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This is a masterful use of scrolling text. On my second load of the page, a lovelorn note showed up that I would have thought maudlin but for the sentence-by-sentence reveals. I wouldn't have imagined a change in presentation could so alter the experience of reading the content of that subreddit.

Is there a name for a piece of art that is a website? A webpage? I think of sites mostly as encapsulating art that isn't the site itself, even when the site is obviously creative and expressive also. An "art page" sounds like a page about art, not a page that is art.

These are questions that I'm sure had better answers in 1999.

A lovely little doohickey.

I'm seeing on gossip's web a lot of things similar to this hosted on Glitch which is very cool. I hope Glitch is profitable enough to survive because there's a lot of beauty to it.

It's an art class, let's get that out of the way up top: maybe not for everyone. And it's teaching dead-basic coding skills in its projects, so they're not necessarily of interest. But that syllabus--I'm going to be spending a while with it.

Sometimes I feel a flicker of jealousy for the Really Smart People who got to take classes like this, ponder over material like this, discuss with other Really Smart People... But there are two points that console me: first, that I don't have Yale MFA debt behind me, and second, that if I can nurture the habits I need to pursue such studies as an autodidact, I have an increasing amount of life experience to bring to bear on the material.

Hmm. Lacks social grounding, doesn't it? But I'm not sure where would be appropriate to discuss the readings, so I'll leave that aside for now...

I spent longer than I should admit staring at this unblinking, adding algae, adding water fleas... What a lovely project.

This synthesis of the paper was sanctioned by the original author, pace Kaeli on Twitter. Even if you're pretty much willing to take that top-level conclusion on faith, it's interesting to read about the experimental design.

via @Echedenyan@lemmy.ml

This is associated with a web comic called Pepper and Carrot which has very pleasant art.

I don't know why, but I have this feeling that these kinds of communities are the only good future of the web. That isn't to say quirky and Linux-based -- but intentional, social, donation-based, with a hodgepodge of shared amenities.

I adore this and I want to sift through every bit of it. If I weren't so committed to my own space on the web I might sign up, but as it is I think I will spectate...

I really wish I'd known about this deck during its funding.

Doesn't it scream for some patterned Mylar foiling?

I don't know if this will be useful to anyone, but... I find that Miniflux is maybe a little too "minimalist" and "opinionated" for my taste? Anyway, I've got a few Tampermonkey userscripts for it now and this is the first one I've cleaned up.

The other puts sort buttons on the feed page for absolute number of unread entries descending, and unread:read ratio descending. If anyone wants that one I'll clean it up and put it up too.

This is so cool! This is so cool!! At this moment I don't think this exactly matches up with what I want for my life on Mastodon but if I'm brave enough I might try and see what would be necessary to get stuff to show up on Lemmy? Except I'm not WebSub enabled and I'm not 100% sure what the other value of that would be... Maybe though? Here's the GitHub, nice friendly Python3 that won't bite.

I've been thinking about IndieAuth and Lemmy too since Chris Aldrich posted about Lemmy and referenced a very neat video about auth mechanisms, which are a topic I never thought I'd care about.

In some ways, I'm probably not properly aligned with the Indieweb ethos. I love federated models, and my imagined Web utopia is a less siloed world that maintains a combination of interoperating multi-user and single-user applications and sites. Servers that someone else administrates will always have the lowest barriers to entry. Self-run sites will always have the most freedom to be weird and singular and expressive. So how do you make it possible for everyone to play nicely together?

ActivityPub seems to me to have gotten some things really right in enabling people to do really cool things in a federated way. I genuinely enjoy my self-hosted Mastodon server about as much as Twitter, and Twitter is a company with like four thousand employees. That's amazing! We should never lose sight of how amazing that is. Compare Reddit and Lemmy and I only miss some of the groups of users, not features.

I want to keep thinking about how those independent sites can enrich the fediverse, and how the fediverse can enrich those independent sites. This seems like a really important tool towards that.

It's also true that I don't have typed posts because when I started adding all the markup to my HTML, I started to like my site less. It felt less like Neocities charm and more like work. I haven't reconciled this entirely in my mind, and it can probably be resolved through tooling.

Well, this is rambling.