Oh look, it’s C-A-SĀ  E-Y-LĀ  I-S-S (that’s @liss), hopping onboard the MB train.

ron-dance

Today’s song:

Ride by twenty one pilots

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I’m back. Microblogging will now resume. Update forthcoming.

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Testing cross-posting to Micro.blog


Testing cross-posting.


Want to read: Brain On Fire by Susannah Cahalan šŸ“š


Recent updates tested:

  • IndieBookClub āœ”ļø
  • IndieAuth āœ”ļø
  • Footer HTML āœ”ļø
  • Redirect links āœ”ļø
  • IndieWeb Ring āœ”ļø

That includes external support for IndieAuth. Nice work, @manton. šŸ‘Œ


Want to read: Infinite Loop by Michael S. Malone šŸ“š


MEPs have voted to reject a controversial copyright law in its current form, deciding to return to the issue in September.

Oh look, there’s Paul McCartney, willing to damage the web as a side-effect of maybe protecting musicians. Dickhead.


Testing Omnibear via Micro.blog authentication.


Still interesting to see people talking passionately about the Open Web and how bad silos are (which is good) whilst simultaneously linking only to Apple things and app-locked things in general; the web is still here and it damned sure isn’t exclusive to Apple and your phone.


IndieWeb Activate!

I can’t wait to try out these updates. Improvements to the hosted part of the platform might be crucial to its future.


Writing software I’ve tried:

  • Typora (Windows only)
  • iA Writer (no web app)
  • Writer (web only)
  • Standard Notes (limited)

Decision: use Google Docs

It’s this kinda stuff that keeps active the long term plan of attempting all-in Apple. 3rd party support is crucial.


Being a writer with multiple projects on a Windows machine and Chromebook currently feels like taking a thousand cuts. :/


A woman mentioning her period shouldn’t be such huge news

Danielle Rowley, a Scottish Labour MP

The existence of period poverty in my country is a damning indictment of where we are as a society.



It’s been an… interesting month. Now is the time to get momentum going again so with that in mind;


Manton has released a preview of Sunlit 2.2 and it looks pretty damned good. If I go back to iPhone it will be one of the first apps I install.


Another day, another chance to say:

Fuck guns.