Links / Internet
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From 2019, but as relevant as ever. Matthias Ott on why carving out your own place on the internet is so important.
Building things for your own site is so worthwhile because you are allowed to make mistakes and learn without pressure. If it doesn’t work today, well, maybe it’ll work tomorrow.
I’ve yet to look into and implement Webmentions and Webrings, and I need to submit my site to a few more directories, but the barriers for me to continue building my own place on the web have definitely been lifted.
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Erin Kissane writes about online spaces and what makes them unbearable and joyful. The post is under her wreckage/salvage moniker, a “tiny studio and display case for small research projects and long-form explorations.”
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Losing Alice
№ 44
“For the last two years, Sheila Heti has been writing to—and with—a chatbot. But what happens when the software gets updated?”
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While everyone’s scampering back to build and publish personal websites, let’s not forget about those who never went away (although, admittedly, Jason did take a brief hiatus, which feels even briefer considering the timespan of Kottke.org).
"25 years is more than half of my life, spanning four decades (the 90s, 00s, 10s, and 20s) and around 40.000 posts—almost cartoonishly long for a medium optimized for impermanence."
Congratulations, Jason! Please, keep at it!
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My colleague Amy recommended this podcast with Molly Mielke in which she speaks about her thesis on computers and creativity, which I’m linking to here. It’s a delightful read, one that makes me excited about the future of computers & computing. To quote Molly:
“Computers have, since their inception, been a rigid tool that the human user has had to adapt to use... However, through standardization, moldability, and abstraction, we can dramatically expand the utility of computers while broadening their capacity to help more people solve their problems creatively.”