I’m in a musical season of my life right now. One of my kids started taking violin lessons, which led to me sitting in on the lessons, which led me to getting out the guitar to accompany practice, and now I’m back to playing for myself. All this led me to hunt down a podcast that I was enjoying a couple years ago: Strong Songs Kirk Hamilton breaks down and analyzes songs with an eye…
NodeBB v4 launched today with Activitypub support I’m not actually very familiar with NodeBB. I’ve used the older web boards like phpBB, as well as newer ones like Vanilla and Discourse , the latter of which seems to be everywhere. Federating forums is an exciting area for the Fediverse. Lemmy has been moderately successful, but emulates Reddit more than a traditional message board (“traditional”…
The Idiot Box - The 'Annex Canada' Stuff Is A Test And You're Failing Trump is a threat to our country, certainly, but his real talent is sucking all of the air out of the room with his absurd rambling promises and declarations (aka “flooding the zone”) while the senior leadership of the GOP does the really fucked up stuff. Trump’s wild plans rarely (if ever) come to fruition - but Mitch…
Some of my favorite tricks for finding RSS Feeds to follow: Reddit Get the feed for the top posts of the month for a subreddit: https://www.reddit.com//r/simpsonsshitposting/top/.rss?t=month (Replace simpsonsshitposting with a subreddit you want to monitor) This gives you the top posts from the month, so it’s not a firehose of stuff flooding your reader–just about a post a day. The downside…
I’m trying out Micro.blog for blogging. I’ve been looking for a new platform to use, and when I saw Tantek’s post about micro.one offering $1/month blogging , I decided to give it a shot. Plus I have this great new domain that I’ve been wanting to use, since the .ing TLD rolled out a year ago. My main requirements for a blogging platform are ActivityPub support and not being a hassle, either…
My friend Adam recently asked me about the RSS feeds I consume, so I thought it was a good time to do the equivalent of a 2022 blogroll post. The orange RSS icons in this post link directly to RSS feeds you can subscribe to. If you don't have a way to follow RSS feeds, a site like Feedly or Newsblur will get you started for free. For my own setup, I self-host FreshRSS in a Docker container on my…
Just in time for the shortest day of the year (in the northern hemisphere), my solar panels are live! First off, solar panels make financial sense right now. I would see solar panels on people's houses and wonder how much more people are spending just to lower their 'carbon footprint' (a term made up by fossil fuel marketing to push individual responsibility for a shared problem ). But it turns…