Two weeks later, what’s going on?
Well, it’s hot again. And we’ve got a six-month-old baby. And time is feeling weird, here in my early sixties. I have an intention to write here every day, and I’m doing lots of writing in private, just not quite ready to lift its head out of the water or peek out from behind a curtain, or whatever.
How about some logs of my web reading this morning?
Cory makes the distinction between the atrocious activities of point-haired bosses and the rest of us tinkering away with vibe-coding just the latest iteration of homebrew computing.
In there he also points to Wreccer which he describes as:
“a system to help you find small groups of people with taste similar to your own, in order to facilitate media recommendations within that group – a kind of personal, relationship-driven alternative to massive, centralized, monolithic algorithmic recommendation systems.”
which sounds interesting in a “dark forest” kind of a way. Depends on your definition of “small” in “small groups”, I suppose. Cory points to the github readme which is… brief and the site is invite-only, but somehow it grabbed my attention enough to write about it, so…
Doug Belshaw points to folk.zone as an IndieWeb “collection of free, open-source internet services, federated social media, a writing platform, a git forge, a wiki, IRC, and more.”
I’m writing something about the human and technological building blocks of social infrastructure and I think this is what I hand-wavingly call “lightweight social tech”. It’s all NOT the big guys, and I think I’m OK defining things simply in terms of what horrible thing they’re not, right now.
Hamish Campbell is pressing on in a similar vein, but not as hand-wavy as I am.
Jay Springett is picking up on the subject of taste again. Taste, interfaces and discernment. It’s all very chewy.
like: “If taste is a relation between objects, people, histories, scenes and timing, then discernment is the one part of that relation the feed cannot perform on your behalf. It can supply the cultural objects, but it can’t do the telling-apart for you, no matter how hard it tries.”
I hope that, given the current situation, this linkblogging might be a way into me writing more consistently – back to the links and the thinks. I read some links and do some thinks pretty much every day, but it takes a little bit more effort to write them down, slap a random featured image on them and press publish.
We’ll see. We’ll see.
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