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Liked jackyalciné (@jalcine@todon.eu)
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The one thing about writing for me, at least online, is that with my newsletter, I have no idea what people like unless they reply (and y'all do!). That lack of knowledge reduces my pressure to "make more like that" and allows me to just flow. With my website, that's also something I'll be able to discern since I have privacy respecting analytics. I'm tempted to remove that as well and use semantic engagement (likes, boosts) as such a metric. Or or or, I could just keep doing what I want.

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Liked Taylor Barnett-Torabi (@taylor_atx@hachyderm.io)
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I really hate that engineers have made "marketing" such a dirty word because honestly this last year I realized I'm actually a damn good "marketer" and somehow by saying that I fear I lose all my technical credibility. Engineering can build all the cool things they want, but if you can't market it, you are mostly shit out of luck.

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Liked I've finally got around to updating https://auth.hawx.me/ to use the prefixed api key format for tokens, which means I have removed all previous data. On the plus side the database no longer contains usable raw data https://github.com/hawx/relme-auth/pull/14 by Joshua Hawxwell 
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I've finally got around to updating https://auth.hawx.me/ to use the prefixed api key format for tokens, which means I have removed all previous data. On the plus side the database no longer contains …

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Liked Random Geek (@randomgeek@hackers.town)
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Doing some blog cleanup and pondering how most SSGs are built around an assumption that you'll get bored of your blog around 20-30 posts. Or maybe not so much the SSGs as the common blog templates. We're not even talking build speed here. More like information architecture changes needed when you go from "I should start a blog" to a multi-decade waltz of shamelessness with hundreds or thousands of posts. "Page 4 of 78" doesn't quite do it.

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Liked Ana Rodrigues (@ohhelloana@mastodon.social)
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Gutted to be missing this week's #bordernone and #IndieWebCamp - however, I'm going to be in touch with the IndieWeb folks in an hour! It's been a while, but this evening, I will be hosting Homebrew Website Club Europe/London! ✨ Join us via Zoom to discuss things like: - Demos of personal website breakthroughs; - Discussion around the independent web - Get to know other members of the #IndieWeb No need to RSVP, just turn up! https://events.indieweb.org/2023/10/homebrew-website-club-europe-london-EGwYcCQw7FMz

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Liked Thomas Steiner :chrome: (@tomayac@toot.cafe)
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URL Patterns is now a proper standard: https://blog.whatwg.org/2023/10. It's maintained by the WHATWG: https://urlpattern.spec.whatwg.org/. For example, the pathname pattern `/blog/:title` will match `/blog/hello-world` but not `/blog/2012/02`. If you've worked with HTTP frameworks like Express.js in Node.js, this will look very familiar.

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Liked Adam Jones (@AutisticAdam@autistics.life)
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"You can’t be autistic - you can make eye contact!” Being autistic doesn’t mean I can’t *make* eye contact, rather that eye contact can be painful and overstimulating for me. Yet, I make it because I have to. If I didn’t, many would be hurt/angry, and I’d face further ostracism. Thanks for your pointless comment anyway from someone that clearly doesn't know what you're talking about. @actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe #actuallyautistic

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Liked David Pierce (@davidpierce@mastodon.social)
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For the last six months or so I've been obsessed with POSSE, a decade-old idea about how to mix the best of blogging and social media. For a story and for The Vergecast, I tried to figure out how POSSE could work — and why it might not https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/23/23928550/posse-posting-activitypub-standard-twitter-tumblr-mastodon

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Liked Terence Eden (@Edent@mastodon.social)
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I'm a long-time Linux user, and I've started using Windows 11 for work and… It's basically fine? There are no adverts in it that I can see. Multi-monitor support works. Lots of the deeper settings still retain their Win98 look & feel. Window snapping isn't quite as advanced as Wayland, but quite acceptable. About the worst thing I can say is that it moans my 40W USB-C charger isn't powerful enough. But it charges well enough. Doesn't seem remarkably different from XP TBH.

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Liked J (@jalcine@todon.eu)
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It's like twice a year I stop to really reassess what and why I'm working on my side projects that I'd hope help push the envelope on how to engage people on the Internet. My fear of making something that exacerbates harm is why I only talk about it - and that's been set in place after working at Lyft (seriously, I don't understand how people work at companies that have way too much information on people and not freak out!)

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Liked Tanya Reilly (@whereistanya@hachyderm.io)
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The kiddo's doing a research project for school and yesterday I was telling her to ignore the Google snippet summary thing and look on Wikipedia instead. Follow the links and check the citations, obv, but it's the place to go to get a first general overview of the topic. "Trust Wikipedia, not Google". The internet's changed a bit, hasn't it?