Weekly Shaarli
Week 02 (January 8, 2024)
Originally blogs were called weblogs: a log of activity that you wrote to the web. Peter Merholz jokingly split the term into two words to make it an activity: we blog. Ev Williams started to use it as a verb and a noun: to blog. And the rest is history.
hahaha using search engine techniques to map to common creepy websites
About video only: Do you want to serve those types of people?!
I can ask: do you want to do that for people?
What the author posts is now different, but blogging is not dead.
Each time I made a concerted effort to write and publish more, I started to move further away from what I wanted my blog to be. It has to be about me. It needs to revolve around my thoughts about topics and, more importantly, be about what I get up to.
Press CTRL or CMD + click or press the link. You then have the choice: open it in the same tab or in a new tab.
It’s a massive differentiator to have launched something. To have had an idea, and put it into the world.
I think it’s worth noting that there’s a certain luxury of time that affords side projects that comes wrapped up with privilege. [...] So it can be very small.
10 ans de Shaarli !
Vous savez où finissent les posts supprimés automatiquement après 1 mois? Dans un cercle. Le cercle des pouets disparus.
- Just sit in silence
- Apply constraints. Shorten the goals if it is hard to write.
- What did I learned today?
- Find a previous post you disagree or want to enrich. Write about why. Use an old post and update wit h your current experience
- Take a quote you love, or hate, and write about the why's. Backup the reasoning with evidence.
- You probably answer questions from email, IMs, DMs, work, etc... Post the most common answers.
- Write about your mistake
- Make a link post, and explain why
- Help others
a project to excavate shut down, abandoned web ruins and restore them to surfable, visually accessible, searchable, remixable condition
somewhere between a library and a living museum, we're working on experimental new ways to close the gap between archival and visibility of the web that was lost
You are viewing a humanly curated list of fine personal & independent blogs that are updated regularly.
The post covers the JSON format with different topics.
High-Resolution, Royalty-Free, Stock Photos
Generate different svg. It seems to not work well with Firefox.
The Washington Post Design System
What I’ve found is this–after people get to posting #200 or beyond, they uniformly report that they’re glad they did it.
Um der Finanzamt-Nummer finden zu können
Voilà
Avoid to open it in new tab in most cases. There are some where it makes sense.
Add an "open in new tab" mention or its icon, with the expected alt text for assistive technologies.
Turn Mastodon into your feed reader
I have a different preferred starting point which is less descriptive but more operational: WebAssembly is a new fundamental abstraction boundary.
But WebAssembly is a new point in this space. Unlike the Linux ABI, there is no fixed set of syscalls: WebAssembly imports are named, typed, and without pre-defined meaning, more like the C ABI. Unlike the C ABI, WebAssembly modules have only the shared state that they are given; neither side has a license to access all of the memory in the “process”. And unlike HTTP, WebAssembly modules are “in the room” with their hosts: close enough that hosts can allow themselves the luxury of synchronous function calls, and to allow WebAssembly modules to synchronously call back into their hosts.
So, in a way, blogging [via social media] is more popular than ever. The thing that changed was where people published.
[Ten years ago]
A set of protocols or standards will need to come along to help connect all publishing platforms together. The incredibly useful features we find inside of networks like Twitter will need to find their way out onto the world wide web. This means bringing actions like following or subscribing, mentioning, citing, link previewing, etc. to the independent web and have them be completely separate from any single service.
It is slowly coming with IndieWeb, ActivityPub, and the standards of microformats, syndication feeds, federation, etc...
Toutes les capitales sauf Canberra :/ Maintenant que fais-t-on?
About micro.blog
You really shouldn’t care what people think. It’s the [place of residence on the web] I own and have control of
I’m not tied down by character limits. I don’t have comments and likes bootstrapped to my posts, begging to be utilized. [...] I feel a sense of peace of mind here
I think most people would be better served by subscribing to small b blogging. What you want is something with YOUR personality. Writing and ideas that are addressable (i.e. you can find and link to them easily in the future) and archived (i.e. you have a list of things you’ve written all in one place rather than spread across publications and URLs) and memorable (i.e. has your own design, logo or style).
A blog post is not the same as an essay or article. It’s simply an update to the log of information you’re writing on your website. That stream of posts, together, makes up your blog. So a post can be as short or as long as you like It’s your voice, so they can also be as formal or informal as you like. I use a pretty informal voice in my blogging because that’s what comes naturally to me.
Write 5 times more because it helps thinking, practice makes you better, humans are worse than computers at storing knowledge and it frees the brain.
Then shorten it because the shorter it is, the more people will read it. Also, 80% of the value is in 20% of the length.
Use #blog #collection to write an article: where to find blogs to follow?
Solarpunk is a literary and artistic movement that envisions and works toward actualizing a sustainable future interconnected with nature and community.
The "solar" represents solar energy as a renewable energy source and an optimistic vision of the future that rejects climate doomerism
Similar to permaculture, but for computing.
On the "obvious" that everyone has children or everyone wants children.
Regardless, at a time when the earth’s population is blooming to unprecedented numbers, and the climate is collapsing, I’d wager going childless might be the opposite of selfish, not least because it’s the single best way to reduce your carbon footprint. Certainly, it seems less selfish than bringing an unloved child into the world.
They list different blogging platform:
- https://bearblog.dev/
- https://write.as/
- https://neocities.org/
- https://ghost.org/
- https://micro.blog/
- https://home.omg.lol/
And more!
Classic.
If you’re writing code for people to use, and you’re working on it with people, not having people skills isn’t really an option.
Same feelling
It's the dev behind atuin 👏
And she's going full time on it https://ellie.wtf/posts/i-quit-my-job-to-work-full-time-on-my-open-source-project 🚀
À propos de Kyber, un logiciel de streaming
The point is that owning the address where your audience finds you is important. It allows you to be mobile, nimble, and without attached strings. It helps you show off all the things and places you want folks to see because you can put all these URLs on your /feeds page. It’s user-friendly in more ways than one
An argument for GitHub against self-hosted source code forgery.
The main reason is I’m kind of tired of the amount of spam bots that keep signing up to my Gitea.
Wizard programmers prefer up-front design. They apply reason and logic to divide and conquer a large problem, they rely on building blocks like design patterns and algorithms. Wizards rely on explicit knowledge.
D&D sorcerers have an innate connection to the magic. They wield tremendous forces that they sometimes don’t quite understand, it’s wild and unpredictable. It’s not something they’ve learned to do, but something they’ve discovered in themselves, a talent.
I like the comparison because it seems right.
A collection of thoughts about blogs and RSS
There are no rules to blogging except this one: always self-host your website because your URL, your own private domain, is the most valuable thing you can own.
What are the characteristics of a blog?
- content is published in the form of posts, often in reverse chronological order
- content is posted on a website, online, with hypertext capabilities
- they are self-published, regardless of hosting platform, in that there is no gatekeeper authorizing publication
Blog posts do not have to be read in the order they were originally published.
Also as a distinct format, they are worthy of consideration, because the medium a message is served through is as important as the message itself.
Blogs are broad and can be defined by a lot of different examples. Technology enables it but does not solely define blogness. There are distinctions though
- composed of addressable, distinct posts
- order-irrelevant and non-hierarchical
- impermanent and ever-evolving
- self and external-referencing
- it is published online to an unknown audience
- multiple types of content (image, video, text, sound, ...)
In contrast, newsletters miss the searchability. They are not addressable and lack of public publishing. The publisher can know the audience.
Social media serves a mixed feed with posts by other authors. The algorithm incentivizes the work creator's post. The platforms reinforce a strong bias to the present.
It seems "blogs argument themselves". They are "contemplation on a particular theme in depth".
What is the future of the blog medium? It's still a new medium and it depends on how we want it to mature in the next 20 years.
A similar community to the Yesterweb, small web, etc...
Email has superpowers, one of which is unique subject lines. What I should have done is broken up the email into three separate ones, with different subject lines, each tailored to my desired outcomes.
- Subject: Come visit my new place. Why I moved.
- Subject: My availability reduced until February 10
- Subject: New Address – Keep for reference and update your Contact for me.
This allows each recipient to ignore or archive each topic if not relevant or interesting to them, or to keep the actionable ones. It also not-so-subtly puts my desired outcome into their subconscious. It requires almost no additional work on my part to send three emails versus sending only one.
It is better to have small emails than bigger, so one email for each topic.
For the small, sustainable web.
A solarpunk web is the goal of the cheap web.
Cheap is different from free, sleek, creep, deep and dark.
How to build a cheap web? KISS and sustainable. Some tools are listed, as well as examples in the "explore" part.
Test color palette on other websites
Simulate a terminal in the UI
Aaron Swartz a le projet de diffuser des millions d’articles scientifiques, financés par l’argent public et sur lesquels les auteurs ne touchent rien. Poursuivi avant d’avoir rien publié, il risque 35 ans de prison. Devant cette perspective, il se suicide le 11 janvier 2013. Il y a 11 ans.
En 2024, OpenAI entraîne ses algorithmes sur tout document, en ligne ou non, sans accord des auteurs. Personne ne sera vraisemblablement poursuivi.
La propriété intellectuelle n’est qu’un outil d’oppression.
It is a modern and convenient replacement for both the Websocket API and the higher-level libraries and services relying on it.
Mercure is especially useful to add streaming and asynchronous capabilities to REST and GraphQL APIs. It is a thin layer on top of HTTP and SSE
It ensures the expected meta tags (OG and others) are set as expected.
The New York Times with an article "Everyone wants your email address. Think twice before giving it. To read this article an email is needed.
Vs
A paper on Nature behind a paywall named "the growing inaccessibility of science".
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