Upgrade

Welcome to Considered Haste, version 2 of swoods.net.

Let’s start with the changes:

• Theme
  • Switched from a lighter theme to a darker theme.
    • Includes a new color palette.
  • Icon
    • The site's first icon, for bookmarks and your tabs.
  • Time
    • Removed 'estimated reading time' detail by posts.
• JSON
  • The site can now be read via JSON feeds.
• Taxonomy
  • Categories merged into tags.
  • Added a new tag, update, for shorter news-style posts.
• Streamlined
  • Removed clutter from the front page.
  • Especially at the bottom of the site.
• Pages
  • Updated About, Now, and Feeds.
  • Added v1.
• IndieWeb
  • Added plugins to support the following:
    • webmentions
    • semantic linkbacks
    • IndieAuth
    • rel=me

I’ve been quite pleased with the launch of this site, from November to now, specifically in its role as the stable presence of my online identity. Owning my identity via my own domain and investigating the IndieWeb has been a huge relief to the idea of depending on the big social media sites and the Closed Web, thanks in no small part to my account on Micro.blog. I recently settled my hosted blog on there as separate from this site but it is no less mine; Manton Reece and co. are quite insistent on avoiding simply replacing the Closed Web with another closed environment and I couldn’t be more grateful for their work.

This was my plan all along, although the recent stretch of inactivity on this site was unexpected (fortunately it was thanks to good news) but Micro.blog has provided an antidote to the hole of stress that is moving, having become a respite and source of inspiration for the past two months. As such, it remains as my personal blog and social feed, and regular activity continues over there.

I have more to come with this site, especially writing, and progress reports on new projects all of which are at least well into the planning stage; I am excited by each one and looking forward to rolling them out. In the meantime I am making sure the aforementioned changes have settled well, specifically those centred around IndieWeb improvements.

I’d like to thank a few people:

• Justin Michael and his excellent Core Assistance site, which I found via the also excellent Aleen Simms; having such vital advice so readily available made this upgrade a much easier experience than it otherwise would have been.
  • Aleen is also on Micro.blog as @Aleen, along with a feed for Core Assistance at @CoreAssistance.
• IndieWeb plugin authors Matthias Pfefferle and David Shanske, both of whom provide excellent opportunities for WordPress users to find alternatives to plugins providing third-party software that gives Closed Web parties the opportunity to invade your site.
  • Both are also on Micro.blog; Matthias is @pfefferle, whilst David is @dshanske -- David has been providing plugin support in the Micro.blog Slack.
• The community that has arisen on Micro.blog, who have proven to me that being optimistic on the web is not a fool's errand. You're all the best. ♥️

That’s all for now. Bye!