Just added this to the various slash pages I already have on my website:
If you haven’t perused the personal website of Jeff Bridges (yes, that one), then you should do so right now. It’s a treat, and a reminder that things don’t have to be fancy—even if you have a publicist (does The Dude have a publicist?)
Today’s addition for #Junited2024. See all entries at rsjon.es/junited
Today’s entry for #Junited2024 is @robertbreen’s poignant post celebrating three years of sobriety—congrats, Robert! His line about how alcohol is the only drug you have to explain not using reminded me of how I often felt as a nondrinker in my 20-30s.
This morning I wondered aloud (well, on my blog really) if Apple could create a new model of the social web by combining personal websites with social media features?
It’s a bit of a thought experiment. What do you think about something like this?
#personalweb #smallweb #Apple
I spent #opcOnThisDay in 2019 enjoying some (cooler than June in Phoenix) mountain air up at 9500ft elevation in the Coconino National Forest, apparently lounging for awhile near Arizona Snowbowl. #Arizona #Flagstaff #NationalForest
Unlike @keenan@social.lol, I’m not killing off my blogroll. But after reading his post, I did realize that I should rebirth it in a different form.
One place I’d actually love to have an LLM is the dictionary/thesaurus app.
1 - “Hey dictionary, what’s a good word for when something is somewhere in between ephemeral and permanent?” (So much better than annoying my wife with these questions and then replying to every suggestion with “no, that’s not it”)
2 - Types “uhrithmia” in the hopes that either spellcheck or google will help me figure out the word I have a years-long mental block on remembering how to spell (it’s “arrhythmia” btw).
I ran across Kev Quirk’s About page and instantly think it’s one of the very best I’ve seen. I love his creative use of a text exchange with a new site visitor, which is the perfect combination of casually playful + strategically useful. Well done!
It’s today’s addition to #Junited2024
And #opcOnThisDay in 2021, I flew over the river. Here’s what it looks like from the air. This is looking southeast. You can see the edge of Mesa in the top right corner. 🌵 #phoenix #mesa #river #desert
#opcOnThisDay in 2020, I brought a few friends on a sunset/moonlight paddle. 🌵 #arizona #phoenix #kayaking #NationalForest
While reading @mlanger@mastodon.world’s post today about taking a photo of her boat in front of the Statue of Liberty, I was reminded that small social networks are everywhere (still). They’ve always been here—and even with federation and interoperability—small, theme-based communities are just better communities. They always have been.
Is there a good free/cheap service that rolls together a bunch of rss feeds into one “master” version? As I struggle to pull together a coherent personal website strategy, I’m finding that I don’t have a single feed link to send someone who wants to follow my blog posts.
Pen Pals. Online, in public. I love it. I first ran across this concept on Jerrod Blundy’s HeyDingus blog, but it looks like he was inspired by Jason Becker’s Letters Project. I see that Kev Quirk has joined in too. I’d love to give this a go, perhaps later in the year.
Today’s addition to #Junited2024.
I got into minimalism in my 30s and purged half my stuff. But I now see it as a useful, but insufficient, frame for consumer purchases. Less stuff isn’t inherently better—at least not for the life I want to live. Here’s an example from my life that was anti-minimalism, but made my life better.
One of the weird—but useful—outcomes of the pandemic is that because my wife and I had to quarantine from each other several times, we created a decent system for doing that. Both sides of the house have a desk, bed, tv, etc.
So when one of us now gets sick, it’s easy to separate for a few days. 😷