Plain text files are so underrated.
I managed a respectable 17 out of 30 on my team’s Christmas quiz, but more importantly, I introduced some team members from Spain to Irn-Bru.
Well, TickTick didn’t last very long. Front-end is too busy for my liking.
Side-projects have taken a back seat over the next couple of weeks with the run up to Christmas. Looking forward to getting back to these over the holidays.
I downloaded Glass after seeing it mentioned in my Micro.blog timeline. I like what I see so far, so I will give it a go over the next few weeks and see if it’s something I want to keep going long-term. I do enjoy taking pictures and posting them online.
Me and wee yin out on the course today. It’s the best I’ve seen him play all year. I can’t wait to see his handicap fall next year!
I finally sorted out a dark version of my blog.
It’s not adjustable with the system theme yet, but I liked it so much that I’ve left it on as the default.
Thanks to Toby on CodePen for sharing the Christmas lights!
I managed to migrate a few older photos into my blog archive. Barring one rogue post, 2020 is now complete. I will try to finish 2019 in the next couple of weeks.
The Christmas tree is up!
Blogging is back, again
Joel Gascoigne on the resurgence of blogging. Did it ever leave?
It feels like blogging and personal websites are back. And tinkering and sharing experiments, too.
I suspect this never actually went away, but I think in the absence of a social network based on open standards, it became less interconnected.
It’s wonderful to have a broader gathering place again.
Like Joel says, I am glad to see blogs and personal websites gaining more exposure again and, more importantly, that we’re gathering in places to share our blogs as well. We’re reconnecting with other bloggers once again. We have more places to meet, not just the one.
These days, BlueSky, Micro.blog, and Mastodon are my regular hangout places. They are open meeting places in that they either employ open standards or create open standards to improve social media decentralisation. They have chronological timelines, don’t do ads, and all support RSS feeds.
I’m more than happy to share on these platforms, and I hope that others will continue to as well.