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One of the building blocks of the Indieweb is IndieAuth. Like many others, I bootstrapped my experience with indieauth.com but as Marty McGuire explains, there are good reasons to switch and even consider building your own. Because I wanted a server as simple to understand as …

🔗 October 10, 2022 at 2:41AM EDT • by

Marty McGuire

★ Liked https://blog.danslimmon.com/2022/10/05/descriptive-engineering-not-just-for-post-mortems/

🔗 October 9, 2022 at 3:18PM EDT • by

Marty McGuire

★ Liked https://heyloura.com/2022/10/6/note/9veg76.html

Loura

post from October 6, 2022 at 6:27PM UTC Loura

"The blog I'm building is/was a single HTML page. My initial vision was like TiddlyWiki, self-saving, and I could put my blog on a USB stick if I wanted. But having photos, webmentions, and a feed led me to multiple files. I'm not sure I'm happy with this new direction."

🔗 October 9, 2022 at 12:32AM EDT • by

Marty McGuire

★ Liked https://whatisawridingmybikearoundtoday.com/2022/10/07/cloudy-sky-with-a-bit-of-blue-peeking-through-at-lombard-mlk/

🔗 October 8, 2022 at 11:15AM EDT • by

Marty McGuire

★ Liked https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/07/sensory-deprivation/

Cory Doctorow

post from October 7, 2022 at 11:42AM -0700 Pluralistic: 07 Oct 2022 "Don't spy on a privacy lab," and other career advice for university provosts

Today's links

🔗 October 8, 2022 at 12:55AM EDT • by

Marty McGuire

★ Liked https://adactio.com/journal/19504

🔗 October 7, 2022 at 9:11AM EDT • by

Marty McGuire

★ Liked https://blog.mauve.moe/slides/making-a-text-editor/README.md

🔗 October 6, 2022 at 3:08PM EDT • by

Marty McGuire

★ Liked https://rootedinrights.org/getting-to-the-roots-why-does-subminimum-wage-persist/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=getting-to-the-roots-why-does-subminimum-wage-persist

Andjela H. Kaur

post Getting to the Roots: Why Does Subminimum Wage Persist?

In 2018, the National Council on Disabilities reported that people with disabilities in the U.S. have decreased chances of finding work. In addition, the report found that disabled workers often work for subminimum wage, low wages, and under substandard employment contracts (i.e. …

🔗 October 6, 2022 at 1:30PM EDT • by

Marty McGuire

★ Liked https://chringel.dev/2022/07/29/1635/

Christian Engel

post from July 29, 2022 at 4:35PM CEST

❤️ Liked https://martymcgui.re/2022/07/25/140726/

🔗 October 5, 2022 at 10:31AM EDT • by

Marty McGuire

★ Liked https://www.bedelstein.com/post/mcmaster-carr

🔗 October 5, 2022 at 9:38AM EDT • by

Marty McGuire

★ Liked https://jamesg.blog/2022/10/04/w3c-sustyweb-first-meeting/

James

post from October 4, 2022 at 12:00AM UTC Joining my first W3C Sustainability CG meeting

Organisers at the W3C are working on various initiatives related to sustainability. Over the last few months, two new community groups (CGs) were started to focus on sustainability and how it pertains to the web and the W3C as an organisation. [^1] After doing some reading about …

🔗 October 5, 2022 at 12:03AM EDT • by

Marty McGuire

★ Liked https://neal.fun/days-since-incident/

🔗 October 4, 2022 at 8:28AM EDT • by

Marty McGuire

★ Liked https://simonwillison.net/2022/Oct/1/software-engineering-practices/

🔗 October 2, 2022 at 9:17AM EDT • by

Marty McGuire

★ Liked https://xeiaso.net/blog/prompt-engineering

🔗 October 2, 2022 at 9:07AM EDT • by

Marty McGuire

★ Liked https://werd.io/2022/my-internet-eras

Ben Werdmüller

post from September 30, 2022 at 6:26PM +0000 My internet eras

My relationship to the internet falls into a few distinct eras:Down the rabbit hole (1994-1999)Connecting to other teenagers on Usenet and IRC

🔗 September 30, 2022 at 5:16PM EDT • by

Marty McGuire

★ Liked https://vivqu.com/blog/2022/09/25/outdated-apps/

🔗 September 30, 2022 at 1:20PM EDT • by

Marty McGuire

★ Liked https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2022/a-web-for-all/

blog.jim-nielsen.com

post from January 5, 2022 at 7:00PM UTC The Optional Chaining Operator, “Modern” Browsers, and My Mom

Eric Bailey recently wrote on CSS-Tricks about testing your website on a crappy laptop and it reminded me of this anecdote from my own life.

🔗 September 30, 2022 at 11:44AM EDT • by

Marty McGuire

★ Liked https://adactio.com/journal/19487

🔗 September 30, 2022 at 11:42AM EDT • by

Marty McGuire

★ Liked https://simonwillison.net/2022/Sep/30/action-transcription/

🔗 September 30, 2022 at 1:06AM EDT • by

Marty McGuire

★ Liked https://aaronparecki.com/2022/09/29/13/dji-mini-2-case

Aaron Parecki

post from September 29, 2022 at 12:41PM -0700

This is really well done! All the parts fit perfectly, and the drone even fits with my velcro on the top for the little strobe light. I'm actually using the bottom chamber for the strobe since I don't use the DJI charger brick at all.

🔗 September 29, 2022 at 4:03PM EDT • by

Marty McGuire

★ Liked https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/5558-Matrix-Third-Room

fluffy

post from September 29, 2022 at 11:42AM -0700 Matrix Third Room

Back when the VRChat debacle took place, I’d rambled quite a lot about the idea of a standards-based truly-distributed VR system. I probably mentioned how back in the day I was designing something like that, and was intending to use XMPP as the actual transport mechanism; in my …

🔗 September 29, 2022 at 3:34PM EDT • by

Marty McGuire

★ Liked https://cagrimmett.com/thoughts/2022/04/26/why-blog/

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🔗 September 29, 2022 at 11:33AM EDT • by

Marty McGuire