Marty McGuire

Marty Likes Things (Sometimes)

2023
Fri Jun 16
★ Liked https://werd.io/2023/decentralization-isnt-enough-its-about-people
post from Decentralization isn't enough. It's about people.
I posted a link the other day to this sobering essay about how the promised migration to Mastodon didn’t go as hoped. It makes some assumptions about what people were hoping for in the first place, but if you were (as I was) hoping that this would be a moment that federated …
★ Liked https://www.harihareswara.net/posts/2023/my-current-covid-risk-approach/
Thu Jun 15
★ Liked https://blog.bloonface.com/2023/06/12/why-did-the-twittermigration-fail/
Mon Jun 12
★ Liked https://18alan.space/posts/how-hard-is-it-to-build-a-frontend-framework.html
★ Liked https://adactio.com/journal/20238
post from Days of style and standards
I first spoke at CSS Day in Amsterdam back in 2016. Well, technically it was the HTML Day preceding CSS Day, when I talked about the A element. I spoke at CSS Day again last year, when I gave a presentation about alternative histories of styling.
Fri Jun 9
★ Liked https://daringfireball.net/2023/06/first_impressions_of_vision_pro_and_visionos
★ Liked https://chriscoyier.net/2023/06/06/modern-css-in-real-life/
★ Liked https://adrianroselli.com/2023/06/no-ai-will-not-fix-accessibility.html
Thu Jun 8
★ Liked https://erinkissane.com/all-this-unmobilized-love
★ Liked https://jacky.wtf/2023/6/beZy
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I'm tempted to auto-generate friendly for mobile reading version of content from articles I find useful information from. For example, workers.org keeps me appraised but I'd like to pull the information onto my eReader so I don't have to be on my computer a lot. I can see this …
★ Liked https://todon.eu/@jalcine/110508827122843740
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Paul Graham's not a bad guy once you completely ignore who he is as a person, can only see people for their wealth and also aspire to have said wealth (or relevancy in whiteness). Same with Marc Andersson, Jack Dorsey, Sheryl Sandberg, Mark Benioff, Steward Butterfield, Mark …
★ Liked https://redeem-tomorrow.com/cyberspace-the-case-for-augmented-reality
Wed Jun 7
★ Liked https://gomakethings.com/create-your-own-personal-jquery/
★ Liked https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/06/05/some-blogging-myths/
post Some blogging myths
A few years ago I gave a short talk (slides)
Tue Jun 6
★ Liked https://redeem-tomorrow.com/leviathan-wakes-the-case-for-apples-vision-pro
★ Liked https://adactio.com/journal/20220
post from Reaction
It all started with a trip into the countryside one Sunday a few weeks back.
Mon Jun 5
★ Liked https://www.inkandswitch.com/potluck/
★ Liked https://peopleofcolorintech.com/articles/timnit-gebru-and-emile-torres-call-out-racist-roots-of-the-tech-elites-ai-ideologies/
Sun Jun 4
★ Liked https://hackaday.com/2023/06/04/it-turns-out-parrots-love-videoconferencing/
★ Liked https://beepberry.sqfmi.com/
★ Liked https://inkdroid.org/2023/06/04/copilot/
★ Liked https://www.reproof.app/blog/notes-apps-help-us-forget
Fri Jun 2
★ Liked https://redeem-tomorrow.com/fandom-the-grand-unified-business-case-for-developer-experience
★ Liked https://logicmag.io/supa-dupa-skies/origin-stories-plantations-computers-and-industrial-control/
★ Liked https://shopify.engineering/a-software-engineers-guide-to-working-across-time-zones
Thu Jun 1
★ Liked https://gothamist.com/news/10-years-after-launch-a-look-at-how-nycs-citi-bike-nearly-failed?utm_source=sfmc
★ Liked https://daverupert.com/2023/05/soviet-rtgs/
Wed May 31
★ Liked https://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2023/04/21/deskilling-on-the-job.html
Mon May 29
★ Liked https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/05/28/the-gemini-protocol-seen-by-this-http-client-person/
Sat May 27
★ Liked https://daverupert.com/2023/05/js-compiler-double-standards/