Marty McGuire

Marty Likes Things (Sometimes)

2022
Wed Feb 16
★ 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. …
Thu Jan 27
★ Liked https://whatisawridingmybikearoundtoday.com/2022/01/26/save-our-block-mural-at-mulberry-n-carrollton/
★ Liked https://www.zachleat.com/web/back-to-the-facepile/
post Back to the Facepile, Featherweight Edition
A short three years ago, I wrote about The Crushing Weight of the Facepile: how the image weight of the webmention avatar images were proving to be prohibitvely large.At that time, I decided the best solution was to lazy load all of the Webmention Avatars. I used …
Wed Jan 26
★ Liked https://katydecorah.com/code/build-your-metadata-library/
★ Liked https://michaelweinberg.org/blog/2022/01/25/nft-open-glam/
post from Are NFTs Compatible with OpenGLAM?
NFTs are hot. OpenGLAM is hot. People have THOUGHTS and OPINIONS when NFTs and OpenGLAM get near each other.
Tue Jan 25
★ Liked https://www.zachleat.com/web/trailing-slash/
★ Liked https://blog.mollywhite.net/abuse-and-harassment-on-the-blockchain/
★ Liked https://mxb.dev/blog/make-free-stuff/
★ Liked https://www.protocol.com/matt-mullenweg
Sun Jan 23
★ Liked https://jilliancyork.com/2022/01/23/on-bari-weiss-and-covid-19/
post On Bari Weiss and COVID-19
It’s been a long time since I’ve blogged, but I’m on my first long break in many years and dying to be away from social media so I’m trying this to see how things go. Who knows, maybe I’ll start a newsletter.
★ Liked https://werd.io/2022/some-links-out-to-the-blogosphere
post from Some links out to the blogosphere
I’ve added two links to the bottom of every page on my website.The first is to the IndieWeb webring: a directory of personal websites from people who are a part of the indieweb movement. These sites run the gamut of topics, but they’re mostly personal profiles from people who …