Thoughts

1. Online/Offline

   That moment of confusion when you accidentally visit localhost in your browser and your Eleventy site is up despite it not being built locally. You then recall @adactio@mastodon.social helped you setup an offline service worker and what you’re actually visiting are cached pages. Then come the warm fuzzy feelings.

2. What are we doing?

   Social media platforms have suffered the same fate as Slack groups. The same people posting the same content across multiple platforms. So much wasted time, effort and energy. What are we doing?

3. Explore Explain Live!

   Excited to watch the Explore Explain Live! webinar to learn more about Dataviz. Hosted by @andykirk@vis.social and 6 other fascinating guests.

   

4. Trying out Kagi

   Thanks to j98@fosstodon.org I’m continuing my Big Tech Exorcism™ by trialing the independent search engine Kagi (https://kagi.com/) for 3 months. Friends don’t let friends get tracked.

5. Adding some fun things to my website

   Reading @adactio@mastodon.social’s recent Going Offline post https://adactio.com/journal/21578 reminded me that I needed to fix my /offline/ page after I ported my site from Jekyll to Eleventy. I’ve also added j98@fosstodon.org and @trys@mastodon.social’s Utopia https://utopia.fyi albeit in a very minimal implementation. Of course now I want to refactor everything about my site!

6. Adding events with Indiekit

   I’m now adding events I’m attending to my website with Indiekit. I’m really enjoying the process of learning more about the #IndieWeb and finding ways to improve my website. Next step is to look at syndicating via Mastodon.

7. I deleted all my Tweets

   I temporarily reinstated my Xitter account and used this script to delete all my Tweets https://github.com/lucahammer/tweetXer. This house is clean!

   

8. Final speaker invited to Research by the Sea

   I’ve just sent an invitation to the last speaker for Research by the Sea. I’m so excited about the 7 talks and group Q&A, 3 workshops, the 12 people (+1 back up) who will help us explore the future of research. The full line-up will be revealed over the coming weeks. Get ready to have your brains learned out! https://researchbythesea.com/

9. I deleted my Twitter account

   Continuing the slow process of Big Tech Exorcism™. 30 days and it’s all gone.

   

10. A reminder.

    A reminder that your community, with all of it's shades and beliefs, is the most important thing to focus on right now. Meet with people face to face and talk to them, whether you are part of their culture or not. That’s why I’m so glad to be spending this evening with Ladies That UX Brighton @LadiesthatUX_Br@hci.social 🏳️‍🌈💜