Ending our Twitter integration — Write.as Blog
On Reading More Books — Random Notes
Recently, a friend sent me a link to an article that they thought I might mind useful. It was one of those articles, the kind that purpor...
How to make Bash scripts read from stdin
I needed to write some Bash scripts on Linux that read the input from stdin or a file passed as an optional argument, but couldn't figure...
Product Outlook: Write.as and WriteFreely
After taking a bit of a sabbatical in 2022, I’m back into Write.as and WriteFreely development. My views on the product naturally change ...
Happy Friday! Now you can verify your fediverse / Mastodon / open web website...
ust head to your blog's Customize page, and enter the URL you want to verify. If you’re on Mastodon, simply add a link back to your Write.as blog and it’ll show up as verified! It works by adding a rel="me" link in the `` section of your blog. (Thanks to @rmasoni@m...
365 RFCs: a 50th anniversary dive
by Darius Kazemi, Dec 31 2018 April 7th, 2019 is going to be the 50 year anniversary of the first ever Request for Comments, known as an...
Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech
For many years now, I’ve talked about why so many of the problems that face the current internet could be understood by looking at how we moved from an internet dominated by open protocols to…
Celebrating 8 years of Write.as 🥳 — Write.as Deals
It’s February 2nd, the day we first launched Write.as in 2015! A lot has happened this past year, both on the web and with the small team...
Being the Cause of a Blog — CJ Eller
It feels good to type words for this blog again. Not doing so for months left me uneasy in a way I didn't expect. I'd like to interrogate...
There's more to linking than crediting sources — Paolo Amoroso's Journal
Published links to the original sources of the media, quoted text, or other content shared online are increasingly less common. Not that ...
Check Your Spelling at the Command Line with Aspell — Open Source Musings
(Note: This post was first published at Opensource.com and appears here via a CC-BY-SA 4.0 International License.) Correct spelling does...
Trying to Understand Revert And Merges in Git — Attach to Process
Disclaimer: I'm not an expert in Git. This post is me trying to understand how it works, by trying to explain it to someone else. If I've...
Write.as Archive Page Generation Tool — Attach to Process
It's been awhile since I updated the contents of the Archive page on my journal. I stopped updating when my Blazor apps stopped working. ...
Test-driving MathJax with Write.as — Paolo Amoroso's Journal
One reason I chose Write.as as my blogging platform is great support for technical writing with Markdown and MathJax. I use Markdown all...
A Calm Summer, 2022 — Write.as Blog
As we settle into the summer, we’re taking an easier pace here at Write.as. Here’s what’s been happening lately, and what you can expect ...
Spent the last hour creating a very minimal desktop app for Write.as / Musing... — Micro Matt
earliest thoughts today were about my digital work environment, and how it’s basically just the browser, and how distracting that is as someone who always has 50-plus tabs open at any given moment. I think it’d be much nicer to, in the morning, click an icon on my desktop that opens my digital “office.” It’d only show me exactly what I need to work. And at the end of...
Taking a Look at Feather Wiki — Open Source Musings
Have you heard of TiddlyWiki? It's a portable wiki that you can use on your desktop or put on to a flash drive or mobile device and carry...
Your grandfather? In the year 2022? — Musings
That was a very spiritual year for him. Turned 33 years old. That's how old Jesus was when he quit showing off and died and grew up and got a real job. He definitely ha...
Code-switching and what really happened to me at Netflix — Musings
I learned the technical term "Code-switching" in a diversity and inclusion session at work. Code-switching is divided into two types: ...
My first 12 years with ebooks — Paolo Amoroso's Journal
Twelve years ago these days, in early July 2010, I put aside print books and began reading only ebooks. The transition to digital allowed...
A Remark.as Meetup (another one!) - Events - Discuss Write.as
So this past Saturday, June. 4, 2022, there was the Remark.as Meetup, and it was a lot of fun to chat with the folks there, so we think it should be done again! This Saturday, June 11, 2022 at 1:00 PM CST is the next time we wanted to get together there, in the Remark.as Cafe in the chat box above the comments area. Nothing else needs be done, just show up and enter the chat and start meeting people! Fun to discuss things with other bloggers/writers. Hope to see/meet any/all of you there ...
writing and a (hypothetical) writing setup
I've continued to have a writing bug (an urge to write) as of late, and I am A-OK with that. But, I do not want to flood out the R.w.a feed. And I also couldn't access Midnight.pub nor Smol.pub today, either (as I assume they are
Browser icons! Now you can upload one yourself, and make your blog even more... — What's New on Write.as
To get started, go to your blog’s Customize page, and click the image under “Favicon.” This is available to all Write.as Pro users, and we’d love to hear your feedback! Comment on the forum or Remark.as: Discuss......
🤖 Using AI for Blogging — Justin Ferriman
I have been a blogger for a long time. Even before I started LearnDash, I wrote a blog while in college as I first became familiar with...
The Importance of Ukraine — monolit
The Importance of Ukraine Russia cannot occupy Ukraine for long, nor would it want to. Occupation takes time, eventual destabilizes its...
A Write.as-ifesto (in terms of interface stuff) — tmo
There are many services under the WriteFreely/Write.as umbrella: Write.as Snap.as Remark.as Discuss.write.as Here's how I see it workin...
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Switching from a crowded email inbox to a more organized system for customer... — Micro Matt
erything is powered by our Discourse forum. Write.as users get a certain email address to send to, based on their support level. Those emails show up in different Discourse group inboxes. The high-priority group also pings my personal email, just so I don’t forget it’s there. But the low-priority group won’t ever disturb me — I have to visit that inbox to see messages there. When my email hour starts, first I v...
Writing a Twitter thread introducing Remark.as and poking fun at “web3,” and I... — Micro Matt
made more progress on the app. I’m trying not to get too bogged down by a checklist of “blog commenting” functionality, and focus more on the experience of “hanging out around blogs.” That means things will be a little funky when you arrive, and maybe a little disorienting — but that’s kind of the point. I don’t want to build a sterile, Facebook-ish environment. As of last night, instead of landing in a network-wide space (the “Café”), I hav...