Re:RSS feeds or blogs?

Replied to Reading Indie Blogs Right (thoughts.uncountable.uk)

Loren put out an interesting post on why he prefers not to use an RSS reader: […] I did a post a few weeks back about why I’d actually prefer if you read my posts in RSS than the website itself.

I’m somewhere between the first two blog posts. My flow for news consumption, in short, is see in RSS reader -> send anything longer than a couple of paragraphs to my e-reader for comfortable reading. For the shortest posts, I often click just to give people a view (if they have analytics) and check if…

yes to a happy internet

Liked Not Who I Want To Be by Nadreck (nadreck.me)

Jay has a recent post up called “Not The Sort Of Person I Want To Be Online“, and it strikes pretty close to home. It’s worth the click, in my opinion. It opens with:
It would be so so easy for me to open my blog editor every week and vent and rant about the state of the world. About how crazy…

blocking replies on mastodon

Replied to Will It Still Be Social? (louplummer.lol)

I’ve evidently been living under a rock as a budding controversy has been brewing in the Fediverse. There is a two-year old proposal known as FEP-5624: Per-object reply control policies:
“Sometimes, users may want to…

I understand the idea of wanting to post and not wanting replies from anyone, I really do. But this brings me back to the question that I always seem to come back to: if you want full control, why do you rely on someone else’s platform? Get a blog! Curate comments or close them! Social…

Styling internal and external links

Replied to Styling the external links on this site (Rach Smith’s digital garden)

One nice side-effect of doing this #WeblogPoMo2024 challenge is that I’m forced to look at my website every day, and I’m inspired to make little changes to it.

Love that styling external links is becoming more of a thing! 🙂 The « preview on hover » thing is something I have enabled on Wikipedia a real long time ago and I can’t browse that site without it anymore… but I never thought of doing it on my own blog. Hmm… maybe this should…

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🤩 Alex
🎂 30 ans
📍 Grenoble, France
📚 J’apprends | Learning CS50 – Introduction to computer science. Coursera: Introduction to technical writing.
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made myself a now page! J’ai une page « Now » qui résume rapidement ce qu’il se passe dans ma vie !