Marty McGuire

Marty Likes Things (Sometimes)

2023
Sun Nov 12
β˜… Liked https://webdevlaw.uk/2023/11/11/how-to-sum-up-1700-pages-in-four-words/
post How to sum up 1700 pages in four words
As we both went through the process of trying to wrap our heads around the 1700-page Ofcom consultation on the Online Safety Act, which we both must do for our respective clients, geek tech lawyer par excellence Neil Brown did exactly what I did, which was procrastinate the task …
Fri Nov 10
β˜… Liked https://kimberlyhirsh.com/2023/11/10/set-up-the.html
β˜… Liked https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/11/debunking-myth-anonymous-data
β˜… Liked http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2023/11/dont-create-the-torment-nexus.html
Thu Nov 9
β˜… Liked https://www.harihareswara.net/posts/2023/set-contributor-expectations-to-reduce-ghosting/
β˜… Liked https://adactio.com/journal/20618
post from HTML web components
Web components have been around for quite a while, but it feels like they’re having a bit of a moment right now.
β˜… Liked https://gomakethings.com/front-end-devs-really-dont-understand-accessibility/
β˜… Liked https://misc.name/@scanlime/111381625546631869
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some naive networking greybeard once wrote that a good URL never changes, or somethingbut URLs do change because everything changes, and the expectations around their longevity and change are one place where people exert power and have power used over them.if people rely on a URL …
Wed Nov 8
β˜… Liked https://whiona.weblog.lol/2023/09/follow-up-to-the-phone-post-an-easy-html-upgrade
β˜… Liked https://thoughts.melonking.net/guides/introduction-to-the-web-revival-1-what-is-the-web-revival
β˜… Liked https://chriscoyier.net/2023/11/08/everything-about-seo-is-obnoxious/
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β€œSearch Engine Optimization”Blech.I hate it. This is what SEO should be:Write content on the internet. Make sure it is output in semantic, accessible HTML.Make sure the performance on the site isn’t a disaster.Play no games. Do no tricks.Do that over a long period of time on the …
Tue Nov 7
β˜… Liked https://blacktabbygames.medium.com/how-slay-the-princess-earned-25-000-wishlists-in-two-weeks-3c69304312bc
β˜… Liked http://simonwillison.net/2023/Nov/7/ospeak/#atom-everything
Sun Nov 5
β˜… Liked https://hachyderm.io/@danilo/111361285045876522
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We must find our way back to the path.We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to do it. I'm betting literally everything I've got on this.Software, properly done, is an act of service. It is the highest tradition of human generosity and care.Software is the opportunity to …
β˜… Liked https://werd.io/2023/belonging-and-community
post from Belonging and community
I love the indieweb carnival. Every month, a new blogger hosts a topic on their website, and everyone else is invited to post about it on theirs. Webmentions link it all together, allowing anyone to browse through all the different points of view and modes of expression. It’s …
β˜… Liked https://adactio.com/journal/20601
post from A memex in every web browser
When Mathew Modine’s character first shows up in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, I figured the rest of the cinema audience wouldn’t have appreciated me shouting out β€œVANNEVAR BUSH IN THE HOUSE!” so I screamed it on the inside.
β˜… Liked https://berjon.com/web-tiles/
Sat Nov 4
β˜… Liked https://adactio.com/journal/20601
post from A memex in every web browser
When Mathew Modine’s character first shows up in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, I figured the rest of the cinema audience wouldn’t have appreciated me shouting out β€œVANNEVAR BUSH IN THE HOUSE!” so I screamed it on the inside.
Fri Nov 3
β˜… Liked https://www.wonderfulnarrative.com/thoughts/youre-all-set
β˜… Liked https://kattni.com/to-final-endings-and-new-beginnings
Thu Nov 2
β˜… Liked https://fly.io/blog/skip-the-api/
β˜… Liked https://gregorlove.com/2023/11/the-border-none-conference/
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The border:none conference was in Germany last week followed by an IndieWebCamp event, so several indieweb people were there. In the chat, the amount of current Covid cases was brought up and a mention of how few were masked in a crowd of about 200.
Wed Nov 1
β˜… Liked https://blog.mobian.org/posts/2023/09/30/paperweight-dilemma/
β˜… Liked https://berjon.com/bigger-browser/
Tue Oct 31
β˜… Liked https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-accidentally-saved-half-a-million-dollars/
β˜… Liked https://andadinosaur.com/youtube-s-anti-adblock-and-ublock-origin
β˜… Liked https://adactio.com/journal/20589
post from Indie Web Camp Nuremberg
After two days at border:none in Nuremberg, it was time for two days at Indie Web Camp, also in Nuremberg.
β˜… Liked https://chriscoyier.net/2023/10/31/answers-to-common-web-design-questions/
Mon Oct 30
β˜… Liked https://cfaworkersunited.com/stories/2023/10/30/first-union-contract-ratified-at-code-for-america
β˜… Liked https://getindiekit.github.io/indieweb-icons/