Telegram Instant View templates
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A blog follower contacted me yesterday and reported that he had created a template for my blog for Telegram’s Instant View.
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My thoughts on the Soundcore Liberty Air 2 Pro
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Recently, Anker had introduced new wireless in-ear earbuds with their Soundcore brand, the Soundcore Liberty Air 2 Pro.
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Comments
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A long time ago I had used Disqus on this blog for comments, which is not a good idea. Then I switched to utterances and at some point I removed comments altogether.
A decentralized social network based on WordPress
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I got a webmention from Alexander Kirk, mentioning one of my recent posts.
Newsletters didn’t kill Blogs
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In my IndieWeb bubble, this essay by Robin Rendle about newsletters has been circulating for a few days. It says newsletters have killed blogs, blogs are too complex and newsletters are the future, because they are easier (or at least that’s how I understood it).
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I got the sudden idea to add a feature to GoBlog that lets you read a random post. Said, done. After a few minutes and only a few lines of code, there is this functionality: For both my English and my German blog.
“The Complete List of Trump’s Twitter Insults (2015-2021)”
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The New York Times has published a (very) long list of Trump’s Twitter insults. I’m curious to see if the internet becomes a little less toxic in the future, but I have little hope.
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Someone asked a good question in a comment.
How many times do you think you’ll change the back-end structure of your blog over 20 years? 😛
I hope 2020 was the last time I replaced the technical foundation for the blog. Now that I’m using my completely own system, there should also be little danger of me being lured somewhere else. Moreover, the whole effort… ☺️
Blog reactions
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My girlfriend gave me the idea the other day, when I complained that sometimes I don’t know what to blog about, that I could “react” to my old posts. Kind of like how web video producers react to videos.
A solution for social media?
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Sometimes I find it quite interesting to read through articles that I wrote three or four years ago, back then still on the platform Medium. Some time ago I deleted them on Medium and published them on my blog in a “Medium Archive”.