Marty McGuire

Marty Likes Things (Sometimes)

2023
Wed Oct 4
β˜… Liked https://adactio.com/journal/20515
post from Crawlers
A few months back, I wrote about how Google is breaking its social contract with the web, harvesting our content not in order to send search traffic to relevant results, but to feed a large language model that will spew auto-completed sentences instead.
β˜… Liked https://www.jvt.me/posts/2023/10/04/blogging-neurodiversity/
β˜… Liked https://information.garden/@benfry/111176713441913283
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I have made the extremely difficult decision to resign from the Processing Foundation. I am absolutely heartbroken, and have not slept well for months.Casey and I started the Foundation with Dan as a way to make the Processing project more sustainable. For years it had been just …
β˜… Liked https://howtomarketagame.com/2023/09/28/the-missing-middle-in-game-development/
Tue Oct 3
β˜… Liked https://ryanmulligan.dev/blog/layout-breakouts/
β˜… Liked https://chriscoyier.net/2023/10/03/being-picky-about-a-css-reset-for-fun-pleasure/
β˜… Liked https://adactio.com/journal/20520
post from Websites in the dock
I updated my Mac to the newest operating system, Sonama. I did this to try out the new β€œadd to Dock” feature in Safari. It’s like the β€œadd to Homescreen” action on iOS.
Mon Oct 2
β˜… Liked https://soatok.blog/2023/10/02/return-to-office-is-bullshit-and-everyone-knows-it/
post Return to Office Is Bullshit And Everyone Knows It
I quit my job towards the end of last month.
Sat Sep 30
β˜… Liked https://www.zachleat.com/web/table-saw/
post <table-saw> Web Component
A lightweight structural-only zero-dependency web component wrapper for <table> to render wide tables in small viewports. Automatically creates a two-column layout at small screens with table headers repeated throughout.
Fri Sep 29
β˜… Liked https://tracydurnell.com/2023/09/27/how-i-approach-crafting-a-blog-post/
post from How I approach crafting a blog post
Over the years, I’ve seen lots of blog posts discussing what people could blog about (anything!), exploring philosophies of blogging, and explaining how to set up a blog on a variety of content management systems. I don’t think I’ve seen someone walk through their process for …
β˜… Liked https://gamefromscratch.com/unity-pricing-fallout-continues/
β˜… Liked https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2023/09/26/hue/
β˜… Liked https://www.wired.com/story/upside-foods-lab-grown-chicken/?utm_source=substack
Thu Sep 28
β˜… Liked https://rootedinrights.org/debtors-prison-waiting-room-insurance-preauthorization-in-the-era-of-step-therapy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=debtors-prison-waiting-room-insurance-preauthorization-in-the-era-of-step-therapy
post Debtors’ Prison Waiting Room: Insurance Preauthorization in the Era of Step-Therapy
Credit: Shutterstock/Buravleva Stock I get that millions of people in the United States have grown a dislike for health insurance companies. After all, as the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a government agency β€œdedicated to making sure you are …
β˜… Liked https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/introducing-raspberry-pi-5/
β˜… Liked https://webdevlaw.uk/2023/09/28/the-call-was-coming-from-inside-the-house/
post The call was coming from inside the house
Normally I wouldn’t waste my time reacting to churnalism – the adage about getting into a fight with a pig comes to mind – but the other day I saw an example of the genre which not only hit rock bottom, but then proceeded to dig. It related to UK internet regulation, which until …
Wed Sep 27
β˜… Liked https://www.tumblr.com/halloween-2023/729520982910468096
β˜… Liked https://dev.to/tigt/why-not-react-2f8l
β˜… Liked https://chriscoyier.net/2023/09/27/git-based-wordpress-deployment/
Tue Sep 26
β˜… Liked https://adactio.com/notes/20488
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I’ve had a really good, productive, fun day programming HTML and CSS!
β˜… Liked https://gomakethings.com/13-super-rad-web-dev-tricks-you-dont-know-about-but-should/
β˜… Liked https://mellified.men/@srol/111132058732621708
β˜… Liked https://lizengland.com/blog/2014/04/the-door-problem/
β˜… Liked https://pcmaffey.com/counting-ghosts
Mon Sep 25
β˜… Liked https://itch.io/c/3660502/ansimuz-made-with-godot-templates
Sun Sep 24
β˜… Liked https://rhiaro.co.uk/2023/09/social-web
β˜… Liked https://sarajaksa.eu/2023/09/how-to-control-your-own-internet-experience/
post from How to Control Your Own Internet Experience
There was a part of the blog post by Tracy titled Who is the internet for? Or, the culture war over adult content, that I have been thinking about for the bit. This is paragraph in question:
Sat Sep 23
β˜… Liked https://tracydurnell.com/2023/08/04/who-is-the-internet-for/
β˜… Liked https://tracydurnell.com/2023/09/23/my-20th-anniversary-of-blogging/
post from My 20th anniversary of blogging!
Twenty years ago today, I wrote my first blog post! (I stopped blogging from about 2009-2011, so I haven’t technically been blogging for twenty years yet β€” guess I get to celebrate twenty years twice πŸ˜‚)
β˜… Liked https://www.etotheipiplusone.net/?p=5594