Alex

they/he, il. Wikipedian and book reader, mostly. Localization and sociology enthusiast.

interrail management update

I still don’t have too much energy, but made some progress on my interrail trip content management, so here’s a small update since last time. Done April 6 – 11 photos are now live on Wikimedia Commons. April 12 – 15 photos are now sorted and ready for importing to Wikimedia Commons (I’ll upload everything…

social norms in the indieweb

Liked Bonus Online Homebrew Website Club – Social Norms in the IndieWeb (indieweb.org)

Bonus Online Homebrew Website Club – Social Norms in the IndieWeb was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2024-05-18.

i still don’t feel like writing a proper post, but wanted to share these notes from the last zoom call of the indieweb club. it was really nice to speak to people live and everyone was super smart and interesting, as usual!

a break from blogging?

after writing every day for a month, I feel like the blog came to a brutal stop recently. I didn’t even do the Europe2024 recap post, and let’s not even mention all the other kinds of blogging. I haven’t been interacting much with other people’s blogs either. there’s a pretty big change going on in…

we can have a different web

Liked We can have a different web by

Molly White (Citation Needed)

Many yearn for the “good old days” of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better — and if anything, it would be easier now than it ever was.

She’s the Man

Liked A Trans Guy Watches ‘She’s the Man’ for the First Time by

Gabe Dunn (autostraddle.com)

I avoided the 2006 teen comedy She’s the Man for almost two decades. Now it was finally time to watch it.

AI election manipulation tracker by Rest of World

Liked Rest of World’s 2024 AI elections tracker by Viola Zhou (Rest of World)

As more than two billion people vote, we’re monitoring the way AI is being used in political campaigns, memes, and misinformation.

I can’t do it all

Liked I want it all, but it is impossible (Jottings from Ana)

Ana’s personal blog

Adding the external link icon on my blog

A CSS snippet to put in the theme editor so that external links have a ⧉ next to them. Replace alexsirac.com with your own domain and add or remove the subdomains at will. Of course you can also easily replace the icon. .entry-content a[href]:not(:where( /* exclude hash only links */ [href^= »# »], /* exclude relative but…

What I brought on my trip

Here’s what I brought with me on my travel through Europe − hope it helps anyone who wants to do a similar trip! Luggage 50L black backpack which I highly recommend. A tote bag for when I wanted to walk around and my fanny pack wasn’t enough (eg. bringing a picnic or sunscreen). Used it…

interrail management update

Done March 31 – April 5 photos, as well as a couple of days around the middle of the month, are now live on Wikimedia Commons. I don’t know how to create a precise Commons album of my uploads but for now checking my recent uploads would normally be enough to follow 🙂 Alt text…