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Notes

Since 2015 this section has gathered my casual notes intended as a means of bookmarking or sharing things of interest. For longer writings please visit the essays section.

IndieWeb Carnival Jan ’25 round-up
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Statamic Webmentions v2.0
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Moving from iA Writer to BBEdit
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The Contrarians
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One-a-month club
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Webmentions add-on for Statamic
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Website v app
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Drama at WordPress
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That picture
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IndieWeb Carnival Jan ’25
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AI-generated images on the web
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On coffee and Satan
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The disappearance of literary men
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Robert Paxton: Fascism renewed
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Will the US elect a woman?
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Carl Hoffman on Michael Rockefeller’s disappearance
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A note on my absence
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Erik Hoel on AI ‘garbage’
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Guinea pigs and trailblazers
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Emacs packages
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Formulating backlashes
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Getting into the world of emacs
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Default apps (2024)
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The theme switcher conundrum
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Bill chill
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All academic disciplines should should use LaTeX
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Nolan v Reeves
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I will read it
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Rock music from 1984
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Religious intolerance in India
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Peggy McIntosh on white privilege
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“Carrie” by VocalType
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Rules for writing fiction
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It’s time AI crawlers are forced to accept terms of use on all websites
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NYT suing OpenAI is a good thing
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Are State-sponsored ride-hailing apps the answer? Maybe
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“Make 2024 the year of the personal website” —Matthias Ott
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A lesson in overpopulation and toilet-clogging
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Banksy on migration
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Cyclists on city roads
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Chuck Close on inspiration
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Accusation should not prevent election participation
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Instagram co-founders to step down from the company
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India strikes down law against gay sex
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Cold turkey, part 2
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Prison should be for rehabilitation, not confinement
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Reading 50 books at once
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Pollution, by the people, against the people
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Lying becomes easier with time
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On bias in Facebook trending topics
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Saying Julius Caesar
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Moving to Byword and eternal bliss
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Expectations from iOS 10 default apps
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US elections 2016: between a rock and a hard place
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Twitter is replacing favourite with heart
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Inbox zero: updates
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Greenpeace freeze
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Inbox zero, step one: unsubscribe
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Practise web introversion
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R. Flanagan, Merkel and refugees, and more
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The other face of oil
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Cold turkey
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How many social networks are you on? Why?
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We live in a pinball machine
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The internet is about differentiation
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