A great intro to micro.blog and how it fits more generally into the #indieweb ecosystem. But I had to laugh at Eli saying that since he discovered micro.blog he is now a full-time PHP developer. I have just spent all morning, literally, trying to improve the sandpit ii8n which I play with PHP, and have just about given up, utterly defeated. How anyone ever gets XDebug to work is completely beyond me. VSCode, Atom, even PHPStorm all require the most astonishing acrobatics which I have simply been unable to perform. Now what?
@beardfoundation Congratulations to all the podcast nominees. I look forward to sampling the one I haven't yet tried.
Aaron Davis wonders "when are you an actual ‘citizen’, that is when do you belong to, in or are a part of the Indieweb?" To me, "belong to", "in" and "part" signify slightly different depths of commitment, none of which conveys "citizenship". The way I understand it, citizenship is granted by some other authority. You can't just claim it for yourself.
I like Kartik Prabhu's idea that posting to a domain you own is all it takes. "Everything else is a bonus". But that's a little like Robinson Crusoe being a citizen of his island. Interaction with others matters too.
#indiewebcitizen #indieweb
I love reading about how other people organise their reading and writing, although it seldom impacts my own system (which I hesitate to call a system). Chris Aldrich's post is no exception, with lots of great ideas about how to find, filter and act on the firehose of stuff that's out there. I can't help but wonder whether Chris and I have discussed Zettelkasten methods in the past. https://zettelkasten.de
@SlackHQ I like the extra functionality of, eg, reminding myself about messages and the overall usability of Slack. I wouldn't want to be tied to a closed silo though. Bridging with IRC allows #indieweb people to own their messages.
The good news is that #indieweb -- the main channel for which I want both IRC and Slack -- should be OK as it uses the Slack API. Or so I am reliably informed ...
Remarkable: "High school students prefer vegetables seasoned with herbs and spices, rather than plain veggies". I wonder whether this counts as industry-funded research, coming up with a result that suits industry. http://news.psu.edu/story/508608/2018/03/06/research/spicing-it-high-school-students-may-prefer-seas...
Jonathan LaCour has done some great work freeing himself from Facebook and Instagram, and his post is a good starting point for others who want to do the same. So far, I confess, I have not felt the need myself. There are no photographs in either of those silos that I don't have a copy of (actually, the original, not a copy) on my desktop computer. And any text I may have place on FB is also either a copy of something here or else completely insubstantial. Heck, I'm still bringing in old blog posts to my new system by hand, very slowly, and I haven't begun to bring in old posts from a previous incarnation of this stream. Maybe it is because I was an independent blogger long before either FB or IG saw the light of day, but I have never regarded those places as worthy of original material.
Eat your heart out @replyall. @NealGoldfarb does a yes-yes-no for the ages, and all on his own, more or less.
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=37022
Kudos to @DICKS for doing the right thing. If I ever needed anything that they sell, that's where I'm going to buy it.