Marty McGuire

Marty Likes Things (Sometimes)

2024
Thu Feb 8
β˜… Liked https://adactio.com/links/20863
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Web Development Is Getting Too Complex, And It May Be Our Fault β€” Smashing Magazine
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Huffduffing the audio version of @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io’s book review now to experience the full schadenfreude later:
Wed Feb 7
β˜… Liked https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_02_24/
β˜… Liked https://www.citationneeded.news/review-read-write-own-by-chris-dixon/
β˜… Liked https://werd.io/2024/review-chris-dixons-read-write-own
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A characteristically great review from Molly White of Chris Dixon's disclosure-free shilling of blockchains as a way to save the web. Read, written, owned.
Mon Feb 5
β˜… Liked https://blog.glyph.im/2024/02/let-me-tell-you-a-secret.html
β˜… Liked https://redeem-tomorrow.com/sorry-i-still-want-to-build-technology
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ContentsI’m overall fine with Apple’s monsterBut what about all these fuckers?It’s not love if it isn’t work
β˜… Liked https://disgruntledharadrim.com/2024/02/05/tips-for-understanding-black-history-month-2024-edition/
β˜… Liked https://mcmansionhell.com/post/741171396971053056/weve-found-it-folks-mcmansion-heaven
β˜… Liked https://blakewatson.com/journal/finishing-side-projects/
β˜… Liked https://daverupert.com/2024/01/what-can-a-website-do/
β˜… Liked https://garbados.github.io/my-blog/spirits-of-the-human-animal.html
Sun Feb 4
β˜… Liked https://thinkdobecreate.com/articles/a-call-for-consensus-on-html-semantics/
β˜… Liked http://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/backrooms-liminal-spaces-and-the-subliminal-menace-of-loneliness-in-indie-horror-games
post Backrooms, Liminal Spaces, And The Subliminal Menace Of Loneliness in Indie Horror Games
The other day I was told that my writing is appreciated and that I need to write more… so I’m taking a moment to write about a rabbit hole that I’ve fallen down since working on BlueSuburbia!
Sat Feb 3
β˜… Liked https://itch.io/blog/675712/backrooms-liminal-spaces-and-the-subliminal-menace-of-loneliness-in-indie-horror-games
β˜… Liked https://blog.tidelift.com/will-the-new-judicial-ruling-in-the-vizio-lawsuit-strengthen-the-gpl?utm_source=pocket_saves
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Utopia WCAG warnings | Trys Mudford
β˜… Liked https://www.jspowerhour.com/comics/267
Thu Feb 1
β˜… Liked https://redeem-tomorrow.com/general-intelligence
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As the helicopter set down, Victor yanked the headset aside and made for the door. Today was the day.
Wed Jan 31
β˜… Liked https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/31/neural-interface-beta-tester/
Tue Jan 30
β˜… Liked https://werd.io/2024/stripping-the-web-of-its-humanity
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I triedΒ Arc Search, the new mobile app from the Browser Company. Its central insight is that almost every mobile browsing session starts with a web search; rather than giving you the usual list of results, it prioritizes building a web page for you that contains all the …
β˜… Liked https://www.mcmillen.dev/sigbovik/
β˜… Liked https://michaelweinberg.org/blog/2024/01/28/carlin-ai/
post from Carlin AI Lawsuit Against 'Impression with Computer'
The brewing dispute over a (purportedly - more on that below) AI-generated George Carlin standup special is starting to feel like another step in the long tradition of rightsholders claiming that normal activity needs their permission when done with computers.
Sat Jan 27
β˜… Liked https://brucelawson.co.uk/2024/apple-and-malicious-compliance/
β˜… Liked https://werd.io/2024/the-indieweb-is-for-everyone
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Tantek Γ‡elik has posted a lovely encapsulation of the indieweb:The #IndieWeb is for everyone, everyone who wants to be part of the world-wide-web of interconnected people. The social internet of people, a network of networks of people, connected peer-to-peer in human-scale …
Fri Jan 26
β˜… Liked https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2024/01/worldcon-in-the-news.html
β˜… Liked https://www.manton.org/2024/01/26/fixing-the-app.html
post from Fixing the App Store, part 2
In a blog post from 2020, I suggested four changes to fix the App Store for developers: 1) allow sideloading; 2) don’t require in-app purchase; 3) keep curating the App Store; and 4) lower the cut to 15%. I described each of these in more detail in that post, so I won’t repeat …
Thu Jan 25
β˜… Liked https://conversationalist.org/2024/01/19/grief-autism-processing-death-buffy/
β˜… Liked https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-97166797
β˜… Liked https://webdevlaw.uk/2024/01/25/those-who-choose-not-to-heal/
post Those who choose not to heal
As I’ve mentioned a few times before, I’m a space geek. I want to know what’s up there, and I want to know how it got there. That counts whether it’s the stars in the sky (I’m a bit of an amateur stargazer), the satellites whizzing through it (my phone does ISS pass alerts and …