Notes

I had to dig up a computer mouse and USB adapter just to turn off my phone alarm. How is your morning going?

🎵 listening to the debut album from The Wellermen This group is known for folk compilations highlighting bass voices. I think I heard about them in a podcast episode (I can’t seem to locate) that had a segement on Sea shanty trend on TikToks. A bit of a unique niche,...

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I thought my #11ty upgrade had been uneventful. But then I learned my hacky use of eleventyExcludeFromCollections to add reasons for why something was excluded had caused my draft posts to suddenly be exposed in my main feed. I remember reading about that feature but didn’t think about the implications....

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• 11ty

I’ve noticed a few people recently refer to their top-level pages as “slash pages”. Honestly my first reaction was “Aren’t those just ‘pages’?”, but I’ve come to find the term kinda fun. But when people started adding a /slashes slash page, I thought “Isn’t that a sitemap”? XML sitemaps are...

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• IndieWeb

🎵 listening to the album “Hijos Del Sol” by Hermanos Gutiérrez I’m really loving the guitar instrumentals. Thanks to my coworker Sky for the recommendation.

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🎵 listening to the album “Yesterday’s Problem” by Moon Hooch I’d like to Isaac for introducing me to this saxophone jazz group. 🎷

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My old newsletter service (MailerLite) changed their pricing plans, so I’ve migrated to Mailchimp. Let me know if you have any issues subscribing or getting the weekly updates (currently scheduled for Mondays). If you want updates more frequently, I’ll recommend subscribing via RSS or ActivityPub. See the /subscribe page for...

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Today I learned that both the US and Canada have policies to support dairy farms. The US typically does it by stabilizing commodity prices and subsidizing exports while Canada restricts supply with quotas. That also puts into context why the local Dairy store in Blaine, WA has signs about Canada’s...

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🎵 listening to the album “I Told You So” by Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio I discovered this group recently and I am absolutely loving the Hammond B-3 organ vibes.

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🎵 listening to the album “Is” by Hey Ocean! I remember listening to songs they put up on NoiseTrade years back. Fun album.

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I’m archiving old tweets to my site and realizing that #smooshgate really captured my attention in 2018

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• smooshgate

Today I learned that the Clippers used to be based in San Diego. Feels like something I should have known given the city’s history with major sports teams and the controversy with moving without NBA approval. Sounds like the Clippers are coming to Oceanside! Well, the Ontario G-league team. ...

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A garden blog where you can post the growth (or decline) of your plants and gardens. Would be really cool to see changes over time. Would also be cool to see more updates about people taking care of their plants and building a culture around that. We have Instagram accounts...

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• plants

A search engine that only checks posts from specific people and sites you follow. Specifically for recipes, reviews/recommendations. There’s a lot of SEO crap out there. This would hinge on people and brands building enough trust that people opt-in to them rather than building enough SEO juice to get to...

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• freeideas
• IndieWeb

Today I Learned about geek codes. Seems like a fun sub-culture creation. Here’s to hoping I created this correctly… -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS d- s+: a C$ !U P-- L+ !E W+++ !N !o K--? w- !O? M !V PS+@ PE@ !Y !PGP-- !t 5? !X !R*...

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