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Quick update: Issue 13 of For The Weekend is the last one of the year. I look forward to get it back up and running in 2019. :)
I’m too old for senseless cynicism. We need to be constructive, direct, and more efficiently spend our energy; read a book, watch a movie, go for a walk, talk with somebody… anything is better than lashing out, especially on the web.
I’m tired of managing plugins. I’m tired of managing themes. I’m tired of wrangling metadata. I’m beyond tired of trying to manage the growing complexity of the Wordpress platform.
Oh look, a mirror.
Over the past couple of years I’ve seen and heard people use the word “socials”, referring to their social media accounts.
Socials
😐
I don’t have a recommendation for Micro Monday but I do have suggestions:
- Discover
- Including the Micro Monday filter.
- Click the search icon to look for people.
- Micro Monday podcast.
- Following Lists on Micro.blog profiles! (
micro.blog/USERNAME)
Enjoy! ⭐
I’d pay for a non-ad-based, privacy-protecting social network that was tightly curated to enforce standards of civility.
I wonder if Walt has heard of Micro.blog?
I’ll be doing nothing in particular and suddenly thoughts of What We Do in the Shadows will cross my mind.
Updates!
- Edited Mumblings and Snapshot using Manton’s shared CSS edits and some other tweaks; I’m especially happy with the latter, it’s a lot better than an Instagram profile.
- Got my home page for the web set up to a basic standard.
- Edited my Now page.
Creative Commons is a thing I keep meaning to spend more time on, researching, thinking, writing about. It could be important and is at least significant enough of a presence on the web for those of us interested in an independent web to not forget about it.
Starting to think social networks ought to be regulated to such an extent as to block them from schools and the like. Spaces for thinking, learning, developing… they can surely only be poisoned for general use if they are also exposed to the firehose of everybody’s thoughts.
Lots to do. Today is a Ludovico Einaudi kind of day.
Steve Jobs would hate the trade-in banner on apple.com!
– idiots everywhere
Reminder: Steve Jobs cut the price of the iPhone to 200 dollars, continuously lowered the price of the iPod, and was ready to push the lock-in strategy a lot harder than Tim Cook has.
Very happy to get two posts out at the end of last week, especially after losing a few days to a random bout of illness.
My Micro.blog Wishlist is exactly what it sounds like, whilst the twelfth issue of For The Weekend made it out just in time for, well, the weekend. 💪🏻
This is the Micro.blog news blog. We’ll include blog posts here about recent changes or to highlight new features
news.micro.blog is the latest addition to the set of official Micro.blog blogs. It already looks really good. 🎉⭐