Sunday, March 17, 2024
🤦♂️ OK, I skipped out on hella posts for this category. I know, I know… I'll backfill them later, but I really hadn't done much of anything noteworthy I guess so there wasn't the motivation to post one of these… Which is not the point of course, so I'll just shut up and get on with this installment. Just watch out for the backfills if you're keeping up with this on the socials or RSS or email or whatever.
Sunday, March 10, 2024
As a few-times reporter in the bustling world of full-time journalism, I found solace and expression through my personal blogging. The keyboard was my faithful companion as I clickity-clacked out my thoughts, observations, and narratives. Back then, my blog was not merely an online diary; it was a sanctuary where I unwound the string of my day-to-day musings and expressed the long-form versions well before 240 character limited social media sites were a thing.
Friday, February 23, 2024
Per this post, I’m testing some ways to embed Bluesky posts into my Wordpress powered site here. As I find other ways, I’ll add them here. Simple Blog Card using a shortcode and plugin: [simpleblogcard url="bsky.app/profile/k…"] Bluesky.lol snippet creation using javascript: Skyview.social snippet creation using iframes:
Sunday, February 18, 2024
The past few days on the Fediverse have served to remind me a few things: The internet is as smart and as ignorant (and everything in between) as the macrocosm known as "human civilization" reflects upon it. Sometimes the victims will become the victimizers in any given situation, usually without them being aware of it. Upon pointing it out to said type above, instead of working to acknowledge and understand, they will double-down under the guise of righteousness, again unwittingly using the exact playbook that they had been persecuted under at some point in the past.
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Bluesky has opened up and requires no waitlist now, so if you were searching for a Twitter alternative, then here you go: [simpleblogcard url="bsky.social/about/blo…"] Once registered, find me here: [simpleblogcard url="bsky.app/profile/s…"] For reference: Feature Bluesky ActivityPub/Mastodon Other SNS Decentralization Yes Yes No Open-Source Yes Yes No Account Portability Yes (ATProto was designed with this in mind.) Yes (but it varies with the app/site you're working with No Moderation community based community based Centralized Focus Text, photo (video on roadmap) Various Varies Customization High Very high None Access Just made public Most instances public but some are not.
…Now they’re just grasping at straws. We asked for something like this back in 2018 complete with a framework to provide AirBNB style housing and helping with Japanese government services like hoken, and the like. I’m sure none of the support part is included here and we all know how hard that is for anyone new to Japan.
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
Here we go again with the bullshit. This time, my sense of smell is 90% gone. 😩 Paxlovid enroute and no real symptoms other than post-nasal drip from hell and sore back though, so hopefully this'll be over in a few days. 🤞🏾
Monday, January 15, 2024
In the tradition of those of us who can't do the daily "my day be like" journaling posts, there's the tradition of the weekly post that sums up what happened the week before. In my nod to one of my favorite TV shows, Last Week Tonight, I'm swashbuckling (🏴☠️) the hell out their title and using it on this blog series. Shiver me timbers! And, I'm ripping off my buddy James with the formatting here.
Saturday, January 13, 2024
This is gonna be a radical and controversial statement but in 2024, anything posted to the internet at-large, should be considered a “social post”. In fact, the same could be said for anything posted on the internet in 1994 too. Only the technology and methodology, and yes, nomenclature along with vernacular has changed. We don’t “upload to a site” or “update via FTP” so much anymore; we simply “post to the internet” or “tweet/tiktok/instagram” something.
Wednesday, January 10, 2024
Unfortunately my previous blogs are lost to the ether but they were all mostly powered by Wordpress. I might gather some of my backups and make some "backfill" posts and relive whatever moments I can find. Until then, let’s celebrate this milestone and thank the contributors and community around this great open source project.
Monday, January 8, 2024
Last month I talked about how with Georgia's new federal funding for rail corridors, we could imagine a regional rail system that would make moving through the area so much better? Turns out, I'm not the only one, and our new favorite ATL urbanist Youtuber Nathan Davenport is back with another video detailing a bit about Atlanta rebuilding its rails would also be recapturing its true identity. This could be us, but y'all too busy getting stuck on I-285!
Saturday, January 6, 2024
Let me get right to the point: I want a way to use my space on Craft.do as a blog. I love using Craft as my space to outline and organize and it ticks all the boxes Tantek raises about capturing all the thoughts surrounding a good post first, then publishing it later after refining. It literally is the place where it all happens, negating a whole bunch of extra steps.
Me looking hella disheveled after getting a giant qtip up my snout. All I wanted was more powerful meds to dam up the waterfall in my sinuses.
👩🏾⚕️:“We gotta check you for flu and Covid”
🐺: “Y’all didn’t do that so the my wife when she was here a few days ago”
👩🏾⚕️: takes out big ass q-tip from quantum space “look up right quick…”
an entire eternity of poking all my childhood memories into mash later
👩🏾⚕️: “give it 15 minutes and we’ll know…”
🐺: achooooo!!! “I can’t stop sneezi—" aaaaachoooo!!!
Time to get the last of the 年賀状wannabe cards shipped off to Japan! 🏣
(Some of y’all may know you are based on 郵便番号)
Sunday, December 31, 2023
Do you have your ticket to ride? 明けましておめでとうございます。 今年もよろしくお願いします。
Sunday, December 24, 2023
メリクリ🎁🎄🎅 May you and yours enjoy all 12 herbs and spices during this season of joy. Also on "ABC🌟🐺XYZ"
Sunday, December 24, 2023
The week before Christmas — not much going on except the twice checking of lists and making sure of naughty or niceness. The Tribe: celebrating one week since school holidays began, they mostly got into their Christmas shopping/making. I’m really glad Wifey and I made point of instilling making stuff rather than buying stuff for gifts. People should appreciate sweat and creativity more than good credit and next day delivery.
Saturday, December 23, 2023
If 2010-2020 was the Great Social Media Consolidation, looks like 2022 and beyond are gonna be the Great Innanet Decentralization, and I’m 1oo% present for it. Thanks to our friends #indieweb and #fediverse, you already know how easy it is to plug into some great communities on the interwebs while keeping your content under your control and being able to keep a record of the dialog around it at your own site.
Tuesday, December 19, 2023
I needed a way to have a decent taxonomy for my posts on this incarnation of the blog, especially given its social features. A few places I hang out in online were using a dead-simple method for categorizing their posts and making it easy to find the stuff they saved later on, called Post Kinds. Post kinds are a way of categorizing different types of posts on the web, based on the IndieWeb standards1.
Sunday, December 17, 2023
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