Marty McGuire

Marty Likes Things (Sometimes)

2023
Sat Aug 5
β˜… Liked https://werd.io/2023/engineering-principles
Ben Werdmuller
post from Engineering principles
Code is cumulative overhead. The more you write, the more you have to maintain over time.Self-hosted infrastructure is cumulative overhead. The more you configure and run, the more you have to maintain over time.Always watch your overhead and keep it as light as possible.The only …
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β˜… Liked https://gomakethings.com/how-to-create-your-own-api-endpoints-with-php/
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β˜… Liked https://www.wired.com/story/the-cloud-is-a-prison-can-the-local-first-software-movement-set-us-free/
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β˜… Liked https://leebyron.com/snack-driven-development/
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β˜… Liked https://adactio.com/journal/20368
Jeremy Keith
post from Conduct
My week at the Belfast TradFest culminated in a cathedral.
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β˜… Liked https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/8325-Publs-insurmountable-technical-debt
fluffy
post from Publ’s insurmountable technical debt
Back when Publ was brand-new I was using a fairly common ORM for managing my database. It was okay but I had some issues with how the project was being run, particularly in how the core maintainer treated bug reporters who were reporting things that he didn’t personally agree …
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Thu Aug 3
β˜… Liked https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/08/03/why-doesnt-this-upload-a-debugging-tale/
Dan Halbert
post from Why Doesn’t this Upload? A Debugging Tale
This is a story of doing some debugging, and how various possibilities were eliminated.Last week an SSL certificate that is needed for access to Adafruit IO expired. The older certificate was embedded in CircuitPython and also in the NINA-FW firmware. The NINA-FW firmware runs on …
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β˜… Liked https://jamesg.blog/2023/08/03/help-build-the-social-web/
jamesg.blog
post from Help Build the Social Web
The Web is about enabling collaboration between people. I can write a blog post about coffee, publish it, and share it with coffee roasters around Scotland. That post can be referenced for years by people I will never meet who share my passion for coffee. People can respond to …
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β˜… Liked https://ericexperiment.com/post/02-11-2021-saas-is-bad-for-job-satisfaction
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β˜… Liked https://i-hope-u-dance.glitch.me/
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Wed Aug 2
β˜… Liked https://margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/its-time-to-build-resilient-communities
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β˜… Liked https://whatisawridingmybikearoundtoday.com/2023/08/02/clouds-in-a-blue-sky-above-lake-montebello/
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β˜… Liked https://ericz.me/blog/hello-indieweb
Eric
post from Hello IndieWeb!
Short update! My website now supports the following
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β˜… Liked https://ericz.me/blog/using-github
Eric
post from Why I Still Use Github
For the past few months, I have seen a lot of people discussing how they’re
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β˜… Liked https://manuelmoreale.com/i-ll-read-it
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β˜… Liked https://chriscoyier.net/2023/08/01/other-peoples-busted-software-is-an-opportunity/
Chris Coyier
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every day, i have several dozen interactions with software that is completely broken. it's not usually quite as bad as this, but this also isn't an outlier. nothing in the digital world fucking works.as an industry, we have completely and utterly failed. we're a joke. …
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β˜… Liked https://www.spicyweb.dev/farewell-jamstack/
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β˜… Liked https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2023/the-floss-transition/
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Tue Aug 1
β˜… Liked https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2023/user-feedback/
blog.jim-nielsen.com
post from User Feedback
I was listening to ShopTalkShow #544 where Dave mentions his craving for frank, almost brutal, user feedback on the app they’re building (Luro) and it reminded me of something I wanted to write down.
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Mon Jul 31
β˜… Liked https://www.twobraids.com/2023/07/reclaiming-agency-on-mastodon.html
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β˜… Liked https://the-ard.com/2023/07/31/gatekeeping-womanhood-and-why-trans-women-are-women/
the-ard.com
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Sun Jul 30
β˜… Liked https://michaelweinberg.org/blog/2023/07/29/AQI_sensor/
michaelweinberg.org
post from AQI Sensor WIP
The air quality in NYC has been . . . not great this summer. This presents and opportunity. Why settle for knowing that the air is not great in the city when you can know how not-great it is in your very own home?
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β˜… Liked https://karawynn.substack.com/p/the-coming-enshittification-of-public-libraries
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β˜… Liked https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/worldcoin-a-solution-in-search-of
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β˜… Liked https://sarajaksa.eu/2023/07/send-a-friend-a-webmention-day-or-some-of-my-thinking-about-webmentions/
https://sarajaksa.eu/2023/07/send-a-friend-a-webmention-day-or-some-of-my-thinking-about-webmentions/Sara JakΕ‘a
post from Send a Friend a Webmention Day or Some of my Thinking about Webmentions
Today is our first send a friend a webmention day. Based on the description and especially the name of the event, it would make me overthink way to much about what to do. So instead, I am just going to see, how many webmentions can I send to a person.
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Sat Jul 29
β˜… Liked https://robhorning.substack.com/p/harmful-strings
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Fri Jul 28
β˜… Liked https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/07/28/why-is-dns-still-hard-to-learn/
jvns.ca
post Why is DNS still hard to learn?
I write a lot about technologies that I found hard to learn about. A
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β˜… Liked https://going-medieval.com/2023/07/26/on-successor-states-and-websites/
Dr Eleanor Janega
post from On successor states andΒ websites
This month, like everyone online, I have been watching with a mixture of chagrin and schaudenfruede as platform capitalism digs itself into ever more complex and narrow burrows. By this I mean it’s really funny how a bunch of very rich dudes are breaking stuff online and making …
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β˜… Liked https://simonwillison.net/2023/Jul/27/overture-maps/
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Wed Jul 26
β˜… Liked https://www.kennylog-in.com/
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