• Tinkering with the site, getting the logs section working. This page on group_by in Liquid is useful. Covers posts grouped by year and month, among other expressions.

  • It’s my birthday. I’m 46 today. Up late tinkering with my blog. And now I’m going to bed. Good night!

  • HuJSON

  • Like @vgr, I created a Clubhouse account so that I didn’t have to keep turning down invites.

  • Create a self-hosted chat service with your own Matrix server, Victoria Drake

    • Dendrite is a Matrix server written in GoLang. This article walks through setting up on an inexpensive VPS.

  • High Lotek - Gemini and the Small Internet

    • A good overview of Gemini by Andrew Roach.

    • It’s a protocol partway between gopher and the web, without tracking, with encryption by default, respectful of users above all else.

    • I like a lot of the principles, and I understand the push back against, shall we say, the “complicated web”. There’s probably some content web vs app web feelings going on here too.

  • Why I Still Use RSS — > However it wasn’t until I began working from home and everything in my life moved online that I really began to notice how beneficial RSS could be with relation to Digital Wellbeing. By selecting only the sites, blogs, creators etc. that I had a serious interest in, I could effectively remove the negative effects of social media and excessive online usage from my life.

    • via Robin Rendle who in turn has some very interesting thoughts in their post.

  • Major surgery on the site, nicely celebrated from almost 24 hours ago :) Yes, working on my blog on my birthday has got to be tradition by now. #BMC

  • What was Journals all got dumped into logs. Which is a collection in Jekyll but I’m going to call them all Journals: more granular daily notes and bookmark postings via IndieKit. The Journal page groups things by day.

  • Somewhere in there, implemented Littlefoot for footnotes, and will mostly remove the Simply Jekyll specific syntax for margin notes, except for design reasons like the home page.