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My Sunday evening is quite chill, thank you very much. Yet, I am in doubt what to do. I can browse through my feedreader and enjoy all the great writings of people I follow (see my blogroll on Feedland), I could write some more blog posts, or just fiddle away in some note-taking apps. As one does for a hobby. Or try to combine the three…
The astronomy picture of the day is just stunning! I love how the editors add lots of background to the picture, with links to deeper information. In this case, the link underneath the word “enthralling” got me curious. And I love the editors even more now…
Great news from WordPress. Their Activitypub plugin is updated so “When you respond to comments from the fediverse on your blog, they will now be federated. This allows you to finally engage in (threaded) communication back and forth directly from the comment section of your blog!”
So this means your WordPress blog increasingly becomes a first class citizen on the fediverse. Which makes it even more interesting to own your own domain, become the captain on your mothership (Dutch blogpost) and find the others.
Erik geeft een mooi voorbeeld van een homegrown personal feedreader en mastodon client. Om zo weer meer eigenaarschap op je omline consumptie te krijgen. Mooi.
Our daughter (17) came to me this afternoon and asked “Can I get into the 1Password Family account?” I did a little victory dance in my heart. About a year ago I told her we have a family account she can join to store her passwords, use passwords in shared vaults and make her online life more safe. She wasn’t interested, she had her own solutions like storing passwords in the browser. But I knew she would turn around. It just takes time. I want my kids to be safe offline and online and I do the most to make sure they do. But sometimes you have to let them explore it for themselves instead of directing them. I’m glad it worked out.
Listening to the Tijdloze 100 at Studio Brussel. A nice alternative list of timeless classics, in the alternative/rock genre. Take a look at the incredible independent, open-source website Tijdloze.rocks (if only for the TLD!) for stats and info during broadcast. Right now playing the beautiful Paranoid Android by Radiohead
Bye bye Threads. I never really got into the network and it became a cesspool overnight.
I am just getting used to a blog revival in 2024 but already the Gopher revival is upon us according to Hackaday… oh my…
I see @jsonbecker has done a pull request to hide excluded categories as a feature in the Tiny Theme feed. So I guess I’ll just wait that one out instead of wrangling in code myself.
This is just a small test to work with a custom theme to hide specific categories of posts on my homepage and perhaps the RSS-feed. Small steps…
I like what Amit states here:
Start with titleless posts as the base, making them first-class citizens. Stitch the design around that. And then add support for titles. People latched on to the microblogging phenomenon of Twitter and Facebook because they made posting interfaces frictionless
Well… let’s not forget the network effect of those silo’s and how their Like and Tweet buttons showed up overnight in the blogosphere like the zombie fungus in “The Last of Us”…
I am delighted with my new Midori A6 blank notebook. To celebrate Midori MD’s 15th anniversary, they invited Lindsay Arakawa to get creative with the notebook cover. The text she created is embossed on the cover. I wanted to try the brand of notebooks and this is a great start to see how they feel, write and perform.
See Lindsay’s other work on her website and Instagram
Tree and gifts are ready. Food is almost. Happy Festivus all.
One thing I plan to do today is configure this script to export 10+ years of Day One posts in Obsidian. I will not stop using Day One, far from it, but I am very curious to see what sort of connections I can make from within Obsidian with those private messages.
Update: This script might be more to my liking. I can better change the template and I love how it helps me import the thousands of photos I have in Day One.
Very happy to see that Bluesky now supports RSS for profiles. It would be great to be able to follow Bluesky profiles within your own Fediverse account (Mastodon, micro.blog, etc.), but I see this as a positive step. I am excited for 2024 and hope to see increased interoperability between platforms in daily use. I am still optimistic about it.
This was quite the week with highs and lows. But now work is done for 2023. I look forward to 10 days off with the family. We focus on doing not too much. We all need to recharge. Let body and mind come to rest.
I did two interviews today for upcoming articles for one of our clients. To be honest, it was quite draining emotionally. The last interview, we touched upon some personal stories regarding current global conflicts. The interviewee had some tough decisions to make and it touched me. I am curious to see what story comes out of it when I start writing tomorrow.
Sending out Christmas cards today. I still love this tradition. Thinking of unique messages and wishes for each receiver.
