Thoughts

1. Pave the cowpaths

   Interesting to see Monzo releasing fully-fledged saving products within their app based on user-generated IFTTT recipes using their API. Leveraging interoperability as a way to innovate is a smart move. This https://ifttt.com/applets/GutUrxFv-take-on-the-1p-savings-challenge has become this https://monzo.com/features/1p-saving-challenge

2. Watching Async: How We Built the World Wide Web in Five Days

   Watching @rem@front-end.social and @adactio@mastodon.social walk us through building the World Wide Web in five days, from the comfort of my own home. We’ve come a long way! Thanks to Async for livestreaming! Do I spot @markboulton@typo.social and @briansuda@loðfíll.is in that pic too? Watch along here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XONerj4rE2I

   

3. I Deleted My WhatsApp Account

   After hearing about Zacebook’s CEO M. Fuckerberg’s move to align his range of poison products to the same toxicity levels of Xitter, I deleted my WhatsApp account in a heartbeat. Let the Big Tech Exorcism™ continue in 2025! #FreeTheFacebookPrisoners

   

4. 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.

5. 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?

6. 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.

   

7. 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.

8. 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!

9. 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.

10. 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!