Marty McGuire

Marty Likes Things (Sometimes)

2023
Mon Oct 30
β˜… Liked https://hachyderm.io/@danilo/111324740660306530
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One of the students I work with accesses the web, and computing generally, through the JAWS screen readerI feel so fucking lucky for the experience of teaching someone who uses technology this way. Accessibility has always been important to me, but it's always been abstractI've …
β˜… Liked https://vasilis.nl/nerd/lets-reinvent-the-wheel/
Vasilis van Gemert
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Let’s reinvent the wheel
β˜… Liked https://adactio.com/journal/20588
post from border:none 2023
In 2013, I spoke at the border:none event in Nuremberg. I gave a talk called The Power of Simplicity.
β˜… Liked https://daverupert.com/2023/10/accessiblity-shamed/
Sat Oct 28
β˜… Liked https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2023/298/a1/indieweb_identity/
post from A cohesive and unified identity for IndieWeb protocols
While Twitter’s current owner continues to seek the spotlight, his manic stewardship of the platform has seen most peoples attention move to alternative social networks and ways of connecting with each other.
β˜… Liked https://tess.oconnor.cx/2023/09/polyglots-and-interoperability#note-ref-1
Thu Oct 26
β˜… Liked https://jakelazaroff.com/words/web-components-will-outlive-your-javascript-framework/
β˜… Liked https://neal.fun/internet-artifacts/
β˜… Liked https://gomakethings.com/creating-a-progressively-enhanced-accordion-with-the-details-and-summary-elements-and-11-lines-of-javascript/
β˜… Liked https://snarfed.org/2023-10-25_following-the-not-so-online
β˜… Liked https://werd.io/2023/journaling-in-private-with-my-friends
post from Journaling in private with my friends
I kind of miss having something like a LiveJournal.If you missed its heyday about twenty years ago, LiveJournal was a private blogging community that led to much of what we know as social media. You could follow your friends, and they could follow you back if they wanted; your …
Wed Oct 25
β˜… Liked https://heather-buchel.com/blog/2023/10/why-your-web-design-sucks/
Tue Oct 24
β˜… Liked https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/annual-creep-o-meter/
β˜… Liked https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/8-nyc-experiences-scarier-than-a-haunted-house-102323
Mon Oct 23
β˜… Liked https://www.spicyweb.dev/building-courseware-i-understand/
β˜… Liked https://www.404media.co/mastodon-is-the-good-one/
β˜… Liked https://michaelweinberg.org/blog/2023/10/23/tos-bad/
post from Powerful ToS Hurt Companies and Lawyers, Not Just Users
I recently found myself reading Mark Lemley’s paper The Benefit of the Bargain while also helping a friend put together the Terms of Service (ToS) for their new startup. Lemley’s paper essentially argues that modern ToS - documents that are written by services to be one sided …
β˜… Liked https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/23/23928550/posse-posting-activitypub-standard-twitter-tumblr-mastodon
Sun Oct 22
β˜… Liked https://axbom.com/hammer-ai/
Sat Oct 21
β˜… Liked https://wheresyoured.at/p/everything-looks-like-a-nail
β˜… Liked https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/10/20/some-miscellaneous-git-facts/
post Some miscellaneous git facts
I’ve been very slowly working on writing about how Git works. I thought I
Fri Oct 20
β˜… Liked https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/why-cant-our-tech-billionaires-learn
β˜… Liked https://void.rehab/notes/9kyvsl1ktsfz2red
β˜… Liked https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1824441.html
Thu Oct 19
β˜… Liked https://gomakethings.com/the-indie-web-and-the-joy-of-being-weird/
β˜… Liked https://ohhelloana.blog/overthinking-social-media/
post Could it be that maybe LinkedIn was the answer after all? If so, I lost the game.
With Twitter imploding and people (myself included) trying to move to multiple similar apps, I was following everyone I knew numerous times. It may not look like it, but I can be a bit shy! If we're "Twitter/conference friends", you probably noticed me clicking the follow button …
Wed Oct 18
β˜… Liked https://caseyyano.com/on-evaluating-godot-b35ea86e8cf4
Tue Oct 17
β˜… Liked https://berjon.com/user-agency/
β˜… Liked https://jakelazaroff.com/words/making-crdts-98-percent-more-efficient/
β˜… Liked https://adrianroselli.com/2023/10/2-4-11-adversarial-conformance.html