Words to live by -- and not just for web developers. Your job is to make it easy for the people who use what you make, not for yourself.
2018-01-23
Latest episode of Eat This Podcast is up now. Bread as it ought to be.
And so it ends; ten jars of our very own lemon marmalade.
So it begins; Saturday morning marmalade making with a kilo of our very own lemons
Very sad to read Daring Fireball on ...
Very sad to read Daring Fireball on Dean Allen's death. https://
Still puzzled by why some photo posts ...
Still puzzled by why some photo posts in Known go through to micro.blog with an image and others don’t. Almost all are PESOS from Instagram. I thought I had an explanation, but it doesn’t hold up.
The infallible standby; multigrain seedy wholewheat.
The light ...
Playing hookey with The Main Squeeze
2018-01-17
It is always interesting to read of someone else deciding to give the IndieWeb a try. I like what Michael Singletary has to say, especially this
Most of my online friends and acquaintances will never understand or participate in the IndieWeb, and so I require a bridge between these worlds. On one side I choose what content to post and how it is stored, and it exists mainly on an island that few visit regularly. On the other side is nearly everyone I know, blissfully ignorant of my real home on the web and unable to see any content shared there without manual intervention or working plugins.
What really struck me, though, was the line in his bio: “Blogging since 2002, taking control of my content since 2018.”
I lost some of my pre–2002 posts, not through the actions of any evil silo (were there any, then?), but through my own idiocy in misplacing a crucial backup. And I never really got on board the silo first band-wagon, so in a sense I have always owned the content I care about owning. Most of my friends do consider it kind of weird that I didn’t see the photo they posted only to FB, but they’re only too happy to show them to me one on one. So yes, for now few people visit this island, and that’s OK. I enjoy the ones who do.
I'm using the IndieWeb in an attempt to make it easier for everyone to visit, and that works too.