Marty McGuire

Marty Likes Things (Sometimes)

2020
Sun Feb 2
★ Liked https://eev.ee/blog/2020/02/01/old-css-new-css/
★ Liked https://aaronparecki.com/2020/02/01/12/meetable
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Approaching version 1.0 of Meetable, my open source events website. Today I worked on streamlining the installation process for Heroku, and it’s now installable in under 5 minutes, no command line required! Try it out! https://meetable.org
Mon Jan 27
★ Liked https://www.manton.org/2020/01/27/replies-hosted-at.html
post from Replies hosted at your own blog
When I was first developing Micro.blog, I made a choice that quick replies in the timeline should be stored separately from regular blog posts. I thought that most people wouldn’t want replies mixed in with their blog posts at their own domain name. I also liked that replies were …
Fri Jan 24
★ Liked https://tantek.com/2020/009/t1/technology-force-multiplier-not-neutral
Tantek Çelik
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Technology is inherently a force multiplier, by default it amplifies the already powerful more than the less privileged, widening existing power gaps.
★ Liked https://jeffhuang.com/designed_to_last/
★ Liked http://tantek.com/2020/023/t6/cater-vegan-by-default-environment
Tantek Çelik
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Cater vegan by default (per Guardian environment article^1). Defaults matter, and changing them works (changes behavior).
Tue Jan 7
★ Liked https://werd.io/2020/41-things
post from 41 Things
One. Today is my birthday. I’m forty-one years old. That one’s for free, phishers.Two. My first memory is walking down a street in Amsterdam with my parents. A cobbler’s sign with wooden clogs hangs high above us. On street level, I loop and soar my red plastic aeroplane. A …
Sun Jan 5
★ Liked https://kongaloosh.com/e/2020/1/4/what-about
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Thoughts on what I will and won't do in 2020: reclaiming attention and quality time.
2019
Sun Dec 22
★ Liked https://aaronparecki.com/2019/12/21/4/indieweb-events
post from Announcing events.indieweb.org!
I'm super happy to announce the launch of a new website for IndieWeb events at events.indieweb.org!
Tue Dec 17
★ Liked https://werd.io/2019/a-new-decade
post from A new decade
As arbitrary as they are, these transitions provide a kind of useful punctuation - a spot to stop and breathe.For me, I think it might be useful to reflect on where I was at the start of the previous decade, where I am now, and where I'd like to be ten years from now.Ten years …
Thu Dec 12
★ Liked https://crowdersoup.com/posts/985/
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This looks like a super cool micropub media implementation! I’m definitely going to use it for inspiration when I’m building my own media endpoint.
Thu Nov 21
★ Liked https://www.jvt.me/posts/2019/11/20/intelligent-webmentions/
post from Sending Webmentions More Intelligently
Updating my post-deployment tooling to only send Webmentions when they've not already been accepted (or rejected).
Tue Nov 19
★ Liked https://alistapart.com/article/responsible-javascript-part-3/#post-7172132
post from Responsible JavaScript: Part III
You’ve done everything you thought was possible to address your website’s JavaScript problem. You relied on the web platform where you could. You sidestepped Babel and found smaller framework alternatives. You whittled your application code down to its most streamlined form …
Fri Nov 15
★ Liked https://werd.io/2019/the-best-way-to-blog-in-2020
post from The best way to blog in 2020
I've been blogging - albeit not consistently on the same site - since 1998. That's a long time in internet years, and in human years, and over time I've conditioned out any self-editing impulse I might have. I write, hit publish, and share. Done.Because I'm fairly prolific, …
Wed Nov 13
★ Liked https://v2.jacky.wtf/post/29ec18c7-8d37-400d-b791-051801128a7c
Sat Nov 9
★ Liked https://gregorlove.com/2019/11/announcing-homebrew-website-club-san-diego/
post from Announcing Homebrew Website Club San Diego
Next year I am planning to organize IndieWeb meetups in San Diego. These are typically called Homebrew Website Club. It’s a 1–2 hour meetup to discuss, demo, and work on our personal websites. It’s a great opportunity for anyone who wants to reclaim their web experience from …
Wed Oct 30
★ Liked https://alexdanco.com/2019/10/26/everything-is-amazing-but-nothing-is-ours/
Sun Oct 27
★ Liked https://www.customerservant.com/genuine-non-snarky-question-for-developers-at-what-point-are-accessibility-folk-permitted-to-be-anything-less-than-paragons-of-patience-and-diplomacy-with-regard-to-web-accessibility/
Amanda Rush(Placeholder, edit later) WordPress powers over a quarter of the web. With such a large market share comes a shared responsibility to create a web that everyone can use and enjoy, regardless of how they access it.
post from Genuine, non-snarky question for developers: At what point are accessibility folk permitted to be anything less than paragons of patience and diplomacy with regard to web accessibility?
I bookmarked a post by Heydon Pickering entitled Web Accessibility Is Out To Get You And Make You Feel Sad and my sharing of that post received some feedback from one of the developers who was apparently involved and who has made the accusation that Heydon is attempting to hide …
★ Liked http://www.heydonworks.com/article/web-accessibility-is-out-to-get-you-and-make-you-feel-sad
Tue Oct 22
★ Liked https://p1k3.com/2019/10/20
Mon Oct 7
★ Liked https://p1k3.com/2019/10/5
Tue Oct 1
★ Liked https://adactio.com/notes/15886
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I think the best panel discussion at #ViewSourceConf was me and @SlightlyLate having a lively debate by the cloakroom, like two weasels in a sack squealing about web standards.
Sun Sep 29
★ Liked https://adactio.com/links/15871
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Frank Chimero · A Like Can’t Go Anywhere, But a Compliment Can Go a Long Way
★ Liked https://aaronparecki.com/2019/09/28/42/indiewebcamp
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IndieWebCamp Amsterdam day 1 was amazing! Lots of great discussions, and as usual, I end the day with so many more ideas for what I want to create for my website next.
Sat Sep 28
★ Liked https://aaronparecki.com/2019/09/28/12/
Sat Sep 21
★ Liked https://adactio.com/journal/15844
post from Going offline with microformats
For the offline page on my website, I’ve been using a mixture of the Cache API and the localStorage API. My service worker script uses the Cache API to store copies of pages for offline retrieval. But I used the localStorage API to store metadata about the page—title, …
Fri Sep 20
★ Liked https://jenngineering.glitch.me/hello-world-except-keybase/
Thu Sep 19
★ Liked https://v2.jacky.wtf/post/7c62128b-f0af-4e63-a85e-6bda2fbf4a34
Fri Sep 13
★ Liked https://medium.com/@zephoria/facing-the-great-reckoning-head-on-8fe434e10630
Mon Sep 9
★ Liked https://www.jvt.me/posts/2019/03/14/homebrew-website-club-nottingham/
post from Homebrew Website Club: Nottingham
Thoughts about setting up the first Homebrew Website Club in Nottingham.