Carnival of Aros November 2023: Platonic Attraction and the Meaning of Friendship
Bloglog
Some remodeling work
As Dave says here, we’re remodeling this blog a bit, starting with the title image, which for the last few years has been a portrait of me at work, drawn by the fashion illustrator Gregory Wi…
Now and then and an infinity of extrapolated Beatles tracks
Posted on Friday 3 Nov 2023. 1,441 words, 8 links. By Matt Webb.
P&B: Jamie Crisman
This is the 10th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Jamie …
Giving up on a forever crossing
Waiting at a light for more than 10 minutes made me think of other systems in my life that lack a feedback mechanism.
WordPress for identity
Identity means you can be the same person in many different places.
Finished software or abandoned product?
If an app consistently gets new updates, does that mean it's never perfect?
Invisible Hands
No, newsrooms don't need to cede control to social media.
But they do need to evolve.
90 months together: love in times of covid
our lives have irreversibly changed in the past few years because of the pandemic. most people think it is over, but for us it is still an ongoing threat as we seek to protect our bodies from...
Faux Sociality
wrestling with google photos, again
Now that I finally have time to spare I'm finally getting around to some of the tasks I've been putting off for months, the biggest among these being cleanin...
Let X Equal X
This article about retail shoplifting is from earlier…
The Future of RSS is Textcasting
Earlier this week, Dave Winer (the inventor of RSS and lots of other notable software, and one of the earliest bloggers) made a podcast for me. He posted it publicly, so it wasn’t sealed like a letter, but it was addressed to me and responding to
Pros & cons of sharing your blog with family & friends
I want to write more
I torched a reddit account of some tenure…
“You need to enjoy being there”
Great series on Threads from a small publisher on the destruction of Twitter and what it means for them. To engage properly in these spaces, you need to enjoy being there. Engagement is tumbling (s…
Let's talk about the fantastic POUR principles!
Let's take a closer look at the four W3C accessibility principles, commonly known as POUR.
crafting the life i want to live
It's Friday. I went grocery shopping with my mom this morning. I haven't been grocery shopping on a non-holiday weekday morning in years; it falls into a cat...
Hello nice to meet you, what do you do for a living
I'm sure many of you have been asked this very question when meeting someone for the first time. After all, it is a great inquiry that offers lots of follo...
POSSE Is Too Much Work
I got you with the clickbait headline. I mean it’s true, but as with most things, the real answer is: It depends. I read with excitement David Pierce’s article on POSSE for The Verge, as if it were some new technology to change the internet. The framing of the article aside, it is rare to see such excitement about boring indie web things like ActivityPub from the tech media. It feels as if one of the founding ideas of the internet, that one’s personal website should be the cornerstone, has returned like the proverbial prodigal son — and I love it!
Well, the site formerly known as “the main…”
On Subscriptions
Manu talks about some of the subscriptions he has to online services, and in particular streaming services. It's an interesting read, and I thought I'd respond.
The Future of RSS
It's even worse than it appears..
eastern european sky
its come to november now. the sky is littered with clouds i can only describe as gloomy. something about them is just screaming eastern europe. i dont harbor...
I saw a pedantic squabble over whether there…
in the crisp, cold air
Quite the shake up in my routine this weekend, as I am out of town & in a new and interesting place - one I probably would not have ever had the pleasure of ...
Mining the past for nuggets of wisdom