Marty McGuire

Marty Likes Things (Sometimes)

2023
Tue Jul 25
β˜… Liked https://www.jvt.me/posts/2023/07/25/dmd-talk/
post from Quantifying your reliance on Open Source software
A writeup of my talk at DevOpsNotts, about the dependency-management-data project and how to use it to understand your internal and external dependencies.
β˜… Liked https://www.manton.org/2023/07/25/next-step-for.html
post from Next step for ActivityPub
Dave Winer posted a 12-minute audio recording on his blog, addressed to me but applicable to everyone who is creating tools for the social web. Listening to it, I have a bunch of thoughts. In this post, I just want to start with server-to-server ActivityPub, and leave some of the …
Mon Jul 24
β˜… Liked https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/unauthorized-bread-a-near-future-tale-of-refugees-and-sinister-iot-appliances/amp/
β˜… Liked https://lea.verou.me/blog/2023/11ty-indices/
β˜… Liked https://kimberlyhirsh.com/2023/07/24/finding-my-throughline.html
post from πŸ“š Finding my throughline: Library enthusiast πŸ’»
I recently listened to Katie Rose Guest Pryal on Camille PagΓ‘n’s podcast, You Should Write a Book, talking about how she found the throughline in her work and life. (Just listen to her articulate it on the podcast. I am afraid if I try to sum it up, I’ll get it wrong.)
β˜… Liked https://lea.verou.me/blog/2023/going-lean/
Sun Jul 23
β˜… Liked https://localghost.dev/blog/a-good-podcast-if-books-could-kill/
Sat Jul 22
β˜… Liked https://webdevlaw.uk/2023/07/22/to-fight-bad-law-talk-to-its-targets-not-about-them/
post To fight bad law, talk to its targets, not about them.
This guide to a US online β€œchild safety” law written for young people, explaining why they should in fact oppose it, is remarkable for an unexpected reason:
β˜… Liked https://rubenerd.com/if-you-care-about-it-archive-it/
β˜… Liked https://www.nyuengelberg.org/outputs/the-anti-ownership-ebook-economy/
Fri Jul 21
β˜… Liked https://berjon.com/capture-resistance/
β˜… Liked https://fraidyc.at/blog/feline-resiliency/
post from Feline Resiliency
Back with some updates: Twitter fixed, Threads added, new Lemmy support. You should get the update automatically. No idea how well the Lemmy stuff works between instances. It’s a start.
β˜… Liked https://xeiaso.net/blog/mdn-ai-gaslighting
β˜… Liked https://berjon.com/decent-imaginaries/
β˜… Liked https://erinkissane.com/the-affordance-loop
Thu Jul 20
β˜… Liked https://redeem-tomorrow.com/the-privilege-of-knowledge-work-in-climate-crisis
Wed Jul 19
β˜… Liked https://rachsmith.com/flexibility/
β˜… Liked https://thenib.com/im-a-luddite/
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What the Luddites can teach us about resisting an automated future.
β˜… Liked https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/07/im-a-luddite-and-so-can-you/
Tue Jul 18
β˜… Liked https://mattcool.tech/posts/building-a-web-aquarium-part-one/
β˜… Liked https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/talking-about-a-schism-is-ahistorical-3c454a77220f
Sun Jul 16
β˜… Liked https://xeiaso.net/blog/idk-about-email
Sat Jul 15
β˜… Liked https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/07/meta-wont-say-what-happened-to-taxpayer-data-it-may-have-illegally-collected/
β˜… Liked https://tracydurnell.com/2023/07/12/barriers-to-a-more-social-indieweb/
post from Barriers to a more social IndieWeb
Replied to The First Stab at the IndieWeb Interaction Social Norms by Sara JakΕ‘a (sarajaksa.eu)
Fri Jul 14
β˜… Liked https://mstdn.io/@wolf480pl/110612132494110667
β˜… Liked https://havenweb.org/2023/07/13/protocol-networks.html
post from Bluesky, Mastodon, SSB, and the Social Networks of New Protocols
The first time I heard about Secure Scuttlebut, or SSB, I thought it was the coolest idea. Let people moving around from place to place be the transmission mechanism for a network. Facebook over sneakernet! I love protocols and this one triggered some sort of itch with the …
β˜… Liked https://michaelweinberg.org/blog/2023/07/14/more-shifting-oshw/
post from More on the Shifting State of Open Source Hardware
Earlier this week PT over at Adafruit published an interesting post on the evolving relationship between some of the larger open source hardware companies and open source itself. The post catalogs various ways in which three marquee open source hardware companies - Arduino, …
Thu Jul 13
β˜… Liked https://michaelweinberg.org/blog/2023/07/13/1201-kickoff/
post from Keep 3D Printers Unlocked (2023)
Once again, it is time for the US Copyright Office to revisit its decision to legalize breaking Digital Rights Management (DRM) for specific purposes. The default rule in the United States is that breaking digital locks on copyright-protected works is illegal, so the …
Wed Jul 12
β˜… Liked https://www.lflegal.com/2023/07/adrian-roselli-slapp-lawsuit/
Tue Jul 11
β˜… Liked https://vonexplaino.com/blog/posts/reply/2023/07/reply-playing-with-indieweb-ring-s-code.html
Professor von Explaino
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Thanks for the reply, Marty. I've put my copy of the code on Github, critiques welcome of course. I'm definitely interested in collaborating, the alternative would be getting an account on your git repository if you'd like to keep it close.