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I previously introduced the idea of using CSS as a means to selectively style references to other sites/authors/creators. There I also suggested using indieweb.txt as a place to share one’s own reference info, including this css styling....
Read moreI think you could simplify this by perhaps publishing a brand color property as part of an h-card. I will have to give this a more solid think!
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I am in complete accord with Jeremy Keith’s post Magic. It goes perfectly well with my own post from 2024 Mistrust-Based Technology Choices Jeremy wrote: But I still draw a line. When it comes to front-end development, that line is for m...
Read moreWhen writing software: if it's magical it isn't maintainable.
I've been working on PADD publicly for about a week now. Before that I was hacking on the individual parts (indieauth, micropub, etc.) but I was finally able to put them together in a fun UI and reading from a Microsub server. It was something I threw together while waiting for the results of medical tests on my partner. Something I did to take my mind off the stress. It's quickly become one of my favorite projects! New Features Post Drafting You will now see a "New post" button in the side b...
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FeedLand is an open-source feed reader and sharing platform created by Dave Winer, the pioneer behind RSS itself. It describes itself as âan ecosystem of feeds, news and peopleâ â a place to subscribe to RSS feeds, organize them, d...
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About a year ago I set up Cloudflare as a fronting CDN for this site and my music site because it was the most expedient way of dealing with an AI bot onslaught. It helped a bit but the bots very quickly figured out how to get around all...
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I don’t like magic. I’m not talking about acts of prestidigitation and illusion. I mean the kind of magic that’s used to market technologies. It’s magic. It just works. Don’t think about it. I’ve written about seamless and seamful design...
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Earlier this month I had the privilege of being the MC for the second Protocols for Publishers event, which took place at Newspeak House, an independent college for political technology at the top of London’s Brick Lane. London itself ha...
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Anyone can now install #FeedLand on their #Cloudron without building anything : deploy repo package is here cloudron install --image rmdes/feedland-cloudron:latest --location feedland.example.com
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In the California Primary on June 7, 1988 I cast my ballot for Jesse Jackson. Reverend Jackson got 1.1 million votes; Michael Dukakis: 1.9 million votes in California (source). A good showing. I woke up to the news that Jesse Jackson die...
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I just have to tell you my current state with my migration to OpenCloud… For a few months now, I have used a second-hand HP T640 Thin Client as my home server for Home Assistant and Uptime Kuma. The T640 is a nice little and fanless devi...
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