Unfortunately our friend Sameer Vasta appears to have left Micro.blog. Don’t forget:
Sameer is one of my favourite people on the web. I suggest you follow his writing, at the very least.
Unfortunately our friend Sameer Vasta appears to have left Micro.blog. Don’t forget:
Sameer is one of my favourite people on the web. I suggest you follow his writing, at the very least.
With the open web, all of this scraping and embedding and the like… feels so invasive and violent.
Also feels like the horse has very much bolted at this point. Maybe this is why people concentrate on making things for closed, locked-down systems instead of the web… 🤔
One of my biggest problems with the IndieWeb movement is how the DIY nature of it is often paired with a reckless, entitled attitude.
If you’re going to touch my website with sharing-based technology, you had better make sure it doesn’t turn into theft.
Every website of a podcast show should have a broadly-agreed set of information. If I can’t take a quick look at your episode list and easily see the length of each episode then your website is not fit for purpose.
Seriously. Get your fucking shit together.
Currently resisting the urge to become a font nerd. Unsure how long that’ll last. 😬
I see foldable phones turned out to be a very serious product category and not a gimmick at all.
CONFIRMED: Wendy is coming to stay with us in April, for the next stage of the “matching” process. 😁
“It’s going to look pretty good, then, isn’t it,” said War testily, “the One Horseman and Three Pedestrians of the Apocralypse.”
– Terry Pratchett, Sourcery
You know that thing where we don’t rely on soul-crushingly awful corporations to do that thing where we, you know, find information?
Yeah, let’s bring that back.
I tried to use a feature in Instagram but it doesn’t work on the SE. The screen is literally not designed for this size.
What is the feature? Oh, just one that makes it easier for you to take control of a profile. Nothing important. 🙄
> sees WhatsApp banner on Netflix
> immediately takes a much more critical eye to everything watched on Netflix
Current version of my profile for the web: <swoods.net>
My blog stays where it has been for a while: <blog.swoods.net>
I’m going to spend a lot of time investigating if it is possible to do the following:
Use software, and use the web without any of my activity being tracked.
That includes finding the research of other people, from across different parts of the world and our societies.
I have yet to find a network that is as nearly as bullet-proof as bookmarks+feeds
.
Instead of trying that shiny new app or service or platform, which you inevitably not use very much before moving onto the next distraction, try asking yourself this:
What do I want to do?
Then when you are trying things out, ask yourself:
What is this in service of?
Why couldn’t Keybase stay away from the platform disease? Why ruin an authenticator by trying to be a social platform, at which you will inevitably be terrible?
Just make good things that have limited scope. Focus on your thing and make it better and better, that’s it.
Red Dwarf is 32 years old. 😱
I’m gonna drop WorkFlowy, for good this time. The way they hijack the keyboard when multi-selecting items, specifically in iOS, feels terrible.
Now to decide if I need a cross-platform outliner that better treats the lists as plain text, or if I just don’t need one at all.
SHE IS PRECIOUS 😭😭😭
WENDY IS HERE 😍😍😍😍
Email newsletters should be text-only. Y/N?
I miss @smokey. I hope everything is ok, buddy.
I’m starting to think The Internet isn’t the best place in which to make jokes.
We have a special visitor stopping by tomorrow; a golden labrador by the name of Wendy!
Today I am preparing the house for this auspicious occasion, including lots of cleaning and tidying. Yes, that’s right, I put more effort into preparing for visiting animals than I do people.
First imagine the person about whom you are talking is in fact the most important person in the world to you, then go ahead and publish that post.