Monkinetic Weblog

@pixel Also you got me posting on Twitter and now I feel so dirty

@pixel I hear you, but I feel like we have so many of those. I miss working in actual “Mac” apps sometimes. I’d like to have something like Drafts, with a post list, and a live “preview” that rendered the post I’m editing with the blog’s styles.

One button push to publish.

@pixel I just like the idea of not having to edit in one app, and upload in another. However there are some nice markdown apps like @draftsapp, so :shrug:

@pixel Mac app to compose and manage posts, render to disk or s3 or what have you - I’d use it.

RT @tehviking: @the_thagomizer I’ve noticed that overall, my generalist background is a massive liability in interviews and a massive benef…

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You c…

RT @noahchestnut: 👇 why do political campaigns still rely on Medium as a publishing tool? Credibility? Additional distribution? Ease of use…

@bitprophet Don't ask me how often I search python datetime formatting

when in doubt, shut up #selftalk

@duretti congrats!

@ErutorOfEve These are good thoughts, thank you!

Any tips for interviewing your engineering manager's replacement #headscratch

@mathowie Or a BioWare game

@draftsapp Whaaaaah? That’s amazing

New @draftsapp feature I’d like to see: insert date or time stamp

(With apologies to Monty Python)

After a couple of weeks of renewed tech posting, I've been doing holiday stuff for a couple of days, and now I'm "hacking my house(#DIY-ing). Here's the evidence:

My 14yo and I positioning a rough-hewn beam which will be a shelf in my new office.

And the final touches:

Chris Krycho wrote a thoughtful post about the state of browser development and web standards, and as developers, the tendency sometimes to see Chrome as the standard for what features browsers should be supporting. Chrome is not the Standard:

> Over the past few years, I've increasingly seen articles with headlines that run something like, "New Feature Coming To the Web"— followed by content which described how Chrome had implemented an experimental new feature. "You’ll be able to use this soon!" has been the promise.

> These are tradeoffs, plain and simple. Chrome ships new features fast, but they're not always stable and they often have performance costs. Safari ships new features on a much slower cadence, but they're usually solid and always perform incredibly well.

> That's what makes the web so great, even when it makes things move more slowly. Sometimes — often, even! — moving more slowly not in the experimental phase but in the finalizing phase makes for a much better outcome overall.

Fellow #webnerds, it's a good read.

Kevin Marks asks "is DiSo back?" I hadn't thought about it, but...

Damn straight #DiSo is back.

Not necessarily the project, but the ideas? Absolutely. As we begin to see the Silos we created for what they are, some are building the tools to re-colonize the Open Web. Are you publishing online? Do you own your own content? Are you sure? Or are you dependent on Twitter and Facebook - the #silo sites - of the world to carry (and monetize) your writing, your activities, your family photos?

I know I still am in many ways. It's just so easy. But easy leads to exploitation. So tie your shoes, button your coat, and get to work:

• IndieWeb
• Webmention
• POSSE
• IndieAuth
• Mastodon
• Aardwolf

10 years ago: Will Norris, Chris Messina, Stephen Paul Weber and I launched a little thing called The DiSo Project. DiSo stood for "distributed social" and at the time was based on OpenID, XFN, and blogs (Twitter just launched the year before and wasn't much on our radar).

10 years later, we have IndieWeb, Activity Streams, ActivityPub, WebMention, and even an open, decentralized alternative to Twitter.

It took longer then we thought it would, but it's happening.

Designing an open Facebook alternative (outline), Jason F. McBrayer.

> I meant to be writing a couple of blog posts on Mastodon. But a thread on Mastodon led me to start thinking about Mastodon:Twitter::X:Facebook. There have been a few alternatives that haven’t really gone anywhere, which is kind of unfortunate, but perhaps they were just too early. And I was thinking about what we’d want today.

(I need about 3 hours to process and comment on this, so go read it and think amongst yourselves)