I've received my data from Spotify! Once I'm home and have had dinner, I'll get hacking on it to see what they've got for me and whether I can reproduce my Spotify Wrapped myself, for historic years, too!
IndieWeb post types
This content type is full of IndieWeb post types, which are all content types which allow me to take greater ownership of my own data. These are likely unrelated to my blog posts. You can find a better breakdown by actual post kind below:
I will be attending IndieWebCamp London 2020 on
This is a great read about the things that being in the https://indieweb.org/ (Independent Web) can empower you with, and the ownership and agency that it affords you.
I'd recommend a read of https://www.jvt.me/posts/2019/07/22/why-website/ and https://www.jvt.me/posts/2019/10/20/indieweb-talk/ for a bit more info, too.
Recommended read: It’s Time to Get Personal https://24ways.org/2019/its-time-to-get-personal/
Between and I took 11790 steps.
Recommended read: “Link In Bio” is a slow knife https://anildash.com/2019/12/10/link-in-bio-is-how-they-tried-to-kill-the-web/
This is a brilliant talk about the quirks of JavaScript, from a number of years ago.
Although it's fun to hate on JavaScript, it can also be seen about other languages.
Definitely worth a watch if you've never seen it before, or are working with JavaScript and want to have to think very hard about what the language does.
Recommended read: Wat https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
Day 10 - It’s OK if you’re not running Kubernetes
Recommended read: Day 10 - It’s OK if you’re not running Kubernetes https://sysadvent.blogspot.com/2019/12/day-10-it-ok-if-you-not-running.html?m=1
Recommended read: Blogging Less in the 2020s https://www.kickscondor.com/blogging-less-in-the-2020s/
There is no “Linux” Platform (Part 1)
Recommended read: There is no “Linux” Platform (Part 1) https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2019/12/04/there-is-no-linux-platform-1/
Between and I took 10370 steps.
Not really sure what the issue was, may be that php.microformats.io has been returning a bit slower than expected. But either way there's now webmention sending after a reboot of my post-deploy service 👍🏽
Recommended read: Level of Effort https://bradfrost.com/blog/post/level-of-effort/
Developers shouldn't distribute their own software
Recommended read: Developers shouldn't distribute their own software https://drewdevault.com/2019/12/09/Developers-shouldnt-distribute.html
I thought something weird was happening - I've not seen any incoming webmentions since Friday from my own posts, and it seems that my webmention sending post-deploy isn't working.
I'll look into that tonight!
In the Beginning was the Website
Recommended read: In the Beginning was the Website https://desmondrivet.com/2019/12/08/intro-to-indie-web
Between and I took 5859 steps.
Between and I took 11765 steps.
Recommended read: 2019 Firefox Flashback https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/flashback/
Between and I took 12655 steps.
Interactive Gender Pay Gap Tool
Recommended read: Interactive Gender Pay Gap Tool https://www.starlingbank.com/current-account/tools/interactive-gender-pay-gap-tool/
Zsh prompt with asynchronous Git status
This is an interesting idea - I've not been bitten by it before, but may be worth adding to my dotfiles anyway
Recommended read: Zsh prompt with asynchronous Git status https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2019-zsh-async-vcs-info
Choose Your Docker Base Image Wisely
Version pinning is always a difficult line to walk - you don't want things to change when you're not expecting them to (such as here) but you also don't want to be pinned to really old versions of software, as that increases risk
Recommended read: Choose Your Docker Base Image Wisely https://www.innoq.com/en/blog/choose-your-docker-base-image-wisely/
What Stable Kernel Should I Use?
Recommended read: What Stable Kernel Should I Use? http://kroah.com/log/blog/2018/08/24/what-stable-kernel-should-i-use/
I had a quick look at the API but it doesn't seem to have a way to look at the user's play history. May require more digging, or using something like Last.FM
Thames Water don't get password security
Recommended read: Thames Water don't get password security https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/12/thames-water-dont-get-password-security/
Between and I took 6452 steps.
Linux exists only because of a happy accident
Recommended read: Linux exists only because of a happy accident https://augustl.com/blog/2019/linus_and_linux_happy_accident/
Recommended read: Improving CLIs with isatty https://blog.jez.io/cli-tty/
How to Fix Social Media by Injecting A Chunk of the Blogosphere
Recommended read: How to Fix Social Media by Injecting A Chunk of the Blogosphere https://kottke.org/19/01/how-to-fix-social-media-by-injecting-a-chunk-of-the-blogosphere
Defragmenting your Calendar and your Outlook
Recommended read: Defragmenting your Calendar and your Outlook https://www.hanselman.com/blog/DefragmentingYourCalendarAndYourOutlook.aspx
Being in First Class on a train is great and all (only £2 more expensive than an open return - bargain!) but they can't make tea correctly. They put the milk in first!!
After seeing my Spotify Wrapped playlist for the year, and some of the usage stats, I think I'm definitely going to be writing an application to get that data out for myself and my own usages
Day 2 - 15 Ways to Make On-Call More Fun
Recommended read: Day 2 - 15 Ways to Make On-Call More Fun https://sysadvent.blogspot.com/2019/12/day-2-15-ways-to-make-on-call-more-fun.html?m=1
Recommended read: It was 20 years ago today http://boston.conman.org/2019/12/04.1
Between and I took 9648 steps.
Properly managing your `.gitignore` file
Recommended read: Properly managing your `.gitignore` file https://julien.danjou.info/properly-managing-your-gitignore/