Open APIs and the Facebook Trash Fire →
I’m done assuming good faith; I’m done assuming incompetence; I’m done assuming ignorance.
Once on internet, it is better to be crazy cynic towards online services than to mourn later. Facebook has long lost even that privilege.
So we name the moons of other planets - Titan for example - but our moon is just the “moon”. Not sure what that says about us humans. 🤔
It doesn’t matter what is right or wrong, true or false regarding Facebook’s behavior. The constant stream of negative press has to affect overall perception of the service. And even more, the morale of the employees at the org. The fight’s getting ugly.
I, finally, added the links to Third-Person Voice for all the podcast players out there in the about page. So now one can subscribe to the Microcast in the player of his or her choice. Or just grab the feed and follow along the traditional way - whatever suits you.
Another episode of Third-Person Voice is out now.
For them, the walk was supposed to be about finding something that was lost. He, however, had a hidden agenda of his own — that of finding “someone”.
🗓️ The Weekly Digest [16/12]
🔗 On switching to a pixelbook via Colm
🔗 Forgetting habits learned from online platforms by Alan
🔗 On ideal length of podcast via Jeremy
💬 Meta-discussion: Poets, Diversifying Timeline
🔗 Playlist to work to by Phil
I have been on an unplanned official travel for the last week - one full of crazy full day schedules. And boy did it affect my routine. I could hardly follow up on anything I had planned. Plus it‘s left me with so much to do. Travels should be about memories, not missed moments.
I wish there was a way to ignore the limit for Screen Time on iOS at the complete device level, rather than doing for each app. “I want to use my phone, the whole of it, for another 15 minutes dammit, not just this app”. The persistent bugging gets irritating.
I always loved this quote from Terry Pratchett and just came across this gem again today.
If you have enough book space, I don’t want to talk to you.
He was smart not to include a reference to a book shelf in there - makes sure it holds true even in the age of eBooks 🙂
I had missed that David has added a new function to Blot “to step around the issues micro.blog was having with images in Blot’s RSS feeds”. This change should allow using the caching feature without missing images in the timeline. Have updated my post on the issue.