events/2024-10-30-hwc-pacific
Homebrew Website Club - Pacific - Pre-Halloween Edition was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2024-10-30.
- Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2024-10-30-hwc-pacific
Participants
Notes
- https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding
Joe Crawford has removed major tools he was previously using and migrated things and removed a lot of older code which was a maintenance burden
- RSS Reader changed
- moved from Tiny Tiny RSS to FreshRSS https://www.freshrss.org/
- Self-hosted, PHP+MySQL, so far very excellent and am using ReadKit on iPad https://readkit.app/
- Link management system changed
- had a self-hosted homegrown PHP+MySQL which was an old link blog, plus my old delicious links, plus old pinboard links, which partly ingested links from Twitter back in the day
- New tool is Linkding https://linkding.link/ and am processing my 21673 links. Currently 7010, 14662 to go, posting via a simple POST via the REST API with a simple token auth
- I am using https://www.pikapods.com/ PikaPods is on-demand app hosting, very straightforward and inexpensive to run - under $2/month for an on-demand instance
- https://gist.github.com/artlung/15cb9acdf720e5ede9254bd247ccc59b is the code I wrote to submit the links to the REST API
- Blog post about my rationale Owning my own bookmarks over 20 years
- RSS Reader changed
- https://blog.omnivore.app/p/omnivore-is-joining-elevenlabs open source read-it-later app Omnivore is closing on very short notice
"Virus" Program disrupts SUNYA Computer System - Albany Times-Union, Apr 21 1988: https://timesunion.newsbank.com/doc/news/0FB5DDA1F9F4E2BE?pdate=1988-04-21 (May ask for signup. Don't sign up, just click "I agree", paste the above URL again and load the page.) - Mike K's young & disreputable misadventures. NB Stephen Rogowski, quoted moralizing in article, was jailed 4 years later for embezzling from the school
- BlueSky moderation lists
- ClearSky https://clearsky.app/ shows who is blocking specific users
- https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/24/24278666/bluesky-working-on-premium-subscription paid subscriptions on BlueSky
- https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andreagrimes/the-flytrap-bringing-back-the-feminist-blog kickstarter for subscription to newsletter by a collective of authors
- https://defector.com/defector-annual-report-year-four
- https://kottke.org/24/10/hyperlinks-the-open-web-and-a-membership-appeal
- https://www.justapack.com/how-google-is-killing-bloggers-and-small-publishers-and-why/
- https://build.shepherd.com/p/hi-google-please-stop-the-bed-a-desperate
"Axolotl" pronounciation, according to r/Axolotls (which, being Reddit, is always right, per Google): https://www.reddit.com/r/axolotls/comments/qd3i85/did_you_know_that_axolotl_is_actually_pronounced/
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/05/24/tech/cher-scarlett-facial-recognition-trauma/index.html
Tree maps
- https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zfP5TprAFIuc.keJ82_3oGnGU
- https://data.edmonton.ca/Environmental-Services/Trees-Map/udbt-eiax
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borrowed_scenery