Make space for solitary bees
Author: Neil Mather
I love maintenance. I don’t know why it has a bad reputation.
There’s a growing movement trying to get maintenance held again in the high esteem that it should be.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0005mrj
#Maintenance #TheMaintainers
IndieWeb is more and more starting to feel like a genuine social network for me. It’s happening slowly, but I’m building up a list of people that I follow in my reader, and I get the odd interaction back here and there. And it’s not all just inside chat about IndieWeb plumbing. Good stuff!
(Not saying it wasn’t already a social network for other people – this is just my own experience. If I’d been blogging to my own site for 20 years, or joined micro.blog, I’m sure I’d be there already!)
#IndieWeb
This is a very nice analysis of the shortcomings of behaviour change at the level of the individual. Better to focus on systemic failings than guilt-tripping people for making a wrong choice, when it very often isn’t really a choice at all.
When the focus is on practices, the so-called “value-action gap” can no longer be interpreted as evidence of individual ethical shortcomings or individual inertia. Rather, the gap between people’s attitudes and their “behaviour” is due to systemic issues: individuals live in a society that makes many pro-environmental arrangements rather unlikely.
Fixing stuff in the park today with Hackney Fixers.
Maybe 50 or more people came over the course of 3 hours and we try to fix their broken devices with them. Always a lovely community event.
I’ve found Rojava and Jackson very inspiring movements over the past year or so. Grassroots and built in areas of intense struggle, they both focus strongly on equality, economic justice and environmental issues.
There’s nothing really in-depth in this particular article, but I like the fact that representatives from both movements dialled in to a workshop in Manchester, England. Being able to so easily communicate remote can help us build international solidarity.
AMP for email? What the flip is this?
https://amp.dev/about/email.html
#AntiDisintermediation #CounterAntiDisintermediation
Read up to section 1.1.5 of SICP.
Some notes to self of things I found interesting:
A mini yak-shave to be able to sensibly eval scheme in spacemacs. For `C-x C-e` to eval the last sexp sensibly, you need to be after the last paren. By default in evil mode, navigation to the end of the line ends you up *on* the last paren, not after it.
Setting:
(setq evil-move-cursor-back nil)
will navigate you to after the last paren.
See: https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/646
Handy bit of SQL for generating a calendar table in MySQL:
https://gist.github.com/bryhal/4129042
The table is really helpful for when you need to do some analysis on a date series and you have days where nothing happened, but you want those days included.