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.
Too sad, but a glorious obit.
Very happy to be reminded of this post today, while having singularly failed to resurrect pelf or anything else.
"The market failure of digital image (and video) management has lasted longer and there's no end in site. This means something."
So true. Been going downhill since iView died. I'm OK with Photo Mechanic, but ...
Brett Terpstra has written a script to convert Markdown to a Bike outline. Me, I just paid up for Keyboard Maestro in order to go the other way. If I'm writing something that requires outlining, I'd much rather start in an outliner and then go to Markdown to polish.
A real blast from the past, when it took real ingenuity to work out what was going on in DNA.