December 30, 2022

  • One of my favorite Engelbart sayings might relate to the ‘Mastodon is too confusing to learn’ claim. Paraphrasing, he said that if ease of use was the ultimate aim for a tool, the bicycle would never have evolved beyond the tricycle. Howard Rheingold Nov 17th, 2022 mastodon.social #Mastodon #quote #Douglas Engelbart
    • #via Harold Jarche mastodon musings
  • Archive your Tweets with Tweetback, a Twitter/Archive by Zach Leatherman powered by #Eleventy
    • Tweetback looks like it can handle 50K archives like mine
    • And: Tweetback/Canonical maps archives to each other
  • Attempted to install Littlefoot collapsed:: true
    • ((63af89eb-3371-42cb-a4d9-677b0293913e))
    • Copied JS into custom.js
      • Got the pop up on requesting to run it
    • Copied CSS into custom.css
    • Quite a bit of lag on desktop, but not sure if that was from moving files along
    • Removed footnotes on the home page, doesn’t really make sense, may just skip attempting this
  • Experimented with LogSeq/Export CSS
  • Everyone’s Illustrated Primer by Alistair Croll #AI
    • As usual, we aren’t thinking weird enough—both about what’s possible, and about what might go wrong.

      • We worry about someone using AI to write a book, rather than whether we’ll still read books.
      • We worry about AI writing term papers, rather than whether schools will become obsolete.
    • Riffing on the Primer from Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age

  • A discussion on Mastodon/Search
    • Ben Adida has been posting about / asking some pointed questions, like this one about search
    • Derek Powazek shares about the early days at Technorati
      • Talking about search on Mastodon and having flashbacks to when I was the designer for Technorati. There was a beautiful moment there where blogs weren’t indexed by Google and we were building a truly community-centric product, with tag pages and a blog directory and plans for way more. And it all got eaten when Google started indexing blogs. Another moment the fediverse should probably learn from.

        https://xoxo.zone/@fraying/109592997166940512

  • André Staltz on Nostr
    • Pros: simple to implement, uses conventional web technologies, has specifications from day one. Cons: many, so sit tight… https://twitter.com/andrestaltz/status/1608183487550443520
  • 382 public LogSeq graphs listed by looking at what repos depend on logseq-publish #logseq-publish
    • #via @bsunter

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