
I’m happy to say that Duxtape is has returned to Beaker Browser. Hide your mixtapes here. hyper://5b6920…e0/.
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I’m happy to say that Duxtape is has returned to Beaker Browser. Hide your mixtapes here. hyper://5b6920…e0/.
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@bradenslen @joejenett cc:chameleon Time to light up the Tiny Directory Forum. First, bc awesomeblog.club sprung up (open source directory tool). Second, Alessio Civitillo is e-mailing me about working on a directory at assyem.com. And also from StavrosK: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23328198
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The hidden magic in simple personal forks.
Just taking this chance to pass on a discovery I found in the new Beaker Browser. Notes and checkboxes by Kinopio.club - which would also be splendid to somehow bring to the Hyperdrive Network.
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fragile narrow laggy asynchronous mismatched untrusted pipes
fragile narrow laggy asynchronous mismatched untrusted pipes
This term comes from a May 2020 thoughtdump by Tristan Hume, in which the problems of modern day hacking are blamed (mostly) on our flakey - no wait, our flanalagamu - distributed network. (And yet, our current network is still too centralized!)
But I find that this is true. Literal computers hate exceptions. And exposure to the network is like connecting to a nozzle spewing failure.
From the article:
- Fragile: The network connection or the other end can have hardware failures, these have different implications but both manifest as just a timeout. Everything needs to handle failure.
- Narrow: Bandwidth is limited so we need to carefully design protocols to only send what they need.
- Laggy: Network latency is noticeable so we need to carefully minimize round-trips.
- Asynchronous: Especially with >2 input sources (UIs count) all sorts of races and edge cases can happen and need to be thought about and handled.
- Mismatched: It’s often not possible to upgrade all systems atomically, so you need to handle different ends speaking different protocol versions.
- Untrusted: If you don’t want everything to be taken down by one malfunction you need to defend against invalid inputs and being overwhelmed. Sometimes you also need to defend against actual attackers.
- Pipes: Everything gets packed as bytes so you need to be able to (de)serialize your data.
It’s tough to know how to deal with all of these simultaneously - the mismatched bullet has me troubled.
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If you want to start this movement, I’m on board. It just feels right to say this. And I think you can say this in conversation as well. “Please, if while I am talking, you suddenly never want to talk to me again, just stop me and click on my face and I will go away.”
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If you don’t ever want to hear from me ever again, turn away from the screen and begin walking as far as you can.
I have a pile of silly things I am wrapping up - hypertext projects, GIF ideas and unfinished interviews. But one side project that I have been unable to land is a type of ‘inverse interview’. I get halfway into it - and the first half should be the hard part, by the way - and then the whole thing disappears!
How the interview works is - someone e-mails me a desperate plea to contribute to my blog - in a voice that almost reads like an automated marketing e-mail.
I then reply that, no, they are not desperate - I am the desperate one. I truly want to interview them![1] And I attach my questions right there - to make it easy for them.
At that point, inexplicably, I never hear from them again.
Here is a recent e-mail from ‘Ginny’. I’m hoping that, if I publish the exchange here, then you out there can help me figure out how to fix this.
From: Ginny <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject:I’d love to contribute a guest post
Date: Thursday, May 07, 2020 1:04 PMHello,
I would love to contribute a guest post. May I pitch you some ideas?
p.s. let me know if you want to see samples of my writing or anything else to help you make the decision
BR,
Ginny, Content Strategist @ storytelling.delivery
The CAN-SPAM act of 2003 compliance:
Address: 525 3rd Street N. Jacksonville Beach, Florida 32250
If you don’t want to hear from me ever again, reply with “no” or follow the link:
Her wish is my command.
From: Kicks Condor <[email protected]>
To: Ginny <[email protected]>
Subject: Re:I’d love to contribute a guest post
Date: Thursday, May 07, 2020 4:09 PMGinny -
I would love for you to contribute a guest post. Go ahead and send it! As part of your post, I also would like your answers to the following questions.
Your website is storytelling.delivery. I love this idea! What sort of delivery options do you have for your stories?
You are a content strategist. Is doing guest posts one of your strategies? Or is it just a fun thing that you like to do?
Have you had any supernatural experiences in your life?
At the end of your e-mails, the final line is “If you don’t want to hear from me ever again, reply with ‘no’ or follow the link.” It was very jarring to read this at the end - the thought hadn’t occurred to me that perhaps I should shut you down and banish you and your e-mails to some faraway quadrant. It made me feel awful to read. But perhaps I don’t quite understand the tone of this sentence. Are you saying it in a humble, grateful way? Or is this sentence supposed to sound bitter and harsh, so as to make me feel inhuman if I click the link?
Good to hear from you!
- kicks c
After this - silence.
On the other hand, it’s only been 13 days. She could still be crafting something very wonderful and surprising.
Here’s one that I’ve been working on for eight months now.
From: Watchideas <[email protected]>
To: k[email protected]
Subject: Great Article About Wristwatches!
Date: Friday, August 23, 2019 12:02 PMHi real quick message for you,
It’s Julian here from Watchideas, a site dedicated to wristwatches.
I noticed that in your article https://www.kickscondor.com/ you referenced http://507movements.com/ who were talking about Watch Movements. I actually wrote a very similar article recently with tons of research and great information that I thought might be useful to your readers, and wondered if you would be interested in linking to it at all?[2]
You can check it out here https://www.watchideas.com/watch-movements-differences-between-mechanical-quartz/
I’d love to hear your feedback!
Thanks,
Julian
Julian B.
Watchideas.com
Your Trusted Source for Wrist WatchesJust click here if you don’t want any more emails from me.
Julian then presses me again, before I can reply.
From: Watchideas <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Great Article About Wristwatches!
Date: Tuesday, August 27, 2019 10:31 PMHey me again,
Checking in super quick.
Did you get the chance to check this out?
I’d love to work with you on this. If you’re not interested then perhaps we could collaborate in a different way, I could even write a guest post or something for you if you like?
Thanks,
Julian
Julian B.
Watchideas.com
Your Trusted Source for Wrist WatchesJust click here if you don’t want any more emails from me.
Ok ok! Yes, Julian. Yes, I will take some. I will take some watch ideas.
From: Kicks Condor <[email protected]>
To: Watchideas <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Great Article About Wristwatches!
Date: Wednesday, August 28, 2019 1:07 AMHi - hey Julian B. Sorry to just now reply. My site is just a personal blog - and, unfortunately, I have no interest in wristwatches or product sales.
However, since you are so eager, I would love to interview you, if that would be cool. If you’re interested, please reply to these questions, and we can continue the conversation from there.
I’m afraid I don’t like watches, so what else do you think we could discover that we have in common?
As a watch enthusiast, what is your favorite time of day?
Do you believe in ghosts?
At the end of your e-mails, the final line is “Just click here if you don’t want any more emails from me.” It was very jarring to read this at the end - the thought hadn’t occurred to me that perhaps I should shut you down and banish you and your e-mails to some faraway quadrant. But perhaps I don’t quite understand the tone of this sentence. Are you saying it in a humble, grateful way? Or is this sentence supposed to sound bitter and harsh, so as to make me feel inhuman if I click the link?
That is ok for now. Thank you and nice to meet you!
- kicks
Since he followed up with me, I felt to extend the same courtesy.
From: Kicks Condor <[email protected]>
To: Watchideas <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Great Article About Wristwatches!
Date: Monday, November 11, 2019 12:09 PMJulian -
Hey, I’m quite surprised I didn’t hear back from you. You seemed very eager to collaborate. Do you think I’m toying with you or something? Because I’m quite serious about interviewing you.
I understand if you don’t trust me or are somehow intimidated. We just don’t know each other at all.
Either way, good luck.
- kicks
Ginny, Julian - I am serious. I would like to interview you. I am concerned that my e-mails somehow came off as condescending or something. I agree that they are flippant - but that is just for fun. I still want to have a conversation with you.
I also believe that their initial requests were sincere. There are touches of personality in those e-mails that I have fallen for. I don’t believe that this is spam, even though it may have been sent through automated e-mail software of some kind. (Thus the “if you never want to hear from me again” jargon - but even that evokes some humanity. Oh the pity those words stir within me.)
But perhaps I am merely attempting to will these people, their replies and their watch ideas into existence…
One thing is for sure though. I not going to click some link to make you go
away forever.
It’s the perfect match. ↩︎
This is true. I know for sure that I have linked to 507movements.com in the Bodies/Primitive category on href.cool. ↩︎
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Good link, good link. Going to have to add these to my list of fave animal cams here: href.cool/Bodies/Animal/. Way to keep this thread alive, Neil.
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Don’t see what’s wrong with emailed comments. But yeah - I do appreciate Webmentions. I get a lot out of them!
However, if the IndieWeb is just a suite of protocols, then I don’t see it as being quite as important to me as an ‘indie web’ - a collection of homegrown web sites and wikis that may not share any protocols outside of basic hypertext.
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Oh I absolutely agree! I get a lot out of Webmentions. It’s more of a focus thing. I think the Indieweb is becoming synonymous with its protocols - moreso than, say, the Homebrew Website Club, which just feels like a more vital project to me. The human side.
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Portal to an alternate 1982 made from obscure YouTube playlists.
All credit to chameleon for this discovery. Novas is a cyberpunk rock opera by Nate Cull, all planned out in hypertext - and perfect for the quarantined audience - there is no theatre for us to go to. But this circumvents that, staging the scenes directly in your mind. You queue up the playlists in the background and then return to the text to read the storyline.
I’m not going to say much more about the story - if you’re really curious, you should go head straight over.
It just sort of came out of my subconscious, because most of this music is what I heard in the 1980s as a kid, and it always seemed like there must be some kind of backstory to all these strange people dressing like scientists and singing about nuclear war, space, and living inside computers. When I rediscovered this music in the mid-2010s, somehow the suspicion grew on me that I could write a story out of all these found components. And so this is that story, for that kid in the 1980s.
Novas (so far) spans around twenty playlists and accompanying blog posts. The whole thing is a great reminder of what can be done to make Wordpress into a wiki-like system.[1] (I love the layout of Nate’s home page.)
This project happened on Wordpress (and YouTube). And I’m not sure there’s anything that millions of lines of code in our ‘modern’ platforms could do to augment it. I could definitely see this happening on Reddit - maybe Twitter, in some limited fashion - but definitely not on Facebook or Instagram. But, in many ways, these systems do the opposite - they would constrain the experience of this.
I struggle to sort out why we’ve pushed ourselves further away from hypertext, particularly since browsers continue to give the form more power. Novas is an example of the creativity that can emerge simply by using tools to form connections - to link audio and text together in a new fashion.
This feels somewhere between interactive fiction, mp3 blogging and nostalgic fanfic. (I might as well call it a directory of links while I’m here!) If anyone out there has had aspirations to dabble with making fun hypertext, there is a lot to spring off from here.
I’m also an instant Martha and the Muffins fan. ‘Echo Beach’ is a sick track! ↩︎
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Chris Aldrich, h0p3, Neil Mather, Anne-Laure and others on the wiki/blog connection.
Just been playing this in the background like it’s AM radio. Cool station. It’s really cool that Chris Aldrich put this together!
I fall right in line with h0p3’s main comments here. He’s the daddy of this.
One of the things that I have found, in practice, is that human curation and human moderation seems to be at the heart of what we have to do. You can give me as many automated tools as you want, but I’m still the one that has to choose what’s going to go in my wiki and how I’m going to authorize other users to modify it.
He then talks about keeping the master record for Hypertext 2020.
I do it by hand. And I like that I get to do it by hand, because there’s a lot of scenarios in which I am not even sure how to automate it. So it’s best to do it manually.
I think this is one of the best messages for the Indieweb community to hear, because there are more and more protocols cropping up as part of the Indieweb suite. But Hypertext 2020 was a big realization for me that Webmentions are often not necessary and may even limit the scope of our conversations.
What’s more: I have a suspicion that people retreat into protocol work to escape from the human work that must be done. And there’s no getting around it: we should learn to better work in this medium and we are really resisting having to confront it. (I see Twitter and Facebook and such as poor tools and as mere escapes from the work that could be done.)
What if the Indieweb is not Webmentions? What if it is simply the work of reading and writing to each other?
I initially found Hibs’ comment about seeing a ‘macro view’ of the Web off-putting at first - but I think that she did good work explaining it and I think she has a great point! Her thought (around the 2hr mark) is that aggregrators like Indieweb.xyz, as they become flooded with input, become less useful at the micro level and become more useful at the macro level.
What I find off-putting is that this macro view is often used to discover trends or something. (Which is stupid to me.) But her comparison to Every Noise at Once clarifies it.
I think the macro view can be useful to discover new pockets of activity - and therefore to discover new people at the micro level. In fact, unless you are capable of forming a macro view - and of having many subgroups within an aggregator - I think it’s possible that you can’t really discover! Because if you’re only ‘discovering’ within a micro level, well, maybe you’re at a level where everything is already adjacent.
These are my really poorly written thoughts. But I think her point opened my mind a lot and I appreciate that.
h0p3 has a killer quote at 2:19:30:
I see the wiki as a story-telling device that reuses older stories to reconstruct new ones; if it is a memory palace or garden, it’s an evolving one, toward externalizing the relationship between our sensibilities and cognition (for the sake of something else). We are the kinds of creatures that tell ourselves the stories of ourselves and our Phenomenology. I want to speak to automated versions of myself (even for autosuggestions, dialectical argumentation, exploring the world) and to use those kinds of tools to pick out what is salient on the web.
He then goes on to talk about using ‘gunky’ tags to create hierarchies. (Aka ‘directories’ - and, again, I’m seeing how directories too mesh the macro/micro views for discovery purposes.)
I’m just so with him: our work is to use woefully inadequate (but flexible enough) tools - think of how TiddlyWiki, Webmentions, hypertext, it could all be so much better technologically - but these straightforward ‘gunky’ tools leave enough room for personal human work - to cobble together our own systems to map our stories onto.
And I do think that part of the problem with so many of our modern tools is that they do too much work perhaps! Such that they leave no room for personal work. (In other words, as h0p3 puts it: “the heart of what we have to do.”)
I like Chris’ point about Stonehenge being the first wiki. It’s not that it’s a kind of left-field observation. I think that we understand better the work we do now by realizing that Stonehenge wasn’t just a work of art or an artifact for them - it hadn’t achieved that status while it was coming together.
Just as philosopher.life is still coming together and even h0p3 doesn’t know what it is yet - sure you can describe it as art or as an interesting artifact - but I think that it’s actually more about a human projecting oneself into this beautiful object that can be immortal in a way that a person cannot.
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@chameleon: Just want to say that I ran across your comment about being ‘scolded’ in h0p3’s ht2020 page. I’m not sure what I said - but I’d rather just apologize than not bother looking into it. I’m sorry - I don’t know what I said, but I definitely don’t want you to feel scolded.
I also love your ‘former friends’ page - particularly that you encourage them to contact you - but also that you characterize them in exaggerated ways. It makes them into these goddesses (or maybe waifus even!) with these bold attributes - such as the Goddess of Blaming Terrorism on Encryption. It’s a great idea for a page.
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Prime example of using a group directory as a kind of conversation/movement.
I’m seeing a ton of ad-hoc directories springing up in response to COVID-19. Some are directly related - such as Alicia Neptune’s pandemic page or this mask page and this page.[1] But, in this case, you have a situation where the board game printing pipeline is backed up - and people are also stuck at home - so these groups are reaching out to each other by building a giant directory of free games that can be printed out.[2]
There are a few extraordinary properties of this particular directory here though:
I also got into going through some of the lesser-known designers in this list and found myself in some unexpected places.
Truly nothing beats directories when it comes to discovery. You can find yourself tunneling all around the Internet. The most important part is to have contributors who are in a variety of places across the graph - and to find ways to shape it that are able to highlight all the starting points without allowing any of them to take over.
I’m not endorsing these links, I’m not able to evaluate them - I’m just presenting a small sampling of the different types of directories that are everywhere right now. ↩︎
This might seem like a terribly paltry and pointless response to a deadly pandemic, but I think people are trying to do whatever it is that they can do. And providing people with a group effort to put their energies is something. ↩︎
Not only is there no algorithm here, there is only very light human editing to weed out spam. So the only whiff of human curation are the comments of those who report back on games they’ve played. ↩︎
For example, if you used Webmentions to notify an append-only log that your page should be attached to this running stream of hypertext. ↩︎
These types of games are also very practical for video call gaming. Usually you can have one person roll and everyone else can mark up their own printed sheets. ↩︎
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Hey - just want to say that ur doorbell ding here got me working on Bandcamp support in Fraidycat. Missed the mark of that day by a mile - still appreciated the ding. fraidyc.at/blog/fraidycat-1.1.3-fat-cat-inbound
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Hey, great work! Keep it up - this page is turning out rad. (Also a nice history in a way.) I’ve added this to href.cool/Bodies/Isolated.
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Because there are acres of web standards. I’m glad you brought this one up tho! Definitely using this.
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Oh she put a password on her pages and I don’t know what it is. I’ve tried the obvious ones.
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Don’t worry - there’s a limit on the page so that if it gets shared more than
three times, it’ll zoom too far out for people to read.
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Okie - here’s my DOUBLE_SIZED HrefHunt for March. Love ‘the digital diarist’ by @alicianeptune and the minimalist mixtapes by ‘quadhome’. As always: kickscondor.com/hrefhunt
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This has got to be a bug or misclassification. I cannot conceive why a FEED would
block a FEED READER??
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Experience the adrenaline rush of downloading and installing it as many times as you like!
Holy hell - Nathalie Lawhead is at it again. Expanding her ‘Mackerelmedia’ joke from Electric Zine Maker into its own thing. Gotta say - it’s crazy the mileage this one gets out of potatoes and fish.
I’m simply obligated to link this - because it glimmers with the true affection and pity that any reader of this blog must have for the Whirled Whipped Web.
YOU TRAVEL DEEPER INTO THE DARKER PART OF THE FEED. AS YOU REACH FOR A PIECE OF INFORMATION THAT SEEMS TO LOOK PROMISING PART OF THE FEED THAT YOU ARE STANDING ON GIVES OUT.
YOU FALL FAR, PAST WHAT SEEMS TO BE DOZENS OF RSS ENTRIES DESCRIBING HOW FISH WENT MISSING. PORTIONS OF COMMUNITY COMMENTS BEMOANING THE SUDDEN DISAPPEARANCE OF FISH, AND SOME SPECULATION AS TO WHERE THE FISH WENT…ALL ZOOM BY. YOU FINALLY HIT THE GROUND. THE FLOOR IS STABLE HERE, UNFORTUNATELY IT’S JUST AS DARK. YOU CAN BARELY SEE ANYTHING.
YOU DID LEARN A LOT FROM THE FALL: FISH WAS ONCE LOVED. ONE DAY FISH DISAPPEARED AND NOBODY KNOWS WHERE IT WENT. THERE ARE SPECULATIONS THAT YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO FIND FISH IF YOU LOOK IN THE RIGHT PLACES…TRACES OF WHERE FISH MAY HAVE GONE HOVER AHEAD, IN THE DARKEST PART OF THE FEED. IT’S FEARFULLY DARK THERE. IT SEEMS VERY UNSAFE.
There are also dozens of strange Apache error pages and HTML fake outs. I couldn’t help but feel that browsers have crippled Nathalie tho - what if she had the full palette of crazy popup windows and window resizing tricks of the past??
THE ‘GO BACK…’ LINK FALLS TO THE FLOOR. IT WILL SERVE AS A FINE MORSEL FOR THE VIRTUAL VERMIN. SUCH IS THE BITTER SWEET LIFECYCLE OF A WEBSITE.
Related: an actual Mackerel Media Digital
Marketing.
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Oh I think the Web is even cooler now, Michael - as much of the culture warring has mostly moved from the ‘blogophere’ to the social networks. The other aspect is that browsers and tooling has matured. Other great projects are @beakerbrowser and @glitch. Good to meet you!
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Feels like rebooting of the ‘essay’ form by baking it with stuffed crust or something. Interleaving of guest spots is a dope approach. Nice one!
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Just a basic desktop site with farm_boy.jpeg and such.
I mentioned to syxanash earlier that I hadn’t run across any computer desktop-inspired web sites lately - and then this one happened to turn up today.[1] (And BTW - syxanash was showing the Denzel Curry site - also amazing. Smoking Clippy and the trippy Windows XP phantasms.)
Kalil’s site is very simple, but it feels inviting the moment you hit it. I don’t know about you, but I think the desktop metaphor evokes this feeling of comfort. Feels like his website is my personal desktop. Or that I’ve logged onto someone else’s and it gets me curious about what’s in the folders.
Anyway, I think this is a new minimalism for this form of website. No boot screens or draggable windows. But still has the icons in disarray. And the file extensions. That’s good enough.
Incidentally, I know I’ve already linked to simone.computer quite a lot, but this new page is such a solid collection - and is just a kickass layout. I have to pass it on. ↩︎
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Heya - don’t have much to say. Just wanted to hit your mentions and see if they work. It was very good to meet you today. I actually just saw the po.ta.to link you shared. Keep it up.
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Glorious sticker art and pixel recreations of real estate listings - by Bianca Hockensmith.
Discovered this site today on the Fraidycat Funtime stream[1]. I was looking through special.fish and found Bianca. In a way, this sticker art (the ‘past.present.with.stickers’ collection) feels extremely covid-19 to me, because it’s like a layer removed from reality. Actually it reminds me of kids putting stickers on a glass door - or yeah kids also do it with sticky semitranslucent slime-type shapes - and so it transforms these outdoor images into indoor images. A pleasantly trapped sensation - do you know what I mean?
The meandering essays on pop culture and animal observations - they feel reminiscent of Unimaginable Heights, such as this one on ‘yellow shows’:
There are some TV Shows that I consider to be yellow shows. Yellow shows aren’t necessarily yellow in color but they are definitely yellow in feeling and spirit. For example, Sabrina the Teenage Witch is a yellow show. Actually most shows that star Melissa Joan Hart are yellow shows even though she really doesn’t seem like an overly yellow person.
Yellow shows are all very mindless and watchable. They are upbeat, use non-funny humor, and are non-offensive.
The expression ‘non-funny humor’ is for keeps.
She goes on to explain how ‘yellow’ television could be generated by neural networks.
The hosts don’t always have to be human either. The host can be generated according to what the viewer finds the most soothing or most horrible. For example, I would choose a house cat to host a show like House Hunters. I could choose the location of the hunt which could be based on an actual place or an invented environment. If I want to look at homes near the fracking trash water in Denton, TX, hosted by Donna Dresch, I can submit that info into the program. Because the results would be so terrifying, I’m beginning to think that these wouldn’t necessarily be yellow shows. More like yellow with red stripes shows. Forget everything I’ve ever said.
This is amazing! I could have myself be the host as well as the guests. Me helping me build a condo in the Dakota plains. I would have to be patient with myself through that arduous fireplace selection phase. And Sherlock could show up and the character Deuces from the book Clone Codes.
There is also a page of Microsoft Excel art. She also offers to send an mp3 to anyone who emails her. Seems like a great way to stock up on free mp3s.
In a way, this site feels like an ad-hoc wiki. I like the concept. Throw HTML files in some frames and you can just begin to build a collection from there. (Although the frames are divs - you could do this whole site as a single page. I like that it is PHP, however - which stirs up fond feelings of the late 2000s.)
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@h0p3: i live to please unreasonable digital assholes! now if everyone will face their digital assholes this direction, i can mention a few things.
The thing you’re calling ‘multifeeds’ is what I’ve been calling ‘bundles’ - see issue #21. I think I like your term there, brother.
Your import/exporting/sharing shit is on point. I’ll get there, I will. If I don’t, then don’t bring this promise up ever again.
Re: Opera. I use Vivaldi, so I’m not far from you.
Re: full browser. You’re dead on. This is why I’m hoping Beaker v2 comes together. Then this could just be an app for Beaker. (It originally was.) But yeah, the desktop apps are basically that.[1]
‘New Tag Start Page’?? Explain.
Re: tabs. Good points, no response. I owe you a gummi beer.
Re: media feeds. This is my #1 right now. I’m pouring time into a richer design. Without going overboard. (Wrench t-shirt to squeeze out a bucket of sweat.)
You’ll always be my madman of choice.
Interesting that you’re saying that now, given that you originally really wanted self-hosted, no? I get so many requests for that - but I still don’t get it. (I mean I get it - but not reeeeally.) ↩︎
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oh you will always be one of the great web explorers of your time. everyone who reads your plea knows this bc of the unprecedented journey one must undertake to live their life such that they can discover you, tv.
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It’s basically: ‘real-time’ is every few minutes, ‘rarely’ once a day. I am working on bandwidth - should be minimal for RSS feeds, more intense for Twitter or Instagram. Still, even once an hour for most things is minimal.
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Calling @sphygmus…
(This is a much better question for @sphygmus, who seems to have a dope Webmention setup for her TiddlyWiki.)
I’ve been keeping my TiddlyWiki on Dropbox. I know this isn’t very Indieweb
anointed - but it can be! Just name the wiki index.html
and then:
Or you can make the folder public on Dropbox and - I don’t know - put a CDN in front of it or mirror it somehow. Hopefully someone can pitch in better ideas than mine - just thought this could get the ideas going.
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I would like puzzles showing a variety of empty toilet paper aisles which have been ransacked around the world
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glitchyowl, the future of 'people'.
jack & tals, hipster bait oracles.
maya.land, MAYA DOT LAND.
hypertext 2020 pals: h0p3 level 99 madman + ᛝ ᛝ ᛝ — lucid highly classified scribbles + consummate waifuist chameleon.
yesterweblings: sadness, snufkin, sprite, tonicfunk, siiiimon, shiloh.
surfpals: dang, robin sloan, marijn, nadia eghbal, elliott dot computer, laurel schwulst, subpixel.space (toby), things by j, gyford, also joe jenett (of linkport), brad enslen (of indieseek).
fond friends: jacky.wtf, fogknife, eli, tiv.today, j.greg, box vox, whimsy.space, caesar naples.
constantly: nathalie lawhead, 'web curios' AND waxy
indieweb: .xyz, c.rwr, boffosocko.
nostalgia: geocities.institute, bad cmd, ~jonbell.
true hackers: ccc.de, fffff.at, voja antonić, cnlohr, esoteric.codes.
chips: zeptobars, scargill, 41j.
neil c. "some..."
the world or cate le bon you pick.
all my other links are now at href.cool.
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This is definitely a difficult problem - particularly if you want to somehow weave lots of custom styled hypertext together. But I feel that not a lot has been attempted yet.
One thing that’s interesting to me is to see how many people customize their Tiddlywikis. It seems like many static site generators have ‘good enough’ styles. (It also may not be clear how to tweak the default themes.) However, Tiddlywiki has such a bland basic theme that one immediately wants to go beyond it. So perhaps having poor defaults is good for a platform.
I also think whostyles - the concept for this came from Sphygmus’ wiki - show some promise. At least let people style some part of their post colors, fonts, outlines. This could be done successfully on Reddit - though perhaps they would limit the color palettes and font choices if they didn’t want readability to suffer.
Not really sure the answer to all of this. But thanks for the thoughtful comment!