Marty McGuire

Marty Likes Things (Sometimes)

2024
Tue May 21
β˜… Liked https://www.wheresyoured.at/killingfacebook/
Mon May 20
β˜… Liked https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/the-deskilling-of-web-dev-is-harming-us-all/
β˜… Liked https://rachsmith.com/some-journaling-observations/
β˜… Liked https://jamesg.blog/2024/03/14/spring-cleaning/
post from Spring cleaning
With spring ahead, I have been thinking about cleaning, especially with regard to subscriptions for which I pay and the maintenance required of old projects that are no longer appealing to me. Recently, I asked myself two questions, in the sprit of spring cleaning:
β˜… Liked https://tracydurnell.com/2024/05/18/social-norms-of-the-indieweb/
post from Social norms of the IndieWeb: followup from Homebrew Website Club
Questions and followup thoughts from today’s Bonus Homebrew Website Club on the social norms of the IndieWeb. Notes here.
β˜… Liked https://tracydurnell.com/2024/05/17/indieweb-next-stage/
post from The IndieWeb’s next stage?
The IndieWeb is a people-focused alternative to the β€œcorporate web”.
Sat May 18
β˜… Liked https://frontendmasters.com/blog/exactly-how-to-deploy-local-files-to-make-a-live-website/
Fri May 17
β˜… Liked https://adactio.com/journal/21135
post from Labels
I love libraries. I think they’re one of humanity’s greatest inventions.
Thu May 16
β˜… Liked https://frontendmasters.com/blog/studio/
β˜… Liked https://werd.io/2024/googles-broken-link-to-the-web
post from Google’s broken link to the web
"A quarter-century into its existence, a company that once proudly served as an entry point to a web that it nourished with traffic and advertising revenue has begun to abstract that all away into an input for its large language models."This has the potential to be a disaster for …
β˜… Liked http://www.rntz.net/post/against-software-development.html
β˜… Liked https://livelaugh.blog/posts/let-me-do-cpr-on-you/
Wed May 15
β˜… Liked https://indieweb.org/FedCM_for_IndieAuth
post
FedCM for IndieAuth is a guide intended to help IndieAuth developers add support for the FedCM APIs, including the IdP Registration feature that enables FedCM to be used with IndieAuth.
β˜… Liked https://kattni.com/python-powered-eink-name-badge
Tue May 14
β˜… Liked https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2024/05-17.html
β˜… Liked https://heatherburns.tech/2024/05/14/so-youve-got-to-read-a-1200-page-consultation/
post So you’ve got to read a 1200 page consultation
I recently enjoyed a beer with an Australian colleague who also works in the digital rights field. β€œHold my beer” is, in fact, my running joke with Australians, as we both work through our bemusement on how the UK and Australia are constantly trying to outdo each other with …
β˜… Liked https://www.zachleat.com/web/11ty-conf-retro/
post An Organizer’s Retrospective on the 11ty Conference
This conference was an incredible privilege to help organize and selfishly I will say that one of my favorite parts was getting a big say in the talk selection.
Mon May 13
β˜… Liked https://ericwbailey.website/published/i-love-my-slightly-smart-tiny-tv/
β˜… Liked https://rachsmith.com/post-brain/
Sun May 12
β˜… Liked https://aaronparecki.com/2024/05/12/3/fedcm-for-indieauth
β˜… Liked https://gregorlove.com/2024/05/more-on-health-and-safety/
post from More on Health and Safety
There’s an IndieWeb event in DΓΌsseldorf 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:
β˜… Liked https://aaronparecki.com/2024/05/12/4/fedcm-indieauth
post from
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
β˜… Liked https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/05/blockchain-rasputin-over-here-is-mad-that-moderation-exists/
β˜… Liked https://kimberlyhirsh.com/2024/05/10/thanks-to-everyone.html
post from
Thanks to everyone for your kind words over on Manton’s post about my joining the Micro.blog team!
Fri May 10
β˜… Liked https://rachsmith.com/the-worse-you-feel/
Thu May 9
β˜… 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.
β˜… Liked https://conf.11ty.dev/2024/digital-frontiers-indieweb-cowboys-and-a-place-online-to-call-your-own/
β˜… Liked https://werd.io/2024/palantirs-earnings-call-rhetoric-is-terrifying
Wed May 8
β˜… 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 β€” 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 …
β˜… Liked https://www.404media.co/scientists-use-ultrasound-to-make-cold-brew-coffee-in-3-minutes-instead-of-24-hours/