Marty McGuire

Marty Likes Things (Sometimes)

2025
Fri Apr 11
★ Liked https://remysharp.com/2025/04/07/do-politics-belong-at-web-events
remysharp.com
post from Do politics belong at web events?
This question has been asked before and discussed before and I've always looked on from the sidelines, even though, as a conference organiser, I do in fact have fairly strong opinions about this.
🔗 • by
★ Liked https://velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-that-look-like-buttholes
🔗 • by
★ Liked https://heatherburns.tech/2025/04/11/i-need-a-new-challenge/
heatherburns.tech
post I need a new challenge
Two weeks ago I finished classes at Strath, and last week I finished my last pre-dissertation course assignments. I then granted myself a lovely staycation, reading good books and sunbathing in the radiant sunshine here on the Costa del Clyde (do not adjust your sets, this really …
🔗 • by
★ Liked https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2025/04/meanwhile-in-real-life.html
🔗 • by
★ Liked https://buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/collective-conference-myopia
🔗 • by
★ Liked https://www.theinfophile.com/archive/eeda-newsletter-vol-6-res-11-queer-time-capsule/
🔗 • by
★ Liked https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/breaking-the-spell/
🔗 • by
Thu Apr 10
★ Liked https://adrianroselli.com/2025/04/automated-wcag-testing-is-grrreat.html
🔗 • by
★ Liked https://tantek.com/2025/100/t1/vision-for-w3c-please-vote
Tantek Çelik
post from
I’m happy to announce that something I and others have worked on very hard for the past few years has been published by the W3C Advisory Board (AB) and sent to the W3C Advisory Committee (AC) for a vote to make it official:
🔗 • by
★ Liked https://blog.adafruit.com/2025/04/09/new-guide-chips-challenge-on-metro-rp2350-adafruitlearningsystem-adafruit-circuitpython-makermelissa/
🔗 • by
Wed Apr 9
★ Liked https://makerblock.com/2025/04/inkscape-protractor-and-rulers/
🔗 • by
Tue Apr 8
★ Liked https://popheist.com/is-star-trek-dying
🔗 • by
Mon Apr 7
★ Liked https://www.businessinsider.com/gen-z-flocking-tumblr-millennials-musk-zuckerberg-safe-space-2025-4
🔗 • by
★ Liked https://www.garbageday.email/p/crashing-the-economy-because-you-hate-tiktok-women
🔗 • by
★ Liked https://livelaugh.blog/posts/weekly-retro-2025-april-1/
🔗 • by
★ Liked https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2025/04/living-in-interesting-times.html
🔗 • by
★ Liked https://0xda.de/blog/2025/04/weekly-retro-2025-w14/
0xdade
post from Weekly Retro 2025-W14
Refocusing my priorities, and a handful of improvements to my website, including a share button and a js-free collapsible menu.
🔗 • by
★ Liked https://adactio.com/journal/21831
Jeremy Keith
post from Denial
The Wikimedia Foundation, stewards of the finest projects on the web, have written about the hammering their servers are taking from the scraping bots that feed large language models.
🔗 • by
★ Liked https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/who-cares-to-chat/
🔗 • by
Sat Apr 5
★ Liked https://werd.io/2025/doctor-who-is-the-best-show-ever-made-heres-why
Ben Werdmuller
post from Doctor Who is the best show ever made. Here's why.
The world is full of darkness. So much is going wrong. Experts agree that America has succumbed to right-wing authoritarianism; call it fascism or something else, these are extraordinarily difficult times.
🔗 • by
★ Liked https://the.ink/p/anat-shenker-osorios-actual-plan
🔗 • by
★ Liked https://isomorphism.xyz/blog/2024/steam-deck/
🔗 • by
Fri Apr 4
★ Liked https://startacomputer.club/
🔗 • by
★ Liked https://leanrada.com/notes/vanilla-web-rewrite/
🔗 • by
★ Liked https://everythingchanges.us/blog/keep-moving/
🔗 • by
★ Liked https://gregorlove.com/2025/04/i-was-just-reminded/
gRegor Morrill
post from
Hahah, I was just reminded of this interaction on Twitter with Phil Vischer, the creator of VeggieTales. I wanted to make a copy for posterity:
🔗 • by
★ Liked https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/welcome-to-the-age-of-ai-generated
🔗 • by
★ Liked https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/04/anything-that-cant-go-on/
Cory Doctorow
post from Pluralistic: End-stage capitalism (04 Apr 2025)
Today's links
🔗 • by
★ Liked https://soatok.blog/2025/04/03/the-authenticity-drought/
soatok.blog
post The Authenticity Drought
The types of people that proudly call themselves “influencers,” and describe what they create merely as “content,” are so profoundly allergic to authenticity that it bewilders the mind.
🔗 • by
★ Liked https://www.404media.co/big-tech-backed-trump-for-acceleration-they-got-a-decel-president-instead/
🔗 • by