Marty McGuire

Marty Likes Things (Sometimes)

2024
Wed Jun 5
โ˜… Liked https://adactio.com/journal/21184
post from Browser support
There was a discussion at Clearleft recently about browser support. Rich has more details but the gist of it is that, even though we were confident that we had a good approach to browser support, we hadnโ€™t written it down anywhere. Time to fix that.
โ˜… Liked https://daverupert.com/2024/05/cold-turkey-wont-fix-your-javascript-addiction/
Tue Jun 4
โ˜… Liked https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jun/1/stealing-everything-youve-ever-typed/#atom-everything
โ˜… Liked https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jun/4/a-tip-from-neal-stephenson/#atom-everything
Mon Jun 3
โ˜… Liked https://werd.io/2024/known-fizzled
post from Known fizzled
One of my biggest regrets is how the Known hosted service declined. The paid subscriptions came to an end, and eventually the hosting whimpered out. Behind the scenes, the database cluster was in need of more maintenance than I was able to provide.Known itself has required more โ€ฆ
โ˜… Liked https://archive.org/details/indieweb-summit-2019-making-the-indieweb-open-to-all
โ˜… Liked https://www.anildash.com//2024/05/29/systems-the-purpose-of-a-system/
โ˜… Liked https://dansheehan.substack.com/p/highway-to-hell
Sat Jun 1
โ˜… Liked https://brr.fyi/posts/engineering-for-slow-internet
Fri May 31
โ˜… Liked https://adactio.com/journal/21175
Thu May 30
โ˜… Liked https://www.citationneeded.news/2024-cryptocurrency-election-spending/
โ˜… Liked https://redeem-tomorrow.com/a-future-beyond-ai
post from A future beyond AI
ContentsEngines of discoveryYet attention remains finiteThe rise of videoWhy TikTok worksVideo as a counter to text spamUnderground internetPrivacy softwareThereโ€™s just so much to do
โ˜… Liked https://mrgan.com/ai-email-from-a-friend/
โ˜… Liked https://coryd.dev/posts/2024/partnering-with-an-ai-company-means-i-can-no-longer-trust-your-output/
Cory Dransfeldt
post from Partnering with an AI company means I can no longer trust your output
Look, I get that publications are hurting for revenue and AI companies are handing out cash but you're not *just* providing access to written and human-generated output โ€” you're giving up goodwill.
โ˜… Liked https://whatisawridingmybikearoundtoday.com/2024/05/28/looking-out-over-the-water-at-canton-waterfront-park/
โ˜… Liked https://adactio.com/journal/21172
post from Applying the four principles of accessibility
Web Content Accessibility Guidelinesโ€”or WCAGโ€”looks very daunting. Itโ€™s a lot to take in. Itโ€™s kind of overwhelming. Itโ€™s hard to know where to start.
โ˜… Liked https://www.manton.org/2024/05/29/podcast-hosting-for.html
post from Podcast hosting for $5
Six years ago, we launched our $10/month plan with podcast hosting. Since then weโ€™ve added several big features to the plan, which is now called Micro.blog Premium:
โ˜… Liked https://jacky.wtf/2024/1/yfsY
post from What's the point of being Black and political on Al Gore's Internet?
I wasted around 300 words over the last day in back-and-forths discussions on the Fediverse about the ramifications of "voting blue no matter who", the ideology that voting for Democrats with no means of accountability for their failures, aggressive amnesia and weak โ€ฆ
โ˜… Liked https://dead.garden/blog/the-web-belongs-to-everyone-but-also-does-it.html
โ˜… Liked https://www.wheresyoured.at/were-watching-facebook-die/
โ˜… Liked https://chasem.co/2024/05/css-animations/
โ˜… Liked https://benjamin.parry.is/writing/2024/05/building-on-the-idea-of-an-indieweb-zine/
Wed May 29
โ˜… Liked https://werd.io/2024/can-we-at-least-agree-that-killing-is-wrong
post from Can we at least agree that killing is wrong?
I donโ€™t think itโ€™s possible to morally support the ongoing bombardment of Gaza, but thatโ€™s too weak a statement. Whatโ€™s happening there seems to be โ€” based on what Iโ€™ve read through the news, what Iโ€™ve seen in video, the stories that have been sent back to us โ€” an atrocity. The โ€ฆ
โ˜… Liked https://kimberlyhirsh.com/2024/05/29/played-assemble-with.html
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๐ŸŽฎ Played Assemble with Care.
โ˜… Liked https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/05/27/feed/
Tue May 28
โ˜… Liked https://www.techdirt.com/2024/05/23/congress-wants-a-magic-pony-get-rid-of-section-230-perfect-moderation-and-only-nice-people-allowed-online/
Mon May 27
โ˜… Liked https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/05/bell-riots-2024-enamel-pin/
Sat May 25
โ˜… Liked https://simonwillison.net/2024/May/25/why-googles-ai-might-recommend-you-mix-glue-into-your-pizza/#atom-everything
โ˜… Liked https://rachsmith.com/code-sketch-6/
Fri May 24
โ˜… Liked https://werd.io/2024/the-ai-data-goldmine
post from The AI data goldmine
If I was a nefarious software company, hereโ€™s how I might be thinking:AI functionality tends to require that data is sent to a centralized service for processing.This is often data that is not being shared online in any other way that is easily available for analysis: existential โ€ฆ