Marty McGuire

Marty Likes Things (Sometimes)

2024
Thu May 30
★ Liked https://adactio.com/journal/21172
post from Applying the four principles of accessibility
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines—or WCAG—looks very daunting. It’s a lot to take in. It’s kind of overwhelming. It’s hard to know where to start.
★ 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 we’ve added several big features to the plan, which is now called Micro.blog Premium:
★ 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 …
★ Liked https://dead.garden/blog/the-web-belongs-to-everyone-but-also-does-it.html
★ Liked https://www.wheresyoured.at/were-watching-facebook-die/
★ Liked https://chasem.co/2024/05/css-animations/
★ Liked https://benjamin.parry.is/writing/2024/05/building-on-the-idea-of-an-indieweb-zine/
Wed May 29
★ 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 don’t think it’s possible to morally support the ongoing bombardment of Gaza, but that’s too weak a statement. What’s happening there seems to be — based on what I’ve read through the news, what I’ve seen in video, the stories that have been sent back to us — an atrocity. The …
★ Liked https://kimberlyhirsh.com/2024/05/29/played-assemble-with.html
★ Liked https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/05/27/feed/
Tue May 28
★ 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
★ Liked https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/05/bell-riots-2024-enamel-pin/
Sat May 25
★ Liked https://simonwillison.net/2024/May/25/why-googles-ai-might-recommend-you-mix-glue-into-your-pizza/#atom-everything
★ Liked https://rachsmith.com/code-sketch-6/
Fri May 24
★ Liked https://werd.io/2024/the-ai-data-goldmine
post from The AI data goldmine
If I was a nefarious software company, here’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 …
Thu May 23
★ Liked https://www.zachleat.com/web/independent-sustainable-11ty/
★ Liked https://rachsmith.com/my-own-little-patch/#user-content-fn-1
★ Liked https://blog.glyph.im/2024/05/grand-unified-ai-hype.html
★ Liked https://www.citationneeded.news/tornado-cash/
★ Liked https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/23/spineless/
★ Liked https://rachsmith.com/ai-is-for-the-idea-guys/
Wed May 22
★ Liked https://mattferraro.dev/posts/cadmium
★ Liked https://cassidoo.co/post/human-curation/
★ Liked https://xeiaso.net/notes/2024/ai-hype/
Tue May 21
★ Liked https://campegg.com/2024/04/24/ive-been-mulling.html
post from
I’ve been mulling over Tracy’s “Webbing” the IndieWeb for a couple of days now, and the more I think about it, the more I find myself nodding along, especially around readers being just as important as writers to the “success” (however we want to define that… more on this later) …
★ Liked https://www.wheresyoured.at/killingfacebook/
Mon May 20
★ Liked https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/the-deskilling-of-web-dev-is-harming-us-all/
★ Liked https://rachsmith.com/some-journaling-observations/
★ 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:
★ 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.