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  • Youth 😉

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat do you think gets better with age? The older you get the more appreciate that you were once young.

  • Social Networks

    Social Networks

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    Reading Time: 5 minutesBefore 2006 we talked about social networks. it’s only with Twitter, Facebook and Instagram that the idea of social media emerged. With it came a golden age of online communities where Facebook was for Uni students to keep in contact with each other, Twitter was to microblog about project progress and more,…

  • Threads And Europe

    Threads And Europe

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday Facebook, discguised as meta, and Meta, diguised as Instagram launched Threads. Threads is meant to be a twitter competitor. The paradox is that Facebook has always been a twitter competitor, and this has become more evident with every iteration of both social networks. It is paradoxical that Facebook would need threads,…

  • The Second Test

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI am an excerpt. I think I will appear as text in the post, below the heading.

  • The Mastodon Post Test

    The Mastodon Post Test

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is a test to see whether I can write a blog post that appears on mastodon.social.

  • Playing With Hugo – Continued

    Playing With Hugo – Continued

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I decided to write a blog post using Hugo and HTML rather than markdown and it worked fine. I was able to write the post, checked that everything was displaying properly, and then noticed that with HTML the theme I am using does not detect section headings. Markdown Behaviour With Markdown…

  • Luxurious Indifference – Watching Twitter Fail, as a Passerby

    Luxurious Indifference – Watching Twitter Fail, as a Passerby

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesSince 2006 I have been using Twitter every single day for several hours a day, reading up to ten thousand posts per day. Every time it failed I would know about it. Weeks ago I decided to stop using Twitter, so when it fails I read about it in articles. I am…

  • The WordPress Fediverse Instance. 

    The WordPress Fediverse Instance. 

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesFor weeks, or even months, I have had the activitypub plugin installed on my blog and after the creator of that plugin asked us to check how many friends we had I noticed that my wordpress blog was working as a Fediverse instance.  What This Means When I noticed that my blog…

  • Flawed Thinking and Cleaning

    Flawed Thinking and Cleaning

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Unilateral Solution I stopped making a mess because I came up with unillateral solutions, until I found the ideal one. I experimented with skewers to remove the mud from shoes, I experimented with rubber boots that I could rinse under a tap. I tried with spare shoes in the letter box. …

  • On The Any Distance – Workout Tracker

    On The Any Distance – Workout Tracker

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesI watched the Apple keynote and thought “This is demonstrating a dystopia, with the Pure Vision Goggles, rather than a eutopia. A dystopia where everyone is alone, working in VR, rather than surrounded by people. The dystopia continued on with an app. In the age of two factor authentication they want to authenticate…