Marty McGuire

Marty Likes Things (Sometimes)

2022
Wed Aug 10
β˜… Liked https://gabriellazcano.com/blog/why-you-might-replace-disqus-with-webmentions/
Sun Aug 7
β˜… Liked https://david.shanske.com/2022/08/06/people-focused-communication/
post from People-Focused Communication
This week, I ended up in a conversation that referenced Tantek Γ‡elik’s article on People-Focused Mobile Communication circa 2014. I had followed up with my thought at the time on Unified Communication.
Thu Aug 4
β˜… Liked https://adrianroselli.com/2022/08/ai-generated-images-from-ai-generated-alt-text.html
β˜… Liked https://evantravers.com/articles/2021/08/21/whomst-styles-the-whostyles/
Evan Travers
post from Whomst styles the whostyles?
I love this idea… and who better to introduce it to me than Robin Sloan, writer, note-maker, and ambassador of Keep the Blogosphere Weird in his note Whomst styles?:
β˜… Liked https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/whomst-styles/
Wed Aug 3
β˜… Liked https://thecolumn.substack.com/p/people-feel-unsafe-because-visible
Tue Aug 2
β˜… Liked https://cubicgarden.com/2022/08/02/public-service-internet-monthly-newsletter-aug-2022/
cubicgarden
post Public Service Internet monthly newsletter (Aug 2022)
We live in incredible times with such possibilities that is clear. Although its easily dismissed seeing 1 billion chinese citizens data hacked, The UK’s DWP using AI ti decide who gets universal credit and Elon & Twitter once again.
β˜… Liked https://css-tricks.com/exploring-css-grids-implicit-grid-and-auto-placement-powers/
Mon Aug 1
β˜… Liked https://webdevlaw.uk/2022/07/31/fixing-the-uks-online-safety-bill-part-1-we-need-answers/
post Fixing the UK’s Online Safety Bill, part 1: we need answers.
Here we go with the second of three posts on potential paths forward for the UK’s Online Safety Bill. This one will cover what needs to be cleared out of the way before the Bill can progress, regardless of who takes over that work next month.
β˜… Liked https://0xda.de/blog/2022/07/what-the-heck-is-winget/
Sat Jul 30
β˜… Liked https://www.theverge.com/23203911/screen-readers-history-blind-henter-curran-teh-nvda
Fri Jul 29
β˜… Liked https://lukeb.co.uk/blog/2022/06/28/no-comment-2-the-webmentioning/
post from No Comment 2: The Webmentioning
When version 1.0.0 of Eleventy was released, one of the features that I was excited to see was the ability to add global data through configuration. This means that plugins can now add global data, and I saw it as a great opportunity to move my webmentions code into a plugin for …
Wed Jul 27
β˜… Liked https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2022/html-email-rant/
post from HTML Emails: A Rant
I’ve wanted to share these thoughts for a while, but stitching them into a coherent piece of writing seemed too much to overcome. However, with some prodding I decided to go ahead and hit β€œpublish”.
β˜… Liked https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/10109-VRChat-continued
post from VRChat continued
It seems like I chose a very…interesting time to get into VRChat, and also I’m taking a break from it for reasons not related to the current debacle.
Mon Jul 25
β˜… Liked https://petafloptimism.com/2022/07/20/open-lecture-at-ciid-keeping-up-with-the-kardashevians/
β˜… Liked https://chringel.dev/2022/07/indiewebify-me-and-dont-forget-my-webmentions/
Christian Engel
post from Indiewebify me! And don't forget my webmentions!
I actually can’t recall anymore, what got me started with this whole IndieWeb thing. According to my browser history, I visited IndieWeb.org on June 15, 2022, so around a month ago. I read up on Miriam Suzanne’s hugely popular post Am I on the IndieWeb Yet? and searched Google …
Fri Jul 22
β˜… Liked https://kimberlyhirsh.com/2022/07/22/dealing-with-sdcc.html
β˜… Liked https://www.annahavron.com/blog/you-are-here-and-here-and-here-organization-as-mental-extension
Wed Jul 20
β˜… Liked https://latl.ong/
Tue Jul 19
β˜… Liked https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/9525-Newish-RTX-2080Ti
post from Newish RTX 2080Ti
Because of the cryptocurrency market crash, GPUs have really come down in price. They probably have a further ways to go but I decided that I’d waited long enough to finally upgrade my GTX 1050Ti, and picked up a supposedly-barely-used refurbished eVGA RTX 2080Ti Black Edition …
Sun Jul 17
β˜… Liked https://danabyerly-junkdrawer.website/blog/indie-inspiration/
post from Indie Inspiration
When I was thinking about what to do with this site I spent some time looking around the IndieWeb Webring. I’d pick a site and then use the Webring link to randomly move to the next site. You can also view it as a directory listing. You can also explore sites not in the Webring …
Fri Jul 15
β˜… Liked https://fly.io/blog/all-in-on-sqlite-litestream/
β˜… Liked https://paul.kinlan.me/using-web-mentions-in-a-static-sitehugo/
Thu Jul 14
β˜… Liked https://kimberlyhirsh.com/2022/07/14/its-my-birthday.html
post from It's my birthday! Here's who I want to be and how we should celebrate.
I’m 41 today and it’s a big deal because every day that I live is a day I chose to be in the world and a whole year of sticking around is huge.
Wed Jul 13
β˜… Liked https://lea.verou.me/2022/07/rety/
post Introducing Rety: live coding, without the stress
I recently spoke at CSS Day in Amsterdam. It was only my second f2f talk after the pandemic. It went down really well, both in person, and recently that the video was released:
Thu Jul 7
β˜… Liked https://www.jeannebowmanillustrates.com/blog-of-the-anxious-bean/2021/5/22/how-to-re-commit-to-your-sketchbook-again
β˜… Liked https://harihareswara.net/posts/2022/i-hadnt-understood-how-cool-e-bikes-are/
Wed Jul 6
β˜… Liked https://soatok.blog/2022/07/06/introducing-cupcake/
post Introducing Cupcake
The greatest risk to the security of a web application is when it either accepts user input and processes it or renders data in a comprehensible format (HTML, JSON, etc.) to the user.
β˜… Liked https://io.adafruit.com/blog/notebook/2022/07/06/wippersnapper-installer-and-design-update/
Fri Jul 1
β˜… Liked http://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/when-software-makes-you-laugh-creativity-as-a-mechanic-how-it-exists-in-games-and-the-ethics-of-either-empowering-or-exploiting-creation
post When software makes you laugh! (…creativity as a mechanic, how it exists in games, and the ethics of either empowering or exploiting creation)
A lot of exciting tool related developments have been happening in the indie game space since my last post. Go get lost checking out all The Tool Jam 2 submissions… also my Cool Tools itch.io collection is at its 400th addition as of today! When I started writing about tools, and …