Damian’s notes

IndieWeb is about escaping corporate web sites by running your own web site, hosting your own blog, and implementing likes, reposts, and replies via protocols like Webmention. It’s answering some of the same concerns that motivate federated social media like Mastodon, with more of an emphasis on building your own stuff.

Here’s an introduction to IndieWeb motivation, principles, community, and tech building blocks.

Sabine Réthoré, Mediterranean without Borders: This work is simple in concept: a map of the middle sea with west to the top and east to the bottom an without the borders between nations. The result is a very different perspective on this familiar geography inviting us to reevaluate the relationships between cities and the people who live there.

I discovered a gotcha with rolling one’s own Webmention implementation: your server framework probably makes the response to a successful POST request redirect to the page of the created entity, hence returning a 302 status code, whereas the Webmention spec requires a 202 or 201 response. As a result brid.gy was counting attempts to notify my server as failures.

Might be of interest to my yarn-oriented friends: a new app for keeping track of your knitting or crocheting projects and which row you are on with each of them … and also (she adds nonchalantly) catalogue your yarn collection.

In the computing equivalent of using a sledgehammer to crack a nut, Ethan Rosenthal has created a software package that uses machine vision to analyze a banana and slice of bread to determine the optimum banana-slice arrangement for a peanut-butter-and-banana sandwich.

A deep dive into the typography of Star Trek: The Motion Picture (parft of the Typeset in the Future series)

Field Notes make artisanal notebooks, and one of their variations is a preprinted with charts and tables to hol the stats and info for a player character in Dungeons & Dragons 5/e.

Car parking in Japan is organized differently to how we are used to it in the UK. It gives their narrow streets a completely different character.

Twitter thread on the principles of designing working governance, something the present UK administration is lousy at.