Links I like
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Likes P&B: Jim Nielsen – Manu.
your life doesn’t revolve around your creative environment, it’s the other way around.
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Likes Another Sound morning.
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Likes IndieWeb Carnival – Community and belonging by .
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Likes Building community out of strangers by .
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Likes P&B: Rachel J. Kwon – Manu.
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Likes P&B: Manton Reece – Manu.
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Likes https://snarfed.org/2023-12-03_51578 by .
“data swamp” 😆
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A blog post is a search query. You write to find your tribe; you write so they will know what kind of fascinating things they should route to your inbox. If you follow common wisdom, you will cut exactly the things that will help you find these people.
The social structure of the internet is shaped like a river.
The way messages spread on the internet is by flowing up this order of streams, from people with smaller networks to those with larger, and then it spreads back down through the larger networks. Going over land, from one tributary to another, is harder than going up the stream order and then down again.
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In the absence of a generally accepted way to archive sites on the web long-term, I wholeheartedly approve of friends stepping up to keep their deceased friends’ sites running.
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The Catch is a place-based, online literary journal published for five years, in association with the Downeast Fisheries Trail, a maritime heritage education and tourism effort in eastern Maine.
I found this through Robin Orm Hansen’s website. She has a story, Rosie Wallace is a Seal, in one of the volumes: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/the_catch/vol6/iss1/3/
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Likes Examples of Great URL Design by .
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Likes Mapping digital worlds by .
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Nice PHP library for posting to Bluesky. Could come in useful for a WordPress POSSE plugin.
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I enjoy Dave Smith’s WordPress build videos. We need more videos showing people how to achieve real things with the WP Block editor. I also liked Jamie Marsland’s recent TechCrunch rebuild video.
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Likes My favorite fiction books of 2023 by .
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Likes Best non-fiction books of 2023 by .
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“The more access dads have to paternity leave, the better able they are to adjust to parenthood, helping also make them more effective co-parents as their children get older.”
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when greater awareness of mental illness leads people to talk of normal life struggles in terms of “symptoms” and “diagnoses.” These sorts of labels begin to dictate how people view themselves, in ways that can become self-fulfilling.
Teenagers, who are still developing their identities, are especially prone to take psychological labels to heart. Instead of “I am nervous about X,” a teenager might say, “I can’t do X because I have anxiety” — a reframing that research shows undermines resilience by encouraging people to view everyday challenges as insurmountable.
It’s generally a sign of progress when diagnoses that were once whispered in shameful secrecy enter our everyday vocabulary and shed their stigma. But especially online, where therapy “influencers” flood social media feeds with content about trauma, panic attacks and personality disorders, greater awareness of mental health problems risks encouraging self-diagnosis and the pathologizing of commonplace emotions — what Dr. Foulkes calls “problems of living.” When teenagers gravitate toward such content on their social media feeds, algorithms serve them more of it, intensifying the feedback loop.
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The web is a haystack, not a library.
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Likes Scripting News: Thursday, November 9, 2023 by .
Last week I analyzed roughly 14,000 feed URLs from FeedLand and Indieblog.page to find the most common feed URL patterns and locations. Dave took that list and turned it into Feed Hunter, a package for simple feed URL discovery.
If there are any common feed locations you know of not taken into account here, open an issue!
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To return to information overload: this means treating your “to read” pile like a river (a stream that flows past you, and from which you pluck a few choice items, here and there) instead of a bucket (which demands that you empty it).
Coming at life this way definitely entails tough choices. But it’s liberating, too, as you slowly begin to grasp that you never had any other option. There’s no point beating yourself up for failing to clear a backlog (of unread books, undone tasks, unrealized dreams) that it was always inherently unfeasible to clear in the first place.
I’ve come around to this mindset generally in the past 6 months. I’ve pretty much always had this mindset when it comes to books, but tried to be a completionist when it comes to my digital life (RSS feeds, social media, etc).
The shift happened when I started using FeedLand, as Dave Winer calls the main stream the “River” and you view it at a moment in time instead of an inbox with unreads. No stress with missing something… when you want to dip into the river and wade around you can, but things float by when you aren’t looking and that is okay.
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Likes https://indieblog.page/.
Found my blog in this list. Cool!
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Likes The Future of RSS is Textcasting by .
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Likes POSSE is the right idea but… by .
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Likes chat-cli: renamed and added Ollama support by .
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Likes How to fix the internet.
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Likes The Techno-Optimist Manifesto by .
New Andreessen manifesto just dropped.
We believe this is why our descendents will live in the stars.
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Likes Affordable Luxuries by .
The Secret Society of Newsletter Authors and the International League of Bloggers don’t often see eye-to-eye, but they are very clear on some rules. One of them states that when you have a birthday, you have to publish a list.