👁️ Asides
Throw way thoughts. Sometimes I wonder why I felt it was worth posting when I did. Other times even I can’t work out what I was trying to say.
👁️ You don’t want to rebuild your site too often when it is on the ‘larger’ side. Yet to unpack the specifics behind ‘larger’.
🔗 Colorless, Shapeless Orb - Gapingvoid
We call it The Void. It’s where most work lives now. Transactional. Comfortable. Manageable. Forgettable. If you’ve ever wondered why our name is so weird, that’s it. We made it our business to kill it.
👁️ Yes. Seperately - love their new home page.
👁️ RSS really seems to be coming back into vogue.
🔗 More from Luis I really like, this time on #RSS: …
when you build on open standards like RSS and OPML, you’re building on freedom. Freedom to use the tools that work best for you. Freedom to own your experience. And freedom to support a healthier, more independent web.
👁️ So pleased not to be an American. My bold…
The new design shows the president’s image superimposed over the Declaration of Independence and an American flag and features Trump’s signature in gold lettering.
👁️ Story of my life:
Just waiting for the cache to catch up.
Seems to be worse on Micro.Blog than anywhere else - and yes I have a bigger than average site and yes this version of Hugo moves like molasses - but when I move to upgrade to a better version - my site breaks - #BecausePlugIns - how to work out which? Uninstall them all and reintroduce one by one.
My plugin list:
… so no.
Then again - there is also this …
What IS a boy to do?
👁️ Interesting view of tenure - and great trivial pursuit question … 🔗 Daring Fireball: Eight for Eight
👁️ Whilst 15 years is certainly ‘over a decade’ - I find this quote a little disingenuous and would expect more from Jim.
Tim Cook stepping down as CEO of Apple after over a decade at the helm of the company.
🔗 The Dalrymple Report: John Ternus
(Sept 1 is over 15 years - not even counting his two ‘acting’ stints in the oughts.)
👁️ Gotta say - I am liking this thought …
Thanks for the link @numericcitizen
👁️ I think you can learn it at school. And at home. With your friends. It just isn’t really ’taught’.
“You’re looking for three things, generally, in a person,” says Buffett. “Intelligence, energy, and integrity. And if they don’t have the last one, don’t even bother with the first two. I tell them, ‘Everyone here has the intelligence and energy—you wouldn’t be here otherwise. But the integrity is up to you. You weren’t born with it, you can’t learn it in school.”
💬 Warren Buffet
👁️’ Xitter’ seems to be the new name in town which makes sense in writing … but how do you pronounce it❓
Easy.
‘X’ is pronounced ‘Sh’
👁️ If you are an organisation or person that seeks to widen your audience - why would you block RSS❓Limiting what you put in the feed .. I understand … but completely blocking I do not. Thoughts from the cognoscenti welcome.
🔗 The Other Reasons Why Podcasting is Hot – Doc Searls Weblog
RSS—really simple syndication—gives all of us scale. This is, as Kurt Vonnegut once said, a miracle on the order of loaves and fish. It’s foundational.
