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  1. Joining the gang at Homebrew Website Club Europe/London

    Spending the evening hanging out with the welcoming and curious folks at #IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club Europe/London https://events.indieweb.org/2024/05/homebrew-website-club-europe-london-HJs8USwnq2Ie. Lots of demos of recent website updates and projects. I got some useful clarification on the difference between cross-posting and syndication. We went down the webmention and micropub rabbit hole. I’ve come away even more excited and confident about what I’m doing. Thanks for making me feel so welcome!

  2. Screen printing with Gary Parselle

    I had a really fun afternoon at Gary Parselle’s free screen printing workshop at the ABYSS Taproom in Lewes. Huge thanks to Gary of Brighton-based studio The Private Press https://www.theprivatepress.org/ for being so generous with their time and materials. I love my prints!

  3. I got webmentions working!

    OMFG!!! I can finally say I’ve got #webmentions working on my #11ty website! I’ve tried loads of different tutorials but @chrisburnell@repc.co’s article https://chrisburnell.com/article/webmention-eleventy-setup/ and eleventy-cache-webmentions plugin https://chrisburnell.com/eleventy-cache-webmentions/ finally got me over the line. Thanks Chris! Now to ditch IFTTT and it’s shortened URLs and figure out POSSE auto-posting and write some ABSOLUTE BANGERS!!! // @henry@front-end.social

  4. Watching the #11tyConf

    Really stoked to hear more about #11ty and POSSE on the #IndieWeb in Henry Desroches’s talk. Streaming live of YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLxJ6PtuF9M

  5. Tooltip: set your external monitor as main display #mac

    Do you use an external monitor as your main display with your Mac? Ever get tired of turning your neck to read notifications or other dialog windows on your laptop screen? Here’s how to fix that. Got to System Preferences » Displays » Arrange. You should see two rectangles that reflect the position of your screens, one has a light grey bar at the top. Drag the light grey bar from the laptop to the display.

  6. Pool-side strategy

    Relaxing pool-side reading Dan Hill’s Dark Matter and Trojan Horses – A Strategic Design Vocabulary. The content seems more relevant and pressing than ever. > There are no clients for these problems. Who is the client for climate change, except perhaps the entire human race? Clients purport to exist for many of these problems; sometimes too many clients, even, which is a different kind of problem.

  7. Children’s day

    Happy Children's Day (こどもの日, Kodomo no hi) to all you grown up children. Get those carp windsocks (鯉のぼり, Koinobori) flying and make yourself or children a folded paper samurai helmet (兜, 冑, Kabuto) https://tavinsorigami.com/origami-kabuto/.

  8. The first next step

    Yesterday I gifted two hours of my time to the Lewes Library of Things (LLOT) https://www.leweslibraryofthings.org.uk/. LLOT is a community project that provides access to equipment on a loan basis free of charge irrespective of their financial circumstances. It also flips the consumer model of many people owning many things, to one thing being used by many people. I’m really excited to be getting involved in the sustainable and regenerative economy space, however small it may be.

  9. I voted

    I voted. Voting stations are open late this evening. Find your nearest voting station here https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/i-am-a/voter/your-election-information. You don’t need your polling card but do need photo ID. GO VOTE!

  10. Export these settings

    You know what I’d really like to see more of with software that have a huge list of settings and customisations? An option to ‘export these settings’ as a json file. Rarely do I make the time to document my setup successes, I’m far more focused on doing the task at hand. The number of times I’ve had to figure things out again from scratch. This would make it much easier.