There’s this idea in IndieWeb circles of the admin tax. That’s the work you have to do in order to be somewhat independent of the big silo platforms, the price you pay instead of paying with your attention. Mostly, I not only don’t mind, I quite enjoy some aspects of the tinkering, but as you move into the upper echelons of independence, so too the admin tax rate goes up. And there’s another…
A little while ago, I decided that I would really like a better webmentions experience on this site. I’m currently indebted to Pelle Wasserman’s app to collect them for me and deliver them here, which I appreciate very much, but my effort to understand how I might improve the presentation, for example by separating and grouping the various kinds of reaction, taught me only that I have far too…
It’s now been a bit more than three months since I first opened an account on Hetzner and a week since almost everything (not the DNS for this domain) switched over, so I thought it was a good time to recap.
The main points in favour are:
A Day in the Life of an Internet Censor1 — Interesting peek behind the curtain of the Great Firewall.
Selfish and Stupid1 — Musings on free soloing, akrasia , and fairness, or lack thereof. Accurately titled.
ITV Retro Playlists — Playlist of playlists of various classic TV shows from ITV, including gold like The Prisoner , but also “newer” fare like Press Gang.
On…