Spending the afternoon at LCA watching the Michigan Tech Huskies play is becoming at New Year’s Eve tradition.
“Too often we confuse what feels bad to us with what is bad for us. Yet the two are not the same.”
— Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World by Michael Dowd a.co/6wysI2j
What if we celebrated the end of every day like it was New Year’s eve?
“Our Big Picture matters. Indeed, nothing matters more!”
— Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World by Michael Dowd a.co/hGe7i1s
‘The Mandalorian’ Ending Reveals A Core Problem With Disney Plus
I agree with Forbes that beyond ‘The Mandalorian’ Disney+ does not have enough original content right now.
How Atari took on Apple with the Atari 400 and Atari 800 PCs
This is a great story about the Atari personal computers. I bought an Atari 800XL when I was in college and used it along with a VT-100 terminal emulator to write programs for my computer science classes in the late 80s. (Back then most of our programming was done on mainframes and we only really needed a terminal.) After being hired out of college I “upgraded” to an Atari 1040ST, which had a GUI similar to the Mac but cost much less. I will always think fondly of Atari due to its role in my early personal computer days.
I have found Micropublish that suggests it could be used to edit posts given its URL but when I tried to use it to edit the prior post it generated an internal server error. An Implementation Status table on the Indieweb Micropub clients page suggests the “problem” is that micro.blog does not support/expose the delete, undelete, or update actions; the only action it appears you can do from a Micropub client is create.
I notice that OmniBear hasn’t been updated in more than a year so I might start using Micropublish more, it is even possible to self host the app.
Micropub Editing Needs To Improve
Today Dave Winer writes about simplicity of blogging, what he describes as Flow. The idea is to make writing a new blog post as frictionless as possible.
For me it very quick to write and publish a new blog post, I click the OmniBear icon on the Chrome toolbar, write in Content field, and click Post. Boom, I have a new post on my blog.
However, what happens next is a problem. To edit a post I have to go to the micro.blog site and click through many steps rather than see a simple Edit link on the post or the ability to open the post to edit in Bear.
Editing appears to be a weakness of micropub, most likely because its origin is tied to Twitter which has no concept of editing. We need better ways to originate and edit blog posts.
I use River5 as my RSS reader/aggregator and one thing I wish it had is an easy way to see the last date a new item was added to a site that I subscribe to. I like the versatility I get from using web app on a server that I control, but I have to admit that I am intrigued by NetNewsWire given that an iOS version is in beta.
“The church was meant to be an alternative society in the grip of an altogether different story line.”
— The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For, and Believe by Richard Rohr a.co/buTdIsN
If I am not going to see snow on Christmas, then warm sunshine is the next best thing.
The Wealth & Health of Nations
This is a recreation of a Gapminder visualization made famous by Hans Rosling. It shows per-capita income (x), life expectancy (y) and population (area) of 180 nations over the last 209 years, colored by region.
Each bubble is a nation within the colored geographical area and the size of the bubble indicates population.
Commoning is a practice of collaborating and sharing to meet everyday needs and achieve wellbeing, of individuals, communities and lived-in environments.
The primary lesson of incarnation, which is what Christianity celebrates tonight, is that Yahweh is not like other gods! Merry Christmas!
“Mistaking wealth for virtue is a cruelty of our time. By treating poverty as inevitable for parts of the population, and giving impoverished workers no means to rise out of it, America deprives not only them but society as a whole.”
— The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America by Sarah Kendzior a.co/gpTTPZ1
The ducks are enjoying the weather.
I am conflicted. One one hand, beautiful 50 degree plus weather during a week vacation in December is great. On the other hand, it’s Christmas and there should be snow.
Swift for Good – Learn Swift, Change the World
20 well-known authors and speakers are coming together to write an all-new book for Swift developers, but all working for free so that 100% of revenues can be donated to charity.
The donation goes to Black Girls Code. I don’t know what is needed to write Swift, does one need a Mac?
There are many things that I like about hosting my blog on micro.blog, one of the top ones is On This Day, which shows the posts made on a particular day across all the years that I have been writing. It is proving valuable in seeing what I was thinking about or doing over the years.