Grigor's web feed

Hooked with watching the Olympics at any time of the day basically.

So with this new pipeline job that I just wrote the status updates that I create on my website should be automatically posted to my mastodon.

A very good piece describing the problem of the apolitical open-source paradigm.

We're already over 1.5 degrees. 2 degrees coming soon.

So, you may ask, where have I been?

First Britain (even though caveats apply), now France.

Great news from France 🇫🇷 The left emerges in first place in parliamentary elections, with LFI as its biggest party.

Feeling extra joyful for germany's loss at the euros.

I have this thing where I refuse to let a book down even when I lose interest in how it's going to end and I hate it

It's getting late, but too hot to sleep.

Haven't seen such a good conference as #11tyConf in a while.

Alright ready to read that much maligned Sarah Wagenknecht interview on NLR. let's see what's this all about.

Banger poster from the PFLP 🔻🔻🔻 This May Day march in solidarity with Palestinians, for freedom from oppression for all workers and all colonized people around the world, against the enemies of humanity!

Bookwyrm.social is so often down or extremely slow that I'm seriously thinking of starting my ActivityPub journey by self-hosting an instance for myself... at least after they enable account export :( #bookwyrm

Neither neurotypical, nor neurodivergent, but a secret third thing.

This month's indieweb carnival is about two topics that I hold dear: accessibility and the small web.

Damn i was about to miss the #indiewebCarnival this month, and it's about two topics that I hold dear: the #indieweb and #accessibility.

Was trying to stream a pirated football match and I'd never encountered such tight control over opening the browser console.

A really good interview, with lots of history and refernces from social efforts to create alternative technological infrastructures in Europe.

A widget to insert comments on any static site really, not just for neocities, but it's coming, and I suppose it's motly used, from the amazing neocities community, so credits where it's due.

Just updated my website font to Atkinson Hyperlegible and fixed a color contrast issue with tags.

Oh btw, happy Summer Day to all who celebrate!

Did Zizek really start a substack?

Leftists humanities people stop using problematic tech services challenge (impossible)

In this new /now page update, I'm saving every new update as a markdown file, part of a 'now' collection, so that I can create an archive of past updates as well.

Went over to https://bukmark.club/ to add my site to the directory, and to my surprise it was already there!

I'll do a round up of the recent changes to my website.

Weekends are over so fast, we've been duped, demand #4DayWeek now!

It seems to be the case

Why yes, I also got my 11ty conference ticket

Interesting theses on the "asshole society" that we seem to be living in.

Making mafishe (albanian merengues) 🤤 Don't know why i never tried this before, always been a big fan of them

I've always been fascinated by the Decidim project, the FLOSS platform for participatory democracy.

Reaching that point in your blog that you need to think about pagination 🥹

I've made it into a tradition of mine these last years to start the year with a big fat theory book.

Why would you, as a non-American, not living in the US, watch the superbowl, is beyond me.

Winter, especially February, tends to be a depressive period, so I'm trying to give myself a schedule by doing things I like and not missing my daily meditation or almost-daily yoga practice.

A good post that highlights the necessary social and political character of climate activism, in this case its logical and natural position regarding the occupation of Palestine.

So i know #eurovision is kind of lame and was not going to watch it anyway, but I was expecting, as a minimum of human decency, or at least for the sake of consistency, that they would expell the zionist entity from the competition like they did with Russ…

Another piece about the web revival movement (which still feels kind of like a bubble, i.e. very few people know about it) and how blogging is making a comeback.

Bookmarks page is now live at https://grgml.xyz/bookmarks/ 🎉 With microformats, bridgy-specific content for posting to mastodon, webmentions support and all that.

Started working on the bookmarks page for my blog and a bunch of things that I have to do/fix/change popped up 🤯.

Year started with lots of activity, from street protests to night outs with friends, from reading in the park under the cold January sun, to feeling dread for Palestinians suffering in Gaza and anger against the shameless and corrupt western politicians.

Once in a few years I'm reminded Germany really is one of the most despicable countries on earth.

I got angry because the layout i built on #firefox doesn't work on #chrome.

This blogpost was supposed to come out at the end of last year, but holiday season is full hang outs and unexpected events, so I had to postpone it with a week or so.

One of the many articles that were going around this EOY about the resurgence in blogs, federated social networks, weird/artsy websites and the decentralizing tendency that seems to be gaining steam in this era of mass enshitiffication.

End of year tasks roundup: clean up browser tabs ✓ clean up desktop ✓ post status updates from personal website ✓ #eoy #indieweb #posse

Latest essay from endnotes, just in time for a nice end-of-year holiday read.

End of the year, enjoying my two weeks break, meeting friends, having fun, and of course updating my website.