Marty McGuire

Marty Likes Things (Sometimes)

2024
Sun May 12
★ Liked https://gregorlove.com/2024/05/more-on-health-and-safety/
post from More on Health and Safety
There’s an IndieWeb event in Düsseldorf this weekend, so I’ve been thinking about event health and safety policies again. I think there are two important aspects when it comes to these policies:
★ Liked https://aaronparecki.com/2024/05/12/4/fedcm-indieauth
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This weekend I built a prototype of using FedCM for IndieAuth! This gets rid of the need to enter your domain when logging in to websites using IndieAuth! Demo video and notes here: https://aaronparecki.com/2024/05/12/3/fedcm-for-indieauth
Sat May 11
★ Liked https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/05/blockchain-rasputin-over-here-is-mad-that-moderation-exists/
★ Liked https://kimberlyhirsh.com/2024/05/10/thanks-to-everyone.html
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Thanks to everyone for your kind words over on Manton’s post about my joining the Micro.blog team!
Fri May 10
★ Liked https://rachsmith.com/the-worse-you-feel/
Thu May 9
★ Liked https://minutestomidnight.co.uk/blog/more-indieweb-automation/
Simone Silvestroni
post from More Indieweb Automation
Follow-up to a previous case study on how I automated my static website publishing workflow. This time, a lean Shortcut script is allowing me to write webmentions in seconds.
★ Liked https://conf.11ty.dev/2024/digital-frontiers-indieweb-cowboys-and-a-place-online-to-call-your-own/
★ Liked https://werd.io/2024/palantirs-earnings-call-rhetoric-is-terrifying
Wed May 8
★ Liked https://werd.io/2024/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai
post from Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT
"Users who disagree with having their content scraped by ChatGPT are particularly outraged by Stack Overflow's rapid flip-flop on its policy concerning generative AI. For years, the site had a standing policy that prevented the use of generative AI in writing or rewording any …
★ Liked https://www.404media.co/scientists-use-ultrasound-to-make-cold-brew-coffee-in-3-minutes-instead-of-24-hours/
★ Liked https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-57/
★ Liked https://blog.glyph.im/2024/05/hope.html
Tue May 7
★ Liked https://dbushell.com/2024/05/07/modern-wordpress-themes-yikes/
Mon May 6
★ Liked https://openssf.org/blog/2024/04/15/open-source-security-openssf-and-openjs-foundations-issue-alert-for-social-engineering-takeovers-of-open-source-projects/
★ Liked https://getstamped.co.uk/ex-libris-stamps/
★ Liked https://toot.wales/@huwfulcher/112389575406404314
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Spent some time hacking together a fairly smooth way to put micro posts on my website from iOS last night. Uses Apple Shortcuts to capture the info, format into markdown with front matter and then commit & push to my repository with Working Copy. My self hosted forge then …
Sun May 5
★ Liked https://www.theinfophile.com/archive/eeda-newsletter-vol-5-res-9-investing-your-values/
★ Liked https://werd.io/2024/the-kids-are-alright
post from The kids are alright
The biggest thing to be concerned about in all these student protests is not the students, but the severity and strength with which the police are entering the fray. A police officer fired a gun on the Columbia campus. Tear gas is being used on multiple campuses. In multiple …
★ Liked https://brucesterling.tumblr.com/post/749569601319452672/realistic-utopias-a-speech-by-bruce-sterling
post from Utopian Realism, a speech by Bruce Sterling
*I never posted any lecture of mine on Tumblr, even though Tumblr would seem to have plenty of elbow-room for hour-long, learned, European public lectures (with many lecture slides).
Sat May 4
★ Liked https://xeiaso.net/talks/2024/shashin/
Fri May 3
★ Liked https://mastodon.social/@alienmelon/112375826473131901
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aaaah 🎉🥹 the Palestinian Relief Bundle just made
Thu May 2
★ Liked https://www.404media.co/nypd-bike-lock-chain-kryptonite-columbia-university-protests/
★ Liked https://adactio.com/journal/21098
post from Our web
Gregory Bennett chronicles the enshittification of everything online in his piece Heat Death of the Internet. It makes for grim reading.
★ Liked https://www.citationneeded.news/we-can-have-a-different-web/
★ Liked https://www.takahe.org.nz/heat-death-of-the-internet/
Tue Apr 30
★ Liked https://heatherburns.tech/2024/04/30/i-hope-you-know-this-will-go-on-your-permanent-record/
post I hope you know this will go on your permanent record.
I‘m going to describe a thing. I’m going to work from the bottom up. You’re going to visualise it, because I’m not going to show it.
★ Liked https://adactio.com/journal/21084
post from Composability in design systems
When I documented my approach to HTML web components I sang the praises of composability:
★ Liked https://kattni.com/updates-and-pycon-news
★ Liked https://hackaday.io/project/195667-fallout-cyberdeck
★ Liked http://tantek.com/2024/120/t1/library-of-infinite-loan
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The Library of Infinite Loan is a physical world practice I conceived of many many years ago¹, implemented in minimal prototype form 5+ years ago², shared a summary with the #IndieWeb community at least four years ago at the #IndieWebCamp Austin in 2020³ and last year in IndieWeb …