Dan J’s Website

This is one of those things I find myself needing to do to keep my place tidy, and it's easy to let it slide if you don't know the process, and then the next thing you know you've had this stupid blue plastic bag lying in the corner of your entryway for m…

This is an excellent episode.

I got back into running recently, and am following this training guide, which basically starts you out mixing a little jogging with your walking, but steadily works its way up to running for one hour non-stop (after 13 weeks).

I've been making this dish on the regular.

I use, but don't really like, CloudApp to share files (mostly images).

Example that may be relevant to building my own static CMS (if you have a static site generator, you need some trigger to regenerate the site in response to a Micropub call, if you want to be able to update the site from a Micropub client).

This thread links to a bunch of people's work on communicating with the ErgoDox (or, more generally, QMK) from code.

These look delicious.

You don’t “succeed” because you have no weaknesses; you succeed because you find your unique strengths and focus on developing habits around them. -- Tim Ferriss, Tribe of Mentors

Important article by Cory Doctorow about "adversarial interoperability" - the concept of building a system that interoperates with an existing system for the purposes of competing with it—what it is, why it matters, and what's happened to it.

Short video about Dustin's writing process: he does a shit-ton of outlining on cards ahead of time, which I think is what Joe wanted me to see an example of.

"What’s your advice for aspiring writers?"

There's no good reason I should build my own site generator, instead of just using Jekyll (as I am at the time of writing this post.)

A favourite post from one of my favourite tech bloggers, Scott Hanselman.

Critical hub for learning about tools and services that respect / protect your online privacy.

SBI is a home for generating new knowledge and understandings of how Indigenous nations and communities are impacted by gender and sexual violence, and how they may continue to work towards healing and freedom from such violence.

My man Antony Johnston's take on organizational techniques that work for him.

Perennial favourite from one of my heroes, Antony Johnston.

This is basically my go-to site for learning F#.

IndieWeb supernerd Aaron shared this post on Micro.blog the other day, and, having just bought Hue bulbs, I definitely want to dig into this.

I asked this question a while back—if I ever get back to playing with my Librem laptop, it's worth keeping an eye on this.

Dang, I was quite compelled by Walker's various podcast appearances.

Memory matters.

Medium is bad for the web.

Awesome tool for finding special characters (and their related encodings/code points/etc.) or even taking an unfamiliar character and finding out what the heck it is.

It's possible I'll regret using this title to make a pun about the degree symbol (°), instead of saving it for a pun about the weather, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I noticed, when copying a bunch of temperatures from a website into a CSV file into a Markdown table, that

Sweet (though non-SSL 😜) utility for easily creating tables in a variety of formats (Markdown being the one I'm interested in).

I can't remember if I'd come across the Markdown Guide before—useful reference for the less-common bits of Markdown, like tables.

I'd been looking for a quick reference for the smoke points of various cooking oils.

I used this article to properly position the little Micro.blog logo next to the Status Feed link in this site's navigation bar.

Looks like a big leap over the old OverDrive app I used years ago.

This is what a "status"-style post, the kind you'd see on my status feed would look like here on this site.

I'm glad I took the 12 minutes.

This flowchart for determining the age of a map is half ridiculous and half enlightening.

I just downloaded the caption files to a bunch of video clips, and wanted each one to go in a folder with its same name (minus the file extension), cos that’s where the work on each clip is going to happen.

One of my IndieWeb idols, Brent Simmons, writes about his blog turning 20.

I have a powerful need. 🤤 via kottke.org

VEGAN BLACK BEAN CHOC FUDGE BROWNIES 1 1/2 cups black beans (1 15-oz can, drained and rinsed very well) (250g after draining) 2 tbsp cocoa powder (10g) 1/2 cup quick oats (40g) 1/4 tsp salt 1/2 cup pure maple syrup or date syrup (75g) 1/4 cup coconut oil…

Brent Simmons, creator of NetNewsWire (which I'm quite happily using—can't wait for the iOS version!)

Every few years, I start a blog.

My first job, developing a retail POS system, there was a database table that only had about eight records in it.

I’ve learned maybe one thing every ten years.