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Happy Groundhog Day
Published on under the Life category.
As of my starting to write this post, there are 25 minutes left until midnight here in the UK. This is the first year that I have actively thought about Groundhog Day throughout the day. It started with a reference to Groundhog Day from an the IndieWeb community member yesterday. The perpetual day being upon us was in the back of my mind, and then today I saw references to Groundhog Day across the web. I have thus far used "Groundhog Day" four times in this paragraph, if you include this sentence. Groundhog Day. [Gets stuck in a loop. Oh wait, I'm thinking of recursion day.]
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Acts of kindness
Published on under the Life category.
A few weeks ago, awaiting the arrival of a train, I stopped to play piano. While playing, someone left a hand-written note on top of the piano. I didn't get to look at them was I was immersed in the music. Thus, I shall perhaps never know who left the note. The note contained a quote:
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The definition of tabled
Published on under the Life category.
I have read a lot of news about the US over the last few years. I learned that the term "table" (i.e. "to table a discussion") in politics refers to leaving a subject for later discussion. The use isn't exclusive to politics -- indeed, any discussion can be "tabled" -- but I heard the word used a lot in politics.
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Fun with search
Published on under the Life category.
(Not in any way affiliated with the renowned Fun with Flags, hosted by Dr. Sheldon Cooper.)
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Favourite words
Published on under the Life category.
I have been asking a few people what their favourite word is lately. The question "What is your favourite word?" fills me with excitement that I'm either about to learn a new word or a fact about someone that I previously didn't know. When I hear an obscure word, I'll likely ask why the other person finds it interesting. Or should I say intriguring. Or thought-provoking. Or [insert synonym here].
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Giving my first talk
Published on under the IndieWeb category.
I recently gave a talk for Codementor on Decentralized Website Communication with Webmention. A recording for the talk is available on archive.org, in case you are curious! In the 45 minute discussion, I walked through what Webmention is, how it works, and did a live demo of how to get started using Webmentions on your site.
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The (not so awkward?) shuffle
Published on under the Life category.
I was walking around Edinburgh today. On my way down a street with a narrow pavement, I was in a position where it was unclear to me in what direction I should walk. The person in front of me shuffled one way and I did, too.
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Taking a break from personal projects: Mental health and coding
Published on under the IndieWeb category.
This morning, on the final day of my holiday, I spent around two hours thinking through a way to auto-classify content on my blog, as part of a project to recommend tags to my posts. Most of my old posts don't have tags, and I wondered: could I build a system using embeddings and a classification algorithm to help recommend tags when I write a new post? It turns out that yes I can but the hours of work I put into "solving" this particular problem were not worth it. I got stressed and was anxious throughout my coding session.
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100 Days of IndieWeb Challenge
Published on under the IndieWeb category.
For the next 100 days, I am committing to ship something related to the IndieWeb each day. A "ship" could be anything that is seen publicly or could be used by someone else that pertains to the IndieWeb. For example, if I make a change to my personal website that other people can see, that would count. If I write a blog post about something related to the IndieWeb, that too would count. Changes could be made over multiple days, but I should write a short post summarizing what I did on a given day to hold myself accountable.
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The Guardian Article Counts
Published on under the Life category.
I regularly read articles on The Guardian. As I am not a paying subscriber to their digital edition, I see banners that prompt me to support them. The banners almost always catch my eye because they say how many articles I have "read" on their website in the last year. I just opened The Guardian homepage to find I read over 400 articles on their site. I think "read" is a tad liberal because I know I didn't read all the words on all of those articles, but I like seeing the count go up over time.
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