Marty McGuire

Marty Likes Things (Sometimes)

2020
Sat Oct 17
β˜… Liked https://whatisawridingmybikearoundtoday.com/2020/10/16/power-transmission-lines-on-chase-just-before-iris/
Fri Oct 16
β˜… Liked http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2020/10/the-laundry-files-an-updated-c.html
Tue Oct 13
β˜… Liked https://www.emilykager.com/writing/2020/10/08/virality.html
β˜… Liked https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2020/cheating-entropy-with-native-web-tech/
post from Cheating Entropy with Native Web Technologies
90% of my computer usage is updating computers. – Paul Ford, Postlight Podcast
β˜… Liked https://emmas.site/blog/2020/10/12/curses-blaseball-estimators
Thu Oct 8
β˜… Liked https://holly.substack.com/p/opening-to-despair
β˜… Liked https://aaronparecki.com/2020/10/07/23/
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awwww!! 😻 Well we still call our six year old cat "kitten"
Mon Oct 5
β˜… Liked https://holly.substack.com/p/on-sarcasm-as-pseudo-bravado
β˜… Liked https://jan.boddez.net/articles/owning-my-watch-later-list
post from Owning My Watch Later List
I don’t actually use YouTube a whole lot, but I’ve absolutely stolen Marty McGuire’s idea for β€œowning your β€˜Watch Later’ list.” Here’s theβ€”somewhat simpler, I thinkβ€”approach I came up with:
Sun Oct 4
β˜… Liked https://conf.tube/videos/watch/d8c8ed69-79f0-4987-bafe-84c01f38f966
β˜… Liked https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/9841-Getting-fail2ban-working-on-Ubuntu-20-04
Fri Oct 2
β˜… Liked https://whatisawridingmybikearoundtoday.com/2020/10/02/baltimore-city-jail-being-demolished-at-fallsway-eager/
Thu Oct 1
β˜… Liked https://werd.io/2020/reading-watching-playing-using-september-2020
post from Reading, watching, playing, using: September 2020
This is my monthly roundup of the tech and media I consumed and found interesting. Here's my list for September.BooksThe City We Became, by NK Jemisen. An effervescent tale about gentrification and the soul of cities, writ large as a fantasy adventure. I listened to this as an …
Wed Sep 30
β˜… Liked https://www.manton.org/2020/09/29/whats-new-in.html
post from What's new in Micro.blog 2.0
I’ve written a few blog posts to preview some features in Micro.blog, but until 2.0 launched today we didn’t really have everything in one place. Here are a bunch of the new features:
Sun Sep 27
β˜… Liked http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2020/09/all-glory-to-the-new-managemen.html#more
Sat Sep 26
β˜… Liked https://www.customerservant.com/w3c-is-prioritizing-accessibility-over-its-open-source-licensing-preferences-why-is-that-a-bad-thing-again/
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post from β€œW3C Is Prioritizing Accessibility Over Its Open Source Licensing Preferences”. Why is that a bad thing again?
WPTavern disagrees with Studio 24’s decision to drop WordPress over Gutenberg. I was going to write a long comment on that post, but then I figured I’d just address it on my site.
Thu Sep 24
β˜… Liked https://lea.verou.me/2020/09/the-failed-promise-of-web-components/
post The failed promise of Web Components
Web Components had so much potential to empower HTML to do more, and make web development more accessible to non-programmers and easier for programmers. Remember how exciting it was every time we got new shiny HTML elements that actually do stuff? Remember how exciting it was to …
Wed Sep 23
β˜… Liked https://aaronparecki.com/2020/09/22/25/activitypub-oauth-2-1
β˜… Liked https://whatisawridingmybikearoundtoday.com/2020/09/23/if-you-tolerate-racism-delete-uber-sign-at-fallsway-gay/
Sun Sep 20
β˜… Liked https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=5921
β˜… Liked https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/09/19/adafruit-matrixportal-makes-it-easy-to-create-a-custom-led-sign-rbg/
post from Adafruit MatrixPortal makes it easy to create a custom LED sign #RBG
Using the plug-in MatrixPortal board we just released last week, we were able to make a sign that we brought to the Ruth Bader Ginsburg memorial vigil in NYC. The code displays three initials and then scrolls through an image of the Justice. We used the matrix magnetic feet to …
Wed Sep 16
β˜… Liked https://mango.pdf.zone/finding-former-australian-prime-minister-tony-abbotts-passport-number-on-instagram
Tue Sep 8
β˜… Liked https://aaronparecki.com/2020/09/07/7/raspberry-pi-streaming-server
post from How to make an RTMP Streaming Server and Player with a Raspberry Pi
In this tutorial we'll use a Raspberry Pi to build an RTMP server that plays out any video stream it receives over the Raspberry Pi's HDMI port automatically. This effectively turns a Raspberry Pi into a Blackmagic Streaming Bridge.
Sun Sep 6
β˜… Liked https://onezero.medium.com/the-privileged-have-entered-their-escape-pods-4706b4893af7
Wed Sep 2
β˜… Liked https://adrianroselli.com/2020/09/wcag-2-1-is-the-current-standard-not-wcag-2-0-and-wcag-2-2-is-coming.html
β˜… Liked https://whatisawridingmybikearoundtoday.com/2020/09/02/celebrate-black-lives-sign-in-patterson-park-along-eastern-avenue-near-lakewood/
Sun Aug 30
β˜… Liked https://livelaugh.blog/post/627834481090379777
Sat Aug 29
β˜… Liked https://anaulin.org/blog/structured-book-data-in-hugo-posts/
post from Adding Structured Book Data to My Blog Posts
I’ve been slowly working on taking more control over my own data, extracting it from corporate silos and keeping my own copies of it. One piece of this effort is making myself less dependent on Goodreads, which I’ve used for some years to track my reading and get inspiration from …
Fri Aug 28
β˜… Liked https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/3876-Incremental-progress
post from Incremental progress
Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of criticism about the IndieWeb movement based on the notion that everything that comes out of it is biased towards people with technology privilege; that it’s all well and good for people who know how to run a website to build their own thing, but …
Thu Aug 27
β˜… Liked https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2020/08/autonomy-online-indieweb/