Time to spend the last hour of the year putting away festive decorations and preparing a glass of whisky to welcome the new year.

Enjoyed Andy Nicolaides’ post Being An Introvert. I’m unsure if I would call myself an introvert, however much of what Andy has written here feels familiar.

Jamie Thingelstad’s post On Audience Capture is well worth a read. This is a good example as to why he is one of my favourite writers here on Micro.blog.

We didn’t buy Flickr because we thought it was an amazing business opportunity—it was losing staggering amounts of money, and nobody else seemed interested in the potential.

— Ben MacAskill, Why we’re doing this

This foundation is a very good thing. Long overdue.

Mastodon posts above 300 characters make my timeline worse. I hope there will be ways to limit such posts via timeline settings and that Micro.blog resists the temptation to go above 300 characters for truncating.

Shorter posts, even including images, are great.

Judging by the number of people using omg.lol in this conversation alone I’ve gone from maybe covering it for @TIL at some point to definitely covering it sooner rather than later.

Delighted to have seen Adam’s work progress so well over the past year.

Cruyff, Maradona, and now Pele… the touchpoints of modern football are gone.

Maybe I’m hopelessly naive, or too generous towards developers but the Release notes section of the Flickr blog looks pretty good to me, specifically in light of where the platform had been before it was bought by SmugMug.

Some of the criticism in this thread is quite harsh.

Anyways, dozens, and all with their unique handwriting. And today, for whatever reason, that was all I was focusing on, each unique handwriting. In my mind, I was like, “what typeface would that one be called?”

— Gaby, What’s your typeface?

A great question to ask.

The packaging for the Midori is made to a higher standard than practically all of the physical objects I encountered in my youth. What a first impression. 📔

There is an episode in the final series of His Dark Materials, in which a traumatic separation occurs and… oof. That was rough.

TIL Norah Jones’ father is Ravi Shankar.

I need to not get into lego, ok Micro.blog. I’m already in the rabbit hole of pen and paper over here.

You don’t need to “bring back blogging”.

You don’t need to harp on about “the blogosphere” or other nonsensical terms.

I appreciate a lot of very online people are either marketers, marketing-adjacent, or generally exposed to marketing culture.

However, we don’t need that.

It is Christmas my dudes

Hogan took his first trip with us on a bus today. It was a short journey but everything went well, and he got a walk around the large supermarket for the first time. We then made another couple of stops. Not that long ago this would have been an unusually active day outside.

I heard my second LP song this year. I have yet to hear more but I’m confident that I’ll be listening to her music for the rest of my life.

Tenth day of consecutive journalling complete. The positive consequences are potentially endless. 💪 📔

Just used my dictionary for the first time in nearly two years. Feels good to be back in that space, both mentally and physically.

Indiekit is firmly of the opinion that everyone should be able to enjoy the full benefits of independent web publishing.

— Paul Robert Lloyd, Introducing Indiekit: The IndieWeb for Everyone

Excited as this is going to help me properly host my own site for the first time.

the coffee got here 😭

It’s interesting to see how angry some people get when others say “I don’t want a smartphone and don’t like what they’re doing to us.”

Journalling has immediately become a relief valve. I need to try longer form writing and maybe even longer term planning (yearly planners, etc).

Anything before January of 2020 feels like it’s literally from another world.

For the past four days I have marked the beginning and end of my day by writing in my journal. This is the first time I have ever done so.

Five days ago Patrick Rhone wrote about Journal Day, on The Cramped. I did not partake on that day, however I know I will next year. 📔