A few years back the lack of effort in documentating an open source project bit me pretty hard. Since then I’ve really grown to appreciate technical writing and good documentation. What a lovely resource.

You may wonder: how can I write technical content? Do I need to be a great coder? Do I need to have a background in writing? Let me answer those last two questions now: no. Writing is all about communication, as I discuss throughout Software Technical Writing: A Guidebook. If you have some technical skills and enjoy refining your communication skills, you have the mindset you need to write technical content.

Not the focus of the post, but always a great reminder. The post is right up my alley too. HTML Web Components and sharing what you’re listening to.

While not great, it works for me and well, this website is for me, not you.

One of my favorite all time favorite blogs is back posting. The beauty of collecting RSS feeds for 20 years. Their approach to food has deeply influenced how I cook. Ideas in Food - Sugar Brioche

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Glad to see AudioEye dropped their suit against Adrian.

Just going to put this out into the universe that I’m really looking for a job. Something web related I can do from Tampa.

I concur.

Blogs and social networks talking to each other is still kind of magic.

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Ohhhh, I like having Letterboxd on the Apple TV. That might get me to go pro. I want to track what I’ve watched but haven’t been good about logging. Being able to do it from the TV might help.

I haven’t written up much yet about my latest passion and I haven’t fixed up photo posting so this post is a test.

Speaking of NetNewsWire and Mastodon, Brent Simmons wrote some thoughts about Mastodon support in NetNewsWire. I’m enjoying being able to follow Mastodon accounts using fed.brid.gy and reading them in NetNewsWire. Folks may also want to look at Granary for converting Mastodon feeds to other formats.

Inspired by @zachleat.com’s evangelism of HTML Web Components I played around with turning Aaron Gustafson’s progressively enhacing his share button into a component. It’s totally Aaron’s code so I’m not sure about formally releasing it. But I’ve seen the light.
If you see Aaron, tell him I said thanks and if he’s cool with it I’ll clean it up and release it. Repo link.

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Finally figured out how to follow people on Mastodon from my own site. I’m using fed.brid.gy, which in essesnce is a bridge between the IndieWeb and the Fediverse. You follow using fed.brid.gy and it creates a feed of your follows you can subscribe to in your reader of choice. I just add it to my feeds in NetNewsWire and I’m good to go.

I really loved this line Chris Coyier highlighted in his post about Bill Watterson’s The Mysteries.

“Working through differences toward a common purpose is practically an act of defiance these days.”

There are a few options for archiving your tweets and Ben Balter has released a new project on GitHub—tweets. Pretty straight forward publishing on GH Pages.

What a beautiful thing to say.

Free software offers free time, free life extension to many human living now and maybe in the future.

Read the full post The Gift of Time

11ty doesn’t have the concept of themes. I’m good with that. But what I’m considering, from a data portability standpoint as well as allowing work to the site to be separate from content is the concept of a theme. And making it easier for others to use it. Trick would be to get 11ty to read content from a directory outside of _src. Or to have a separate repo for the posts/content and _data as a submodule in _src.