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

Maybe Iā€™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. Iā€™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 canā€™t help but suspect that if youā€™re passionate about working in tech, youā€™re not actually smart enough to do so. If youā€™re a techie and this offends you, then riddle me this: if techies are so goddamned smart, why arenā€™t we unionized?

I feel like Iā€™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. Iā€™ve seen the argument that ā€œlow performersā€ shouldnā€™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. Itā€™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 isnā€™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 oneā€™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 letā€™s hope this time goes better.

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Taking a moment to pat myself on the back for some things Iā€™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 freeCodeCampā€™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 Iā€™m happy to see someone else in the personal web benefits from freeCodeCampā€™s courses too.

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Iā€™ll let you in on a little secret.

Most times when Iā€™m writing a blog post with some kind of advice, itā€™s actually just advice for myself. :shushing_face:

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iā€™m hosting the indieweb carnival this month: Carnival.txt | the library of alexandra

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Trying to figure out why Iā€™m having trouble being motivated to work on my longer term projects.

https://melvian.net/note/2

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I realize Iā€™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.

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

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Didnā€™t get a chance to push this yesterday.

IMHO, the web is everything. The personal, the corporate, the human-curated, the AI generated slop. Itā€™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 weā€™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 youā€™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 wonā€™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 isnā€™t an acceptable (or tenable) approach; weā€™re moving into a ā€œpost-truthā€ society, for better or worse, and establishing an authority to tell us whatā€™s true is just another avenue to corruption/exploitation. Weā€™ve already got enough for 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. Thatā€™s probably the best we can achieve.

hereā€™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, whatā€™s going on in general and talked about what I read, watched and listened to. You know, the usual!

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