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Do people IRL know you have a blog?

Replied to Do people IRL know you have a blog? by bacardi55bacardi55 (bacardi55.io)

Yet another non usual technical blog post today… But something I have been thinking about for a few weeks… So I thought that writing it here might get it out of my system (and maybe raise intersting responses). Maybe with the reply july challenge (even though I’m not officially participating),…

Not only do people IRL know I have a blog, but I don’t let them forget it. I’m extremely obnoxious about the upsides of having a personal blog and wanting us all to use RSS feeds and comment sections and/or webmentions. More importantly, I use my blog as a repository of answers to conversations or…

blocking replies on mastodon

Replied to Will It Still Be Social? (louplummer.lol)

I’ve evidently been living under a rock as a budding controversy has been brewing in the Fediverse. There is a two-year old proposal known as FEP-5624: Per-object reply control policies:
“Sometimes, users may want to…

I understand the idea of wanting to post and not wanting replies from anyone, I really do. But this brings me back to the question that I always seem to come back to: if you want full control, why do you rely on someone else’s platform? Get a blog! Curate comments or close them! Social…

paranoid reading

Replied to Paranoid Reading by Tracy DurnellTracy Durnell (tracydurnell.com)

Bookmarked Finding nourishment vs. identifying poison by Austin Kleon (Austin Kleon)
You can identify all the poison you want, but if you don’t find nourishment, you’ll starve to death.
“Anyone who’s spent time on the internet in the past few years will recognise how it feels to be caught up…

Hah, interesting, I recently saw this video on Reparative Reading by This Dang Dad, and now I’m finding your blog post (via the more recent The overwhelming loudness of performance). Love seeing wildly different people pick up the same topic (a few years apart, sure)!

Styling internal and external links

Replied to Styling the external links on this site (Rach Smith’s digital garden)

One nice side-effect of doing this #WeblogPoMo2024 challenge is that I’m forced to look at my website every day, and I’m inspired to make little changes to it.

Love that styling external links is becoming more of a thing! 🙂 The « preview on hover » thing is something I have enabled on Wikipedia a real long time ago and I can’t browse that site without it anymore… but I never thought of doing it on my own blog. Hmm… maybe this should…

Live to work

Replied to Work to Live, Live to Work by Devastatia (devastatia.com)

That said, I have to push back on a suggestion I overheard that one should only have to work twenty-four hours in a week to live comfortably. A popular trope these days goes: « I don’t live to work. I work to live. »

(Note to my readers: Devastatia’s website has mildly erotic content and may not be appropriate for wherever you are right now. I recommend visiting that blog, but make sure you won’t get fired or yelled at over it!) I’m finally at home and ready to engage with other people again, woo! I’m gonna charitably assume…

heure d’été

Replied to Mage 🏳️‍🌈 (@mage@eldritch.cafe) (Eldritch Café)

Unpopular opinion : oui perdre une heure lors du passage heure d’hiver > heure d’été est pénible mais la manière dont ça nous permet d’être + calés sur le rythme solaire notamment en pouvant se réveiller longtemps de jour en hiver et retarder le coucher de soleil en été vaut largement le sacrifice

unpopular opinion: ceci, mais en plus c’est vraiment pas si pénible

carte de planification des voyages

Replied to Mage 🏳️‍🌈 (@mage@eldritch.cafe) (Eldritch Café)

Vous connaissez des bons outils (payants OK) pour créer des cartes de trajets pour ses vacances ?
J’ai testé travelMap et j’aime le rendu mais l’interface est absolument abominable

edit : c’est pour planifier, je veux visualiser en avance un road trip !

Je sais pas si ça répond à ton besoin (d’autant plus que ça ne couvre que les trajets à pied et en vélo correctement), mais je me fais des traces gpx sur OSMAnd. Super pour prévoir la visite d’une ville, pas du tout approprié pour planifier des vacances itinérantes.

subtitle hell

Replied to this is the title of a blog post by Jess Driscoll (jess is typing)

I don’t remember when I started adding alt text to photos. That’s not to say I’ve been doing it for soooo long. Back in my hand-coded HTML days, it wasn’t a regular practice. It’s only been in the last ten years (perhaps less?) that adding alt text has become the polite thing–and then the right thing—to do online. I just don’t remember when or why I started.

What I know for sure is that I was inspired by someone else. Someone wrote about the benefits of alt text. Someone showed us how to add it

excellent post. however, to the point: As I’m planning to make video content again, I’m thinking about whether I want to add hardcoded captions. No! No you don’t!! Find a hosting provider that allows you to have a separate .srt file for subtitles. NEVER burn them into the video EVER. Some of us need to…