2024
Dealing with the dregs of the move today. We’re so close to having exactly 0 moving boxes in the house.
As each of these tasks is completed I gain more space for working on TIL. Then, over time we’ll eventually upgrade the desk space and even more will possible.
Progress. Inexorable progress.
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Third guess was a waste. Starting to feel good building the daily habit of playing different word games.
Making sense and maintaining perspective
In Manners Maketh Man, Davey Craney states:
This bitter growing rumbling spiteful hosepiped rage directed towards these truly inconsequential matters. Imagine the multitude of ways this bitter buffon could channel his energy better within his day.
I largely agree. However, the word “growing” caught my eye.
Davey, I like a lot of what you have written here. Regarding the position of “nowadays” and “the political landscape”, though, I have to disagree. I see a lot of this viewpoint — to me it’s similar to the mentality that leads to making things great again — and I can hardly ever agree.
What made the multiple bad experiences I had in service 20 years ago happen? Or, more importantly, when my cousin was racially abused as a child by other children? Did somebody travel back in time from now and poison the well? Nah I don’t think so. Instead, I think this is just looking for patterns where there are none; seeking certainty because, as an animal, we hate uncertainty.
I’m happy you happen to have the right mix of personhood to handle stress and disappointment in such a cordial manner; not only do I strive, as you do, to always maintain my composure in this way I also believe we’d all be better off if everybody attempted to do so. However I do think it’s important to remember that not everybody is the same and that’s ok. An assertion that your way is undeniably correct seems a little short-sighted, given the vast differences in the lives of people even on our tiny island — again, I am happy for you but I see a lot of this viewpoint as well and I’m not comfortable with casting aspersions in this way.
Your view seems to be “This happened to me? Things must be getting bad.” and that idea makes complete sense when looking to make order out of the chaos of life. I’m not convinced, though, that it’s a particularly helpful way to process these events.
I’m probably missing your specific, nuanced point; it just caught my eye in the way I’ve seen some of the more generalised aspects of these issues presented by others. And I struggle to reconcile that with my own experiences, overall.
Improved a few things with the recommendations page linked from a Micro.blog profile. Now includes an OPML download link too.
Excellent work. Raising the visibility and ease of access to OPML files strengthens web feeds as an alternative to silo feeds.
I was looking into creating OPML files for @TIL; I’m still going to do so, only now I do not need to wait until I have accomplished this to launch related features. Instead, I’ll immediately use this MB mechanism for those features.
Seen some indie-bashing going on Micro.blog lately. Bit disappointing to see a lack of perspective from folks who otherwise seem capable of understanding the bigger picture, and remembering just how awful things have become with a small number of massive American companies in charge of everything.
Indie devs:
I hope you can stop using “we” when there’s only one of you.
I hope that decision doesn’t actually work as a method to encourage or reassure people.
I hope this is one of many small paper-cuts that can be removed from the world of the indie internet dev.
Idea: Use the new MB Recommendations feature to make an expanded version of Micro Monday.
It’s a way to curate a list of favorite sites to link to from your blog.
— Manton, Recommendations and blogrolls on Micro.blog
One of my favourite parts of this feature is that the recommendations lists are available on a web page. Expected yet still great implementation which favours the web.
The big wigs at Apple should take a leaf out of Jen Simmons' book.
It would be a much wiser approach as compared to “Web developers will sacrifice your children to the devil.”
I’m not a fan of the approach: “lol I used the Accessibility Description to tell more of the joke that I’m telling in the post”
So you decided to be an ableist asshole and want a pat on the back for it? Cool.
Rambling about health of the MB community
I wrote a short post which I’m half-regretting and was then inspired by the ensuing conversation to waffle on a bit.
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I’ve tried to become much more careful when talking about this type of thing, not least because MB is in a bit of an odd place; plenty of people are trying to volunteer but the tools to do so are limited, whilst there is no way to know whether such efforts are going to be bolstered by fully-equipped, paid official help.
Whilst I think there is a lot we in the community can talk about regarding these issues and generally have greater interaction to help foster the best environment possible, I also believe a lot of that particular work won’t be worth much if the team isn’t able to reciprocate in the best way.
This situation might be much better than I believe it to be, and I just haven’t been involved enough with conversations that happen elsewhere — this is mostly how I see it based on the public spaces for the community.
I am looking forward to better conversations about these issues, especially beyond just text and timelines, and hope to see some of my doubts proven wrong.
Muted somebody on MB whom I had previously un-muted.
There is a type of trolling that is most corrosive to a community, and it comes in a form that is not obvious. These people are skilled at hiding their crappy behaviour behind sets of well-chosen words, a skill honed from being overly online.