Really enjoying the online sessions from IndieWebCamp London. Kevin has discussed IndieWeb building blocks and Jamie has described how he uses Micropub to publish straight into a git repo as part of building his static site.
Kind: Notes
Publishing via Micropub via Emacs!
Just started reading The Shallows (strapline: ‘How the internet is changing the way we think, read and remember’) by Nicholas Carr. Enjoying it a lot so far.
He has mentioned HyperCard, Marshall McLuhan and how neurons work. So this is all relevant to my interests.
Oh baby.
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Finished Dune off the other night. It was a bit Shakespearian, duelling families, noble characters, sweeping arcs of history and all that. Soliloquys. I did enjoy it and finished it off quickly. But on reflection I can’t say I really actually *liked* any of the characters very much. Interesting yes, do I care what happens to them, not so much.
On the plus side I can watch the David Lynch film now.
Very pleased to have stumbled across org-roam (https://blog.jethro.dev/posts/introducing_org_roam/).
I think it’ll be the next step I wanted for my personal wiki that I’ve been keeping in org-mode. I tried org-brain for a bit (again) and it just didn’t click, and also broke my org-publish step. org-roam just works with straight up org file links, nothin’ fancy needed.
Hoping it’ll get me a bit closer to TiddlyWiki in Emacs kind of thing that I’m after.
I’m about two thirds of the way through Dune. Still well written but all this stuff about the machinations of Fremen culture and Paul going off his nut and having visions all the time, I’m finding a bit less compelling plot-wise. Also I don’t like things that are underground or in caves. Makes me feel claustrophobic.
Not that I’d recommend buying a new laptop (keeping an old one running is that way to go)… but for interests sake, according to iFixit HP EliteBooks are pretty repairable. So well done to HP on that.
Digging this article on the Garden vs the Stream on the web.
Think about that for a minute — how much time we’ve all spent arguing, promoting our ideas, and how little time we’ve spent contributing to the general pool of knowledge.
Why? Because we’re infatuated with the stream, infatuated with our own voice, with the argument we’re in, the point we’re trying to make, the people in our circle we’re talking to.
Oof. Yes.
I want a Memex.
https://hapgood.us/2015/10/17/the-garden-and-the-stream-a-technopastoral/
Today I learned about ‘chip creep’ that used to happen on older PCs: a chip working its way out of a socket over time as it expanded and contracted from heating and cooling. And that a quick way to fix a motherboard with lots of creeping chips was to gently drop it on the table.