Marty Likes Things (Sometimes)

2021
Sun Feb 21

★ Liked https://dangillmor.com/2021/02/21/in-australia-the-murdoch-family-versus-big-tech/

post from February 21, 2021 at 3:53PM -0800 In Australia: the Murdoch family versus Big Tech

The global freak-out over Facebook’s (temporary, no doubt) decision to remove Australian news sites from its users’ feeds reflects multiple misunderstandings — some of which are plainly deliberate — about what’s going on Down Under. Here’s my take, which is drawn largely from my …

🔗 February 21, 2021 at 11:20PM EST • by

★ Liked https://holly.substack.com/p/all-this-shit-on-the-floor

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★ Liked https://tantek.com/2021/051/b1/life-happens

post from February 20, 2021 at 10:37PM +0000 Life Happens: Towards Community Support For Prioritizing Life Events And Mutual Care, Starting With The #IndieWeb

Foreword

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Thu Feb 18

★ Liked https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEkPKVvAMrs

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Sat Feb 13

★ Liked https://werd.io/2021/the-task-ahead

Ben Werdmüller

post from February 12, 2021 at 8:00PM +0000 The task ahead

As you drive down any highway in the San Francisco Bay Area, you can see them under overpasses and bridges: small conglomerates of tents, surrounded by increasingly-complex infrastructure for electricity and water. Not so much shantytowns as distributed shanty-hamlets: …

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Wed Feb 10

★ Liked https://css-tricks.com/the-differences-in-web-hosting-go-with-the-happy-path/

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Mon Feb 8

★ Liked https://briefs.video/videos/why-the-indieweb/

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Sun Feb 7

★ Liked https://andrewdoran.uk/blog/2021/02/07/the-loveliest-place-on-the-internet/

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Fri Feb 5

★ Liked https://piccalil.li/blog/a-minimum-viable-experience-makes-for-a-resilient-inclusive-website-or-app

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★ Liked https://aaronparecki.com/2019/12/12/21/its-time-for-oauth-2-dot-1

post from December 12, 2019 at 6:10PM -0800 It's Time for OAuth 2.1

Trying to understand OAuth often feels like being trapped inside a maze of specs, trying to find your way out, before you can finally do what you actually set out to do: build your application.

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Thu Feb 4

★ Liked https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/01/twitter-and-interoperability-some-thoughts-peanut-gallery

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★ Liked https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-simple-html/

@edent

post from January 26, 2021 at 12:00AM UTC The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML

I’ve told this story at conferences – but due to the general situation I thought I’d retell it here.A few years ago I was doing policy research in a housing benefits office in London. They are singularly unlovely places. The walls are brightened up with posters offering helpful …

🔗 February 4, 2021 at 8:24AM EST • by

Wed Feb 3

★ Liked https://adactio.com/journal/1274

post from March 31, 2007 at 7:37PM UTC Ghost in the Machine Tags

Richard has some very nifty ideas up his sleeve for the next iteration of his site. Some of these are design-related and some are technical. He just gave a peek into the technical side of things by explaining how he’s using tags to tie content together. Not just any old tags, …

🔗 February 3, 2021 at 11:51PM EST • by

★ Liked https://adactio.com/journal/17794

post from February 3, 2021 at 11:26AM UTC Authentication

Two-factor authentication is generally considered A Good Thing™️ when you’re logging in to some online service.

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Tue Feb 2

★ Liked https://timdaub.github.io/2021/01/16/web-principles/

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Mon Jan 25

★ Liked https://css-tricks.com/tech-stacks-and-website-longevity/

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★ Liked https://holly.substack.com/p/self-care-vs-big-wife-policy

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Sat Jan 23

★ Liked https://gregorlove.com/2021/01/today-i-dipped-my-toes/

gregorlove.com

post from January 23, 2021 at 9:32PM +0000 Some Thoughts on Commenting

Today I dipped my toes back into IndieWeb land (lake?) by joining the pop-up session, “Respectful Responses.” I didn’t go in with a specific goal; it just sounded like a good topic:

🔗 January 23, 2021 at 8:00PM EST • by

★ Liked https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/12555-webmention-js-0-4-0

post from January 23, 2021 at 12:15PM -0800 webmention.js 0.4.0

I’ve just released v0.4.0 of webmention.js, which adds the ability to coalesce comment-type responses into the “reactions” section. I’d been considering it for a while but finally got the impetus to add it during today’s Respectful Responses IndieWeb session.

🔗 January 23, 2021 at 3:08PM EST • by

Fri Jan 22

★ Liked https://www.theroot.com/the-caucasians-guide-to-post-maga-america-1846089093

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Thu Jan 21

★ Liked https://twonursestalking.substack.com/p/how-icu-capacity-works

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★ Liked https://adactio.com/journal/17770

post from January 21, 2021 at 12:43PM UTC Letters of exclusion

I think my co-workers are getting annoyed with me. Any time they use an acronym or initialism—either in a video call or Slack—I ask them what it stands for. I’m sure they think I’m being contrarian.

🔗 January 21, 2021 at 11:06AM EST • by

★ Liked https://p1k3.com/2021/1/20/

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★ Liked https://micro.blog/colinwalker/10892735

post from January 21, 2021 at 9:40AM +0000

@schmarty An interesting topic. On the whole, I think the ease with which minimum viable social actions can be created on social networks is the issue. Even though a multitude of responses can be sent via indieweb tech the additional friction required to do so from your own site …

🔗 January 21, 2021 at 11:03AM EST • by

Wed Jan 20

★ Liked https://blog.adafruit.com/2021/01/20/100-day-masking-challenge-a-mask-in-every-usa-order-and-more-adafruit/

phillip torrone

post from January 20, 2021 at 11:02PM EST “100 Day Masking Challenge” – a mask in every USA order and more @adafruit

Adafruit is helping with the “100 Day Masking Challenge” and adding a mask in every USA order for the next 100 days. Mask up America, let’s flatten the curve together, and build back better – details: https://adafruit.com/freeWe’re asking for companies like Amazon to consider …

🔗 January 20, 2021 at 11:21PM EST • by

★ Liked https://emmas.site/blog/2021/01/19/the-pi-on-the-road

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★ Liked https://adactio.com/journal/17768

post from January 20, 2021 at 12:51PM UTC Get safe

The verbs of the web are GET and POST. In theory there’s also PUT, DELETE, and PATCH but in practice POST often does those jobs.

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Fri Jan 15

★ Liked https://fogknife.com/2021-01-15-pleasant-thoughts-about-spider-man.html

post from January 16, 2021 at 3:24AM UTC Pleasant thoughts about Spider-Man

I bought some groceries, and I thought about Spider-Man.

🔗 January 15, 2021 at 11:44PM EST • by

★ Liked https://werd.io/2021/paradigm-shift

Ben Werdmüller

post from January 15, 2021 at 6:01PM +0000 Paradigm shift

One of my favorite pieces of software is Apple photo search. If you've got an iPhone, try it: great searches to try are "animal selfie", "bird", "ice cream", or "cake".What's particularly amazing about these searches is that the machine learning is performed on-device. In fact, …

🔗 January 15, 2021 at 10:08PM EST • by

★ Liked https://jilliancyork.com/2021/01/14/everything-old-is-new-part-2-why-online-anonymity-matters/

jilliancyork.com

post Everything Old is New Part 2: Why Online Anonymity Matters

Every few weeks or so, someone white dude suggests that the way to solve all of our online problems is to require users to submit ID verification and use their “real names,” ignoring years of research and commentary.

🔗 January 15, 2021 at 9:08AM EST • by

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