I may be contrarian, but I don’t like likes. I don’t think much about them on any of my social networks, although I acknowledge their existence.
If you want to give me feedback, write a blog post and send me a link.
Ask yourself, why are Michigan Republican legislators proposing these bills now when they could have done so earlier this year, or last year, or years before?
By their actions you see which party favors power and which favors democracy.
My lunch time view. Getting the Christmas mood.
And we as citizens should absolutely not just given in to any politician. We have the obligation to demand that they convince us and to earn our trust, which frankly requires a skill set and the experience that Trump does not have.
The user experience with Federated Wiki is different than what most people have with web pages. First, Federated Wiki is a web application and its “pages” are smaller and appear to the right within the same browser tab. The result is that you can see trial of pages as you click links within a wiki. (External links load pages in a new browser tab.)
The question is, do users like this different navigation and presentation model? Prior generation wiki follows the traditional web page model.
The Packers have fired Mike McCarthy, which given they will not make the playoffs, is in my opinion the remaining best outcome for this season.
I am a long critic of McCarthy. I don’t like how he contributed to running Brett Farve out of town. The team has clearly regressed in the last few years and while there has been a depletion of talent, McCarthy did not adjust well the personnel that was available.
Did a little more gardening today, updated the Fossil Q Explorist page with an observation on what I think is triggering the freeze/long resumption issue the watch has had ever since installing the H update of Wear OS.
Ford Field has become a field of nightmares for top NFL teams. 🏈
Should I pick up this tight end playing for the Lions? Trey Burton is giving me nothing!
It’s in the mid 50s here in southeast Michigan, so I had to go for a walk. Last year on this date I was enjoying the sunshine in Bermuda.
Siri shortcuts has completely stopped working on my iPad.
For me, the conversation feature of the micro.blog apps is what makes it stand apart from other social networks.
Alabama just keeps winning.
Is streaming three different games on three screens at the same too much? Asking for a friend.
Suburban roads are not the right place for turkeys. Not sure if this is Darryl, the West Bloomfield turkey as he would now be a few miles south.
Planting A Garden
A few weeks ago I read The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral by Mike Caulfield and it really resonated with me. In my mind almost all of what I write on the web is part of my own garden, even though I do that writing using blogging tools that are more stream than garden.
One thing that I would add to idea of a garden or stream is structure. I personally like drilling down into a topic, which is why ever since I first experienced hyperlinks and the web it clicked. My affinity toward structure is also why I find outlines appealing.
Chronology (reverse), archives, and permalinks are structures of blogs that I think distinguish it technologically from “regular” web sites. The informal personal voice of blogs is what distinguishes the blog writing style from other writing styles you see on the web.
And yet, blogs writing is also point in time. One writes a blog post, it enters the stream, and beyond perhaps that first day one rarely, if ever, edits or adds to a blog post.
The ongoing revision of a piece of writing is fundamentally what I think Caulfield means by “the garden.” With that paradigm, I created two “projects”, the first being a web page in which I originally wrote about which Chromebook I was going to buy and then continually revised that page as I learned more up until I made my decision. The second project is a new page in which I am recording my experience with using the Pixelbook.
In both instances I created and maintained those pages using jekyll and offline tools like Drafts and Typora, which I find works very well. However, it feels that a wiki is more in tune with the garden concept which is why I have been dabbling with wikis.
Right now, this whole thing is work in progress. I think I favor the offline ability I have with my jekyll and Netlify set up versus in browser editing required by DokuWiki.
I’ve updated my Pixelbook page with a section about running Android and Linux apps.
One annoying thing about running Android apps on the Pixelbook is caused by weather apps that continually display a notification and thus the Pixelbook always show that I have one notification to display. There should be a setting to tell Chrome OS to not count these apps for the notification count.
Are comments about fingerprints really germane to tech reviews?