On the default post category in your WordPress blog by Nitin Khanna (nitinkhanna.com)

For the longest time, my ‘default post category’ in WordPress has been ‘tech’ – a decision I made when I started writing more about my software work and ideas than anything else.
I realize now that that was a mistake. The default category should be general, so that when one starts writing,…

The best way to blog in 2020 by Ben WerdmüllerBen Werdmüller (werd.io)

I’ve been blogging – albeit not consistently on the same site – since 1998. That’s a long time in internet years, and in human years, and over time I’ve conditioned out any self-editing impulse I might have. I write, hit publish, and share. Done.
Because I’m fairly prolific, friends and colleagues o…

Lurking, Twitter, The Commons, and Private Posts by chrisaldrich (BoffoSocko)

Lurking Yesterday I was catching up on chat logs and ran across a stub for lurking on the IndieWeb wiki. I cleaned up the formatting a bit and added some additional material. Later Ton Zijlstra dropped

Mastodon on Bridgy by Ryan BarrettRyan Barrett (snarfed.org)

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Mastodon is now on Bridgy! Both backfeed and publish (aka POSSE) are fully supported. Feel free to try them out! And let me know if you hit any bugs, problems, or missing features.
(If you’re alread…

Unlisted Posts by Aaron PareckiAaron Parecki (aaronparecki.com)

At IndieWebCamp Amsterdam I finally implemented unlisted posts for my website! This has been on my list for a while, and is a prerequisite for being able to do fancier things like posting full photo albums to my site, so I decided to take the plunge and finally get this done.
There has been some bra…

I Broke The Official Jeremy Renner App By Posting The Word “Porno” On It by Stefan Heck (The Concourse)

The Butterfly Effect is the idea that a solitary flap of a butterfly’s wings will eventually result in a hurricane halfway across the globe. In the interests of moving forward as a society, and because I don’t think I’ve seen a butterfly in, like, four years, I believe it is time to retire this term and go with something a bit different: the porno effect. It’s fairly self-explanatory, I think, but in case you’re still not following, here’s where I got the idea: merely by posting the word “porno” on the official Jeremy Renner app, I single-handedly obliterated, uh… the official Jeremy Renner app.

A Month of Bullet Journaling by Amit GawandeAmit Gawande (blog.amitgawande.com)

It’s been around a month since I started maintaining a bullet journal (BuJo, as it is called with love). It has been an enlightening month – I have learned so much about my habits and the way my mind works.
Of course, this wasn’t my first attempt at maintaining a journal or of planning myself, m…