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Great reads, as always. A few points stuck out to me.

Maybe I’m wrong to think that HTML and CSS are themselves relatively simple, and that all the rest of the rigamarole that running your own website entails is the hard part.

I agree that actually hosting your HTML and CSS is the real challenge. I am reminded of another blog post, Static site hosting hurdles. I’m not sure what can be done to make it simpler for non-tech people, but stuff like Neocities is in the right direction.

I can’t help but suspect that if you’re passionate about working in tech, you’re not actually smart enough to do so. If you’re a techie and this offends you, then riddle me this: if techies are so goddamned smart, why aren’t we unionized?

I feel like I’m going insane whenever discussion about tech unions comes up, especially in the CS career related subreddits. There is a lot of fundamental misunderstandings of how unions work. I’ve seen the argument that ā€œlow performersā€ shouldn’t be protected from being fired by the union, as if unions prevent anyone from getting fired ever. Also note that OP is never the ā€œlow performerā€ that needs protection. I also see people upset at the idea that a tech union would lower salaries for people nearing the ceiling, which may be true, but improving salaries for everyone else is a good tradeoff (and a moral one, I would argue) to make. It’s a real crabs in a bucket situation.

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Well, that custom HTTP server discussed in ā€œstatic site hosting hurdlesā€ probably isn’t the right way to go if we want to make it easier for regular folks to build/maintain their own websites. I mean, I code for a living and I still had to read that post three times to make sense of it.

I think the problem is that a lot of techies think entirely too highly of themselves, and have mistaken Ayn Rand for a philosopher. Drinking that particular flavor of Kool-Aid is dangerous.

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This one’s a bit personal since Halloween is my 20th wedding anniversary.

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The last time I brought up the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis I got mauled in a voice chat so let’s hope this time goes better.

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Taking a moment to pat myself on the back for some things I’m quite proud of.

Discusses ADHD, Depression, and Anxiety, but mainly to provide context. This post is overall positive!

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Congratulations on your wins! Glad to see you celebrate your own accomplishments too. :purple_heart:

Glad to hear that freeCodeCamp’s responsive web design course became the first online course you completed. freeCodeCamp was where I started to learn web development seriously after attempting to code my own website from scratch, so I’m happy to see someone else in the personal web benefits from freeCodeCamp’s courses too.

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I’ll let you in on a little secret.

Most times when I’m writing a blog post with some kind of advice, it’s actually just advice for myself. :shushing_face:

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i’m hosting the indieweb carnival this month: Carnival.txt | the library of alexandra

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Trying to figure out why I’m having trouble being motivated to work on my longer term projects.

https://melvian.net/note/2

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I realize I’m preaching to the choir here.

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I published a few posts about trying and failing to see a comet and the little patches of forgotten ground I love so much. (now with fewer adjectives!)

Also updated my now page and wrote a new blog entry.

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Didn’t get a chance to push this yesterday.

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IMHO, the web is everything. The personal, the corporate, the human-curated, the AI generated slop. It’s the full gamut of hosted creation. I appreciate wanting some way of better understanding some conceptual idea of authenticity or trustworthiness for the pages that we’re exploring, but honestly, that runs contrary to the very first description of the internet that I ever knew: ā€œOn the internet, no one knows that you’re a dog.ā€ In other words, no one knows who is lying, so approach everything with a modicum of critical thinking. Somewhere along the way, we seem to have lost this. As with many things, I blame Facebook.

At some point, we likely won’t be able to discern between fact and fiction, which is incredibly empowering of the people and corporations that want to sell us lies. But I agree with your assertion that setting up an authority isn’t an acceptable (or tenable) approach; we’re moving into a ā€œpost-truthā€ society, for better or worse, and establishing an authority to tell us what’s true is just another avenue to corruption/exploitation. We’ve already got enough of that with the media and our politicians.

TL;DR: Focus on smaller, personal connections and use your judgment to make calls on whether to believe something on the internet. That’s probably the best we can achieve.

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here’s my post reflecting on weird web october! short version: i liked it. :+1:

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The Weekly Wrap Up is up! Couple of cool links, talked about what I did with my site, what’s going on in general and talked about what I read, watched and listened to. You know, the usual!

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https://riri.my/blog/why-the-f-do-i-cuss-so-much

this is a bit raw and contains a lot of profanity

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Your ā€œvoiceā€ really comes through on your site. I can literally practically hear you talking when I read it. So the cussing doesn’t bother me because it feels authentic; it’s how you want to be right now and so, as you say, presenting otherwise would be ā€œdishonest.ā€

However, I do feel that for many people cussing feels inauthentic, as though they’re trying too hard to be edgy. So I hope you won’t label all those people as being dishonest. In fact, my country may very well elect a foul-mouthed person who is also highly dishonest tomorrow.

Anyway, your writing and punctuation match the attitude of your site and it works.

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not everyone who doesn’t cuss is inauthentic, but i would be. maybe not overall, but on my website, cussing feels like it ā€œbellongsā€

and yes! that’s the point! you imagining me talking is exactly how it should feel! its hyper-casual, and rarely drafted or editted! when i feeling like blogging, i just do, in one go. i publish the post and go

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As a fellow pottymouth, I love this!

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This reminds me of something I wrote in April 2023.

Are we supposed to believe that he has never taken a piss? I suppose he only urinates or micturates . Should we believe he’s never crapped or taken a shit, either? Or does he only defecate? I can’t help but wonder what sort of bedroom talk he enjoys with his partner. Does he ever fuck? I suppose not. Perhaps he makes love, has sex, copulates, or — and I shudder to even think this, let alone write it — mates with his partner?

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