Marty McGuire

Marty Likes Things (Sometimes)

2022
Tue Apr 26
β˜… Liked https://michaelweinberg.org/blog/2022/04/25/printables-honda-nasygram/
post from Printables, Honda, Platforms, and Nastygrams
Last week the 3D printing platform Printables removed an unknown number of models from their platform. This action was apparently in response to a letter Printables received from Honda claiming that user models infringed on various rights. Based on the discussion of the action …
Tue Apr 19
β˜… Liked https://clarale.com/posts/indieweb-browsing/
post from IndieWeb browsing
This weekend, I spent a lot of time jumping from site to site through the IndieWeb webringβ€”check my homepage footer to start browsing.I loved stumbling upon these little corners of the internet that people would customize to fit their own personality and preferences. A few of …
Mon Apr 18
β˜… Liked http://www.dirtyfeed.org/2022/04/shame/
post Shame.
I’ve written many times in the past about how I think people should keep their website archives online. In fact I’ve talked about it to the point of obnoxiousness, and then far beyond that. About how old stuff can suddenly become found and loved, about the history of the web …
Mon Apr 11
β˜… Liked https://whatisawridingmybikearoundtoday.com/2022/04/11/domino-sugar-factory-on-key-hwy-e/
β˜… Liked https://www.inkandswitch.com/cambria/
Sat Apr 9
β˜… Liked https://werd.io/2022/known-and-idno
post from Known and Idno
Rewriting software from scratch is usually a terrible idea. But I’m thinking about it.The Known open source codebase is now 9 years old; a PHP kludge that I wrote while my mother was recovering from a double lung transplant still powers my site and many others. It became the …
Fri Apr 8
β˜… Liked https://jacky.wtf/thoughts-bluesky-social-protocol
post from Thoughts on BlueSky's "Self Authenticating Social" Protocol
Got a chance to read https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/3-6-2022-a-self-authenticating-social-protocol. It starts off pretty good, speaking on popular open protocols and approaches. It then brings up scale and Twitter's experience, which is really more of a concern for commercial …
Thu Apr 7
β˜… Liked https://j3s.sh/thought/my-website-is-one-binary.html
Tue Apr 5
β˜… Liked https://tailscale.com/blog/database-for-2022/
β˜… Liked https://astrid.tech/2022/04/05/1/dead-tlds
post What happens to TLDs when their country stops existing?
When I was deciding on what TLD to get for my QR tattoo, one of my first
Tue Mar 29
β˜… Liked https://tantek.com/2019/353/t1/tech-plumbing-framing-dweb-problematic
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I have repeatedly expressed to peers working on #IndieWeb #SocialWeb #SocialMedia #FederatedSocialWeb that tech/plumbing-centric framing of #dweb "Decentralized Web" "Distributed Web" is heavily problematic. Beyond MastoGab, there is now something much worse (not linking). I’ll …
Sun Mar 27
β˜… Liked https://silviamaggidesign.com/personal/life-off-social-media/
Thu Mar 24
β˜… Liked https://blog.mauve.moe/posts/protocol-comparisons
β˜… Liked https://whatisawridingmybikearoundtoday.com/2022/03/24/flower-trees-at-e-monument-fallsway/
Wed Mar 23
β˜… Liked http://tantek.com/2022/082/t1/mozilla-webvision-openweb
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Published today, years of working with co-workers @Mozilla and something I'm proud of: https://webvision.mozilla.org/
β˜… Liked https://2d.laboratorium.net/post/667980886748299265/i-do-not-think-that-nft-means-what-you-think-it
β˜… Liked https://www.zdnet.com/article/bots-are-making-it-difficult-for-people-to-order-raspberry-pi-computers-says-adafruit/
Tue Mar 22
β˜… Liked https://adrianroselli.com/2022/03/ada-web-site-compliance-still-not-a-thing.html
β˜… Liked https://whatisawridingmybikearoundtoday.com/2022/03/22/empty-lot-and-row-houses-at-w-fairmount-avenue-and-s-payson-street/
β˜… Liked https://www.theverge.com/22935074/hundred-rabbits-uxn-roms-preservation
Mon Mar 21
β˜… Liked https://whatisawridingmybikearoundtoday.com/2022/03/21/looking-south-toward-hopkins-from-broadway-east/
Sat Mar 19
β˜… Liked https://kiriska.com/blog/2022/how-to-build-a-personal-website/
post from How to Build a Personal Website
There are lots of free portfolio hosting platforms like Behance and Artstation, and similar options for other professions, but these are just what they say on the tin: they are only portfolios and resumes and landing pages, something to look at just once before forgetting about …
β˜… Liked https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/03/17/verified-accounts-secured-with-2fa-for-some-high-demand-products/
post from Verified Accounts Secured with 2FA for Some High-Demand Products
Due to bots buying out certain high-demand items, such as the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B, we are now requiring a verified account with two-factor authentication, 2FA, enabled for purchase. We are working to ensure as many of you makers and engineers out there have a chance to order …
Wed Mar 16
β˜… Liked https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/15/22977857/wordpress-tumblr-simplenote-internet-automattic-matt-mullenweg-interview
Mon Mar 14
β˜… Liked https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2022/03/signals-customizing-website-user-experience/
β˜… Liked https://jhalabi.com/blog/carousels-no-one-likes-you
Sat Mar 12
β˜… Liked https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2022/03/how-to-build-bike-generator.html#maxpower
Fri Mar 11
β˜… Liked https://snarfed.org/2022-03-10_were-drowning-software-dependencies
Wed Mar 9
β˜… Liked https://www.manton.org/2022/03/09/complete-draft-of.html
post from Complete draft of Indie Microblogging published
It took longer and grew into a bigger project than I expected, but I’m happy to announce today that the draft of Indie Microblogging is now available on the web at book.micro.blog.
Mon Mar 7
β˜… Liked https://briefs.video/videos/is-html-a-programming-language/