• You Don’t Need An Algorithm patrickrhone.net

• DIY: my book about going your own way, and doing it yourself. No matter what. joanwestenberg.gumroad.com/l/gOepf

• Eileen R. Tabios:

• Making “Social” Social Again. Announcing Mozi | by Ev Williams | Dec, 2024 | Medium After a lifetime working at mattering, I realized I had under-invested in what really mattered: Relationships. Consider my interest piqued. …

• Give people something to link to so they can talk about your features and ideas - “Give people something to link to so they can talk about your features and ideas” - I am not overstating it when I say this is the easiest/cheapest tech …

• By consistently working on creating regular content, you can provide context to your audience that takes them on a journey. www.joanwestenberg.com/just-show…

• you can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it. ~ Bukowski, Charles, The Laughing Heart, Betting on …

• For some light weekend reading, may I suggest this Chris Arnade quartet: Why I Walk How to Walk (12 miles a day) How to Travel Why and how to walk 200 miles The inconsistencies in capitalization are entirely Arnade’s. …

• Michael Oakeshott: "To ask the poet and the artist to provide a programme for political or other social action, or an incentive or an inspiration for such action, is to require them to be false to their own genius and to deprive society of …

• Today I learned that Max canceled Scavengers Reign, a show that was in fact the best thing to come out on TV last year. A pox on HBO/Max and a pox on anyone in the TV industry who doesn’t care about good TV. May YouTubers dance on your …

• I wrote about the (or my) conservative disposition.

• Wendell Berry’s characterization of agrarianism (from his introduction to The Art of Loading Brush): An elated, loving interest in the use and care of the land, and in all the details of the good husbandry of plants and animals. An …

• Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting in 2025

• If your beliefs include or depend on vilifying any one or any thing, it is probably because they can’t stand on their own. Their merit only exists in contrast. (Example, you can like bikes and believe more people should use them without …

• @Annie Generally, I tend to prefer the book over the movie or show. Lessons in Chemistry is a rare exception. I agree on the back and forth between reading and watching!

• Looking at ways to see, scrape, and archive

• Projects like EmojiRain make me glad we have developer-friendly social media platforms again.

• 🔗 Thought Detox Someone on Micro.blog posted a link to this little web-app years ago, where you can write your thoughts and they float away into the ether, never to be seen again. I didn’t grab a link to it at the time, which I regretted. …

• There is a deep connexion between excessively rationalistic thinking and delusion. (Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things)

• 8am, small-stepping forward, yet already ticked some checkboxes today and feeling both productive, surprised and falling for that giggling imposter again. The art of cheating oneself into a certain mood by just cutting tasks small enough. …

• Have you signed up for my no-award winning Moon Monday newsletter? Its motivation was to exist because nothing like it did to capture the world’s march to the Moon. Join the 8,000+ lunatics who subscribed for free because it is easy: …

• Fascinating: public.me/blog (h/t @starrwulfe)

• It’s done! Cyber Burger, the Pico-8 arcade game I’ve been working on for the last few months, is finished and can now be played online in a (desktop) browser. Check it out here.

• Trump Threatens New York Times, Penguin Random House over Critical Coverage. cjr.org

• Donât let your dreams give up on you – Austin Kleon I got rear-ended at a stoplight on the drive out to the Frio Canyon last weekend. Iâm fine, but Iâve spent the week thinking about whiplash. Not just physical whiplash, but spiritual …

• Webmention · Indie Microblogging

• Love this post by Mike Grindle, especially this line: To me, it shows what happens when you regularly write, publish, share and hyperlink into the void that is the web: the void speaks back. Similar things happen to me from time to time, …

• 🤐 Here’s a completely random list of non-partisan words and phrases randomly listed in random order and that have nothing to do with anything anywhere at all. https://mrd.paste.lol/polarization/raw

• It’s been beautiful to me how much I see people reaching out to each other and just metaphorically grabbing hands, connecting, letting each other know they’re not alone. I know there’s a lot of anger and fear - I feel it, too. It just means …

• @manton I like Kagi’s capability to create a “lens” to limit search results to a set of websites. Do you know of any way to create a lens for “all sites”? There are cases where I would like to search just this ecosystem and I …

• From @denis - You can bring back anyone from the dead from any era, at any point of their life and for only one day. Who? https://louplummer.lol/ama-what-historical-figure-would-your-bring-back/ #NaBloPoMo #WritingMonth #WeblogPoMoAMA …

• @markstoneman I'd listened to and wrote a blog post about their podcast a couple weeks ago though I was somewhat critical of it. If I'm being honest, I believe the US needs a kind of revolution. Call it evolution, call it deep reform, but …

• Testing is going well.

• The double cluster from Perseus: A pair of open clusters 7000 light years away and consisting of hot blue-white young stars only about 14 million years old. These clusters are blueshifted as they are approaching us at ~40km/s. This image is …

• Writing a random draft of what I think democrats should start doing more but I am going to be vilified for saying so I dont know if I should publish the post lol.

• PSA: Social media privacy and you

• The business of social media is the business of addiction. These are the tobacco companies of our time. At some point in the future… We’ll learn how they knew all along their product was bad for us. Eventually society will shun it as a bad …

• The Importance Of Dopamine

• Linkdump No 29 - 82MHz

• How I teach Eleventy from scratch

• Paolo Amoroso's Journal

• /opinion/harris-easily-beats-trump-on-economic-policy-presidential-election-9067bdc6 wsj.com

• Social skills

• Surfing the (Human-Made) Internet

• I am not fragile. I am one of a species evolved over millennia to be survivors. We have survived every climate and government. We have survived famines and fools. We are adaptable. I live in a time of rapid change and rampant anxiety. Yet I …

• The Christmas Conundrum patrickrhone.net

• First Question of AMA November

• Writing through cringe cygnoir.net

• Writing through cringe: https://www.cygnoir.net/2024/11/01/for-the-first.html

• Current Things: November 2024

• /apps/instant/nearby/index.html?appid=c094cf17f6214c2b9d6f7d77f225cf78&sliderDistance=15&find=1%2520Provincial%2520Ct%252C%2520Saint%2520Louis%252C%2520Missouri%252C%252063122 …

• Japan’s Jimi ‘Mundane’ Halloween Costumes of 2024 spoon-tamago.com

• Interview with my partner @wynlim on her writing (part i) | Launshae's art

• Sharing things inside my shoulder bag

• Phaedra, The lmika Track Arrangement

• A decade ago, I wrote an essay about what seemed to me a strange development: the centrality of literature to many people’s Christian faith. I still think about how odd it is that thousands or even millions of people owe their faith not to …

• Links #132

• An unprofessional blogger

• Imagine being in a gym where accidents happen—maybe a stray elbow here, a bump there. Aurelius notes that in these moments, we don’t hold grudges; we simply acknowledge the mishap as part of the process and remain vigilant without bearing …

• I'm happy to have been included in Manuel Moreale's ongoing People and Blogs series. You can read the interview here. There are 60 other interviews in his ongoing series. There are lots of interesting folks out there publishing blogs.

• One of the PIs in our team said this but I can’t confirm it online - you can add people who are part of another paid Slack plan to your paid workspace without being charged for them via Slack Connect. I’m reading you can add them to a DM or …

• That feeling when you’re cited in the book you’re reading to tell you how to do your job better.

• @Annie I got a new desk but I've been putting off assembling it... 😉

• My novel is back from the beta readers. That means I’m one final read-through away from being ready to start querying agents and bringing book 1 of From the Case Files of an Intuitive Investigator (tentative subtitle) to life. GULP. …

• Looks like I’m spending $2.00 at the half price books store.

• A woman, blogging: this is a political act – Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden

• The growing pains of the renewed small web

• I added my Micro.Masonry plugin to the Micro.blog plugin directory this morning (well, last night and updated this morning). If you’re looking for a nice masonry style layout for your Micro.blog photos page that’s mobile responsive, give it …

• Someday I hope to finally get around to writing an account of the events — and the life — that spun me around so forcefully, so completely, in 2017. I noted around that time a quote from Charles Taylor about the feeling we get when we …

• I wrote: Creativity is something I get to do. Space in my life. To create.

• Mushrooms in a walnut.

• @Annie oh wow - so an uninspiring post that lead to another uninspiring post that basically claimed that the first uninspiring post was - well uninspiring - actually inspired an inspirational post. Now how good is that! Interesting that you …

• Heydon’s handy beginner’s guide to React is an invaluable resource for new web developers. https://briefs.video/videos/what-is-react/ briefs.video

• Bristlecone pines can be thousands of years old, but their lives are not easy. They live in alkaline rock, on the tops of high mountains, where even sagebrush can’t survive. The harsh conditions are evidence in their sculptured trunks. …

• Look at me using microhooks to customise my new blog, like a big-boy. 💻

• @pratik I have written a whole post on underlining links!

• Mimi Uploader is now free for the rest of the year. Great opportunity to do more photo-blogging on Micro.blog.

• Your Writing – Rands in Repose Your numbers may vary but likely not by much.

• Not sure why this just makes me laugh. Probably because there is some truth to it. All Those Meetings, by Kaamran Hafeez and Helene Parsons, New Yorker

• Big shout out to @robb and @adam tonight from my links blog. https://linkage.lol/omglol-is-the-best-thing-on-the-internet/ linkage.lol

• The blogging “community”: Blogging is about the freedom to express whatever and however you want. Also them: It’s only blogging if you post via eerily specific platforms, have a domain name, don’t monetize your blog, share it on places …

• I’ll have more to say about this soon, but I’m thrilled to finally reveal that my big leap this year is to start up my own guiding service. I’m nervous and excited, but most of all I’m eager to share more outdoor adventures in this …

• Risks vs. Harms: Youth & Social Media - “Do some people experience harms through social media? Absolutely. But it’s important to acknowledge that most of these harms involve people using social media to harm others. It’s reasonable that …

• But also. I’m just trying my best to keep improving my nutritional intake, exercise, fresh air, meditation, and creativity. And being in community. I want to get away from forceful ideas of fixing myself. And learn to look after myself …

• This is a universal truth. It feels so good to throw some ass. I did forget my age two weeks ago in Malaga, and does it feel good to dance and dance and dance. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the great, the astonishing, the pure joy of …

• I love this post by @annie so much, that it’s sat in my head since I read it this morning. I love your week notes and day notes and art and lists - annie’s blog And it made me think of this post on Instagram that I saved last week that I’m …

• Chronicling

• I’m trying a new thing: I’ve launched a new site called Tack & Ink, where I anticipate doing a lot more history writing (rather than digital history, which is where my main website tends to spend its time). We’ll see if this grows into …

• An actual text I just sent: > I’m seeing aurora photos again. You might want to swing by the cemetery on your way home.

• I like my notebooks messy

• @estebantxo @JimRain @Annie @bjhess My response is here. There's another part of Mandy's second peice that I want to respond to specifically but I'm not done percolating on that part yet. www.patrickrhone.net

• A peasant woodland | A Working Library The more compelling and interesting reason that most writers seek out readers is, I think, less utilitarian: we receive our writing as a gift, and so it must be given in turn. We write because …

• “The technology is just gonna get better and better and better and better. And it’s gonna get easier and easier, and more and more convenient, and more and more pleasurable to be alone with images on a screen, given to us by people who do …

• I am not in the best of minds at the moment. Work and life stress is getting a little too much and I was feeling overwhelmed. However I grabbed Meditations, went and sat in quiet for an hour and sure enough the book answered me. you are …

• The Static Site Paradox is a great post. I think there are great options these days, but only if you’re willing to get a bit technical. That’s a bit of a bummer. It could be easier. kristoff.it

• /annieok/how-i-made-google-s-web-view-my-default-search-1926234e736

• I spent a lot of time this weekend saving local copies of blog posts from Mythical Type. Partly because it’s been a while since I saved backup copies of posts and partly because I’m thinking about moving my blog off WordPress, so I’m …

• Feeling alive is where it’s at

• 📸 I wasn’t expecting to, but I’ve just spent a very pleasant couple of hours in the sunshine on my balcony. Writing, planning for the week ahead, and doing some basic admin. All the time enjoying the view, while trying to ignore the noise …

• Weird Web October Weird Web October is a challenge to try and make a website every day of October, based on the theme for each day, inspired by Inktober. It’s open to you and everyone! I might not have time to do this everyday but I’m …