Marty McGuire

Marty Likes Things (Sometimes)

2022
Wed Aug 17
β˜… Liked https://whatisawridingmybikearoundtoday.com/2022/08/17/looking-out-over-the-potomac-river-from-dyke-marsh-wildlife-preserve/
β˜… Liked https://emilygorcenski.com/post/did-we-win/
β˜… Liked https://hiddenheroes.netguru.com/douglas-engelbart
β˜… Liked https://www.annahavron.com/blog/preventing-burnout-means-planning-your-time-off
β˜… Liked https://www.annahavron.com/blog/you-are-a-person-not-a-machine
β˜… Liked https://www.annahavron.com/blog/why-create-a-personal-framework
Tue Aug 16
β˜… Liked https://www.kevinmarks.com/toolsforthinking.html
β˜… Liked https://winnielim.org/journal/on-leading-a-purposeless-life/
post on leading a purposeless life
Last week I wrote a post about nothingness. I get well-intentioned responses every time I write a seemingly depressing post like this. That one day I will find meaning in all of this, or I should find a new purpose to give me meaning, that I will emerge from this darkness into …
Fri Aug 12
β˜… Liked https://adrianroselli.com/2022/08/ftc-commercial-surveillance-and-overlays.html
β˜… Liked https://werd.io/2022/10-things-im-worrying-about-on-the-verge-of-new
post from 10 things I'm worrying about on the verge of new parenthood
One. Is it even ethical to bring a child into the world right now? During their lifetime we’ll see water scarcity and an increase in global conflict as a result of climate change. It’s going to get worse before it gets better. How, in good conscience, can I bring a new human into …
Thu Aug 11
β˜… Liked https://www.annahavron.com/blog/dont-hold-a-job-hold-an-office-instead
β˜… Liked https://sourcehut.org/blog/2021-12-08-100-rabbits-interview/
β˜… Liked https://adactio.com/links/19359
Wed Aug 10
β˜… Liked https://adactio.com/journal/19356
β˜… Liked https://whatisawridingmybikearoundtoday.com/2022/08/10/cloudy-sky-with-patches-of-blue-at-21st-guilford/
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/