Links

NOTE: A WEBPAGE'S INCLUSION ON THIS PAGE IS NOT AN ENDORSEMENT OF THAT PAGE BY ME

Blogroll or Other Tinkers and Thinkers

David Marsden has a wonderful personal blog that, in some small way, I hope to emulate. Unfortunately, his feed is in a .json format and I don't have a reader that can read json files.

Kev Quirk is the first in my links of other tinkers and thinkers! What a delight it was to find his site. He and I share several similarities including homesteading and antipathy towards (anti)social media. Give him a read and follow his feed.

I'll admit that what first attracted me to Manu's page was the sheer beauty of the page. It is a beautiful site but as I read his posts I fell in love with the beauty of his words too. A great site! It made it into my feed reader.

Matthew Graybosch made it into my feed reader on the basis of one post alone. The post is a critique of Zuck's Threads thingie and how he doesn't really give a shit about it. I put him in the feed reader and then read other posts where he says many of the same things that I say about (anti)social media, talks about being a a writer of science fiction, and just generally displays his coolness.

Web Pages

Written by the "Iranian Blogfather" this article inspired me to abandon social media and go back to a simpler time and build a website.

An article about how the once open, decentralized, and democratic internet has disappeared.

Email

Everybody gripes about it but it is probably the most stable communication platform out there.

In spite of my being in general agreement with the above link I do think a little protection might be wise.

RSS

One of a couple of article that reminded me how cool RSS really is and that I want to keep using it.

Another good article that reminded me that it was time to dust off the feed reader and get away from online social media.

Web Development

How to design a website that is not a magazine or funky app but is a website. There is an elegance in simplicity.

You've seen all those weird characters like © and 𝔄 and ⩽̸ on a website before. Here is how to make the characters.

Among a whole host of apps out there VS Code uses Emmet shortscuts. Here is a guide.

Plain Text

Scott Nesbitt no longer maintains this wonderful resource on using plain text in one's daily life but it remains online as an historical marker. If the above link ever happens to fail try his gitlab repo instead.

Uncategorized

An argument against Google's (and Firefox's) nagging the user about "secure" websites.