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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://toot.lqdev.tech/@lqdev/112892604002489802",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>OPML for website feeds <a href=\"https://toot.lqdev.tech/tags/rss\">#<span>rss</span></a> <a href=\"https://toot.lqdev.tech/tags/opml\">#<span>opml</span></a> <a href=\"https://toot.lqdev.tech/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://www.luisquintanilla.me/feed/website-feeds-opml?utm_medium=feed\"><span>https://www.</span><span>luisquintanilla.me/feed/websit</span><span>e-feeds-opml?utm_medium=feed</span></a></p>",
        "text": "OPML for website feeds #rss #opml #indieweb https://www.luisquintanilla.me/feed/website-feeds-opml?utm_medium=feed"
    },
    "published": "2024-08-02T13:13:51+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "41816796",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://social.lol/@mihobu/112892349723376498",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>I posted to my blog!</p><p>Jobs I don\u2019t put on my resume<br /><a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/Work\">#<span>Work</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.lol/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a><br /><a href=\"https://mihobu.lol/2024/08/jobs-i-dont-put-on-my-resume\"><span>https://</span><span>mihobu.lol/2024/08/jobs-i-dont</span><span>-put-on-my-resume</span></a></p>",
        "text": "I posted to my blog!\n\nJobs I don\u2019t put on my resume\n#Work #IndieWeb\nhttps://mihobu.lol/2024/08/jobs-i-dont-put-on-my-resume"
    },
    "published": "2024-08-02T12:09:11+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "41815949",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#webmention",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/webmention",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://indieweb.social/@OpenMentions/112892329999000389",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://mastodon.content.town/@operationpuppet\">@<span>operationpuppet</span></a></span> I am a big fan of using <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/WordPress\">#<span>WordPress</span></a> with <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/ActivityPub\">#<span>ActivityPub</span></a> and <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/WebMention\">#<span>WebMention</span></a> enabled. That might not be an option for everyone but it has worked for me. That said, if you find a more efficient method, I'm all ears.</p>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://mastodon.content.town/@operationpuppet\"></a>",
        "text": "@operationpuppet I am a big fan of using #WordPress with #ActivityPub and #WebMention enabled. That might not be an option for everyone but it has worked for me. That said, if you find a more efficient method, I'm all ears."
    },
    "published": "2024-08-02T12:04:10+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "41815950",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mastodon.social/@And_areyzaga/112890812158916386",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Reci\u00e9n descubr\u00ed que la web cl\u00e1sica <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> esta reviviendo<br />Realmente siento que son esos peque\u00f1os rincones del internet, aquellos que te alejan de la masividad de otras redes sociales son los que te reviven el cari\u00f1o por el internet.<br />Ahora quiero empezar un blog en Tumblr (o en alg\u00fan otro servicio) y una peque\u00f1a pagina web personal en <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/neocities\">#<span>neocities</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Reci\u00e9n descubr\u00ed que la web cl\u00e1sica #indieweb esta reviviendo\nRealmente siento que son esos peque\u00f1os rincones del internet, aquellos que te alejan de la masividad de otras redes sociales son los que te reviven el cari\u00f1o por el internet.\nAhora quiero empezar un blog en Tumblr (o en alg\u00fan otro servicio) y una peque\u00f1a pagina web personal en #neocities"
    },
    "published": "2024-08-02T05:38:09+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "41813636",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mstdn.social/@32bitkid/112890246351398029",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>I finally got around to adding a /slashes page to my personal site, with links to all of my top-level slashpages.</p><p><a href=\"https://j.holmes.codes/slashes/\"><span>https://</span><span>j.holmes.codes/slashes/</span><span></span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://mstdn.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "I finally got around to adding a /slashes page to my personal site, with links to all of my top-level slashpages.\n\nhttps://j.holmes.codes/slashes/\n\n#indieweb"
    },
    "published": "2024-08-02T03:14:16+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "41812907",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://social.leecalvin.xyz/@beachcomber/statuses/01J48F9FYDVAQSVECCMFNHJA4T",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>I've started again to slowly chip away at designing/building my blog, I'm kind of getting a handle on Hugo's logic. It might take me awhile to master, but I'm in no rush. While Activitypub is nice it doesn't beat the independence and (technical) simplicity of a statically generated site under your own domain.</p><p><a href=\"https://social.leecalvin.xyz/tags/hugo\">#<span>Hugo</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.leecalvin.xyz/tags/indieweb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "I've started again to slowly chip away at designing/building my blog, I'm kind of getting a handle on Hugo's logic. It might take me awhile to master, but I'm in no rush. While Activitypub is nice it doesn't beat the independence and (technical) simplicity of a statically generated site under your own domain.\n\n#Hugo #IndieWeb"
    },
    "published": "2024-08-02T02:39:21+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "41812681",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mstdn.social/@mike_k/112889498748013734",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>\"These convolutions are niche, techno-aristocratic IndieWeb fever dreams which discourage and alienate those desperate to break from corporate web-silos and start anew on a simpler, more human web. Ignore them.\"</p><p><a href=\"https://mstdn.social/tags/Indieweb\">#<span>Indieweb</span></a> \"levels\" are a turn off to be sure.</p>",
        "text": "\"These convolutions are niche, techno-aristocratic IndieWeb fever dreams which discourage and alienate those desperate to break from corporate web-silos and start anew on a simpler, more human web. Ignore them.\"\n\n#Indieweb \"levels\" are a turn off to be sure."
    },
    "published": "2024-08-02T00:04:08+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "41811947",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mastodon.social/@xavdid/112889265103365759",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>I also added fediverse creator tags to the site, so that'll hopefully pop up now on this link: <a href=\"https://david.reviews/games/live-a-live/\"><span>https://</span><span>david.reviews/games/live-a-liv</span><span>e/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/SmallWeb\">#<span>SmallWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/videogames\">#<span>videogames</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/reviews\">#<span>reviews</span></a></p>",
        "text": "I also added fediverse creator tags to the site, so that'll hopefully pop up now on this link: https://david.reviews/games/live-a-live/\n\n#SmallWeb #indieweb #videogames #reviews"
    },
    "published": "2024-08-01T23:04:43+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "41811658",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mastodon.social/@xavdid/112889250492814027",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>This week on david.reviews, I added filters to my big review lists! </p><p>In keeping with the goal of shipping the absolute minimum JS,  the filtered pages are totally separate, with a control that makes it seem like you're moving between them. </p><p>It works great on desktop and decently on mobile (where page loads are more noticeable). May revisit, but am very pleased right now</p><p>Check them out: <a href=\"https://david.reviews/movies/awarded/\"><span>https://</span><span>david.reviews/movies/awarded/</span><span></span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/SmallWeb\">#<span>SmallWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/reviews\">#<span>reviews</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/movies\">#<span>movies</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/videogames\">#<span>videogames</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/books\">#<span>books</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/webdev\">#<span>webdev</span></a></p>",
        "text": "This week on david.reviews, I added filters to my big review lists! \n\nIn keeping with the goal of shipping the absolute minimum JS,  the filtered pages are totally separate, with a control that makes it seem like you're moving between them. \n\nIt works great on desktop and decently on mobile (where page loads are more noticeable). May revisit, but am very pleased right now\n\nCheck them out: https://david.reviews/movies/awarded/\n\n#SmallWeb #indieweb #reviews #movies #videogames #books #webdev"
    },
    "published": "2024-08-01T23:01:00+00:00",
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        "https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/889/249/972/066/500/original/3d704a758ad6dfee.jpeg"
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    "post-type": "photo",
    "_id": "41811659",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mastodon.online/@brentlineberry/112888513730123727",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>\u201cworking in a similar fashion to the highly successful IndieWeb Carnival, where someone selects a film each month, and invites others to reply with their thoughts &amp; opinions on that month\u2019s movie. Followed by a round-up post by that month\u2019s curator.\u201d</p><p>I like this idea and am tempted to participate.</p><p><a href=\"https://marksuth.dev/posts/2024/07/indieweb-movie-club\"><span>https://</span><span>marksuth.dev/posts/2024/07/ind</span><span>ieweb-movie-club</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.online/tags/Indieweb\">#<span>Indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.online/tags/Movies\">#<span>Movies</span></a></p>",
        "text": "\u201cworking in a similar fashion to the highly successful IndieWeb Carnival, where someone selects a film each month, and invites others to reply with their thoughts & opinions on that month\u2019s movie. Followed by a round-up post by that month\u2019s curator.\u201d\n\nI like this idea and am tempted to participate.\n\nhttps://marksuth.dev/posts/2024/07/indieweb-movie-club\n\n#Indieweb #Movies"
    },
    "published": "2024-08-01T19:53:38+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "41810338",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

{
    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://mas.to/@noc/112888069049255515",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>who\u2019s out here doing <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/blaugust2024\">#<span>blaugust2024</span></a> ? i\u2019m setting up my <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/rss\">#<span>rss</span></a> reader (moving back to omnivore from readwise/reader) and i wanna follow youuuuu</p><p><a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mas.to/tags/blogging\">#<span>blogging</span></a></p>",
        "text": "who\u2019s out here doing #blaugust2024 ? i\u2019m setting up my #rss reader (moving back to omnivore from readwise/reader) and i wanna follow youuuuu\n\n#indieweb #blogging"
    },
    "published": "2024-08-01T18:00:33+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "41809556",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
}

IndieWeb Movie Club: August 2024 - The Matrix (1999)

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    "url": "https://marksuth.dev/posts/2024/08/indieweb-movie-club-august-2024-the-matrix-1999",
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        "Article"
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    "name": "IndieWeb Movie Club: August 2024 - The Matrix (1999)",
    "content": {
        "text": "The inaugural pick for IndieWeb Movie Club is a somewhat easy option, The Matrix (1999).\nAs described yesterday, IndieWeb Movie Club is a way to share thoughts and opinions on ...",
        "html": "<p>The inaugural pick for IndieWeb Movie Club is a somewhat easy option, The Matrix (1999).</p>\n<p>As described yesterday, IndieWeb Movie Club is a way to share thoughts and opinions on ...</p>"
    },
    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Mark Sutherland",
        "url": "https://marksuth.dev/",
        "photo": "https://marksuth.dev/images/avatar.jpg"
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Choosing Tools

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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2024-07-31 23:22-0700",
    "url": "http://tantek.com/2024/213/b1/choosing-tools",
    "syndication": [
        "https://news.indieweb.org/en/tantek.com/2024/213/b1/choosing-tools"
    ],
    "name": "Choosing Tools",
    "content": {
        "text": "One of the biggest challenges with tools for making things, even just for the web, is there are so many to choose from. Nearly every tool has a learning curve to overcome before being able to use it efficiently. With proficiency, comes the ability to pursue more efficient use of tools, and find limitations, papercuts, or outright bugs in the tools. If it\u2019s an open source tool or you know its creator you can file or submit a bug report or feature request accordingly, which might result in an improved tool, eventually, or not. You have to decide whether any such tool is good enough, with tolerable faults, or if they\u2019re bad enough to consider switching tools, or so bad that you are compelled to make your own.\n\n\nThis post is my entry for the \n \n  2024 July IndieWeb Carnival theme of tools, \nhosted by James G.,  \nand also syndicated to IndieNews.\n\nCriteria\n\nI have many criteria for how I choose the tools I use, but nearly all of them come down to maximizing trust, efficiency, and focus, while minimizing frustration, overhead, and distraction. Some of these are baseline criteria for whether I will use a tool or not, and some are comparative criteria which help me decide which tool I choose from several options.\n\nTrustworthy tools should be:\nPredictable \u2014 it should be clear what the tool will do\nDependable \u2014 the tool should \u201cjust work\u201d as close to 100% of the time as possible\nActing as you direct it \u2014 the tool should do exactly what you direct it to do, and not what other parties, such as its creator or service provider, direct it to do\nForgiving \u2014 if you make a mistake, you should be able to undo or otherwise correct your mistake\nRobust enough to keep working even when not used for a while\nEfficient tools should:\nBe quick and easy to start using\nBe responsive, with as low a latency as possible, ideally zero perceptible latency\nReduce the work necessary to complete a task, or complete multiple tasks with same amount of work otherwise\nReduce the time necessary to complete a task, or complete multiple tasks in the same amount of time otherwise\nBe quick and easy to shut down, or otherwise put away\nUse little or no energy when not in use\nFocused and focusing tools should\nProvide clear features for accomplishing your goals\nEncourage or reinforce focusing on your tasks and goals\nNever interrupt you when you are using the tool to accomplish a task\nBad tools can have many sources of frustration, and nearly all of these involve inversions of the desirable qualities noted above. Frustrating tools are less predictable, work only some of the time, randomly do things because some other party directed them to (like auto-upgrade), ask you to confirm before doing actions because they have no capability to undo, or stop working for no particular reason.\n\n\nInefficient tools take too long to be \u201cready\u201d to use, are unresponsive of otherwise have a delay when you provide input before they respond, cause you more work to complete a task, or make you take more time than simpler older tools would, require waiting for them to shut down, or use energy even when you are not doing anything with them.\n\nUnfocused tools have many (nearly) useless features that have nothing to do with your goals, encourage or distract you with actions irrelevant to your tasks or goals, or interrupt you when you are working on a task.\n\nBaseline Writing Tools\n\nExamples of tools that satisfy all the above:\n\nPencil (with eraser) and paper\nA typewriter (ideally with a whiteout band) and paper\n\nThat\u2019s it, those are the baseline. When considering an alternative tool for similar tasks, such as writing, see if it measures up to those.\n\nTools I Like Using\n\nFor myself, I prefer to use: \n\n\nBBEdit \nfor writing, which requires near zero maintenance for years of reliable use, for both prose (and markup) for my posts, and code for my personal website\n\nMediaWiki based wikis for collaborative text authoring like on:\nindieweb.org\nwiki.mozilla.org\nwww.w3.org/wiki/\nand of course Wikipedia\n\n\nTools I Tolerate Using\n\nI do also use the iOS and MacOS \u201cNotes\u201d app notes to sometimes write parts of posts, and sync text notes across devices, both of which have unfortunately become just frustrating enough to be barely tolerable to use.\n \niOS Notes (as of iOS 17.5) are buggy when you scroll them and try to add to or edit the middle of notes. MacOS Notes have a very annoying feature where it tries to autocomplete names of people in your contacts when you type even just the first letter of their name or an @-sign, when you rarely if ever want that. MacOS Notes also forces anything that starts with a # (hash or pound) sign into a weird auto-linked hashtag that is nearly useless and breaks text selection.\n\n\nThere are no options or preferences to turn off or disable these annoying supposedly \u201chelpful\u201d automatic features.\n\n\nThere\u2019s definitely an opportunity for a simple, reliable, easy to sync across devices, plain text notes application to replace iOS and MacOS notes, that doesn\u2019t require signing up to some third-party service that will inevitably shut down or sell your information to advertisers or companies training their LLMs or leak your information due to poor security practices.\n\n\nSimilarly I also frequently use Gmail and Google Docs in my day-to-day work, and I\u2019ve grown relatively used to their lagginess, limitations, and weird user interface quirks. I use them as necessary for work and collaboration and otherwise do my best to minimize time spent in them.\n\nBetter Tools\n\nI have focused primarily on writing tools, however I have made many distinct choices for personal web development tools as well, from writing mostly directly in HTML and CSS, to bits in PHP and JavaScript, rather than frameworks that demand regular updates that I cannot trust to not break my code. I myself try to build tools that aspire to the criteria listed above.\n\n\nAt a high level, new tools should provide at least one of three things:\n\nHigher efficiency and/or quality: tools should help you do what you already could do, but  faster, better, cheaper, and more precisely\nDemocratization: tools should help more people do what only a few could do before\nNovelty: tools should help you do new things that were either impossible before or not even imagined\n\nMostly I prefer to focus on the first of those, as there are plenty of \u201cobvious\u201d improvements to be made beyond existing tools, and such improvements have much more predictable effects. While democratization of tools is nearly always a good thing, I can think of a small handful of examples that demonstrate that sometimes it is not. That\u2019s worth a separate post.\n\nLastly, tools that help accomplish novel tasks that were previously impossible or not even imagined perhaps have the greatest risks and uncertainty, and thus I am ok with postponing exploring them for now. \n\n\nI wrote a few general thoughts on what tools and innovations to pursue and considerations thereof in my prior post: \nResponsible Inventing.",
        "html": "<p>\nOne of the biggest challenges with tools for making things, even just for the web, is there are so many to choose from. Nearly every tool has a learning curve to overcome before being able to use it efficiently. With proficiency, comes the ability to pursue more efficient use of tools, and find limitations, papercuts, or outright bugs in the tools. If it\u2019s an open source tool or you know its creator you can file or submit a bug report or feature request accordingly, which might result in an improved tool, eventually, or not. You have to decide whether any such tool is good enough, with tolerable faults, or if they\u2019re bad enough to consider switching tools, or so bad that you are compelled to make your own.\n</p>\n<p>\nThis post is my entry for the \n<a href=\"https://jamesg.blog/2024/07/01/indieweb-carnival-tools/\"> \n  2024 July IndieWeb Carnival theme of tools</a>, \nhosted by <a href=\"https://jamesg.blog/\" class=\"h-card\">James <abbr>G.</abbr></a>,  \nand also <a class=\"u-syndication\" href=\"https://news.indieweb.org/en/tantek.com/2024/213/b1/choosing-tools\">syndicated to IndieNews</a>.\n</p>\n<h2>Criteria</h2>\n<p>\nI have many criteria for how I choose the tools I use, but nearly all of them come down to maximizing trust, efficiency, and focus, while minimizing frustration, overhead, and distraction. Some of these are baseline criteria for whether I will use a tool or not, and some are comparative criteria which help me decide which tool I choose from several options.\n</p>\n<p>Trustworthy tools should be:</p>\n<ul><li>Predictable \u2014 it should be clear what the tool will do</li>\n<li>Dependable \u2014 the tool should \u201cjust work\u201d as close to 100% of the time as possible</li>\n<li>Acting as you direct it \u2014 the tool should do exactly what you direct it to do, and not what other parties, such as its creator or service provider, direct it to do</li>\n<li>Forgiving \u2014 if you make a mistake, you should be able to undo or otherwise correct your mistake</li>\n<li>Robust enough to keep working even when not used for a while</li>\n</ul><p>Efficient tools should:</p>\n<ul><li>Be quick and easy to start using</li>\n<li>Be responsive, with as low a latency as possible, ideally zero perceptible latency</li>\n<li>Reduce the work necessary to complete a task, or complete multiple tasks with same amount of work otherwise</li>\n<li>Reduce the time necessary to complete a task, or complete multiple tasks in the same amount of time otherwise</li>\n<li>Be quick and easy to shut down, or otherwise put away</li>\n<li>Use little or no energy when not in use</li>\n</ul><p>Focused and focusing tools should</p>\n<ul><li>Provide clear features for accomplishing your goals</li>\n<li>Encourage or reinforce focusing on your tasks and goals</li>\n<li>Never interrupt you when you are using the tool to accomplish a task</li>\n</ul><p>Bad tools can have many sources of frustration, and nearly all of these involve inversions of the desirable qualities noted above. Frustrating tools are less predictable, work only some of the time, randomly do things because some other party directed them to (like auto-upgrade), ask you to confirm before doing actions because they have no capability to undo, or stop working for no particular reason.\n</p>\n<p>\nInefficient tools take too long to be \u201cready\u201d to use, are unresponsive of otherwise have a delay when you provide input before they respond, cause you more work to complete a task, or make you take more time than simpler older tools would, require waiting for them to shut down, or use energy even when you are not doing anything with them.\n</p>\n<p>Unfocused tools have many (nearly) useless features that have nothing to do with your goals, encourage or distract you with actions irrelevant to your tasks or goals, or interrupt you when you are working on a task.\n</p>\n<h2>Baseline Writing Tools</h2>\n<p>\nExamples of tools that satisfy all the above:\n</p>\n<ul><li>Pencil (with eraser) and paper</li>\n<li>A typewriter (ideally with a whiteout band) and paper</li>\n</ul><p>\nThat\u2019s it, those are the baseline. When considering an alternative tool for similar tasks, such as writing, see if it measures up to those.\n</p>\n<h2>Tools I Like Using</h2>\n<p>\nFor myself, I prefer to use: \n</p>\n<ul><li>\n<a href=\"http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/index.html\">BBEdit</a> \nfor writing, which requires near zero maintenance for years of reliable use, for both prose (and markup) for my posts, and code for my personal website</li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki\">MediaWiki</a> based wikis for collaborative text authoring like on:\n<ul><li><a href=\"https://indieweb.org/\">indieweb.org</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://wiki.mozilla.org/\">wiki.mozilla.org</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://www.w3.org/wiki/\">www.w3.org/wiki/</a></li>\n<li>and of course <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/\">Wikipedia</a>\n</li>\n</ul></li>\n</ul><h2>Tools I Tolerate Using</h2>\n<p>\nI do also use the iOS and MacOS \u201cNotes\u201d app notes to sometimes write parts of posts, and sync text notes across devices, both of which have unfortunately become just frustrating enough to be barely tolerable to use.\n</p> \n<p>iOS Notes (as of iOS 17.5) are buggy when you scroll them and try to add to or edit the middle of notes. MacOS Notes have a very annoying feature where it tries to autocomplete names of people in your contacts when you type even just the first letter of their name or an @-sign, when you rarely if ever want that. MacOS Notes also forces anything that starts with a # (hash or pound) sign into a weird auto-linked hashtag that is nearly useless and breaks text selection.\n</p>\n<p>\nThere are no options or preferences to turn off or disable these annoying supposedly \u201chelpful\u201d automatic features.\n</p>\n<p>\nThere\u2019s definitely an opportunity for a simple, reliable, easy to sync across devices, plain text notes application to replace iOS and MacOS notes, that doesn\u2019t require signing up to some third-party service that will inevitably shut down or sell your information to advertisers or companies training their LLMs or leak your information due to poor security practices.\n</p>\n<p>\nSimilarly I also frequently use Gmail and Google Docs in my day-to-day work, and I\u2019ve grown relatively used to their lagginess, limitations, and weird user interface quirks. I use them as necessary for work and collaboration and otherwise do my best to minimize time spent in them.\n</p>\n<h2>Better Tools</h2>\n<p>\nI have focused primarily on writing tools, however I have made many distinct choices for personal web development tools as well, from writing mostly directly in HTML and CSS, to bits in PHP and JavaScript, rather than frameworks that demand regular updates that I cannot trust to not break my code. I myself try to build tools that aspire to the criteria listed above.\n</p>\n<p>\nAt a high level, new tools should provide at least one of three things:\n</p>\n<ol><li>Higher efficiency and/or quality: tools should help you do what you already could do, but  faster, better, cheaper, and more precisely</li>\n<li>Democratization: tools should help more people do what only a few could do before</li>\n<li>Novelty: tools should help you do new things that were either impossible before or not even imagined</li>\n</ol><p>\nMostly I prefer to focus on the first of those, as there are plenty of \u201cobvious\u201d improvements to be made beyond existing tools, and such improvements have much more predictable effects. While democratization of tools is nearly always a good thing, I can think of a small handful of examples that demonstrate that sometimes it is not. That\u2019s worth a separate post.\n</p>\n<p>Lastly, tools that help accomplish novel tasks that were previously impossible or not even imagined perhaps have the greatest risks and uncertainty, and thus I am ok with postponing exploring them for now. \n</p>\n<p>\nI wrote a few general thoughts on what tools and innovations to pursue and considerations thereof in my prior post: \n<a href=\"https://tantek.com/2024/180/b1/responsible-inventing\">Responsible Inventing</a>.\n</p>"
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        "html": "<p>A new instance means a new introduction. Hi, I'm RDK! I'm a blind Apple entusiast. I write primarily about indie apps, workflows, accessibility, and much more on my blog from the perspective of a screen reader user.</p><p>You will also find several categories, such as blogging and weeknotes.</p><p><a href=\"https://justtext.net\"><span>https://</span><span>justtext.net</span><span></span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://500.social/tags/introduction\">#<span>introduction</span></a> <a href=\"https://500.social/tags/accessibility\">#<span>accessibility</span></a> <a href=\"https://500.social/tags/apps\">#<span>apps</span></a> <a href=\"https://500.social/tags/indieWeb\">#<span>indieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://500.social/tags/blogging\">#<span>blogging</span></a> <a href=\"https://500.social/tags/writing\">#<span>writing</span></a></p>",
        "text": "A new instance means a new introduction. Hi, I'm RDK! I'm a blind Apple entusiast. I write primarily about indie apps, workflows, accessibility, and much more on my blog from the perspective of a screen reader user.\n\nYou will also find several categories, such as blogging and weeknotes.\n\nhttps://justtext.net\n\n#introduction #accessibility #apps #indieWeb #blogging #writing"
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        "html": "<p>It seems like these days everyone wants to train their AI on your content. Not surprising that more and more creators start looking for better ways to share their work. Read our latest guide and learn how to join <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> and <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/ownyourdata\">#<span>ownyourdata</span></a>: <a href=\"https://buff.ly/3S2NOPM\"><span>https://</span><span>buff.ly/3S2NOPM</span><span></span></a></p>",
        "text": "It seems like these days everyone wants to train their AI on your content. Not surprising that more and more creators start looking for better ways to share their work. Read our latest guide and learn how to join #IndieWeb and #ownyourdata: https://buff.ly/3S2NOPM"
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    "url": "https://bolha.us/@guites/112886685963467294",
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        "html": "<p>feito mais um puxadinho no meu site <img alt=\":cobrinha:\" height=\"16\" src=\"https://files.mastodon.social/cache/custom_emojis/images/000/483/709/original/61d72029ce83c371.gif\" title=\":cobrinha:\" width=\"16\" /></p><p>lhes apresento a p\u00e1gina whats up? <a href=\"https://guites.dev/whatsup/\"><span>https://</span><span>guites.dev/whatsup/</span><span></span></a> , fazendo uma chupeta no rss da bolha</p><p><a href=\"https://bolha.us/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "feito mais um puxadinho no meu site \n\nlhes apresento a p\u00e1gina whats up? https://guites.dev/whatsup/ , fazendo uma chupeta no rss da bolha\n\n#indieweb"
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    "url": "https://mstdn.social/@the_cheis/112886486531782097",
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        "html": "<p>Por cierto, dejo un art\u00edculo que publiqu\u00e9 hace m\u00e1s de un a\u00f1o en el blog, uno de los primeros y m\u00e1s grandes.  En \u00e9l hac\u00eda algunas reflexiones sobre la sociedad, su din\u00e1mica y la salud mental teniendo en cuenta la tecnolog\u00eda y la vida digital. Ah\u00ed ya hac\u00eda referencia a Kaczynski o al psiquiatra Thomas Szasz.</p><p>Una sociedad ansiosa y deprimida</p><p><a href=\"https://mstdn.social/tags/sociedad\">#<span>sociedad</span></a> <a href=\"https://mstdn.social/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href=\"https://mstdn.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://thecheis.com/2023/04/01/una-sociedad-ansiosa-y-deprimida/\"><span>https://</span><span>thecheis.com/2023/04/01/una-so</span><span>ciedad-ansiosa-y-deprimida/</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Por cierto, dejo un art\u00edculo que publiqu\u00e9 hace m\u00e1s de un a\u00f1o en el blog, uno de los primeros y m\u00e1s grandes.  En \u00e9l hac\u00eda algunas reflexiones sobre la sociedad, su din\u00e1mica y la salud mental teniendo en cuenta la tecnolog\u00eda y la vida digital. Ah\u00ed ya hac\u00eda referencia a Kaczynski o al psiquiatra Thomas Szasz.\n\nUna sociedad ansiosa y deprimida\n\n#sociedad #blog #indieweb\n\nhttps://thecheis.com/2023/04/01/una-sociedad-ansiosa-y-deprimida/"
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    "url": "https://tilde.zone/@garrett/112884894076089952",
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        "html": "<p>How are people getting into the Small Web and related movements these days (aside from fediverse)?</p><p>I missed the whole Yesterweb thing and just finished reading their website. </p><p>Is Neocities still a common platform for progressive netizens? Should I just self host? Are we going back to web rings? What about Gemini browsers? </p><p>Please help, lol. <img alt=\":blue_heart_pixel:\" height=\"16\" src=\"https://files.mastodon.social/cache/custom_emojis/images/000/247/485/original/e3cbc02923aa5f4d.png\" title=\":blue_heart_pixel:\" width=\"16\" /></p><p>What are things looking like for 2024/2025?</p><p><a href=\"https://tilde.zone/tags/SmallWeb\">#<span>SmallWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://tilde.zone/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://tilde.zone/tags/personalweb\">#<span>personalweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://tilde.zone/tags/webrevival\">#<span>webrevival</span></a></p>",
        "text": "How are people getting into the Small Web and related movements these days (aside from fediverse)?\n\nI missed the whole Yesterweb thing and just finished reading their website. \n\nIs Neocities still a common platform for progressive netizens? Should I just self host? Are we going back to web rings? What about Gemini browsers? \n\nPlease help, lol. \n\nWhat are things looking like for 2024/2025?\n\n#SmallWeb #indieweb #personalweb #webrevival"
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        "html": "<p>My July Summary | Welcome to BASIC</p><p>This felt longer than last month as I typed this post. </p><p><a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/blogging\">#<span>blogging</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/TVShows\">#<span>TVShows</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/movies\">#<span>movies</span></a> <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/anime\">#<span>anime</span></a> </p><p><a href=\"https://basic.bearblog.dev/my-july-summary/\"><span>https://</span><span>basic.bearblog.dev/my-july-sum</span><span>mary/</span></a></p>",
        "text": "My July Summary | Welcome to BASIC\n\nThis felt longer than last month as I typed this post. \n\n#blog #indieweb #blogging #TVShows #movies #anime \n\nhttps://basic.bearblog.dev/my-july-summary/"
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    "published": "2024-08-01T03:41:02+00:00",
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    "url": "https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://uxbrad.com/activity/20240731/214733/",
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        "html": "<p>After months of trying to find time to participate in the IndieWeb Carnival, I finally managed to eek out a post for the July topic of \u2018Tools\u2019. So check out what I wrote about the tools I use as a UX designer in <a href=\"https://uxbrad.com/posts/instruments-for-empathy\">Instruments for Empathy</a>.</p>",
        "text": "After months of trying to find time to participate in the IndieWeb Carnival, I finally managed to eek out a post for the July topic of \u2018Tools\u2019. So check out what I wrote about the tools I use as a UX designer in Instruments for Empathy."
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