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I recently spoke about how good the Micro.blog slack is. It’s being awesome yet again after David Shanske, one of the developers of the IndieWeb WordPress plugins has joined in. David is also on Micro.blog. Hi @dshanske! 👋
Arcane Tech Tip:
When using YouTube, specifically on the browser, pressing ‘k’ will pause the video. Spacebar might work but mostly that just moves you down to the comments section.
(it has literally been like this for years)
I went from 33.6kbps dial-up to speeds of 1Mb/s on Rogers Wave. Incredible!
– James Koole, Getting Back to an Independent Web
A glorious aspect of the open web is this: people telling stories.
Google-backed startup Mobvoi just announced TicPods Free
– TicPods Free are like AirPods for Android
This is both a terrible name and ripe for numerous mocking from the Apple punditry. Still, I hope I’ll be able to pre-order them.
A big lie of the closed web is that you can have a frictionless experience in there. You can’t. It’s pure PR spin from corporations in an attempt to misdirect people’s attention from the pile of crap they are peddling, and nothing else.
Who Do Tax Breaks Benefit? – John Green
(Hint: not poor people.)
I always underestimate how long something is going to take.
– Hank Green in How to Stop Being Late Forever (includes bonus homescreen!)
Same Hank… same.
Part 1.b of improving my health: my skin does not react well to the material the Flex is made of. Oh well, I’ll get to testing out other Fitbit options in the future.
One of my favourite things about Casey Neistat’s vlog is the music he uses in the videos. I made a playlist of mixtapes made by Discoverthevibes. 🎶
The official Micro.blog metal band shall be called Apolacyptic. Thanks, @JacksonOfTrades. 🤘
Two tracks on Bandcamp that I’ve been meaning to share:
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Micro Monday? How about the Micro.blog slack. It’s more than a simple source of help; different members of the community are in there, passionate about Micro.blog, and often willing to enjoy a good chat.
Availability of trackpads (whatever variation) for Windows 10 is a shit show. Hopefully Microsoft are interested in genuinely competing with Apple; in that scenario I’m sure they’d have to seriously consider producing such hardware.
There’s a pretty good conversation regarding multi-platform support for Micro.blog and related issues. I have thoughts about this but for now just wanted to share it.
Hah, coincidence: I’m catching up on Core Intuition and recently listened to Manton and Daniel talk about people who react to product updates with “but what about this other thing” and then in my tl I see people complaining in the aftermath of Micro.blog support for microcasts.