The Digital Garden Post
Probably my best tweet, back when I used Twitter. Saving it here for posterity and as a way to explain why I don't like the term "digital garden".
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06
Feb
#100DaysOfWriting
In googling for a stock image to put at the top of today's post, I discovered there's already a #100DaysofWriting movement. Apparently it's quite popular!
The whole thing is based on showing up to the page with curiosity and gentleness. 'Showing up' can look like whatever you want. Five minutes of note scribbling? That counts. Research reading? That counts too, just as much as writing 1000 words. The point is regular connection without judgement.
These people think it's okay to "set reasonable expectations for themselves" and "not make a demented commitment like write something public-facing on their blog for 100
31
Jan
In Praise Of Self-Hosting
One little trend that gives me hope in these times is that a lot of people are starting their own websites. People are trying to return to a time when the internet was more personal, and everything wasn't centralized and aggregated on the same 3-4 platforms. People are starting webrings (please invite me to your webring). People are even trying to bring RSS back!
I tend to have mixed feelings about looking back at early eras of the web with too much nostalgia. Among a certain set it's become popular to yearn for the return of web 1.0, but
27
Jan
The Great Decentralization Debate: Bluesky vs. Mastodon
I've been meaning to write a bit about this for a while, but finally getting into Bluesky last week has given me the push I needed to get to it. Back in November, Christine Lemmer-Webber, one of the original authors of the ActivityPub protocol behind software like Mastodon, wrote an excellently-researched piece called How Decentralized Is Bluesky Really? A lot of the technical ins-and-outs of the essay go a little over my head, but I think it's a worthwhile read if you, like me, are enough of a nerd to want to understand what's happening technically under the hood of
26
Jan
"I have a horror of sentimentality, and its name is Saint-Saëns" - Claude Debussy
Ran across this quote recently and went down a bit of a rabbit hole into Debussy and Saint-Saens' mutual hatred. I think it's important to remember that classical composers were all catty as hell and constantly beefing with each other. RIP Claude Debussy, you could have gotten in some great fights on Twitter. (Saint-Saens may have been sentimental but Danse Macabre still slaps).
18
Jan
Checking Disk Space On An Ubuntu Server
du -cha --max-depth=1 / | grep -E "M|G"From this StackOverflow answer - ncdu is also a good tool for this, allegedly, but its output didn't really seem to have any correlation to the actual folders on my server. I feel like I have to do this once a year because of storage issues and always forget, so hopefully this serves as a reminder going forward. Turns out snap is the culprit, as per usual. In a fit of pique I uninstalled snap and all of its files, and lo and behold I'm able to finally update Ghost!
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