This is what I always wanted tumblr to be back in the day. More of a micro blog for text instead of an endless stream of edgy gifs
How can we have a robot on mars but over the last 100 years there’s been no progress in keeping the drain from clogging when you shave 😐
What is the IndieWeb even?
If you’ve been into running a blog or personal site very long, it’s safe to say you’ve heard the terms “IndieWeb” or “small web” thrown around. I’ve only been into this stuff for a few months at this point but my understanding of what that actually means has already matured and evolved a lot.
Really, any personal website you use (instead of corporate social media) for your online presence is part of the IndieWeb. It’s like independent music. You’re writing, recording and distributing all on your own rather than finding a manager, record label, big name recording studio and getting wrapped up in contracts.
People who don't tip
I don’t get the anti-tipping culture on Reddit. There’s a whole community of people who never leave tips, pretending to protest in favor of the tipped employee because their wages should be higher? “Hey I don’t think you make enough money so I’m punishing you for your boss making you rely on tips to survive”
A secret feature of AI when you’re using it to help with coding is that it’s a great punching bag. You can get as mad as you want when something isn’t working and it’ll just apologize and offer solutions. Usually passive aggressively. It talked me out of giving up on something yesterday 😌
Don't be embarrassed
I hate that lol you’re nervous about something and someone tells you aw don’t be nervous!
Or you’re stressing over something and they scream at you to CALM THE FUCK DOWN!!
Oh okay! I didn’t think about it that way! I’m so silly 🤪
For real though, one of the things about getting older is caring less about what people think. I used to think my dad looked so lame wearing 10 year old, $7 jeans from Walmart, generic black tennis shoes and a plain solid color tee shirt all the time like he’s some kinda Seinfeld character. Meanwhile I was straightening my blonde emo-ver hair, wearing skin tight skinny jeans with a pink studded belt from Spencer’s and walking around in loud, multicolor, just… massive tongued skating shoes.
Man the church of Scientology really has a lot of foot soldiers handing out junk about Dianetics lol this is the second time someone’s stopped by here in the last couple of weeks
I’m running out of time to make a Blaugust post today. I can usually get a post knocked out while I’m at work but between how busy we were and making little tweaks to my blog it’s about time to go home! I have other more urgent things to tend to on a Saturday night aka catching a buzz 🤪🍻
Finally reading documentation on what microhooks actually do. I can do pretty much whatever I want with some of these themes huh? Neat!
I think Safari’s reading list is the only Read Later service I’ve ever successfully used. It forces me to look at all the stuff I saved every time I open Safari so I eventually feel pressured enough to actually read the articles
I knew Intel had to be in bad shape when they announced they were building a factory in central Ohio lol we can never have anything nice here www.vox.com/technolog…
I love these 😆 web.badges.world
I like minimalism. Sometimes that manifests as trying to condense things into the most simplified version of whatever it is. I feel like it’s kind of redundant to have a blog here and one on Bear Blog. I like all the features here but I like the minimalism of Bear too. So I’m back to square one lol
Oof this feels like one of those cheesy April fools jokes some websites post to be cute. Gravitar is getting into crypto 🤢
US Politics: Can't get fooled again
I’ve worked a few different sales positions over the years, but mostly in the furniture business. It’s probably the most notorious for gimmicks, deceptive advertising and terrible customer service.
They advertise things like puncture-proof fabric on sofas, cooling gel or even diamond dust infused mattresses, and they’ll sell you a $400 protection plan that doesn’t really protect anything. They’ll even give you FREE delivery on the $300 couch you just paid $1500 for.
I used AI to generate a robots.txt that blocks AI
I’m so fucking lazy. I’ve never really messed with robots.txt. I’m kinda new to personal blogging; back in the 2000s I had a tech blog but I wanted everything to index my site. I even submitted my link to a bunch of off brand search engines to get my name out there.
But now there’s AI bots scraping websites like iFixit literally a million times a day.
I feel like anyone who doesn’t want AI scraping their website will eventually have to rely on constantly updated filters, uBlock Origin style but for robots.txt