Marty McGuire

Marty Likes Things (Sometimes)

2023
Fri Sep 22
β˜… Liked https://rachsmith.com/i-moved-from-mastodon/
Thu Sep 21
β˜… Liked https://benmyers.dev/ai-statement/
Wed Sep 20
β˜… Liked https://herman.bearblog.dev/the-frustration-loop/
β˜… Liked https://chriscoyier.net/2023/09/20/memorial-sites/
β˜… Liked https://www.applovin.com/blog/migrating-from-unity-to-other-game-engines/
β˜… Liked https://pketh.org/kinopio-ios.html
Sat Sep 16
β˜… Liked https://www.grubstreet.com/2012/10/pizza-legend-patsy-grimaldi-gets-his-good-name-back.html
Wed Sep 13
β˜… Liked http://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/the-generous-space-of-alternative-game-engines-a-curation
post The Generous Space of Alternative Game Engines (A Curation)
This post is a response to Unity’s heartbreaking announcement that they will… charge developers relentlessly for distributing their games? I struggle to frame exactly what they are doing because Unity’s decision is so bizzarely resentful toward their huge developer base that …
β˜… Liked https://mastodon.social/@alienmelon/111060911101200150
post from
i put together a long hopefully helpful curation of alternative game engines. there are so many, some deserve a lot more attention, all with their own strengths and benefits.
β˜… Liked https://adactio.com/journal/20442
Tue Sep 12
β˜… Liked https://www.harihareswara.net/posts/2023/on-jon-boiss-work/
β˜… Liked https://bricolage.io/some-notes-on-local-first-development/
Mon Sep 11
β˜… Liked https://armoxon.substack.com/p/never-remember?nthPub=2701
β˜… Liked https://werd.io/2023/bushs-legacy
post from Bush's legacy
Twenty-two years ago, I sat in the office β€” actually the bottom two floors of a Victorian home with creaking, carpeted floorboards and an overstuffed kitchen β€” at Daily Information, the local paper where I worked in Oxford. It was mid-afternoon, and I probably had Dreamweaver …
β˜… Liked https://adactio.com/journal/20438
post from Performative performance
Web Summer Camp in Croatia finished with an interesting discussion. It was labelled a town-hall meeting, but it was more like an Oxford debating club.
β˜… Liked https://webdevlaw.uk/2023/09/11/the-things-i-learned-under-the-bluest-sky/
post The things I learned under the bluest sky
I cannot start the story where I want to start it, because I have to start it where everyone else who was there starts it. It’s how we calibrate our positions, time-stamped and geo-coordinated to the precise moments and exact locations where each of us was standing when we looked …
Sun Sep 10
β˜… Liked https://www.theverge.com/23846048/google-search-memes-images-pagerank-altavista-seo-keywords
Fri Sep 8
β˜… Liked https://growth.design/case-studies/apple-privacy-policy
Thu Sep 7
β˜… Liked https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/09/07/zx-origins-a-collection-of-8x8-fonts-fonts-damienguard/
post from ZX Origins – a collection of 8Γ—8 fonts #Fonts @damienguard
Damien Guard is providing a collection of 8Γ—8 graphical fonts for the community, free with attribution. The collection consists of 228 typefaces with 417 fonts.The fonts show up in 199 games / tools (so far).See the details in the post here.
β˜… Liked https://the-ard.com/2023/09/07/burning-man-and-the-colonial-idea-of-middle-of-nowhere/
β˜… Liked https://mellified.men/@srol/111021880045871455
Wed Sep 6
β˜… Liked https://werd.io/2023/my-technology-thesis
post from My technology thesis
My technology thesis is this:All technology should punch up, not down.It should connect the disconnected. It should empower the disempowered. It should inform the uninformed.It should empower communities that historically have been underrepresented and underserved.It should help …
β˜… Liked https://redeem-tomorrow.com/if-you-can-use-open-source-you-can-build-hardware
β˜… Liked https://webdevlaw.uk/2023/09/06/back-to-work/
post Back to work
And just like that, I went back to work. You couldn’t make it up: after 51 weeks of unemployment and job searching, I got multiple freelance contracts in a single week.
Tue Sep 5
β˜… Liked https://werd.io/2023/building-a-wide-news-commons
post from Building a wide news commons
Doc Searls writes about what he calls wide news:Local and regional papers covered politics, government, crises, disasters, sports, fashion, travel, business, religion, births, deaths, schools, and happenings of all kinds. They had reporters assigned across all their sections. No …
β˜… Liked https://brucelawson.co.uk/2023/farewell-babylon-health/
Sun Sep 3
β˜… Liked https://webdevlaw.uk/2023/09/01/thats-no-moonshot/
post That’s no moonshot.
Friday funnies abounded this morning, as a tech lobbying organisation published a blog post that is probably going to get somebody fired:
Thu Aug 31
β˜… Liked https://gomakethings.com/how-to-add-syntax-highlighting-to-code-as-a-user-types-in-realtime-with-vanilla-javascript/
β˜… Liked https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1819759.html
Mon Aug 28
β˜… Liked https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2023/08/web-scraping-for-me-but-not-for-thee-guest-blog-post.htm