Marty McGuire

Marty Likes Things (Sometimes)

2024
Sat Sep 28
β˜… Liked https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/09/27/some-go-web-dev-notes/
post Some Go web dev notes
I spent a lot of time in the past couple of weeks working on a website in Go
β˜… Liked https://rknight.me/blog/alternatives-to-wordpress/
Thu Sep 26
β˜… Liked https://tedium.co/2024/09/25/wordpress-wp-engine-open-web-negative-effects/
β˜… Liked https://css-tricks.com/catching-up-on-the-wordpress-wp-engine-sitch/
β˜… Liked https://social.lol/@robb/113202959949630667
β˜… Liked https://vt.social/@ExpiredPopsicle/113202320916920264
Wed Sep 25
β˜… Liked https://molily.de/something-went-wrong/
β˜… Liked https://tinystepsforward.tumblr.com/post/762567070282022912/autocrattic-more-matt-shenanigans-not-tumblr
β˜… Liked https://fediverse.zachleat.com/@zachleat/113200417696589275
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Shockwaves are hitting developers now as Matt appears to have disabled WP Engine’s access to the WordPress plugin repository https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1fpeqn2/plugin_repository_inaccessible_to_wp_engine/
β˜… Liked https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/unconscious-machine
β˜… Liked https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2024/201/s1/peckham_digital/
post from The web we want: A beginner’s guide to the IndieWeb
How to build a place on the web where you can own your identity, control your content and create whatever the hell you like.
β˜… Liked https://bix.blog/posts/blog-comments-are-not-social-media
β˜… Liked https://everythingchanges.us/blog/too-much-and-not-enough/
β˜… Liked https://deadsuperhero.com/2024/09/swf-icky-feeling/
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Note: this is a personal opinion piece for my blog. It is not an official statement coming from We Distribute, nor does it articulate that I feel as though everything is horrible and bad. It mostly serves a purpose of talking through my feelings.
Tue Sep 24
β˜… Liked https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-red-white-and-blue-screen-of
β˜… Liked https://www.jacky.wtf/essays/2024/deinvest-open-web/
β˜… Liked https://todon.eu/@jalcine/113193812935643226
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I left the Social Web working group because of the eagerness of allowing known endorsements of digital violence having a say in the development of it.
β˜… Liked https://bix.blog/posts/activitypub-is-to-the-indieweb-as-a-i-is-to-silicon-valley
β˜… Liked https://bix.blog/posts/holy-hell-the-social-web-did-not-begin-in-2008
β˜… Liked https://engineersneedart.com/blog/movefast/movefast.html
β˜… Liked https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-67/
Mon Sep 23
β˜… Liked https://www.characterworks.co/blog/we-deserve-better-than-an-ai-powered-future
Written By Jane Ruffino
post from We deserve better than an AI-powered future
It’s no secret that AI hype is one of my rage triggers. But before you mash out an angry email demanding I acknowledge that the way you use it is an exception, I’m not talking about automation and machine learning generally, where there are very good and useful applications. …
Sun Sep 22
β˜… Liked https://peabee.substack.com/p/whats-inside-the-qr-code-menu-at
Sat Sep 21
β˜… Liked https://jacky.wtf/essays/2024/one-over-other/
β˜… Liked https://tante.cc/2024/08/27/5312/
β˜… Liked https://tracydurnell.com/2024/09/19/long-live-hypertext/
post from Long live hypertext!
Quoted The hyperlink is dying! by Matt Pearce (@mattdpearce.bsky.social) (Bluesky Social)
β˜… Liked https://virtualmoose.org/2024/09/21/indie-game-roundup-sept-20-2024/
Fri Sep 20
β˜… Liked https://leaflet.pub/7ab31d9f-3c46-4c86-9475-ccd8e8637725
β˜… Liked https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/19/just-stop-putting-that-up-your-ass/
β˜… Liked https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/coming-home