Marty McGuire

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2022
Mon Feb 21
★ Liked https://werd.io/2022/the-web-for-peace
post from The web for peace
One of my firmest beliefs about the web as it emerged was that it could be a force for peace: learning happens, I argued, when contexts collide. People who didn’t know or understand each other would meet, talk, and connect. We would all have a deeper understanding, rooted in …
★ Liked https://www.ciccarello.me/blog/2021/04/17/styling-an-rssatom-feed-with-xsl/
Anthony Ciccarello
post from Styling an RSS/Atom feed with XSL
On my blog I link to my RSS/Atom feed for the convenience of people who use a feed reader. However, since this is an XML document, clicking on the link could be confusing for web visitors. I had previously looked into adding styles to the XML document to make it less scary, but …
★ Liked https://a11ysavvy.com/2022/02/13/my-thoughts-on-accessibility-of-nfts-and-web3/
★ Liked https://www.createdbysteph.com/2022/02/20/movement-milestones-february-2022/?utm_source=rss
steph
post Movement Milestones | February 2022
Very early this morning I completed my 50th straight day of yoga! I am halfway to 100 and it’s gone by so quickly I can hardly believe it. It hasn’t always been easy to make the time and I have not felt like always felt like doing it, but I didn’t want to break my streak…if I’m …
Sun Feb 20
★ Liked https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2022/02/indieweb-peronal-libraries-popup-session/
Ton Zijlstra
post from IndieWeb Personal Libraries PopUp Session
Yesterday a pop-up IndieWeb meet-up (event page) took place on Personal Libraries / distributed libraries.
★ Liked https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/19/now-we-are-two/
Fri Feb 18
★ Liked https://anildash.com/2022/02/09/the-stupid-tech-content-culture-cycle/
★ Liked https://www.instructables.com/Making-a-Tiny-Mac-From-a-Raspberry-Pi-Zero/
Wed Feb 16
★ Liked https://waterpigs.co.uk/articles/consuming-microformats/
post from How to Consume Microformats 2 Data
A (very) belated follow up to Getting Started with Microformats 2, covering the basics of consuming and using microformats 2 data.
★ Liked https://whatisawridingmybikearoundtoday.com/2022/02/16/crushed-safety-cone-at-mlk-and-lombard/
★ Liked https://www.platformer.news/p/why-you-cant-rebuild-wikipedia-with
Tue Feb 15
★ Liked https://maya.land/responses/2020/10/22/marty-mcguire-on-the-state-of-webmentions.html
post from marty mcguire on the state of webmentions
What we talk about when we're talking about "Webmentions"
Mon Feb 14
★ Liked https://werd.io/2022/great-communication-for-software-teams
post from Great communication for software teams
The more distributed a team gets, the more important great communication becomes.Distributed can mean many things:
★ Liked https://jmmv.dev/2021/04/always-be-quitting.html
Sun Feb 13
★ Liked https://werd.io/2022/meaning-and-co-dependency
post from Meaning and co-dependency
I wonder if finding meaning is like finding your keys: it’s not going to come to you when you’re looking for it, but maybe it’ll sneak up on you.I’m a little envious of people who have made religion a part of their lives: the cultural structures of organized belief seem to be …
Wed Feb 9
★ Liked https://www.leemeichin.com/posts/yes-i-can-connect-to-a-db-in-css.html
★ Liked https://daverupert.com/2022/02/complaining-about-web-browsers/
Tue Feb 8
★ Liked https://p1k3.com/2022/2/7/
★ Liked https://tjout.com/2022/033/0/
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Following the IndieWeb building block philosophy, I added a new feature to this website. From today on there is a little badge in the footer of my website which inidcates that it participates in a IndieWeb Ring.
★ Liked https://whatisawridingmybikearoundtoday.com/2022/02/08/looking-out-over-the-water-at-fort-mchenry/
Mon Feb 7
★ Liked https://www.scottohara.me//blog/2022/02/05/dynamic-results.html
★ Liked https://a11ysavvy.com/2022/01/31/accessibly-insecure/
Sun Feb 6
★ Liked https://www.disruptingjapan.com/what-three-card-monte-can-teach-you-about-nfts/
post What three-card monte can teach you about NFTs
NFTs are easy to understand if you examine their core utility.  Unfortunately, there are thousands of NFT promoters spending millions of dollars to make sure you never look at that.
Fri Feb 4
★ Liked https://www.thezbook.com/the-biggest-mistake-i-see-engineers-make/
★ Liked https://www.thezbook.com/the-biggest-mistake-i-see-engineers-make/?utm_source=programmingdigest&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=457
Thu Feb 3
★ Liked https://www.jvt.me/posts/2022/02/03/common-dangerous-logs/
post from I don't think you should be logging that? 😳
Common pitfalls and dangerous things that you should be watching out for in your log messages.
Wed Feb 2
★ Liked http://tantek.com/2022/032/t2/anniversary-webmention-websub
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Last month was the anniversary of two #IndieWeb #distributedWeb building block specifications becoming @W3C Recommendations:
Tue Feb 1
★ Liked https://eev.ee/blog/2022/01/31/monday-night-itch-1-mystery-trap-adventure/
★ Liked https://werd.io/2022/building-an-outboard-brain
post from Building an outboard brain
I’m a long-time Notion user: my linkblog is based on it (with new links posted to my site via Micropub), and I use it for everything from tasks to shopping lists. But so far, it hasn’t been quite right for me. It’s slow, and perhaps too structured both in form and editor.I tried …
Sat Jan 29
★ Liked https://werd.io/2022/protesting-joe-rogan-is-not-censorship
post from Protesting Joe Rogan is not censorship
It should be obvious, but: Neil Young and Joni Mitchell’s decision to remove their content from Spotify to protest Joe Rogan’s ongoing covid disinformation is not censorship under the First Amendment or any other measure.The First Amendment protects us from government censorship. …