There seems to be a bit of a theme to my morning linkages, with The Luddite making a good case against Substack and all the other so-called tech companies bent on “eventually becoming a pointless middleman in an industry that they’ve now cornered”.
https://theluddite.org/#!post/case-against-substack
Stop Press: I just asked specifically, and sardines are different. Unlike anchovies, no need to refrigerate unopened tins.
I know I shouldn't feel sad about this, but that's how it is when I see Ben Werdmuller talking about Known in the past tense. I am not a coder, so I have no idea how much work it would take to make it a fully-fledged citizen of the Fediverse, but that is something I hope for. And support.
I’m traveling myself, and you will probably be gone before I get back on Monday. We could have had a mini-HWC. Enjoy yourself.
My OCD is giving me grief about the different line weights in ↗ and ↘ in the latest post on my website.
I agree that part of the art of hyperlinking is to give people an idea of why you think this thing worth linking to. That's probably easier in 500 characters than 300, but it is easier still when you're not thinking about length, hence the value of a site you control.
Sensitized to broken links, and wondering what happens when a Mastodon post cannot be found, as the original to which you were replying. My understanding is that you cannot Archive toots.
I was wrong about Healthkit not exporting distance data. The data are there with distance in a cycling workout recorded as km between records, which are 1 or 2 seconds apart. The numbers are there, obscured by being of the order of 0.007 km. Solved at https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/transport-summary-q3-2023
Very odd. Simone got an error each time he replied via webmention to my link to his manifesto, and yet I see each of the replies and each of the emails he sent me to warn me of the error. A clear sign that I should upgrade WithKnown, and soon.
Thanks to Sara Jakša for pointing me to some other blog carnivals that are still going strong. I have also just posted my own submission to her carnival, and hope that a webmention will get through to alert her. Here's hoping the new carnival catches on.