Category: Micro
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An Odd Spam Attack
It seems like it’s calmed down now, but I had two weird spam interactions this past weekend on my personal site. The first seemed pretty benign, three comments from webmentions on recent posts saying very nice things. The comments felt believable as people individually, but when I saw a third with the same shape of…
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Home from Hope
Had a fantastic time at #hope_16 this weekend! Watched cool talks, met cool people, and got to give a talk myself that went well! Will post a blog post about my takeaways and the slides and recording from my talk, but first: I must sleep!
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Vote in the Tiny Awards
Votes for the Tiny Awards are open! These are awards for the “best of the small, poetic, creative, handmade [websites]” that were created in the past 12 months. They are all impressive and powerful in their own ways. The websites featured (this year and the previous two) are great sources of inspiration for building websites.…
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How unpresidential and overreaching!
I’m old enough to remember when it was both illegal and inappropriate that the President of the United States would forgive $10,000 of federal student debt for borrowers and $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients. That would have hindered the income of the hard-working Americans who own student loan servicing companies. These entrepreneurs following the American…
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10 Years of Solarpunk
Andrew Dana Hudson looks back on “On the Political Dimensions of Solarpunk” after 10 years. When I was first learning about Solarpunk in 2021 (and getting my eyeballs on every piece of media about it that I could), this piece resonated with me strongly and I refer back to it often. And today, Andrew looks…
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She’s damn right
Phenomenal essay from Molly White. “When we throw up our hands and say none of it matters, we’re doing the fascists’ work for them. They don’t need to hide their corruption if they can convince us it’s pointless to look. They don’t need to silence truth-tellers if we’ve already decided truth is meaningless.” https://www.citationneeded.news/it-matters-i-care I’m…
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IGA grocer in Montreal builds roof garden
The SOLARPUNKS blog published a short little post about an IGA grocery store in Montreal that has a 25,000 sq ft (over half an acre) garden on the roof! https://solarpunks.net/post/785808510802935808 This is a great model! I hope they do that with the parking lot next! You can even see it in satellite imagery!
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Prepare the celebrations
We have just installed the window units for the summer before it gets too hot to do it without being frustrated (Though our second floor is warm already)
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Just Don’t Press Publish Then
If you feel like you have to put “Reader Caution Advised: This post was written by AI and has a bunch of errors” on a blog post, just… Just don’t press the publish button then?
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Nominate a Tiny Award
Nominations are open for the Tiny Awards, “[celebrating] the best of the small, poetic, creative, handmade web”. If you came across a delightful website made in the last year, you should nominate it! More info here: https://tinyawards.net/faqs/ #indieweb #webdev #webdesign Also the Tiny Awards website is an absolute delight and you should check it out!
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Got my first digital issue of Good Internet Magazine
https://goodinternetmagazine.com/ Enjoying reading through. Looking forward to the print version!
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All we need now is people
All set up and ready!