Marty McGuire

Marty Likes Things (Sometimes)

2023
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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Tue Jul 25
β˜… Liked https://www.jvt.me/posts/2023/07/25/dmd-talk/
Jamie Tanna
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.
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β˜… Liked https://www.manton.org/2023/07/25/next-step-for.html
Manton Reece
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 …
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Mon Jul 24
β˜… Liked https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/unauthorized-bread-a-near-future-tale-of-refugees-and-sinister-iot-appliances/amp/
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β˜… Liked https://lea.verou.me/blog/2023/11ty-indices/
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β˜… Liked https://kimberlyhirsh.com/2023/07/24/finding-my-throughline.html
kimberlyhirsh.com
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.)
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β˜… Liked https://lea.verou.me/blog/2023/going-lean/
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Sun Jul 23
β˜… Liked https://localghost.dev/blog/a-good-podcast-if-books-could-kill/
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Sat Jul 22
β˜… Liked https://webdevlaw.uk/2023/07/22/to-fight-bad-law-talk-to-its-targets-not-about-them/
webdevlaw.uk
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:
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β˜… Liked https://rubenerd.com/if-you-care-about-it-archive-it/
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β˜… Liked https://www.nyuengelberg.org/outputs/the-anti-ownership-ebook-economy/
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