Ben Werdmuller werd.io/profile/benwerd

Predictions for tech, 2025

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        "text": "You know what they say: predictions are like resurgent nationalist movements. Everyone\u2019s got one.\n\nI missed the deadline for Nieman Lab\u2019s always-excellent Predictions for Journalism this year, so I thought I\u2019d share a few more bite-sized predictions about various topics I\u2019ve written over the last year. Every prediction says more about the person making it than about the actual future; please take these in that light. I am not a soothsayer, but boy, do I have opinions.\n\nHere are some of them:The AI industry will continue to orient itself around its definition of AGI, regardless of its harms.OpenAI and Microsoft\u2019s definition of artificial general intelligence is not what you might suspect: they define it as the point where AI systems can generate at least $100 billion in profits. Given that the industry is losing billions of dollars hand over fist today, there\u2019s a long way to go.\n\nClosing that gap means selling in lots of different places, but the most lucrative are going to be deeper partnerships with mass-market systems, government, and military applications. For all of OpenAI\u2019s talk about not creating AI that will make us extinct through its intelligence, I predict it and companies like it will take firmer steps towards assisting companies who might kill us through more prosaic means.\n\nAI vendors may also look at ways to reduce the cost of sanitizing and tagging its input data \u2014 currently often outsourced overseas. They may, for example, consider using prison labor, taking cues from Finland, which has engaged in the practice for years.Publishers will pivot to AI, with predictable results.Lured by up-front payouts and a carefully-cultivated (and heavily paid-for) sense that they\u2019re missing out if they\u2019re not participating, many news publishers will be all-in on AI. It will be to their detriment.\n\nPublishers with low-volume qualitative output will mistakenly think that their high-quality stories are more valuable to AI vendors, fundamentally misunderstanding how training data is acquired and used. They will not see the ongoing licensing premiums for their content that they might hope for.\n\nPublishers with high-volume output will allow their stories to be used as training data. They will find that ongoing revenue suffers as a result and that those payments only temporarily addressed a downward funding trend that will continue apace.\n\nOnly the publishers who treat AI as a side issue and continue to address their fundamental value to their readers and communities will succeed.The United States will not create a Bitcoin reserve.Despite calls and even a pledge to the contrary, President Trump will not follow through with creating any kind of crypto reserve or an intentional stockpile of Bitcoin. It\u2019s simply not in his interests: the US dollar is not just a currency but a global network of power and influence that he can leverage to his advantage.\n\nBut don\u2019t rejoice quite yet, crypto-skeptics. Instead of stockpiling existing, independent cryptocurrencies, he might plausibly create a new coin with US interests in mind and with the official seal of a government endorsement, with partners drawn from his existing network. (USDC, the prevailing dollar-backed stablecoin, is issued by Circle, a private company. This would be a replacement.) The result would almost certainly be more profit for his own private interests and that of his friends, particularly as he could incentivize traditional American banks to support it as a transfer mechanism.Threads will implement full ActivityPub integration but continue to struggle to release it in the EU.Confounding its skeptics, Threads will release full end-to-end support for the ActivityPub specification that allows it to act as one cohesive social network with Mastodon, among other platforms. The immediate effect will be a change of the center of gravity in the Fediverse: rather than Threads being seen to integrate with Mastodon, Mastodon and every Fediverse platform will be seen as Threads-compatible. (Mastodon et al will continue to support smaller communities with specific needs; Threads will be the mass market platform on the network.)\n\nBecause of the way data is federated between systems in ActivityPub, and because of Meta\u2019s data commitments as a large platform owner, this compatibility will not launch in the EU without major changes to the experience. Meta will endeavor to work with the authors of ActivityPub to make it easier to comply with EU data restrictions, but may be seen as trying to exert undue influence over the protocol by some in the community.Some social media platforms will relocate from the US.In an effort to maintain independence and avoid complying with restrictions to Section 230 and an uptick in government subpoenas under the Trump administration, some social media platforms will move their headquarters to countries that allow them to maintain more independence.\n\nNeutral Switzerland will be a favorite. Because of a local requirement to have some Swiss ownership of countries located there, some founders will seek to go through its notoriously difficult naturalization process; there will also be an influx of repatriated Swiss tech entrepreneurs who see an opportunity in helping out.TikTok will continue to operate, but will need to take it to the Supreme Court.The law banning TikTok goes into effect on January 19, one day before the inauguration of the new President. It cannot comply. It\u2019s likely, therefore, that it will take up the case and bring it to the Supreme Court. The Court may then decide that the law was written with punishing a single target in mind (TikTok alone), without a preceding trial for the claimed crimes, and could repeal it on that basis.Bird flu will be a thing.California has already declared a state of emergency because of its spread in cattle, and the virus has already mutated in human hosts to become more infectious. 66 people have died from it at the time of writing. On the prediction markets, the probability of a million cases by the end of the year is soaring.\n\nWhether this becomes a global pandemic like COVID-19 will be up to governments to respond. Given the US government that will be in power when this does, inevitably, become a thing, I\u2019ll leave it up to the reader to decide whether the response will be science-based and adequately up to the challenge.Long-form fiction will (continue to) rise.A lot of ink has been spilled about the death of books. Elle Griffin\u2019s piece No one buys books has been particularly influential. It\u2019s also not a complete picture.\n\nIt\u2019s absolutely true that the big publishing houses are consolidating and that there are fewer opportunities to be published by them if you don\u2019t have an existing community. But there\u2019s a long tail of smaller publishing houses, and self-publishing has become more than a cottage industry. The latter isn\u2019t just hacks banging out AI-written non-fiction self-help books; there are many, many authors building genuinely great careers on their own terms. They\u2019re not Stephen King millionaires, but they\u2019re making a great living \u2014 particularly in genres like dark romance that big publishing houses might be less excited to touch.\n\nIn a world that is going to feel a bit more adverse (see my other predictions above), independent, interesting fiction that speaks to the needs of its audience will both find that audience and do well with it. In turn, the continued rise of ereaders will make the relative lack of placement in bookstores for those titles almost irrelevant. Fiction is undergoing the classic disruption story; it\u2019s not dying at all.\n\nThis disruption will accelerate in 2025. There\u2019s even an opportunity to do for long-form fiction what Substack did for newsletters, and I\u2019d bet that someone will take it. Even without such a platform, the Kindle Direct Publishing program and services like IngramSpark (together with sales support from the likes of BookBub etc) will allow the market to continue to grow.Unions movements will continue to grow, particularly for knowledge workers. Whether they\u2019ll win is up in the air.The labor movement continues to gain strength, and unions have historically high support, although actual union membership remains incredibly low. The first trend is likely to continue, particularly as AI continues to threaten the livelihoods of knowledge workers, and as the Trump administration emboldens employers to roll back benefits and DEI initiatives: they will attempt to unionize in greater numbers, with more ferocity, and more interruptions to work while they negotiate for stronger protections.\n\nWill they win? I don\u2019t know. Union contract negotiations can take years, so it\u2019s hard to say what the outcome will be. If they do win, the outcome will be higher wages, stronger benefits, and better working conditions for employees. (That\u2019s what unions do.) But historically, knowledge worker unions have had a hard time convincing colleagues to sign up; see the Alphabet Workers Union, whose membership is a tiny fraction of Alphabet\u2019s total employment base.What did I miss? What did I get wrong?Those are some of my predictions for 2025. What are yours? Where do you disagree? I\u2019d love to hear from you.",
        "html": "<p><img src=\"https://werd.io/file/67740cca848fdc438f066e42/thumb.jpg\" alt=\"2025: Photo by Moritz Kn\u00f6ringer on Unsplash\" width=\"1024\" height=\"637\" /></p><p>You know what they say: predictions are like resurgent nationalist movements. Everyone\u2019s got one.</p><p>I missed the deadline for <a href=\"https://www.niemanlab.org/collection/predictions-2025/\">Nieman Lab\u2019s always-excellent Predictions for Journalism</a> this year, so I thought I\u2019d share a few more bite-sized predictions about various topics I\u2019ve written over the last year. Every prediction says more about the person making it than about the actual future; please take these in that light. I am not a soothsayer, but <em>boy</em>, do I have opinions.</p><p>Here are some of them:</p><h3>The AI industry will continue to orient itself around its definition of AGI, regardless of its harms.</h3><p>OpenAI and Microsoft\u2019s definition of artificial general intelligence is not what you might suspect: they define it as the point where AI systems <a href=\"https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/26/microsoft-and-openai-have-a-financial-definition-of-agi-report/\">can generate at least $100 billion in profits</a>. Given that the industry is losing billions of dollars hand over fist today, there\u2019s a long way to go.</p><p>Closing that gap means selling in lots of different places, but the most lucrative are going to be deeper partnerships with mass-market systems, government, and military applications. For all of OpenAI\u2019s talk about not creating AI that will make us extinct through its intelligence, I predict it and companies like it will take firmer steps towards assisting companies who might kill us through more prosaic means.</p><p>AI vendors may also look at ways to reduce the cost of sanitizing and tagging its input data \u2014 currently often outsourced overseas. They may, for example, consider using prison labor, <a href=\"https://www.wired.com/story/prisoners-training-ai-finland/\">taking cues from Finland, which has engaged in the practice for years</a>.</p><h3>Publishers will pivot to AI, with predictable results.</h3><p>Lured by up-front payouts and a carefully-cultivated (and heavily paid-for) sense that they\u2019re missing out if they\u2019re not participating, many news publishers will be all-in on AI. It will be to their detriment.</p><p>Publishers with low-volume qualitative output will mistakenly think that their high-quality stories are more valuable to AI vendors, fundamentally misunderstanding how training data is acquired and used. They will not see the ongoing licensing premiums for their content that they might hope for.</p><p>Publishers with high-volume output will allow their stories to be used as training data. They will find that ongoing revenue suffers as a result and that those payments only temporarily addressed a downward funding trend that will continue apace.</p><p>Only the publishers who treat AI as a side issue and continue to address their fundamental value to their readers and communities will succeed.</p><h3>The United States will not create a Bitcoin reserve.</h3><p><a href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/12/19/bitcoin-strategic-reserve-stockpile-trump/77092608007/\">Despite calls and even a pledge to the contrary</a>, President Trump will not follow through with creating any kind of crypto reserve or an intentional stockpile of Bitcoin. It\u2019s simply not in his interests: the US dollar is not just a currency but a global network of power and influence that he can leverage to his advantage.</p><p>But don\u2019t rejoice quite yet, crypto-skeptics. Instead of stockpiling existing, independent cryptocurrencies, he might plausibly create a new coin with US interests in mind and with the official seal of a government endorsement, with partners drawn from his existing network. (<a href=\"https://www.usdc.com/\">USDC</a>, the prevailing dollar-backed stablecoin, is issued by Circle, a private company. This would be a replacement.) The result would almost certainly be more profit for his own private interests and that of his friends, particularly as he could incentivize traditional American banks to support it as a transfer mechanism.</p><h3>Threads will implement full ActivityPub integration but continue to struggle to release it in the EU.</h3><p>Confounding its skeptics, Threads will release full end-to-end support for the ActivityPub specification that allows it to act as one cohesive social network with Mastodon, among other platforms. The immediate effect will be a change of the center of gravity in the Fediverse: rather than Threads being seen to integrate with Mastodon, Mastodon and every Fediverse platform will be seen as Threads-compatible. (Mastodon et al will continue to support smaller communities with specific needs; Threads will be the mass market platform on the network.)</p><p>Because of the way data is federated between systems in ActivityPub, and because of Meta\u2019s data commitments as a large platform owner, this compatibility will not launch in the EU without major changes to the experience. Meta will endeavor to work with the authors of ActivityPub to make it easier to comply with EU data restrictions, but may be seen as trying to exert undue influence over the protocol by some in the community.</p><h3>Some social media platforms will relocate from the US.</h3><p>In an effort to maintain independence and avoid complying with restrictions to Section 230 and an uptick in government subpoenas under the Trump administration, some social media platforms will move their headquarters to countries that allow them to maintain more independence.</p><p>Neutral Switzerland will be a favorite. Because of a local requirement to have some Swiss ownership of countries located there, some founders will seek to go through its notoriously difficult naturalization process; there will also be an influx of repatriated Swiss tech entrepreneurs who see an opportunity in helping out.</p><h3>TikTok will continue to operate, but will need to take it to the Supreme Court.</h3><p>The law banning TikTok goes into effect on January 19, one day before the inauguration of the new President. It cannot comply. It\u2019s likely, therefore, that it will take up the case and bring it to the Supreme Court. The Court may then decide that the law was written with punishing a single target in mind (TikTok alone), without a preceding trial for the claimed crimes, and could repeal it on that basis.</p><h3>Bird flu will be a thing.</h3><p>California has already <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/19/california-bird-flu-state-emergency\">declared a state of emergency</a> because of its spread in cattle, and <a href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2024/12/26/cdc-says-h5n1-bird-flu-sample-shows-mutations-that-may-help-the-virus-bind-to-cells-in-the-upper-airways-of-people/\">the virus has already mutated in human hosts to become more infectious</a>. 66 people have died from it at the time of writing. <a href=\"https://manifold.markets/AlexanderLeCampbell/will-there-be-a-1m-bird-flu-outbrea\">On the prediction markets, the probability of a million cases by the end of the year is soaring</a>.</p><p>Whether this becomes a global pandemic like COVID-19 will be up to governments to respond. Given the US government that will be in power when this does, inevitably, become <em>a thing</em>, I\u2019ll leave it up to the reader to decide whether the response will be science-based and adequately up to the challenge.</p><h3>Long-form fiction will (continue to) rise.</h3><p>A lot of ink has been spilled about the death of books. Elle Griffin\u2019s piece <a href=\"https://www.elysian.press/p/no-one-buys-books\">No one buys books</a> has been particularly influential. It\u2019s also not a complete picture.</p><p>It\u2019s absolutely true that the big publishing houses are consolidating and that there are fewer opportunities to be published by them if you don\u2019t have an existing community. But there\u2019s a long tail of smaller publishing houses, and self-publishing has become more than a cottage industry. The latter isn\u2019t just hacks banging out AI-written non-fiction self-help books; there are many, many authors building genuinely great careers on their own terms. They\u2019re not Stephen King millionaires, but they\u2019re making a great living \u2014 particularly in genres like dark romance that big publishing houses might be less excited to touch.</p><p>In a world that is going to feel a bit more adverse (see my other predictions above), independent, interesting fiction that speaks to the needs of its audience will both find that audience and do well with it. In turn, the continued rise of ereaders will make the relative lack of placement in bookstores for those titles almost irrelevant. Fiction is undergoing <a href=\"https://hbr.org/2015/12/what-is-disruptive-innovation\">the classic disruption story</a>; it\u2019s not dying at all.</p><p>This disruption will accelerate in 2025. There\u2019s even an opportunity to do for long-form fiction what Substack did for newsletters, and I\u2019d bet that someone will take it. Even without such a platform, the Kindle Direct Publishing program and services like IngramSpark (together with sales support from the likes of <a href=\"https://www.bookbub.com/\">BookBub</a> etc) will allow the market to continue to grow.</p><h3>Unions movements will continue to grow, particularly for knowledge workers. Whether they\u2019ll win is up in the air.</h3><p>The labor movement continues to gain strength, and unions have historically high support, although actual union membership remains incredibly low. The first trend is likely to continue, particularly as AI continues to threaten the livelihoods of knowledge workers, and as the Trump administration emboldens employers to roll back benefits and DEI initiatives: they will attempt to unionize in greater numbers, with more ferocity, and more interruptions to work while they negotiate for stronger protections.</p><p>Will they win? I don\u2019t know. Union contract negotiations can take years, so it\u2019s hard to say what the outcome will be. If they <em>do</em> win, the outcome will be higher wages, stronger benefits, and better working conditions for employees. (That\u2019s what unions do.) But historically, knowledge worker unions have had a hard time convincing colleagues to sign up; see the <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_Workers_Union\">Alphabet Workers Union</a>, whose membership is a tiny fraction of Alphabet\u2019s total employment base.</p><h3>What did I miss? What did I get wrong?</h3><p>Those are some of my predictions for 2025. What are yours? Where do you disagree? I\u2019d love to hear from you.</p>"
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Manton Reece www.manton.org

Micro.one will not have source feeds

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        "html": "<p>Off and on for years I had been trying to figure out what a more slimmed down version of Micro.blog would look like. Maybe text-only blog posts, no photos? Maybe only short posts, or only long-form posts? Maybe some limit with podcasting? But taking away certain features undermines the mission of helping people blog.</p>\n<p>We can\u2019t disable custom domain names, for example, even though that\u2019s an obvious point to upsell, because domain names are at the core of what the product is.</p>\n<p>Finally, I figured it out: we can remove the Sources page. Source feeds are Micro.blog\u2019s plumbing, how it routes posts between blogs and the social web. When you post to your blog, it\u2019s generating RSS and JSON feeds, which are then <em>read back in</em> to copy posts to Micro.blog\u2019s timeline and cross-post to Bluesky, Threads, and elsewhere. This flexible is what gives Micro.blog the unique power of bringing external RSS feeds (not hosted on Micro.blog) into the timeline.</p>\n<p>You can still have your own blog without external feeds and cross-posting to other services, though. And you can still connect to the fediverse because ActivityPub is baked into the platform.</p>\n<p>So that\u2019s what we\u2019re doing for <a href=\"https://micro.one/\">Micro.one</a>. Removing the Sources page hides some of the complexity, eliminating one of the most powerful but confusing parts of Micro.blog. When you use Micro.one, you can blog and people on Mastodon can still follow you, but there\u2019s less to configure.</p>\n<p>I hear some of you saying: \u201cBut wait, I use the Sources page to add WordPress or Glass feeds, and to cross-post to Threads and Bluesky.\u201d Great! Keep using it.</p>\n<p>Micro.one does not replace Micro.blog. It\u2019s a new option for people who aren\u2019t using Micro.blog yet. If you are using Micro.blog, you are already in the right place.</p>\n<p>If someone signs up for Micro.one and they later need the extra advanced features and cross-posting, they can upgrade from the $1 Micro.one subscription to the standard $5 Micro.blog subscription. It\u2019s a natural upgrade without gimmicks.</p>\n<p>Micro.one will be a complete product. No nags that make you feel you\u2019re missing half the story. In some ways it\u2019s a new foundation and new brand. It will evolve. I can\u2019t wait to open it up in just a couple days.</p>",
        "text": "Off and on for years I had been trying to figure out what a more slimmed down version of Micro.blog would look like. Maybe text-only blog posts, no photos? Maybe only short posts, or only long-form posts? Maybe some limit with podcasting? But taking away certain features undermines the mission of helping people blog.\nWe can\u2019t disable custom domain names, for example, even though that\u2019s an obvious point to upsell, because domain names are at the core of what the product is.\nFinally, I figured it out: we can remove the Sources page. Source feeds are Micro.blog\u2019s plumbing, how it routes posts between blogs and the social web. When you post to your blog, it\u2019s generating RSS and JSON feeds, which are then read back in to copy posts to Micro.blog\u2019s timeline and cross-post to Bluesky, Threads, and elsewhere. This flexible is what gives Micro.blog the unique power of bringing external RSS feeds (not hosted on Micro.blog) into the timeline.\nYou can still have your own blog without external feeds and cross-posting to other services, though. And you can still connect to the fediverse because ActivityPub is baked into the platform.\nSo that\u2019s what we\u2019re doing for Micro.one. Removing the Sources page hides some of the complexity, eliminating one of the most powerful but confusing parts of Micro.blog. When you use Micro.one, you can blog and people on Mastodon can still follow you, but there\u2019s less to configure.\nI hear some of you saying: \u201cBut wait, I use the Sources page to add WordPress or Glass feeds, and to cross-post to Threads and Bluesky.\u201d Great! Keep using it.\nMicro.one does not replace Micro.blog. It\u2019s a new option for people who aren\u2019t using Micro.blog yet. If you are using Micro.blog, you are already in the right place.\nIf someone signs up for Micro.one and they later need the extra advanced features and cross-posting, they can upgrade from the $1 Micro.one subscription to the standard $5 Micro.blog subscription. It\u2019s a natural upgrade without gimmicks.\nMicro.one will be a complete product. No nags that make you feel you\u2019re missing half the story. In some ways it\u2019s a new foundation and new brand. It will evolve. I can\u2019t wait to open it up in just a couple days."
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        "html": "<p>Because I'm living my best <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> life, I put together one of those year-end musical replay lists using my own data. The results are highly questionable and I won't blame you for judging me.</p><p>#1 played song: Counter Parts &amp; Number Them by Alexisonfire</p><p>#1 played artist/band: The Tragically Hip</p><p>Full list of top 25's: <a href=\"https://chrisjones.io/tracks/replay/\"><span>https://</span><span>chrisjones.io/tracks/replay/</span><span></span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/replay\">#<span>replay</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/music\">#<span>music</span></a></p>",
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        "html": "<p>Julkaisin aikaisemmin sen Hugo-oppaan. Minua j\u00e4i kaivelemaan se, ett\u00e4 Hugon oletusteema sis\u00e4lt\u00e4\u00e4 tarpeettoman paljon aloittelijaa sekoittavia piirteit\u00e4.</p><p>Niinp\u00e4 tein siit\u00e4 viel\u00e4 yksinkertaisemman version, jota voi k\u00e4ytt\u00e4\u00e4 oman teeman tai harjoittelun pohjana. Lis\u00e4sin sivupohjiin suomenkieliset kommentit, jotka toivon mukaan selkeytt\u00e4v\u00e4t, mit\u00e4 mik\u00e4kin rivi tekee.</p><p>Sama juttu kuin viimeksi: jos on kysytt\u00e4v\u00e4\u00e4 niin saa kysy\u00e4. Koetan auttaa parhaani mukaan.</p><p><a href=\"https://github.com/saaste/simple-hugo-theme\"><span>https://</span><span>github.com/saaste/simple-hugo-</span><span>theme</span></a></p><p>Itse opas l\u00f6ytyy t\u00e4\u00e4lt\u00e4: <a href=\"https://saaste.net/blogi/2024/hugo-osa-1/\"><span>https://</span><span>saaste.net/blogi/2024/hugo-osa</span><span>-1/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://mementomori.social/tags/hugo\">#<span>hugo</span></a> <a href=\"https://mementomori.social/tags/kotisivut\">#<span>kotisivut</span></a> <a href=\"https://mementomori.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Julkaisin aikaisemmin sen Hugo-oppaan. Minua j\u00e4i kaivelemaan se, ett\u00e4 Hugon oletusteema sis\u00e4lt\u00e4\u00e4 tarpeettoman paljon aloittelijaa sekoittavia piirteit\u00e4.\n\nNiinp\u00e4 tein siit\u00e4 viel\u00e4 yksinkertaisemman version, jota voi k\u00e4ytt\u00e4\u00e4 oman teeman tai harjoittelun pohjana. Lis\u00e4sin sivupohjiin suomenkieliset kommentit, jotka toivon mukaan selkeytt\u00e4v\u00e4t, mit\u00e4 mik\u00e4kin rivi tekee.\n\nSama juttu kuin viimeksi: jos on kysytt\u00e4v\u00e4\u00e4 niin saa kysy\u00e4. Koetan auttaa parhaani mukaan.\n\nhttps://github.com/saaste/simple-hugo-theme\n\nItse opas l\u00f6ytyy t\u00e4\u00e4lt\u00e4: https://saaste.net/blogi/2024/hugo-osa-1/\n\n#hugo #kotisivut #indieweb"
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Jeremy Keith adactio.com

Words I wrote in 2024

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        "text": "People spent a lot of time and energy in 2024 talking about (and on) other people\u2019s websites. Twitter. Bluesky. Mastodon. Even LinkedIn.\n\nI observed it all with the dispassionate perspective of Dr. Manhattan on Mars. While I\u2019m happy to see more people abondoning the cesspool that is Twitter, I\u2019m not all that invested in either Mastodon or Bluesky. Or any other website, for that matter. I\u2019m glad they\u2019re there, but if they disappeared tomorrow, I\u2019d carry on posting here on my own site.\n\nI posted to my website over 850 times in 2024. sparkline\n\nI shared over 350 links. sparkline\n\nI posted over 400 notes. sparkline\n\nI published just one article.\n\nAnd I wrote almost 100 blog posts here in my journal this year. sparkline\n\nHere are some cherry-picked highlights:\n\nJanuary: Continuous partial ick \u2014 Voigt-Kampff.\nMarch: What the world needs \u2014 Write for yourself.\nApril: My approach to HTML web components \u2014 Naming custom elements, naming attributes, the single responsibility principle, and communicating across components.\nJune: Filters \u2014 A web by humans, for humans.\nAugust: Frostapalooza \u2014 A truly special event.\nNovember: The meaning of \u201cAI\u201d\u00a0\u2014 Naming things is hard, and sometimes harmful.",
        "html": "<p>People spent a lot of time and energy in 2024 talking about (and on) other people\u2019s websites. Twitter. Bluesky. Mastodon. Even LinkedIn.</p>\n\n<p>I observed it all with the dispassionate perspective of Dr. Manhattan on Mars. While I\u2019m happy to see more people abondoning the cesspool that is Twitter, I\u2019m not all that invested in either Mastodon or Bluesky. Or any other website, for that matter. I\u2019m glad they\u2019re there, but if they disappeared tomorrow, I\u2019d carry on posting here on my own site.</p>\n\n<p>I posted to my website <a href=\"https://adactio.com/archive/2024\">over 850 times</a> in 2024. sparkline</p>\n\n<p>I shared <a href=\"https://adactio.com/links/archive/2024\">over 350 links</a>. sparkline</p>\n\n<p>I posted <a href=\"https://adactio.com/notes/archive/2024\">over 400 notes</a>. sparkline</p>\n\n<p>I published <a href=\"https://adactio.com/articles/21110\">just one article</a>.</p>\n\n<p>And I wrote <a href=\"https://adactio.com/journal/archive/2024\">almost 100 blog posts</a> here in my journal this year. sparkline</p>\n\n<p>Here are some cherry-picked highlights:</p>\n\n<ul><li>January: <a href=\"https://adactio.com/journal/20804\">Continuous partial ick</a> \u2014 Voigt-Kampff.</li>\n<li>March: <a href=\"https://adactio.com/journal/20996\">What the world needs</a> \u2014 Write for yourself.</li>\n<li>April: <a href=\"https://adactio.com/journal/21078\">My approach to HTML web components</a> \u2014 Naming custom elements, naming attributes, the single responsibility principle, and communicating across components.</li>\n<li>June: <a href=\"https://adactio.com/journal/21241\">Filters</a> \u2014 A web by humans, for humans.</li>\n<li>August: <a href=\"https://adactio.com/journal/21355\">Frostapalooza</a> \u2014 A truly special event.</li>\n<li>November: <a href=\"https://adactio.com/journal/21552\">The meaning of \u201cAI\u201d</a>\u00a0\u2014 Naming things is hard, and sometimes harmful.</li>\n</ul>"
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        "html": "<p>when your non-techy friends finally visit your website:</p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.art/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "when your non-techy friends finally visit your website:\n\n#indieweb"
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        "html": "<p>I've just pushed a new version of my website <a href=\"https://jedidiah.dev/\"><span>https://</span><span>jedidiah.dev/</span><span></span></a> <br />I would really love if you have any crit/feedback/questions/suggestions. </p><p>Next I'm going to be finishing off some of the dusty posts sitting in my drafts folder.</p><p><a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/tags/blogging\">#<span>blogging</span></a> <a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/tags/webdev\">#<span>webdev</span></a> <a href=\"https://hachyderm.io/tags/PersonalSites\">#<span>PersonalSites</span></a></p>",
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        "html": "<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://mas.to/@OrionKidder\">@<span>OrionKidder</span></a></span> <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic\">@<span>pluralistic</span></a></span> </p><p>It's so true, RSS and Atom are still here and we should use them more.</p><p>They are an important part of the <a href=\"https://fosstodon.org/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> movement: <br />- <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/RSS\"><span>https://</span><span>indieweb.org/RSS</span><span></span></a><br />- <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/Atom\"><span>https://</span><span>indieweb.org/Atom</span><span></span></a></p>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic\"></a>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://mas.to/@OrionKidder\"></a>",
        "text": "@OrionKidder @pluralistic \n\nIt's so true, RSS and Atom are still here and we should use them more.\n\nThey are an important part of the #indieweb movement: \n- https://indieweb.org/RSS\n- https://indieweb.org/Atom"
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        "html": "<p>In a society of atomized individuals, there is a constant emphasis on individual solutions to resolve societal problems as the ultimate horizon of viable action and feasible transformation.</p><p>The issue with this line of reasoning is that you cannot save the planet on your own.</p><p><a href=\"https://rm-o.dev/blog/social-problems-and-individual-solutions/\"><span>https://</span><span>rm-o.dev/blog/social-problems-</span><span>and-individual-solutions/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "In a society of atomized individuals, there is a constant emphasis on individual solutions to resolve societal problems as the ultimate horizon of viable action and feasible transformation.\n\nThe issue with this line of reasoning is that you cannot save the planet on your own.\n\nhttps://rm-o.dev/blog/social-problems-and-individual-solutions/\n\n#blog #IndieWeb"
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        "html": "<p>Just pulled a web page I wrote back in 1999 and it renders perfectly like the day I wrote it <a href=\"https://epistolary.org/tags/Hamradio\">#<span>Hamradio</span></a> <a href=\"https://epistolary.org/tags/Swatch\">#<span>Swatch</span></a> <a href=\"https://epistolary.org/tags/Sputnik\">#<span>Sputnik</span></a> <a href=\"https://epistolary.org/tags/Satellite\">#<span>Satellite</span></a> <a href=\"https://epistolary.org/tags/HTML\">#<span>HTML</span></a> <a href=\"https://epistolary.org/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Just pulled a web page I wrote back in 1999 and it renders perfectly like the day I wrote it #Hamradio #Swatch #Sputnik #Satellite #HTML #IndieWeb"
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Ben Werdmuller werd.io/profile/benwerd

Stuff I loved in 2024

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        "text": "For many of us, myself included, it\u2019s been .. a year. Rather than rehash all of that again, I thought I\u2019d mark the end of the year by just listing some things I\u2019ve loved. Here you go.BooksJulia, by Sandra Newman\n\nNot just a retelling but a complete recasting of 1984. It's helpful to consider this as a separate work: a response to 1984, in a way, rather than a layering on top or a direct sequel. It's a criticism, an extension, a modernization, and a deep appreciation for the ideas all in one - and I was hooked. There's so much I want to write about here, but I don't want to spoil it. The ending, in particular, is perfect.\n\nIt Lasts Forever and Then It's Over, by Anne de Marcken\n\nBreathtaking from start to finish. A zombie novel as carrier for something deeper, so true and so sad. I read it alone in the dark, and thought to myself, thank god, something is real.\n\n\u200cInfinite Detail, by Tim Maughan\n\nA book about what happens when the Internet goes away, yes, but there\u2019s something much more than that: the exploration of humanity as content between advertising, the questions about what happens next post-revolution, the overlapping mysticism and open-source pragmatism, the breathing, beating characters, the class politics woven throughout.\n\n\u200cMoonbound, by Robin Sloan\n\nAn adventure story that didn't quite sit in any of the categories I had for it in my head, and which frequently made me laugh out loud with its tiny details. It sits somewhere between science fiction, fantasy, satire, and a meditation on the role of stories, wrapped up in a whimsical, breezy narrative that was always a joy. I'd hoped it was leading to a more momentous ending than the one that eventually landed, but that's only because the constituent pieces were so satisfying to explore through.TV\u200cOnly Murders in the Building\n\nWhile cozy mysteries have been a mainstay of British TV for decades, American television has generally veered towards procedural stories that serve as propaganda pieces for law enforcement, complete with weak network television writing and story-of-the-week production values. There hasn\u2019t been, as far as I\u2019m aware, a really good cozy series since Murder, She Wrote \u2014 but Only Murders fits the bill. It\u2019s as funny as anything Steve Martin and Martin Short have ever done, but also completely unthreatening: a lovely way to spend an evening.\n\n\u200cSlow Horses\n\nThis ongoing tale of dysfunctional MI5 agents could have been rotten: for example, if it had intentionally glorified the security services of played into tired Cold War tropes. It doesn\u2019t and it isn\u2019t; frequently the worst offender in its seasons is the machinations of the government itself, and its characters are nothing like the spy tropes we\u2019re used to. Most of all, it\u2019s great fun, and pretty one of the best things to have come out of any streaming service.\n\n\u200cDoctor Who\n\nLook, obviously. I\u2019m well-documented as a lifelong Whovian. But this year\u2019s offerings were fresher than usual, if pitched down to a younger audience than the series had been aiming for recently. The two-parter finale was a ridiculous take on an almost 50-year-old story, but episodes like Boom (an anticapitalist tale about the arms trade), Dot and Bubble (which could have been one of the best Black Mirror episodes), and 73 Yards (a kind of time travel ghost story) were some of the best the show has ever delivered. It\u2019s still the best TV show of all time, so there.\n\n\u200cThe Tourist\n\nNew to me this year, this had the right combination of tension and wry irony to keep me watching. I\u2019ve been a fan of Jamie Dornan since The Fall, but Danielle Macdonald is an equal standout: some beautiful acting that makes a ridiculous premise seem real. The second season isn\u2019t quite as good at the first, but only because some of the mystery has understandably been lost.Articles and Blog Posts\u200cWe Need To Rewild The Internet, by Maria Farrell and Robin Berjon\n\n\u200c Rewilding the internet is more than a metaphor. It\u2019s a framework and plan. It gives us fresh eyes for the wicked problem of extraction and control, and new means and allies to fix it. It recognizes that ending internet monopolies isn\u2019t just an intellectual problem. It\u2019s an emotional one. It answers questions like: How do we keep going when the monopolies have more money and power? How do we act collectively when they suborn our community spaces, funding and networks? And how do we communicate to our allies what fixing it will look and feel like?\n\nAn important \u2014 and detailed \u2014 call to action about the future of the internet. In lots of ways it should set the tone for how we build on the internet in 2025.\n\n\u200cOn Being Human and \u201cCreative\u201d, by Heather Bryant\n\n\u200cWhat generative AI creates is not any one person's creative expression. Generative AI is only possible because of the work that has been taken from others. It simply would not exist without the millions of data points that the models are based upon. Those data points were taken without permission, consent, compensation or even notification because the logistics of doing so would have made it logistically improbable and financially impossible.\n\nA wonderful piece from Heather Bryant that explores the humanity \u2014 the effort, the emotion, the lived experience, the community, the unique combination of things \u2014 behind real-world art that is created by people, and the theft of those things that generative AI represents.\n\n\u200cInside Medium\u2019s decade-long journey to find its own identity, by Ryan Broderick\n\n\u200cReplacing Williams was Tony Stubblebine, who may have seemed a little random to anyone scanning the headlines at the time. At that point he was running Coach.me, a personal life coaching platform, and heading up Better Humans, a Medium partner publication dedicated to personal development. But his roots in Twitter and, thus, in Medium, go all the way to, well, before the beginning. In the mid-2000s, he was the director of engineering at Odeo, the podcasting startup that would become the launching ground for Twitter.\n\nTony has turned Medium around, which has been lovely to see. I have emotional but not financial skin in this game: I enjoyed my time working at Medium eight years ago, I\u2019ve known Tony for going on 20 years, and I\u2019m similarly a fan of Ev. But I also just think the more places there are for considered voices to find their community, the better, and Medium has an important take on how to do it well. This piece was a good introduction to all of it.\n\n\u200cWhy we invented a new metric for measuring readership, by Alexandra Smith\n\nWe used to measure our journalism\u2019s reach and impact with website views, visitors, and engaged time\u2014the methods many of our funders insisted on. But even when we included stats about our social media engagement, newsletter subscribers, and member community, our audience data reports still didn\u2019t accurately reflect the ways we were serving people with our journalism.\n\nIn this piece, Alexandra introduced a way of measuring reach and impact for journalism that took into account the fact that audiences don\u2019t encounter it in one place \u2014 that the internet is, in fact, fractured, and journalism often takes different forms to meet its readers where they\u2019re at. That\u2019s light years ahead of how most newsrooms have been thinking. This piece has shaped the conversation since it was released. It\u2019s also thought-provoking for indieweb stalwarts like me: for lots of reasons, I think the website shouldbe the center of the universe for journalism, and ultimately you measure what matters. This approach doesn\u2019t downplay the website but does say: what matters is the connection you make with other humans, wherever it happens.SoftwareTodoist\n\nI\u2019m late to this party, but what an actual joy to find a todo list utility that actually works the way my brain does. The hotkeys allow me to add a task to the list whenever I need to \u2014 often mid-conversation \u2014 and then let me order them by time so I can figure out what to do next. And it\u2019s everywhere I need it to be. No notes or complaints.\n\n\u200cSurf\n\nFlipboard\u2019s new \u201cbrowser for the social web\u201d is ace: an app that wouldn\u2019t have been possible with proprietary social media. Users create playlists of sources \u2014 which is to say, people and publishers, irrespective of where they happen to be publishing. You can then peruse new content by people on those playlists and filter them by links, video, other media, and so on. Not only is the signal to noise ratio far higher, but it\u2019s far less exhausting than other social media apps. It\u2019s now the only social app I\u2019ll allow on my phone.\n\nHTML and CSS\n\nThey\u2019re still pretty great, and getting better and better! Did you know CSS has nesting now? I\u2019ve been enjoying using it.\n\nThe Fediverse\n\nThe single most important improvement to the web in decades. Hooray!Hardware\u200cKobo Libra Colour\n\nHonestly, this ebook reader has changed my life. The color screen (canonically a colour screen, but I\u2019ve been in the States for long enough that I feel compelled to discard the \u201cu\u201d) doesn\u2019t matter to me all that much, but it\u2019s responsive, has really great clarity, is light enough to read one-handed, and, most importantly of all, allows a parent of a co-sleeping toddler to read in bed without waking up his child. That last one is a gamechanger. Also, it works with library books and isn\u2019t Amazon-bound, which were both important to me.\n\n\u200cCalDigit TS4\n\nI\u2019d never really needed a docking station until this year. This thing\u2019s got a bunch of ports, a huge amount of throughput, memory card support, 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet, and sits on my desk in perfect silence. I flip between my work laptop and my personal computers really easily. It\u2019s perfect. Now all I need to add is a USB-C KVM switch and I\u2019ll be able to switch between personal and work machines with one button.Other\u200cAmtrak Metropolitan Lounges\n\nThese days I travel between Philadelphia and New York City very regularly. Amtrak\u2019s generously rewards points system means that I quickly built up enough status to gain access to its station lounges. They\u2019re not spectacularly fancy but do come with comfortable seating and free coffee, and for that alone they\u2019ve been a big upgrade for my commutes. A shoutout also needs to go to the Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station, which improves the experience of spending time at Penn from being locked in the Backrooms to something you might actually choose to look forward to.\n\n\u200cThe Guardian\n\nThe only news publication I let send notifications to my phone (aside from the one I work for). The Guardian\u2019s breaking news journalism is reliably good, and it has specialized feeds to subscribe to particular topics \u2014 not just for high-level topics like Business, but for example, specific news for the Middle East conflict or the war in Ukraine. I also appreciate The Guardian\u2019s responsible, reader-centric approach to funding: despite being paywall-free, readers account for over half of its budget.\n\n\u200cMs. Moni\n\nWe\u2019re reluctantly on the YouTube train with our toddler. There are a bunch of performers who are trying very hard to find audiences in the wake of the success of the likes of Ms. Rachel (who is great) and Blippi (who is like nails on a chalkboard to me, although his stablemate Meekah is a lot better). By far my favorite of the genre is Monica Ferreira: an Australian teacher and professional musician who started recording YouTube videos after experiencing chronic pain. She edits, composes, and builds the graphics for her videos herself, with high production values and no junk content. It\u2019s been a breath of fresh air, and honestly, a relief.What about you?What were your favorite things from 2024? Let me know what I missed.",
        "html": "<p><img src=\"https://werd.io/file/6772fcf297906bcdc1050152/thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Some of my favorite things from 2024.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"597\" /></p><p>For many of us, myself included, it\u2019s been .. <em>a year</em>. Rather than rehash all of that again, I thought I\u2019d mark the end of the year by just listing some things I\u2019ve loved. Here you go.</p><h4>Books</h4><p><strong><a href=\"https://bookshop.org/a/7949/9780063265332\">Julia, by Sandra Newman</a></strong></p><p>Not just a retelling but a complete recasting of 1984. It's helpful to consider this as a separate work: a response to 1984, in a way, rather than a layering on top or a direct sequel. It's a criticism, an extension, a modernization, and a deep appreciation for the ideas all in one - and I was hooked. There's so much I want to write about here, but I don't want to spoil it. The ending, in particular, is perfect.</p><p><strong><a href=\"https://bookshop.org/a/7949/9780811237857\">It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over, by Anne de Marcken</a></strong></p><p>Breathtaking from start to finish. A zombie novel as carrier for something deeper, so true and so sad. I read it alone in the dark, and thought to myself, thank god, something is real.</p><p><strong>\u200c<a href=\"https://bookshop.org/a/7949/9780374175412\">Infinite Detail, by Tim Maughan</a></strong></p><p>A book about what happens when the Internet goes away, yes, but there\u2019s something much more than that: the exploration of humanity as content between advertising, the questions about what happens next post-revolution, the overlapping mysticism and open-source pragmatism, the breathing, beating characters, the class politics woven throughout.</p><p><strong>\u200c<a href=\"https://bookshop.org/a/7949/9780374610609\">Moonbound, by Robin Sloan</a></strong></p><p>An adventure story that didn't quite sit in any of the categories I had for it in my head, and which frequently made me laugh out loud with its tiny details. It sits somewhere between science fiction, fantasy, satire, and a meditation on the role of stories, wrapped up in a whimsical, breezy narrative that was always a joy. I'd hoped it was leading to a more momentous ending than the one that eventually landed, but that's only because the constituent pieces were so satisfying to explore through.</p><h4>TV</h4><p><strong>\u200c<a href=\"https://www.hulu.com/series/only-murders-in-the-building-ef31c7e1-cd0f-4e07-848d-1cbfedb50ddf\">Only Murders in the Building</a></strong></p><p>While cozy mysteries have been a mainstay of British TV for decades, American television has generally veered towards procedural stories that serve as propaganda pieces for law enforcement, complete with weak network television writing and story-of-the-week production values. There hasn\u2019t been, as far as I\u2019m aware, a really good cozy series since <em>Murder, She Wrote</em> \u2014 but <em>Only Murders</em> fits the bill. It\u2019s as funny as anything Steve Martin and Martin Short have ever done, but also completely unthreatening: a lovely way to spend an evening.</p><p><strong>\u200c<a href=\"https://tv.apple.com/us/show/slow-horses/umc.cmc.2szz3fdt71tl1ulnbp8utgq5o\">Slow Horses</a></strong></p><p>This ongoing tale of dysfunctional MI5 agents could have been rotten: for example, if it had intentionally glorified the security services of played into tired Cold War tropes. It doesn\u2019t and it isn\u2019t; frequently the worst offender in its seasons is the machinations of the government itself, and its characters are nothing like the spy tropes we\u2019re used to. Most of all, it\u2019s great fun, and pretty one of the best things to have come out of any streaming service.</p><p><strong>\u200c<a href=\"https://www.doctorwho.tv/\">Doctor Who</a></strong></p><p>Look, obviously. I\u2019m well-documented as a lifelong Whovian. But this year\u2019s offerings were fresher than usual, if pitched down to a younger audience than the series had been aiming for recently. The two-parter finale was a ridiculous take on an almost 50-year-old story, but episodes like <em>Boom</em> (an anticapitalist tale about the arms trade), <em>Dot and Bubble</em> (which could have been one of the best <em>Black Mirror</em> episodes), and <em>73 Yards</em> (a kind of time travel ghost story) were some of the best the show has ever delivered. It\u2019s still the best TV show of all time, so there.</p><p><strong>\u200c<a href=\"https://www.netflix.com/title/81602821\">The Tourist</a></strong></p><p>New to me this year, this had the right combination of tension and wry irony to keep me watching. I\u2019ve been a fan of Jamie Dornan since <em>The Fall</em>, but Danielle Macdonald is an equal standout: some beautiful acting that makes a ridiculous premise seem real. The second season isn\u2019t quite as good at the first, but only because some of the mystery has understandably been lost.</p><h4>Articles and Blog Posts</h4><p><strong>\u200c<a href=\"https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/\">We Need To Rewild The Internet, by Maria Farrell and Robin Berjon</a></strong></p><p><em>\u200c Rewilding the internet is more than a metaphor. It\u2019s a framework and plan. It gives us fresh eyes for the wicked problem of extraction and control, and new means and allies to fix it. It recognizes that ending internet monopolies isn\u2019t just an intellectual problem. It\u2019s an emotional one. It answers questions like: How do we keep going when the monopolies have more money and power? How do we act collectively when they suborn our community spaces, funding and networks? And how do we communicate to our allies what fixing it will look and feel like?</em></p><p>An important \u2014 and detailed \u2014 call to action about the future of the internet. In lots of ways it should set the tone for how we build on the internet in 2025.</p><p><strong>\u200c<a href=\"https://www.hbcompass.io/on-being-human-and-creative/\">On Being Human and \u201cCreative\u201d, by Heather Bryant</a></strong></p><p><em>\u200cWhat generative AI creates is not any one person's creative expression. Generative AI is only possible because of the work that has been taken from others. It simply would not exist without the millions of data points that the models are based upon. Those data points were taken without permission, consent, compensation or even notification because the logistics of doing so would have made it logistically improbable and financially impossible.</em></p><p>A wonderful piece from <a href=\"https://www.hbcompass.io/\">Heather Bryant</a> that explores the humanity \u2014 the effort, the emotion, the lived experience, the community, the unique combination of things \u2014 behind real-world art that is created by people, and the theft of those things that generative AI represents.</p><p><strong>\u200c<a href=\"https://www.fastcompany.com/91134093/medium-growth-under-tony-stubblebine\">Inside Medium\u2019s decade-long journey to find its own identity, by Ryan Broderick</a></strong></p><p><em>\u200cReplacing Williams was Tony Stubblebine, who may have seemed a little random to anyone scanning the headlines at the time. At that point he was running <a href=\"https://Coach.me\">Coach.me</a>, a personal life coaching platform, and heading up Better Humans, a Medium partner publication dedicated to personal development. But his roots in Twitter and, thus, in Medium, go all the way to, well, before the beginning. In the mid-2000s, he was the director of engineering at Odeo, the podcasting startup that would become the launching ground for Twitter.</em></p><p>Tony has turned Medium around, which has been lovely to see. I have emotional but not financial skin in this game: I enjoyed my time working at Medium eight years ago, I\u2019ve known Tony for going on 20 years, and I\u2019m similarly a fan of Ev. But I also just think the more places there are for considered voices to find their community, the better, and Medium has an important take on how to do it well. This piece was a good introduction to all of it.</p><p><strong>\u200c<a href=\"https://www.cjr.org/analysis/alexandra-smith-metrics-readership-19th-impact.php\">Why we invented a new metric for measuring readership, by Alexandra Smith</a></strong></p><p><em>We used to measure our journalism\u2019s reach and impact with website views, visitors, and engaged time\u2014the methods many of our funders insisted on. But even when we included stats about our social media engagement, newsletter subscribers, and member community, our audience data reports still didn\u2019t accurately reflect the ways we were serving people with our journalism.</em></p><p>In this piece, Alexandra introduced a way of measuring reach and impact for journalism that took into account the fact that audiences don\u2019t encounter it in one place \u2014 that the internet is, in fact, fractured, and journalism often takes different forms to meet its readers where they\u2019re at. That\u2019s light years ahead of how most newsrooms have been thinking. This piece has shaped the conversation since it was released. It\u2019s also thought-provoking for indieweb stalwarts like me: for lots of reasons, I think the website <em>should</em>be the center of the universe for journalism, and ultimately you measure what matters. This approach doesn\u2019t downplay the website but does say: what matters is the connection you make with other humans, wherever it happens.</p><h4>Software</h4><p><strong><a href=\"https://todoist.com/\">Todoist</a></strong></p><p>I\u2019m late to this party, but what an actual joy to find a todo list utility that actually works the way my brain does. The hotkeys allow me to add a task to the list whenever I need to \u2014 often mid-conversation \u2014 and then let me order them by time so I can figure out what to do next. And it\u2019s everywhere I need it to be. No notes or complaints.</p><p><strong>\u200c<a href=\"https://about.flipboard.com/press/announcing-surf-the-first-browser-for-the-open-social-web/\">Surf</a></strong></p><p>Flipboard\u2019s new \u201cbrowser for the social web\u201d is ace: an app that wouldn\u2019t have been possible with proprietary social media. Users create playlists of sources \u2014 which is to say, <em>people and publishers</em>, irrespective of where they happen to be publishing. You can then peruse new content by people on those playlists and filter them by links, video, other media, and so on. Not only is the signal to noise ratio far higher, but it\u2019s far less <em>exhausting</em> than other social media apps. It\u2019s now the only social app I\u2019ll allow on my phone.</p><p><strong>HTML and CSS</strong></p><p>They\u2019re still pretty great, and getting better and better! Did you know <a href=\"https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_nesting/Using_CSS_nesting\">CSS has nesting now</a>? I\u2019ve been enjoying using it.</p><p><strong>The Fediverse</strong></p><p><a href=\"https://werd.io/2024/the-open-social-web-is-the-future-of-the-internet\">The single most important improvement to the web in decades.</a> Hooray!</p><h4>Hardware</h4><p><strong>\u200c<a href=\"https://us.kobobooks.com/products/kobo-libra-colour\">Kobo Libra Colour</a></strong></p><p>Honestly, this ebook reader has changed my life. The color screen (canonically a <em>colour</em> screen, but I\u2019ve been in the States for long enough that I feel compelled to discard the \u201cu\u201d) doesn\u2019t matter to me all that much, but it\u2019s responsive, has really great clarity, is light enough to read one-handed, and, most importantly of all, allows a parent of a co-sleeping toddler to read in bed without waking up his child. That last one is a gamechanger. Also, it works with library books and isn\u2019t Amazon-bound, which were both important to me.</p><p><strong>\u200c<a href=\"https://www.caldigit.com/thunderbolt-station-4/\">CalDigit TS4</a></strong></p><p>I\u2019d never really needed a docking station until this year. This thing\u2019s got a bunch of ports, a huge amount of throughput, memory card support, 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet, and sits on my desk in perfect silence. I flip between my work laptop and my personal computers really easily. It\u2019s perfect. Now all I need to add is a USB-C KVM switch and I\u2019ll be able to switch between personal and work machines with one button.</p><h4>Other</h4><p><strong>\u200c<a href=\"https://www.amtrak.com/station-lounges\">Amtrak Metropolitan Lounges</a></strong></p><p>These days I travel between Philadelphia and New York City very regularly. Amtrak\u2019s generously rewards points system means that I quickly built up enough status to gain access to its station lounges. They\u2019re not spectacularly fancy but do come with comfortable seating and free coffee, and for that alone they\u2019ve been a big upgrade for my commutes. A shoutout also needs to go to the <a href=\"https://moynihantrainhall.nyc/\">Moynihan Train Hall</a> at Penn Station, which improves the experience of spending time at Penn from being locked in <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Backrooms\">the Backrooms</a> to something you might actually choose to look forward to.</p><p><strong>\u200c<a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/\">The Guardian</a></strong></p><p>The only news publication I let send notifications to my phone (aside from the one I work for). The Guardian\u2019s breaking news journalism is reliably good, and it has specialized feeds to subscribe to particular topics \u2014 not just for high-level topics like Business, but for example, specific news for the Middle East conflict or the war in Ukraine. I also appreciate <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/help/insideguardian/2024/apr/23/what-rejecting-all-means-for-funding-open-journalism\">The Guardian\u2019s responsible, reader-centric approach to funding</a>: despite being paywall-free, readers account for over half of its budget.</p><p><strong>\u200c<a href=\"https://msmoni.com/\">Ms. Moni</a></strong></p><p>We\u2019re reluctantly on the YouTube train with our toddler. There are a bunch of performers who are trying very hard to find audiences in the wake of the success of the likes of Ms. Rachel (who is great) and Blippi (who is like nails on a chalkboard to me, although his stablemate Meekah is a lot better). By far my favorite of the genre is Monica Ferreira: an Australian teacher and professional musician who started recording YouTube videos after experiencing chronic pain. She edits, composes, and builds the graphics for her videos herself, with high production values and no junk content. It\u2019s been a breath of fresh air, and honestly, a relief.</p><h4>What about you?</h4><p>What were your favorite things from 2024? Let me know what I missed.</p>"
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fluffy rambles: 2024 → 2025

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        "html": "<p>As is tradition, I am not a fan of resolutions, just aspirations.</p>\n\n\n<h3><a href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/11031-2024-2025#11031_h3_1_2024-checkup\"></a>2024 checkup</h3><p>First, let\u2019s do a checkup on <a href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/1017-2023-goal-checkup-2024-aspirations\">last year\u2019s stated goals</a>:</p>\n<ul><li>Successfully get on disability benefits: Not yet, but I\u2019ve done everything I can to move forward on it</li>\n<li>Find a reasonable level of sustainable productivity on things that I care about, without languishing but also without burning the hell out: I feel like 2024 had better balance but I\u2019m still figuring it out</li>\n<li>Finally finish at least one of my three backburnered albums: Yes, and then some!</li>\n<li>Finish organizing my basement: Not particularly, but it\u2019s still better off</li>\n<li>Get back into making pottery, and produce a line of items to sell on Etsy: Technically accomplished, although I never got around to actually putting it on Etsy</li>\n</ul><h3><a href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/11031-2024-2025#11031_h3_2_Wins\"></a>Wins</h3><h4><a href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/11031-2024-2025#11031_h4_3_Music\"></a>Music</h4><p>I released several albums: <a href=\"https://sockpuppet.band/album/strawberry-jams-i-ate\">Strawberry Jams I Ate</a>, <a href=\"https://sockpuppet.band/album/instrumental\">Instrumental</a>, <a href=\"https://sockpuppet.band/album/notions\">Notions</a>, <a href=\"https://sockpuppet.band/album/transitions\">Transitions</a>, and <a href=\"https://sockpuppet.band/album/deadnames\">Deadnames</a>. Instrumental and Transitions were two of my backburnered albums, Notions was originally part of Transitions but ended up being better as its own thing, and Deadnames was a companion to Transitions. Strawberry Jams I Ate was just a normal part of my annual game jam cadence.</p><p>This year I opted not to do a Novembeat (aside from <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNRLpYEdwBNhvYgINS87DnFa5gY0EqZli\">a few tracks</a> but they were specifically just for fun and not for a release intention) nor did I participate in the Seattle Indies Slow Jam (I\u2019m not sure if it even happened this year?) or Global Game Jam. I count that as a win because I was deliberate in these decisions, as part of maintaining my work/passion/productivity balance.</p><p>I also finally made <a href=\"https://sockpuppet.band/\">a new music website</a> which does a much better job of showcasing my work! There\u2019s still a lot that I\u2019d like to do to improve it and I still need to finish tagging all of the songs (currently I\u2019m at around 55% complete) but it\u2019s already so much better than being reliant on Bandcamp for my entire web presence.</p><p>I also started doing more live performances in VRChat, which has helped me to grow my audience considerably! Highlights include:</p>\n<ul><li>Several open-mic type events</li>\n<li>Several short-set performances, especially at <a href=\"https://transacademy.org/\">Trans Academy</a></li>\n<li>A few large concerts of my own</li>\n<li>Two large concerts as part of greater music festivals (Aga\u2019s Toys for Tots, Furry Hideout New Years Countdown), both of which went pretty well all things considered!</li>\n</ul><p>And of course, I continued to perform with the choir, both at our large concerts and at our small talent shows. And I got to perform at <strong><em>motherfucking Benaroya Hall</em></strong>, holy fuck I still can\u2019t believe that was real.</p><p>Oh and Song Fight! Live! was back in-person, and it went well.</p><h4><a href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/11031-2024-2025#11031_h4_4_House\"></a>House</h4><p>I greatly improved my kitchen organization.</p><p>I have made a lot of progress on organizing my office.</p><p>I took care of some more deferred maintenance on my house.</p><p>I finally put up a defiant pride flag that I intend to fly year-round (at least when it isn\u2019t super windy; currently it\u2019s down because of heavy wind storms).</p><h4><a href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/11031-2024-2025#11031_h4_5_Other-projects\"></a>Other projects</h4><p>I designed my own slipcasting molds for a number of different espresso cups, and used them to make a bunch of espresso cups. They\u2019re pretty nice!</p><p>I was able to successfully do a large rush 3D printing job for a local artist, which went well and hopefully helps get my name out there in the community as someone who can help out with things like that.</p><p>I made a <a href=\"https://fluffy.gumroad.com/l/cjresident\">whole-ass VRChat avatar from scratch in 5 days</a>, and ended up using it to <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC2rmk6buT8\">star in an ad</a>.</p><p>Oh and I had a bunch of my work in a <a href=\"https://www.cocaseattle.org/2024-exhibitions/taking-up-space\">gallery show</a>.</p><h3><a href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/11031-2024-2025#11031_h3_6_Things-that-could-have-gone\"></a>Things that could have gone better</h3><p>I wanted to start doing more of <a href=\"https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/transformative-meditation\">my podcast</a> but I just didn\u2019t have it in me.</p><p>I wanted to start doing <a href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/comics/\">comics</a> again but I also just didn\u2019t have it in me.</p><p>I never got around to selling my espresso cups on Etsy. I think they\u2019d do well.</p><p>Both of my cats have had health concerns; Fiona\u2019s fully recovered from hers, but Tyler\u2019s has just started.</p><h3><a href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/11031-2024-2025#11031_h3_7_Setbacks\"></a>Setbacks</h3><p>My panic disorder came back in a big way.</p><p>I also got COVID (along with most of my choir) in June, which has had some lasting effects.</p><p>My vertigo has gotten a lot worse, especially while driving, which feeds into the panic disorder.</p><p>My chronic pain has gotten worse, as has my hypermobility spectrum disorder.</p><h3><a href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/11031-2024-2025#11031_h3_8_2025-aspirations\"></a>2025 aspirations</h3><p>So, here\u2019s what I am hoping to accomplish in the next year.</p><h4><a href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/11031-2024-2025#11031_h4_9_Music\"></a>Music</h4><p>As always I have a bunch of music projects planned. Here\u2019s my current set of expected musical projects:</p>\n<ul><li>Strawberry Jam 9 will almost certainly be happening, and I hope to do a lot of music for it</li>\n<li>Recombinant: an album where I revisit some of my favorite songs and redo them in different styles and with updated sensibilities</li>\n<li>Misfits: an album where I finally record/release some of the random knick-knacks that never really fit into anything else</li>\n<li>Maximum Coverage: where I spend a lot of money on cover song license fees</li>\n</ul><p>I also hope this to be a year when I finally get people hiring me with <em>paid</em> soundtrack work, and of course I want to do even more performing.</p><h4><a href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/11031-2024-2025#11031_h4_10_House\"></a>House</h4><p>I need to finally get the workshop area of my basement organized.</p><p>I also want to organize my tool cabinet, and get a separate tool shed in the back yard for my gardening tools.</p><p>I would like to improve the organization in my living room.</p><p>I hope to finish organizing my office.</p><p>I absolutely need to get rid of a bunch of clutter.</p><h4><a href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/11031-2024-2025#11031_h4_11_Arts-and-crafts\"></a>Arts and crafts</h4><p>I\u2019d like to finally start selling my pottery somewhere, be it <a href=\"https://fluffybusybee.etsy.com/\">on Etsy</a> or somewhere else. I\u2019d also like to expand my pottery offerings.</p><p>It\u2019d be nice to be able to work on comics again, either in the form of working up the energy to draw them myself, or by finding a reliable artist I can work with.</p><p>I have a bunch of other art projects and ideas thereof which have fallen to the wayside, and bringing those back would be nice.</p><p>I also have a bunch of VRChat avatar ideas that I never got around to building. Also an idea for a world or two.</p><h4><a href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/11031-2024-2025#11031_h4_12_Programming\"></a>Programming</h4><p>I want to address two major bits of tech debt in Publ, namely getting away from PonyORM, and getting away from Misaka. Both of those libraries have caused an accumulation of frustration and tech debt.</p><p>Similarly, I\u2019m pretty unhappy with Qt when it comes to the GUI for Bandcrash, and I\u2019d like to figure out a better way to handle that as well.</p><p>I\u2019d like to finally support Bluesky SSO in Authl. That\u2019s kind of dependent on external factors though; it\u2019s <em>technically</em> possible to do now but the functionality would be much better if it were encapsulated into its own library, and I don\u2019t want to be the one to maintain that library on top of everything else.</p><p>I\u2019d also like to finally make a proper comment and webmention system for Publ, getting away from the Isso+webmention.io mess I have currently (but I\u2019ve talked about that <a href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/7457-Some-thoughts-on-comments\">plenty</a>).</p><h4><a href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/11031-2024-2025#11031_h4_13_Health\"></a>Health</h4><p>I hope to get my vertigo under control.</p><p>I want to get to a place where I feel comfortable driving again.</p><p>I\u2019d like to find a sustainable pain-management strategy.</p><p>I\u2019d like to get better at acknowledging when things have gone well in the moment, being better at controlling the things I\u2019m able to, and more accepting about the things I can\u2019t.</p><p>Basically I\u2019d like to internalize a secular version of <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenity_Prayer\">the serenity prayer</a>, and everything else goes from there.</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/11031-2024-2025#comments\">comments</a></p>\n\n        \n        <a href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/?id=11031&amp;tag=resolutions\">#resolutions</a>\n        \n        <a href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/?id=11031&amp;tag=not-resolutions\">#not resolutions</a>\n        \n        <a href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/?id=11031&amp;tag=goals\">#goals</a>\n        \n        <a href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/?id=11031&amp;tag=reflection\">#reflection</a>\n        \n        <a href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/?id=11031&amp;tag=meta\">#meta</a>",
        "text": "As is tradition, I am not a fan of resolutions, just aspirations.\n\n\n2024 checkupFirst, let\u2019s do a checkup on last year\u2019s stated goals:\nSuccessfully get on disability benefits: Not yet, but I\u2019ve done everything I can to move forward on it\nFind a reasonable level of sustainable productivity on things that I care about, without languishing but also without burning the hell out: I feel like 2024 had better balance but I\u2019m still figuring it out\nFinally finish at least one of my three backburnered albums: Yes, and then some!\nFinish organizing my basement: Not particularly, but it\u2019s still better off\nGet back into making pottery, and produce a line of items to sell on Etsy: Technically accomplished, although I never got around to actually putting it on Etsy\nWinsMusicI released several albums: Strawberry Jams I Ate, Instrumental, Notions, Transitions, and Deadnames. Instrumental and Transitions were two of my backburnered albums, Notions was originally part of Transitions but ended up being better as its own thing, and Deadnames was a companion to Transitions. Strawberry Jams I Ate was just a normal part of my annual game jam cadence.\n\nThis year I opted not to do a Novembeat (aside from a few tracks but they were specifically just for fun and not for a release intention) nor did I participate in the Seattle Indies Slow Jam (I\u2019m not sure if it even happened this year?) or Global Game Jam. I count that as a win because I was deliberate in these decisions, as part of maintaining my work/passion/productivity balance.\n\nI also finally made a new music website which does a much better job of showcasing my work! There\u2019s still a lot that I\u2019d like to do to improve it and I still need to finish tagging all of the songs (currently I\u2019m at around 55% complete) but it\u2019s already so much better than being reliant on Bandcamp for my entire web presence.\n\nI also started doing more live performances in VRChat, which has helped me to grow my audience considerably! Highlights include:\nSeveral open-mic type events\nSeveral short-set performances, especially at Trans Academy\nA few large concerts of my own\nTwo large concerts as part of greater music festivals (Aga\u2019s Toys for Tots, Furry Hideout New Years Countdown), both of which went pretty well all things considered!\nAnd of course, I continued to perform with the choir, both at our large concerts and at our small talent shows. And I got to perform at motherfucking Benaroya Hall, holy fuck I still can\u2019t believe that was real.\n\nOh and Song Fight! Live! was back in-person, and it went well.HouseI greatly improved my kitchen organization.\n\nI have made a lot of progress on organizing my office.\n\nI took care of some more deferred maintenance on my house.\n\nI finally put up a defiant pride flag that I intend to fly year-round (at least when it isn\u2019t super windy; currently it\u2019s down because of heavy wind storms).Other projectsI designed my own slipcasting molds for a number of different espresso cups, and used them to make a bunch of espresso cups. They\u2019re pretty nice!\n\nI was able to successfully do a large rush 3D printing job for a local artist, which went well and hopefully helps get my name out there in the community as someone who can help out with things like that.\n\nI made a whole-ass VRChat avatar from scratch in 5 days, and ended up using it to star in an ad.\n\nOh and I had a bunch of my work in a gallery show.Things that could have gone betterI wanted to start doing more of my podcast but I just didn\u2019t have it in me.\n\nI wanted to start doing comics again but I also just didn\u2019t have it in me.\n\nI never got around to selling my espresso cups on Etsy. I think they\u2019d do well.\n\nBoth of my cats have had health concerns; Fiona\u2019s fully recovered from hers, but Tyler\u2019s has just started.SetbacksMy panic disorder came back in a big way.\n\nI also got COVID (along with most of my choir) in June, which has had some lasting effects.\n\nMy vertigo has gotten a lot worse, especially while driving, which feeds into the panic disorder.\n\nMy chronic pain has gotten worse, as has my hypermobility spectrum disorder.2025 aspirationsSo, here\u2019s what I am hoping to accomplish in the next year.MusicAs always I have a bunch of music projects planned. Here\u2019s my current set of expected musical projects:\nStrawberry Jam 9 will almost certainly be happening, and I hope to do a lot of music for it\nRecombinant: an album where I revisit some of my favorite songs and redo them in different styles and with updated sensibilities\nMisfits: an album where I finally record/release some of the random knick-knacks that never really fit into anything else\nMaximum Coverage: where I spend a lot of money on cover song license fees\nI also hope this to be a year when I finally get people hiring me with paid soundtrack work, and of course I want to do even more performing.HouseI need to finally get the workshop area of my basement organized.\n\nI also want to organize my tool cabinet, and get a separate tool shed in the back yard for my gardening tools.\n\nI would like to improve the organization in my living room.\n\nI hope to finish organizing my office.\n\nI absolutely need to get rid of a bunch of clutter.Arts and craftsI\u2019d like to finally start selling my pottery somewhere, be it on Etsy or somewhere else. I\u2019d also like to expand my pottery offerings.\n\nIt\u2019d be nice to be able to work on comics again, either in the form of working up the energy to draw them myself, or by finding a reliable artist I can work with.\n\nI have a bunch of other art projects and ideas thereof which have fallen to the wayside, and bringing those back would be nice.\n\nI also have a bunch of VRChat avatar ideas that I never got around to building. Also an idea for a world or two.ProgrammingI want to address two major bits of tech debt in Publ, namely getting away from PonyORM, and getting away from Misaka. Both of those libraries have caused an accumulation of frustration and tech debt.\n\nSimilarly, I\u2019m pretty unhappy with Qt when it comes to the GUI for Bandcrash, and I\u2019d like to figure out a better way to handle that as well.\n\nI\u2019d like to finally support Bluesky SSO in Authl. That\u2019s kind of dependent on external factors though; it\u2019s technically possible to do now but the functionality would be much better if it were encapsulated into its own library, and I don\u2019t want to be the one to maintain that library on top of everything else.\n\nI\u2019d also like to finally make a proper comment and webmention system for Publ, getting away from the Isso+webmention.io mess I have currently (but I\u2019ve talked about that plenty).HealthI hope to get my vertigo under control.\n\nI want to get to a place where I feel comfortable driving again.\n\nI\u2019d like to find a sustainable pain-management strategy.\n\nI\u2019d like to get better at acknowledging when things have gone well in the moment, being better at controlling the things I\u2019m able to, and more accepting about the things I can\u2019t.\n\nBasically I\u2019d like to internalize a secular version of the serenity prayer, and everything else goes from there.\n\ncomments\n\n        \n        #resolutions\n        \n        #not resolutions\n        \n        #goals\n        \n        #reflection\n        \n        #meta"
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    "url": "https://xoxo.zone/@artlung/113742942976206728",
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        "html": "<p><span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://thisbot.day/@affirmations\">@<span>affirmations</span></a></span> Additionally, in <a href=\"https://xoxo.zone/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> fashion if you use a feedreader (built into some email clients!) you may subscribe to the RSS feed, built into Mastodon by default: <a href=\"https://thisbot.day/@affirmations.rss\"><span>https://</span><span>thisbot.day/@affirmations.rss</span><span></span></a> ... And in February of 2025 the <a href=\"https://xoxo.zone/tags/IndieWebCarnival\">#<span>IndieWebCarnival</span></a> prompt will be \"<a href=\"https://xoxo.zone/tags/affirmations\">#<span>affirmations</span></a>\" and I look forward to reading about what an <a href=\"https://xoxo.zone/tags/affirmation\">#<span>affirmation</span></a> means (or doesn't mean!) to you.</p>\n<a class=\"u-mention\" href=\"https://thisbot.day/@affirmations\"></a>",
        "text": "@affirmations Additionally, in #indieweb fashion if you use a feedreader (built into some email clients!) you may subscribe to the RSS feed, built into Mastodon by default: https://thisbot.day/@affirmations.rss ... And in February of 2025 the #IndieWebCarnival prompt will be \"#affirmations\" and I look forward to reading about what an #affirmation means (or doesn't mean!) to you."
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    "url": "https://bolha.us/@diegopds/113742725302469704",
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        "html": "<p>Seman\u00e1rio 52 (2024)</p><p><a href=\"https://curadoria.bearblog.dev/semanario-52-2024/\"><span>https://</span><span>curadoria.bearblog.dev/semanar</span><span>io-52-2024/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://bolha.us/tags/Semanario\">#<span>Semanario</span></a> <a href=\"https://bolha.us/tags/Semanario2024S52\">#<span>Semanario2024S52</span></a> <a href=\"https://bolha.us/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://bolha.us/tags/SmallWeb\">#<span>SmallWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://bolha.us/tags/SurfandoWeb\">#<span>SurfandoWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://bolha.us/tags/CuradoriaDaInternet\">#<span>CuradoriaDaInternet</span></a> <a href=\"https://bolha.us/tags/BlogsBR\">#<span>BlogsBR</span></a> @blogsbr <a href=\"https://bolha.us/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Seman\u00e1rio 52 (2024)\n\nhttps://curadoria.bearblog.dev/semanario-52-2024/\n\n#Semanario #Semanario2024S52 #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #SurfandoWeb #CuradoriaDaInternet #BlogsBR @blogsbr #blog"
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Jeremy Cherfas jeremycherfas.net

Tag Overload

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        "text": "The chat at indieweb.org has been quite busy lately with people brainstorming about taxonomies, specifically about how to classify places that serve coffee. This isn\u2019t something I am interested in, although the broader topic of classifications and taxonomies I do wrestle with from time to time. What triggered this post is the discussion over there that focused on emergent versus deliberately designed taxonomies.\n\n\t\t\t There\u2019s more  \u27a2",
        "html": "<p>The <a href=\"https://chat.indieweb.org/\">chat at indieweb.org</a> has been quite busy lately with people brainstorming about taxonomies, specifically about how to classify places that serve coffee. This isn\u2019t something I am interested in, although the broader topic of classifications and taxonomies I do wrestle with from time to time. What triggered this post is the discussion over there that focused on emergent <em>versus</em> deliberately designed taxonomies.</p>\n\n\t\t\t <span style=\"float:right;font-size:smaller;\"><a href=\"https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/tag-overload\">There\u2019s more  \u27a2</a></span>"
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    "url": "https://indieweb.social/@xenodium/113742218075836872",
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        "html": "<p>Hi folks. Please help get the word out! \ud83d\ude4f</p><p><a href=\"https://lmno.lol\"><span>https://</span><span>lmno.lol</span><span></span></a>, my blogging service, is now generally available. No invite needed!</p><p>- No <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/tracking\">#<span>tracking</span></a><br />- No <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/ads\">#<span>ads</span></a><br />- No <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/paywall\">#<span>paywall</span></a><br />- No <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/bloat\">#<span>bloat</span></a><br />- No <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/distraction\">#<span>distraction</span></a></p><p>- <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/privacy\">#<span>privacy</span></a> first<br />- <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/light\">#<span>light</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/dark\">#<span>dark</span></a> mode<br />- Read anywhere (even on <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/terminal\">#<span>terminal</span></a>).<br />- <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/markdown\">#<span>markdown</span></a> drag/drop<br />- Bring your own <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/text\">#<span>text</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/editor\">#<span>editor</span></a></p><p>My blog <a href=\"https://lmno.lol/alvaro\"><span>https://</span><span>lmno.lol/alvaro</span><span></span></a></p><p>I hope LMNO gets you blogging in 2025!</p><p>Please help me get the word out \ud83d\ude4f</p><p><a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/vim\">#<span>vim</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/emacs\">#<span>emacs</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/vscode\">#<span>vscode</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/indiedev\">#<span>indiedev</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/indie\">#<span>indie</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/plaintext\">#<span>plaintext</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Hi folks. Please help get the word out! \ud83d\ude4f\n\nhttps://lmno.lol, my blogging service, is now generally available. No invite needed!\n\n- No #tracking\n- No #ads\n- No #paywall\n- No #bloat\n- No #distraction\n\n- #privacy first\n- #light #dark mode\n- Read anywhere (even on #terminal).\n- #markdown drag/drop\n- Bring your own #text #editor\n\nMy blog https://lmno.lol/alvaro\n\nI hope LMNO gets you blogging in 2025!\n\nPlease help me get the word out \ud83d\ude4f\n\n#vim #emacs #vscode #indiedev #indieweb #indie #plaintext"
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        "html": "<p>83 libros le\u00eddos este a\u00f1o... no creo que 2025 se de tan bien.\u2029</p><p><a href=\"https://jlogp.org/blog/2024/lectura_2024\"><span>https://</span><span>jlogp.org/blog/2024/lectura_20</span><span>24</span></a><br />\u2029<a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "83 libros le\u00eddos este a\u00f1o... no creo que 2025 se de tan bien.\u2029\n\nhttps://jlogp.org/blog/2024/lectura_2024\n\u2029#blog #indieweb"
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        "html": "<p>83 libros le\u00eddos este a\u00f1o... no creo que 2025 se de tan bien.</p><p><a href=\"https://jlogp.org/blog/2024/lectura_2024\"><span>https://</span><span>jlogp.org/blog/2024/lectura_20</span><span>24</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "83 libros le\u00eddos este a\u00f1o... no creo que 2025 se de tan bien.\n\nhttps://jlogp.org/blog/2024/lectura_2024\n\n#blog #indieweb"
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    "url": "https://glammr.us/@librarymonster/113738796333994693",
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        "html": "<p>New website page, hosted outside of <a href=\"https://glammr.us/tags/neocities\">#<span>neocities</span></a> bc I want to update my <a href=\"https://glammr.us/tags/ReadingJournal\">#<span>ReadingJournal</span></a> &amp; <a href=\"https://glammr.us/tags/ReadingResources\">#<span>ReadingResources</span></a> databases frequently on my phone. Introducing the Lair <a href=\"https://librarymonster.io/lair.html\"><span>https://</span><span>librarymonster.io/lair.html</span><span></span></a>, hosted by <a href=\"https://glammr.us/tags/notion\">#<span>notion</span></a>. More info and context about it on my website's homepage as the headline article  <a href=\"https://librarymonster.io/\"><span>https://</span><span>librarymonster.io/</span><span></span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://glammr.us/tags/WebDev\">#<span>WebDev</span></a> <a href=\"https://glammr.us/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://glammr.us/tags/bookstodon\">#<span>bookstodon</span></a>  <a href=\"https://glammr.us/tags/Reading\">#<span>Reading</span></a></p>",
        "text": "New website page, hosted outside of #neocities bc I want to update my #ReadingJournal & #ReadingResources databases frequently on my phone. Introducing the Lair https://librarymonster.io/lair.html, hosted by #notion. More info and context about it on my website's homepage as the headline article  https://librarymonster.io/\n\n#WebDev #IndieWeb #bookstodon  #Reading"
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        "html": "<p>New on <a href=\"https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/WellMadeWeb\">#<span>WellMadeWeb</span></a>: Urban Exploration Resource.</p><p>Since 2002 and still receiving submissions today, Urban Exploration Resource (UER) is the one stop for all things urbex in North America. The website features forums, photo galleries, and detailed pages for each location explored.</p><p>More information here: <a href=\"https://wmw.thran.uk/dowdy/uer.html\"><span>https://</span><span>wmw.thran.uk/dowdy/uer.html</span><span></span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/urbex\">#<span>urbex</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/discoveries\">#<span>discoveries</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/oldweb\">#<span>oldweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/abandoned\">#<span>abandoned</span></a></p>",
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