Notes

Help me. I’m publishing forks on npm. Too easy to make things hard on myself…

• technology

Just in time for the IndieWeb Hackathon, you can now install Omnibear from the Firefox Add-on store! It’s also available for Edge and we’re working on Chrome. Please try it out if your site supports Micropub and consider contributing! posted via Omnibear

• IndieWeb
• Omnibear

I’m really excited to be attending IWC SD for the third year in a row. It’s a fun time to discuss what you can do with personal websites. While there are lots of technical problems discussed, I have found that solving the online social/communal problems are just as important. Plus...

• IndieWeb

How long till someone holds Uber and Lyft accountable for false advertising on estimated wait times? It seems like “1-3 minutes” is always “20-30 minutes”.

🎵 Listening to Wood by Taylor Swift. Shout out to Stefan Pettersson from Sweden for his bass playing on the song Wood. Their own records aren’t quite my style but I’m glad they were asked to contribute. Really killed it on that song. I still haven’t decided how I feel...

• jam

The backlash to the NFL Bad Bunny halftime show announcement is problematic for so many reasons: Bad Bunny is a top artist with 3 Grammys and 9 nominations Bad Bunny is an avid sports fan, playing in MLB and NBA celebrity games Bad Bunny is a US citizen by birth...

• politics

If all goes well this will be tagged on octothorp.es using a custom microformats2 harmonizer and my webmention sender. It’s pretty cool to see the progress the Octothorpe project has made and I love seeing more discovery channels for personal blogs.

• site changes
• IndieWeb

I’m really enjoying MarketSpice’s Cinnamon-Orange tea (both hot and iced). But it is NOT forgiving if you forget it’s steeping. That cinnamon gets angry and bites. 😅☕️

Used my digital driver’s license for the first time today at the airport. There’s a long way to go before a physical ID isn’t needed though. Seems like a chicken and egg adoption problem so I don’t see much movement on that front.

• technology

Waterpik should be marketing their water flosser as “a pressure washer for your teeth.” That sounds like a much more satisfying product than “a better dental floss.”

I’ve added a new lighbox feature to pages with multiple photos. In theory it should make viewing those photos a little better by giving you a slideshow you can click through if you click on the image. It also makes it easier to view some of smaller images in my...

• site changes

I’m grateful for friends making space to hang out this week. I’m not the most social butterfly but it really does feel good to be around people who care about you.

• gratitude

I am now a “bought these clothes at Costco” person but I’m not entirely comfortable with that fact. $25 jeans in my size seemed worth it.

🎵 Listening to Kind of Blue by Miles Davis. This is one of my favorite jazz albums of all time. My parents got it for me when I was a kid playing trumpet in the school band. Compared to some of the other music I listen to, this album feels...

• jam

I’ve really enjoyed the Wings Over Water birding festival this weekend, but one of my favorite surprises was finding the artwork of Laurel Mundy. Her artwork is so vivid and beautiful that we bought a few pieces and I added some to my /stickers page. I highly recommend checking out...

• site changes
• Washington
• birds
• art