A good rule to keep online debate constructive is “play the ball, not the man”. If you attack the poster, not the ideas, you’re playing the man.
Mullenweg’s response to DHH is pure playing the man, not the ball.
https://ma.tt/2024/10/on-dhh/
This is the problem with AI:
“AI can help you create this” is a successful marketing message
“This was created with AI!” isn’t
Far more people want to create with AI than want to consume the results.
Set up author attribution on Mastodon on my Ghost blogs, based on this handy guide.
It’s basically just setting up the meta tag using Ghost’s Code Injection settings, and then adding the domains in Mastodon.
https://rknight.me/blog/setting-up-mastodon-author-tags/
Hey, random guy on Threads. I’ve only been managing large scale blog platform installs on and off for two decades now. I really need you to come and lecture me on how I should chose a platform.
I week ago I was just glad I didn’t use WordPress for any of my sites.
Now? I’m wondering if I need to plan to migrate the journalism department’s sites in the near future.
Well, this is profoundly worrying:
"Global wildlife populations have plunged by an average of 73% in 50 years, a new scientific assessment has found, as humans continue to push ecosystems to the brink of collapse."
https://apple.news/Af199A8QETRmHTApKdMdW3g
"The best way I’ve found of preventing photos from looking too digital is to make them with film."
— @jbaty@social.lol
I still have a film camera. One day I shall use it again. One day.
https://micro.blog/jbaty@social.lol
It’s probably fair to say that I love blogging so much that if everybody else gave it up, I’d still continue.
It’d be less fun, obviously. But still worthwhile.
Brits: Adventurous Ink, a great book club that sends you books on nature, adventure - and reconnecting with each other and reclaiming our attention — has a relaunch Kickstarter that’s struggling to meet its target.
Please do check it out, and consider backing.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/217171643/adventurous-re-think/
I sometimes wish I had made photography a bigger part of my professional life. The only time I really get to do it is when I’m doing event liveblogging. And sometimes that turns into gig photography.
I have blogs. I should do more photography projects.
https://www.coffeeandcomplexity.com/alli-neumann-opening-next24/
Beardy Guy
"Appreciate and take care of your devices. Take pleasure in their longevity. If they get the job done, keep using them. This is the way."
Still happily rocking an iPhone 13 Pro. Not feeling any urgency to upgrade.
https://beardystarstuff.net/linked/2024-09-25.html
Spot on from @moonmehta:
"You don’t have to leave X if you don’t want to for some reason but please take some effort to widen your horizons and connect with diverse people at places you can better control. Blog, Mastodon, Bluesky, etc."
https://micro.blog/moonmehta
"A bird is a poem with wings."
Jeremy Hughes in the essay A Risca Boy’s Birds from Going to Ground, an Anthology of Nature and Place edited by Jon Woolcott 📚
https://micro.blog/books/9781915068347
This sums up exactly what I’m feeling as summer wanes:
"The end of summer seems like a more significant marker of the passing of time than any other point in the year - another chance to live our best lives slips away, like liquid gold running through our fingers. Did we make the most of it? Did we grasp the opportunity with enough enthusiasm?"
Did we?
https://miscellaneousadventures.substack.com/p/the-most-melancholic?r=2hwy&triedRedirect=true
Lloyd on approaching 20 years of blogging:
I’ve definitely put in a few “10,000 hours”—probably on multiple aspects of creating social media. And by “social media” I just mean media that is social, not just the microblogging, photo-sharing, social network platforms that people think of now. I’ve been doing this for twenty years, man. If I have to point to something I can’t stop doing, it’s writing silly stories on the internet.
https://perfectpath.co.uk/2024/08/30/august-30th-2024-morning-notes/
Manuel Moreale on a better web:
That is the web I’m arguing for. A web that is intentional, where what you consume is curated by you and you alone, where connections with others happen because you made the conscious effort to connect.
https://manuelmoreale.com/the-social-web
Just experienced my first aviation go-around as our EasyJet flight landed at Gatwick. The sudden return to the air wasn’t too bad - the successssion of children vomiting as a result was less easy.
Started reading: A Countryman’s Summer Notebook by Adrian Bell 📚— working my way through these four seasonal collections, in the appropriate season…
https://micro.blog/books/9781910898888
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