Marty McGuire

Marty Likes Things (Sometimes)

2023
Wed Jan 11
β˜… Liked https://nolanlawson.com/2023/01/09/retiring-pinafore/
β˜… Liked https://friend.camp/@ranjit/109672668181684192
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Use the <b> element to draw bats to your text. The <i> element is intended to cause unbearable itching, and should never be used.
β˜… Liked https://adactio.com/journal/19821
post from Five websites
Some lovely people have recently made some lovely websites.
Tue Jan 10
β˜… Liked https://kimberlyhirsh.com/2023/01/10/how-i-begin.html
post from How I Begin
In Austin Kleon’s paid newsletter post today, he asked his readers, to share how we begin.
Sun Jan 8
β˜… Liked https://xeiaso.net/blog/move-away-rsa-ssh
β˜… Liked http://livelaugh.blog/posts/command-strips-lemon-dill-chickpea-pasta/
β˜… Liked https://snarfed.org/2023-01-07_gdpr-troll-shakedown-from-mustafa-sisic-of-europe-data-protection
post from GDPR troll shakedown from Mustafa Sisic of Europe Data Protection
Wow. I just got a GDPR troll shakedown email from Mustafa Sisic of β€œEurope Data Protection,” demanding €100 because they visited this web site, which uses Google Fonts, which violated their GDPR rights as an EU citizen. Wow. Just…wow. Full text below. So much to unpack here.
Sat Jan 7
β˜… Liked https://cubicgarden.com/2023/01/03/public-service-internet-monthly-newsletter-jan-2023/
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We live in incredible times with such possibilities that is clear. Although its easily dismissed seeing Channel4 interview ChatGPT, FTX’s Sam Bankman and the biggest hacks of 2022.
β˜… Liked https://webdevlaw.uk/2023/01/04/for-2023-no-predictions-but-a-wish/
post For 2023, no predictions, but a wish.
As sodding 2022 finally ticked over to 2023, I did not bother making policy predictions for the year ahead. Really, this year, I just couldn’t be bothered. But while the year is still young, I’m going to do something different.
β˜… Liked https://maggieappleton.com/ai-dark-forest
β˜… Liked https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/01/07/bring-back-personal-blogging/
post from Bring back personal blogging
In a recent piece for The Verge, Monique Judge made a pretty compelling argument on behalf of the personal blog. We’ve all been talking for years now about the cracks and rot forming in most/many social media platforms. But what if what’s next is what came before? Especially …
Fri Jan 6
β˜… Liked https://soatok.blog/2023/01/06/hindsight-is-2022/
post Hindsight is 2022
I’ve had a couple people ask me if I would do a yearly recap blog post like I did for 2021 and 2020 previously.
Thu Jan 5
β˜… Liked https://chriscoyier.net/2023/01/04/feeds-can-be-whatever/
β˜… Liked https://chriscoyier.net/2023/01/05/a-big-pile-of-personal-developer-designer-blogs-in-an-opml-file/
Wed Jan 4
β˜… Liked https://chriscoyier.net/2023/01/04/feeds-can-be-whatever/
β˜… Liked https://mellified.men/@srol/109631907849067816
Tue Jan 3
β˜… Liked https://www.softwaremaxims.com/blog/not-a-supplier
Mon Jan 2
β˜… Liked https://brucesterling.tumblr.com/post/705266293151055873/httpsweblawdukeeducspdpublicdomainday2023
β˜… Liked https://idlewords.com/2023/1/why_not_mars.htm
β˜… Liked http://livelaugh.blog/posts/2023/
β˜… Liked http://tantek.com/2023/001/t1/own-your-notes
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I am once again asking you to own your notes, rather than tweeting them into Big Chad's garage.
β˜… Liked https://gregorlove.com/2023/01/site-updates-for-the-new-year/
post from Site Updates for the New Year
I have a brand new How to Follow Me page with several ways you can keep up with my posts. Some of this information was already scattered across the site or discoverable by the more geeky crowd, but now it’s accessible to all on a dedicated page.
Sun Jan 1
β˜… Liked https://werd.io/2023/get-green-hosting
post from Get Green Hosting
I’d been having real trouble finding truly green web hosts: places to host a website that directly use 100% renewable energy. But they’re out there - so I decided to pull them together into a single-page guide following the style I built for Get Blogging.Please check out Get …
2022
Sat Dec 31
β˜… Liked https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/12/31/happy-new-year-2023-2/
post from happy new year 2023 :)
did some engineering the last day of the year at adafrui, had a helper πŸ™‚ see ya in 2023! – ladyada & ptorrone… and kiddo!
β˜… Liked https://brucesterling.tumblr.com/post/705178463550701569
β˜… Liked https://brucesterling.tumblr.com/post/705177869844987904
β˜… Liked https://werd.io/2022/what-im-leaving-behind-in-2022
post from What I'm leaving behind in 2022
As part of The 19th’s non-denominational end-of-year celebration, we were asked what we were leaving behind in 2022. I gave an answer about corporate social media and Instagram in particular, but on reflection, there’s a lot more I want to leave behind.Year ends are both …
β˜… Liked https://muffinman.io/blog/draw-svg-rope-using-javascript/
β˜… Liked https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/12819-2022-in-review-2023-aspirations
post from 2022 in review, 2023 aspirations
Another year has come and gone so I’d might as well reflect on what happened during it and try to plan for next year as well.
β˜… Liked https://adactio.com/journal/19794
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I posted 1057 times on adactio in 2022. sparkline