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It turns out my idea how to add a stylesheet to my RSS feed was right. Now I need to get it working. I think I have all the elements in place, yet somehow the feed doesn’t show any other styling or new elements I added to the template.
Maybe I should add a new post to have the underlying machines create a new feed where it will use my new template. So that’s what this post is, next to a small update.
Added this to the public micro.blog forum, but perhaps I can find help here as well: In accordance to the idea to make an RSS feed more pleasing to the eye, I want to add an XSL stylesheet to my feed. I use the Tiny Theme. What would be the best way to do this? Should I create a copy of layouts/_default/rss.xml and add the reference to the XSL stylesheet in there? And how would I create a XSL stylesheet in the directory structure? Is this also like layouts/_default/rss.xsl or could this better be static/css/rss.xsl?
Just browsing through my bookmarks and I came across Phanpy.social, a nice client for Mastodon. I like their catch-up functionality where you can filter and tweak what you want to see from your timeline at any given moment. It also has some great shortcuts to browse through the timeline by just using your keyboard. They instantly feel familiair to me.
I took the plunge and decided to give the Arc browser another try. It is such a different way of browsing the web and working on the web. But it is enticing. I feel like I can do more by just using another browser.
Als de sterren en het verkeer op de A10 mij gunstig zijn, ben ik vanmiddag bij het jaarlijkse Staat van het Internet event van de Waag Futurelab. Dit jaar geeft Kim van Sparrentak de lezing, zij is lid van het Europees Parlement. Zij was onder meer betrokken bij de AI Act, het initiatiefvoorstel over ‘verslavend ontwerp van online diensten’ en maakt ze zich hard voor het terugdringen van de macht van Big Tech door de ontwikkeling van wet- en regelgeving. Ik zie uit naar de lezing, het aansluitende panelgesprek en mogelijk interessante ontmoetingen naderhand.
Here are two subjects I haven’t thought of they would collide…
I will be speaking about Artificial Intelligence in origami at FoldFest 2024, an online origami convention organized by OrigamiUSA.
Thanks to the indieblog.page “Get me a random personal blogpost” link you can find more gems like these!
This afternoon the inner city of Utrecht slowly turns orange when the annual King’s Night starts. In and around the center of Utrecht there are parties and we have what is called the Vrijmarkt, which loosely translates to “Sell the trash from your attic and shed in front of our house”-market. These parties and the self-proclaimed street-entrepreneurship naturally transcends into the King’s Day festivities which will happen tomorrow. Not only in Utrecht but throughout the whole country. I don’t have any warm connection to our monarchy or the ceremonial traditions it tries to represent. But I find the orange-clad crowds partying in the streets, the young salespeople finding a quick buck a nice way to spend the day off.
My wife and I had a small walk through some of the streets where you can buy any old vinyl, half-broken toys, shady “second-hand” bikes, questionable “vintage” jewelry and other knick-knacks. I had the idea to find a small collection of toys and assorted plastic junk I could use to kitbash some new monsters and robots together.
Alas, no luck during the small walk tonight. We might try again tomorrow, when we will visit the terrain of the University College around the corner. There will be foodtrucks and again a children’s Vrijmarkt. But we will start King’s Day with at least one tradition at home: the orange Tompouce! A Dutch pastry that consists of two layers of crispy puff pastry with an airy, creamy filling in between, topped with a sweet orange glaze. Maybe more pictures tomorrow…
On May 17th there will be the annual Micro Camp. A virtual gathering of and by the Micro.blog community. I look forward to be present this year! When I look at the impressions of previous years, it’s quite an event with lots of talks and connections. Nice!
I am currently listening to part three of the five-part trilogy of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. And yet again I am highly amused at the great quotes and incredibly clever oneliners in the story. How the guide explains the art of flying once again has me giggling on my morning walk through the city center. People looked puzzled as I walked by with a daft grin as I listened to “There is an art to flying, or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. … Clearly, it is this second part, the missing, that presents the difficulties.”
And yes, there is a full The Hitchhiker’s Wiki entry on the art of flying. Because of course.
Ik heb mijn About-pagina aangevuld met podcasts waar ik te gast was. Vooral om te praten over indieweb en decentrale sociale netwerken.
Cory Doctorow’s linkdump of today is so dense with great quotes and stories, it’ll keep you clicking and learning a full day.
Enshittification came to the ISP business early and hit it hard. The cartel that controls your access to the internet today is a billion light-years away from the principled technologists who invented the industry with an ethos of care, access and fairness. Today’s ISPs are bitterly opposed to Net Neutrality, the straightforward proposition that if you request some data, your ISP should send it to you as quickly and reliably as it can.
From the birth of ISP’s to AI snake-oil and giraffology. Happy sunday!
Patti Astor, who co-founded the renowned Fun Gallery in New York City, has passed away at the age of 74. She was known for her advocacy of graffiti and street art as legitimate forms of art, as well as for her involvement in the influential film Wild Style. In 2014 I received an autographed copy of her biography. Filled back to back with great photographs of her life in the hip-hop scene.
The STRAAT museum in Amsterdam is a continuation of the vision Patti Astor had, to show how graffiti is a legitimate form of art. If you have the chance to visit this incredible museum, you will not regret it. See my own (Dutch) review in the archives…
It is great to see all sorts of small blogging platforms popping up. I might have to take the time to create an overview in a post, but for now I want to bring your attention to Gibberish. A blogging app that looks and feels like a messaging app. It’s weird and that’s the point. We text and Whatsapp all the time. But when it comes to blogging, we stare at a blank editing screen like a rabbit in the headlights. The UI of Gibberish tricks you to go into writing mode. Just go. Gibberish is not for everyone and that’s OK. For instance, the maker states:
[…]The smaller the text input field is, the more users are willing to type text in them. Typing in a giant blank screen feels like a chore. But typing in a tiny text field feels effortless.
This goes diametrically what others are saying, like Dave Winer, who wants to eradicate tiny textboxes and have more space to write.
Whatever your flavor, just keep publishing and sharing!
I love Readwise. I don’t use it too often but I love how they create a universe for my read-later pages, PDF’s, newsletters and since a few days, RSS. I’ve been testing the new feedreader for a few days. It’s not fully to my liking yet, but I understand the roadmap of Readwise, so I’m patient. However, while browsing through a selection of my daily feeds, I was stumped to read in Readwise a post by Ben Werdmuller. Or so I thought. What happened is Ben links to another site in the title of his own post. He gives a small comment on the page, but in my Readwise Reader, it parses the site Ben links to. Which, I agree with Ben, is inspiring. But I’d rather have Ben’s thoughts in my feedreader instead of the parsed site he links to. It is pretty easy to give feedback to the Readwise, so I did. I hope this issue is resolved soon.
Elke XKCD comic is waanzinnig, maar deze machine is next level awesome! Lekker knutselen!
Ik laat nu Micro.blog zien aan Kirsten Jassies, bekend van de Podcast over Social Media
I’m halfway into @annaleen@wandering.shop ‘s The Future of Another Timeline and I feel I should’ve made my own notes on who does what with whom where in which timeline… I’m getting confused!
The first sunny day of spring and there is a long queue at the local ice-cream parlor. Totally worth it!
30 years ago today...
I still miss Kurt. What kind of music would he make if he was still here? And to give you some perspective, in 1994 it was 30 years since Sam Cooke died. Or Ian Fleming. I’m getting old…
Time to crank some Bleach, Nevermind and In Utero today. And of course, the infamous MTV Unplugged session.