Knowing that you have enough and not wanting more is being in right relationship to the world.

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Reminder that while you're supporting the NYTimes strike by not crossing the picket line, you can get your #Wordle fix in by playing Wordle+! If you're a little tech-savvy, you can even host Wordle+ on your own server.

#SelfHosting

GitHub - MikhaD/wordle: A recreation of the popular game Wordle with additional modes and features. Made with Svelte in Typescript.

A recreation of the popular game Wordle with additional modes and features. Made with Svelte in Typescript. - GitHub - MikhaD/wordle: A recreation of the popular game Wordle with additional modes a...

^GitHub

being a community manager in the gaming industry means I'm often wishing I could just tell entitled asswads to eat shit

anyway, I think I need to get this enamel pin

Eat Shit Pin// Flower Pin // Vintage Pin // Cute Pin // Pins - Etsy

This Pins & Pinback Buttons item by BadaboomStudio has 878 favorites from Etsy shoppers. Ships from Canada. Listed on Dec 1, 2022

^www.etsy.com

Alright #ADHD and #Autism gang, can you help me find a post?

It was someone talking about testing for either ADHD or autism, and remarking that if you hear a question like "Do you get lost in the fine details?" and start hemming and hawing about whether that really describes you, because there's This Situation and This Other Situation and, well, you're not really LOST in them—that's it, you're doing The Thing they're asking about.

For the first time, I've written flavor text for #netrunner cards that will actually be going to print!

These two cards are from @Null Signal Games' upcoming release, Parhelion.

You can find those cards, as well as many others, on NetrunnerDB.

Since my last attempt at developing a Hugo theme for my homepage got bogged down in faffing about with presentation before I'd got anything close to a structure in place, I'm forcing myself to develop this next one differently. I started with a tree-view sketch of how I wanted to organize content, imported @Kev Quirk :casio:'s simple.css, and am strictly prohibiting myself from messing with CSS until I've got a reasonable handle on the the basic structure of the site.

The contents of the menu can change—let me just make a menu for now.

I'm definitely going to change how tags are displayed—but first, let me get them displaying at all.

Turns out, maintaining a bit of focus discipline like this can help me get a lot more done! Who'da thought? 🙄

#indieWeb #WebDesign

Simple.css - A classless CSS framework

A classless CSS framework that makes semantic HTML look good.

^Simple.css

The internet is a small, strange place. I was looking at Hugo themes, wondering if I could find a good backup theme to use for now until I finish the one I'm working on, and I found an attractive one called Digital Garden, "inspired by Maggie Appleton's digital garden". A neuron sparked in the back of my brain.

I followed the link to check out the inspiration, and was struck by all sorts of gorgeous touches. Maggie's site had beautiful typography and layout, and used seemingly custom illustrations for each essay post. One post I saw had an "intended audience" disclaimer at the top—what a delightful idea! Naturally, I wanted to learn a little more about the person behind this site (and there was that nagging sense of familiarity again), so I checked out the About page, and, well...

Hey, @Maggie Appleton, it's been a while since college! Good to see you again. 😆

Digital Garden

Digital Garden Theme for Hugo A simple Hugo theme for your digital garden, inspired by Maggie Appleton website DEMO This theme includes: a digital garden / blog a projects portfolio library notes Getting started Install hugo and create a new website:…

^{themes.gohugo.io}

me, washing dishes: god, so much of US history and politics, past and present, domestic and international, has been about exploiting the hell out of a class of people while developing policies and force to prevent that same class from actually using their labor power as leverage, and... hold on, I've heard this somewhere

Marx, shouting from beyond the grave: THE HISTORY OF ALL HITHERTO EXISTING SOCIETIES IS THE HISTORY OF CLASS STRUGGLES, MOTHERFUCKER

Every couple years, as now, I get struck with a desire to dramatically pare down my clothes into more of a capsule wardrobe. I think about it for a few days or weeks... and then do very little about it.

It seems the hardest part for me is the actual legwork: determining the pieces I want and actually committing to purchasing them, plus letting go of the articles that are no longer sparking joy.

Fantasizing about it is fun, and so much easier than the work!

#minimalism

oh good, a prominent financial criminal was doing some form of nonmonogamy, I'm sure this will go over great in the press 🙄

#polyamory

@Wouter Groeneveld has written a number of blog posts about web design that really inspire me. I can't even pick one; I just love the entirety of his "webdesign" category on his blog. He's got ideas for implementing search or WebMention on a static site, a compilation of cool things people have done on their own sites, and even a really thoughtful post about decreasing the friction for writing by cutting down on extra steps (like tags, featured images, etc.) and letting the architecture of the system work for you.

I deeply appreciate the hacker spirit of the #IndieWeb community. I can't wait to use some of these ideas in my own personal site.

#WebDesign

In my monthly July 2022 overview write-up, I …

In my monthly July 2022 overview write-up, I wrote: This website got a new search engine! The baked archives page used to be powered by Lunr.js, which has been replaced by Pagefind.app.

^{Wouter Groeneveld (Brain Baking)}

Welp, I'm doin' it. I've set Semiphemeral to start deleting my old tweets, in preparation for locking down my Twitter account and walking away from the site permanently (for personal stuff).

When 2022 started, I didn't expect in the slightest that I'd be fully disconnecting from Twitter like this before the year was out. How things change.

For all the shit I give #Twitter (and which it deserves) for being a corporate Big Social network, I'm still saddened to see it (seemingly) collapsing due to the unparalleled hubris and ineptitude of a petty tyrant.

I did not start 2022 suspecting Twitter would be gone by the end of it. That seems likely now.

Folks in my Twitter feed are now posting about where else on the internet they can be found, and making melancholy "guess this is it" messages.

It feels not dissimilar to watching a building burn from the safety of the sidewalk. "Damn," we say as the flames punch through the roof. We wince as a timber cracks: "Shit, it really is going down."

This guide by @Justin Pot is an excellent introduction to Mastodon and the Fediverse, and it contains additional relevant links at the end.

If you're #NewHere and still looking for your 101-level guidance, I recommend this article and the supplementary resources it links to!

#MastodonTips #MastoTips #FediTips

How to Get Started on Mastodon

Interested in trying the social network everyone's flocking to? Here's what you need to know to find your way around and build community.

^{Justin Pot (WIRED)}

The birdsite is rapidly devolving into Bootlicker Central. So many people uncritically parroting capitalist propaganda, like that labor laws are standing in the way of True Innovators like Musk. 🤮

It's really depressing.

I might get another chance to play Wanderhome this weekend and I'm very excited about that.

#TTRPG #RolePlayingGames #RolePlaying #RPG #RPGs

As I've watched more James Hoffmann videos, I've wanted to develop my currently-nonexistent palate for #coffee. I nabbed this bottle of Stumptown #ColdBrew from a bargain grocery store yesterday, and whaddya know, I actually really liked it!

It had a really bright, fruity flavor without too much bitterness or acidity. I stirred a bit of cream and sugar into the mug, but honestly, it was pleasant enough straight out of the bottle that I could have drank it all that way.

Of course, there's no information on the bottle about the origin of the coffee, so I can't learn much in that regard. But hey, here's to actually tasting coffee!

Tonight's cocktail: Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This).

A sake-based fizz using sake from a local brewery, elderflower liqueur, and a homemade butterfly pea flower and lemongrass liqueur.

I spent all day painting rooms—the baby is two months away, it's time to Turbo Nest™—and the entire upstairs of my house is in disarray. I was trying to think of something to do to occupy my time this evening... well, why not mix something?

#alcohol #cocktail #cocktails #mixology

"I was told this was a Twitter replacement; how was I supposed to know there'd be a culture?"

Corporate social media have commodified human interaction so much that we don't even see community online.

If you joined a new soccer league, you'd expect that there would be a period of getting to know people. You could probably anticipate that the group would have its quirks and ways of doing things, and that you'd feel like an outsider for a while until you got it figured out.

If you moved to a new city, even if you knew some people there, adapting to their social circles would not be an instantaneous process. Human relationships don't work that way. Socializing takes time; it's an organic process.

Why would online communities be any different?

Big Social doesn't care about the people in its communities, only the Content they create and engage with. But that's an aberration.

Before I left for work this morning, I added the directory of my in-progress Hugo site to Syncthing so I could access it on my work computer. I'm glad I did. After my morning clients were done, I had a bit of a breather, and I was able to fiddle with CSS a bit.

Started adding some neutral defaults to the base CSS for my theme. I have a more opinionated theme in mind right now, but I like the idea of having a basic fallback that's stylish enough.

#theWorkshop

It's a sunny autumn morning here. When I first stepped outside, there was frost on the leaves.

I want to share with you one of my favorite albums on days like this: Yasmin Williams' Urban Driftwood. It's optimistic, sunny fingerstyle acoustic guitar and I just never tire of it.

What #music are you #ListeningTo today?

Urban Driftwood, by Yasmin Williams

10 track album

^{Yasmin Williams}

I am a little disheartened to see that the influx of Twitter users has, somewhat predictably, brought some who care nothing for this space or its norms, and want nothing more than another dopamine/adrenaline dispenser. That, I fear, is the biggest threat to what makes this space special: that stubborn attitude, plus moderators who won't challenge it.

But then I recall that I can just block, ignore, or defederate from the Outrage Users and Outrage Hubs, and that's pretty neat.