quotes
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.
… or rebelled against the increasingly unattainable aesthetic standards and unsustainable lifestyles exhibited on social media.
Source: Oxford Word of the Year 2022
Perfect choice.
… there’s a lot more recourse if there is a specific lie in mainstream media than there is on a random website that someone’s just put up there.
— David Mitchell, on The Graham Norton Show a few years ago
The whole comment is worth watching. Two minutes of a point well made.
Does that mean that any future famous business-owning government official will have a row of badges? This seems like a recipe for confusion—or perhaps clutter—rather than clarity.
— Ken Kocienda, Thoughts on Twitter Verification
Message boards have this feature. For hobbyists.
Frankly, Apple should have the balls to say okay, we’re moving to two-year macOS major version updates.
— Alan Ralph, macOS Meh
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“I was able to be a Mum,” she added. “And my kids could be kids, not just carers.”
via Heating prescribed for patients in health trials
We are establishing Universal Income, piecemeal.
The fewer requirements we have, the less of a burden these requirements become. The more often we have the same thing every day, the more likely they are to become a requirement.
– Leo Babauta, lowering your life’s requirements
Since 2010, thousands of migrant workers have died suddenly and unexpectedly in Qatar, despite undergoing medical tests before travelling to the country.
Amnesty International can help us understand the cost of those football games we’re celebrating. ⚽
Perhaps Procter & Gamble doesn’t care of their making us into a nation of fat slobs, but there’s no reason why programmers and the rest of the startup world need to be so amoral.
— Aaron Swartz, Everything Good is Bad For You
While it may be more fun and exciting to develop new features than fix bugs, and may even bring in more users, it can end up being at the expense of your existing user base.
In today’s You Know You Need Coffee When:
-> use cmd-tab
-> type the word “coffee” as if it’s an app
Thanks Bosch washing machine.
I give a thumbs-down to any “lifetime” subscription that costs less than 10× the annual plan, and even then I’m skeptical.
— Gruber, Mercury Weather 1.0
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… the authors speculate that the therapy led to a “rebooting of the immune system”.
— Ian Sample, The Guardian
T-cell therapy sounds amazing.
For those who don’t know: many health professionals have zero knowledge of autoimmune conditions. That’s how little we know.
When it comes to technology, my knowledge largely comes from my lack of fear over trying new things and pressing buttons just to see what they do.
— Patrick Rhone, Handy
It always feels good to discover that your approach to something you care about is shared by others.
We’re in a boat, rowing together, & we cross the finish line together or not at all.
People are not machines. Writers and artists aren’t machines.
Neil Gaiman’s Entitlement issues… continues to be one of my favourite blog posts.
My blog’s changelog:
simonwoods.online—> swoods.net