych",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://social.yesterweb.org/@triptych/111659427967258722",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p><a href=\"https://social.yesterweb.org/tags/smallweb\">#<span>smallweb</span></a> site of the day - <a href=\"https://www.cyberdragon.digital/\"><span>https://www.</span><span>cyberdragon.digital/</span><span></span></a> <a href=\"https://social.yesterweb.org/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "#smallweb site of the day - https://www.cyberdragon.digital/ #indieweb"
    },
    "published": "2023-12-28T18:20:58+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "39834589",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@fluffy",
        "url": "https://plush.city/@fluffy",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://plush.city/@fluffy/111659324361046658",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://octodon.social/@cwebber\">@<span>cwebber</span></a></span> This line of thinking is why I still prefer <a href=\"https://plush.city/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> as the future of distributed social networking, and why I keep hoping IndieAuth + Ticket Auth (or something similar) goes somewhere to improve how we handle private/friends-only/limited-audience posts (which is the one thing really missing from the Atom/RSS ecosystem right now).</p>",
        "text": "@cwebber This line of thinking is why I still prefer #IndieWeb as the future of distributed social networking, and why I keep hoping IndieAuth + Ticket Auth (or something similar) goes somewhere to improve how we handle private/friends-only/limited-audience posts (which is the one thing really missing from the Atom/RSS ecosystem right now)."
    },
    "published": "2023-12-28T17:54:37+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "39834590",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@manlycoffee",
        "url": "https://techhub.social/@manlycoffee",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://techhub.social/@manlycoffee/111659322702273160",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>I'm on the \"it's better than nothing\" camp.</p><p>But maybe someone can enlighten me otherwise <a href=\"https://floss.social/@downey/111659178231168550\"><span>https://</span><span>floss.social/@downey/111659178</span><span>231168550</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://techhub.social/tags/Fediverse\">#<span>Fediverse</span></a> <a href=\"https://techhub.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://techhub.social/tags/BigTech\">#<span>BigTech</span></a></p>",
        "text": "I'm on the \"it's better than nothing\" camp.But maybe someone can enlighten me otherwise https://floss.social/@downey/111659178231168550#Fediverse #IndieWeb #BigTech"
    },
    "published": "2023-12-28T17:54:11+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "39834591",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}

Bluesky replies via Bridgy

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "Manton Reece",
        "url": "https://www.manton.org/",
        "photo": "https://micro.blog/manton/avatar.jpg"
    },
    "url": "https://www.manton.org/2023/12/28/bluesky-replies-via.html",
    "name": "Bluesky replies via Bridgy",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Blogs and social networks talking to each other is still kind of magic. If you\u2019re on the latest version of Micro.blog\u2019s Alpine theme, replies from Bluesky can now flow into Micro.blog via <a href=\"https://brid.gy\">Bridgy</a>. We\u2019ll be updating all the blog themes to support this, or you can modify your theme.</p>\n<p>This works by signing into Bridgy so that it knows how to link your blog and your Bluesky account. Then if you have cross-posting enabled to copy blog posts to Bluesky, Bridgy will look for replies and match them up to the canonical version of the blog post. It then sends a webmention to Micro.blog.</p>\n<p>In the Alpine theme, I\u2019m telling Bridgy about this relationship using the <code>u-syndication</code> microformat. I have it hidden for now, but it can just as easily be an icon or text link to Bluesky:</p>\n<pre><code>{{ if .Params.bluesky }}\n  &lt;a class=\"u-syndication\" {{ printf \"href=%q\" .Params.bluesky.url | safeHTMLAttr }} style=\"display: none;\"&gt;Also on Bluesky&lt;/a&gt;\n{{ end }}\n</code></pre><p>Eventually this will all be more automatic. Replies <em>back</em> to Bluesky aren\u2019t possible yet, so you\u2019ll still need to click through to Bluesky to reply. But even now if you don\u2019t mind tinkering, a lot is possible. It\u2019s cool to see replies from Bluesky just show up like normal replies in the Micro.blog timeline. Because Bluesky uses domain names for usernames, they fit naturally into the way Micro.blog thinks about the web.</p>",
        "text": "Blogs and social networks talking to each other is still kind of magic. If you\u2019re on the latest version of Micro.blog\u2019s Alpine theme, replies from Bluesky can now flow into Micro.blog via Bridgy. We\u2019ll be updating all the blog themes to support this, or you can modify your theme.\nThis works by signing into Bridgy so that it knows how to link your blog and your Bluesky account. Then if you have cross-posting enabled to copy blog posts to Bluesky, Bridgy will look for replies and match them up to the canonical version of the blog post. It then sends a webmention to Micro.blog.\nIn the Alpine theme, I\u2019m telling Bridgy about this relationship using the u-syndication microformat. I have it hidden for now, but it can just as easily be an icon or text link to Bluesky:\n{{ if .Params.bluesky }}\n  <a class=\"u-syndication\" {{ printf \"href=%q\" .Params.bluesky.url | safeHTMLAttr }} style=\"display: none;\">Also on Bluesky</a>\n{{ end }}\nEventually this will all be more automatic. Replies back to Bluesky aren\u2019t possible yet, so you\u2019ll still need to click through to Bluesky to reply. But even now if you don\u2019t mind tinkering, a lot is possible. It\u2019s cool to see replies from Bluesky just show up like normal replies in the Micro.blog timeline. Because Bluesky uses domain names for usernames, they fit naturally into the way Micro.blog thinks about the web."
    },
    "published": "2023-12-28T11:13:56-06:00",
    "category": [
        "Essays"
    ],
    "post-type": "article",
    "_id": "39834032",
    "_source": "12",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@downey",
        "url": "https://floss.social/@downey",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://floss.social/@downey/111659178231168550",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p><img alt=\":boost_love:\" height=\"16\" src=\"https://files.mastodon.social/cache/custom_emojis/images/000/484/758/original/5dad17ea7b12f203.png\" title=\":boost_love:\" width=\"16\" /><img alt=\":fediverse:\" height=\"16\" src=\"https://files.mastodon.social/cache/custom_emojis/images/000/204/412/original/9b6217bd85a8bd70.png\" title=\":fediverse:\" width=\"16\" /> Should people seen as <a href=\"https://floss.social/tags/Fediverse\">#<span>Fediverse</span></a> or <a href=\"https://floss.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> leaders be funded by <a href=\"https://floss.social/tags/BigTech\">#<span>BigTech</span></a>? </p><p><a href=\"https://floss.social/tags/poll\">#<span>poll</span></a> <a href=\"https://floss.social/tags/boostsAppreciated\">#<span>boostsAppreciated</span></a></p><p>Strong yes<br />Qualified yes<br />Qualified no<br />Strong no</p>",
        "text": "Should people seen as #Fediverse or #IndieWeb leaders be funded by #BigTech? #poll #boostsAppreciatedStrong yes\nQualified yes\nQualified no\nStrong no"
    },
    "published": "2023-12-28T17:17:27+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "39834025",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@flamed",
        "url": "https://social.lol/@flamed",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://social.lol/@flamed/111657286468840241",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>\ud83d\udcdd New Post: Relics Of The Web</p><p><a href=\"https://flamedfury.com/posts/relics-of-the-web/\"><span>https://</span><span>flamedfury.com/posts/relics-of</span><span>-the-web/</span></a></p><p>Tidying up a few pages I started writing a year ago and combined them into a blog post. </p><p>Let me know what you think...</p><p><a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/web\">#<span>web</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/blogging\">#<span>blogging</span></a></p>",
        "text": "\ud83d\udcdd New Post: Relics Of The Webhttps://flamedfury.com/posts/relics-of-the-web/Tidying up a few pages I started writing a year ago and combined them into a blog post. Let me know what you think...#web #indieweb #blog #blogging"
    },
    "published": "2023-12-28T09:16:21+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "39830771",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@benpate",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/@benpate",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mastodon.social/@benpate/111656442464142178",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://cosocial.ca/@evan\">@<span>evan</span></a></span> Here\u2019s my take, hope it helps?</p><p><a href=\"https://github.com/benpate/sherlock\"><span>https://</span><span>github.com/benpate/sherlock</span><span></span></a></p><p>Sherlock is a <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/Golang\">#<span>Golang</span></a> library that assembles any data/metadata it can find on a URL (including <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/WebFinger\">#<span>WebFinger</span></a>, <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/RSS\">#<span>RSS</span></a>, <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenGraph\">#<span>OpenGraph</span></a>, and <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/MicroFormats\">#<span>MicroFormats</span></a> ) and returns an <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/ActivityStream\">#<span>ActivityStream</span></a> back to its caller. There\u2019s composable add-ons for caching and other custom rules.</p><p>Overall, mapping to ActivityStreams was pretty easy. Sherlock is the key component in <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/Emissary\">#<span>Emissary</span></a> that helps it participate in many different social webs.</p>",
        "text": "@evan Here\u2019s my take, hope it helps?https://github.com/benpate/sherlockSherlock is a #Golang library that assembles any data/metadata it can find on a URL (including #WebFinger, #RSS, #OpenGraph, and #IndieWeb #MicroFormats ) and returns an #ActivityStream back to its caller. There\u2019s composable add-ons for caching and other custom rules.Overall, mapping to ActivityStreams was pretty easy. Sherlock is the key component in #Emissary that helps it participate in many different social webs."
    },
    "published": "2023-12-28T05:41:43+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "39829949",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@kiko",
        "url": "https://indieweb.social/@kiko",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://indieweb.social/@kiko/111655160429094085",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://social.coop/@J12t\">@<span>J12t</span></a></span> The <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/fediverse\">#<span>fediverse</span></a> is just one side of the coin. But combined with the <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> movement and a lot more technical improvements there could be grow a true Social Web, where liberation and taking control by the users is not only a marketing phrase.</p>",
        "text": "@J12t The #fediverse is just one side of the coin. But combined with the #indieweb movement and a lot more technical improvements there could be grow a true Social Web, where liberation and taking control by the users is not only a marketing phrase."
    },
    "published": "2023-12-28T00:15:40+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "39828858",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "@miclgael",
        "url": "https://mastodon.au/@miclgael",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mastodon.au/@miclgael/111655018632457257",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>The weird, in-between time of year<br />*AKA, The Void, AKA, a show about nothing.*</p><p>Obligatory end of year blog post / round up / wrap up thing. </p><p><a href=\"https://www.michaelgale.dev/blog/the-weird-inbetween-time-of-year\"><span>https://www.</span><span>michaelgale.dev/blog/the-weird</span><span>-inbetween-time-of-year</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.au/tags/blogging\">#<span>blogging</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.au/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.au/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.au/tags/newyear\">#<span>newyear</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.au/tags/audhd\">#<span>audhd</span></a></p>",
        "text": "The weird, in-between time of year\n*AKA, The Void, AKA, a show about nothing.*Obligatory end of year blog post / round up / wrap up thing. https://www.michaelgale.dev/blog/the-weird-inbetween-time-of-year#blogging #indieweb #blog #newyear #audhd"
    },
    "published": "2023-12-27T23:39:37+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "39828683",
    "_source": "7235",
    "_is_read": false
}