Reality is a bonus stage in the lifecycle of jokes/memes. VanillaJS, ZeroVer, and “The Year of The Linux Desktop” are semi–serious concepts now. Makes me lol. This is the case for everything — including politics.

Rumor has it that a certain country’s political discourse is actively “memed” by anonymous forums on the Internet. That’s some Serial Experiments Lain type spookiness — funny, until it becomes utterly terrifying.

A lot of websites dump the entire feed — that’s nice. Ideally for bandwidth efficiency, combine multiple delivery strategies.

1. A partial content feed (Atom preferred) limited to the last 3/5/10 posts for quick queries.

2. A full content RSS feed of a similar limit for fresh content.

3. A hidden/unlisted feed for dumping all content (mirror).

Alternatively, just implement atom’s collection partial lists for feed pagination. If your post bandwidth (size/frequency) is low, then pretend you didn’t see this — be lazy and optimize later.

Web UI and UX? Not sure about web UI design, but for UX Nielsen and Baymard are supposed to be canon.

1. How Users Read on the Web, 1997
2. Formatting Links for Usability, 2010

Long form is the best form.

Isn’t it peculiar that we internalize mind–body dualism at such an early age? This happens when you intimately realize that your mind does not control someone else’s body or any other entity external to your person. A philosopher told me that.

The Greeks were clever. The Pythagorean “number line” idea of knowledge: the monad (1), dyad (2), triad (3) — is a sly way of grasping at complexity.

Humans think/reason by breaking complexity indefinitely into twos/dyads/dichotomies/dualisms.

The bar for making useful/smart sounding observations is kinda low. Rule: Take a complex thing, divide it into two parts, then as a bonus — express those divisions as a monad (everything is love/a force), and… repeat. Triads/Trialisms/Trinity and higher are undefined for obvious reasons.

Not a philosopher btw.

The Internet graduates from its primitivity once anyone can easily spin up and host a website. IPv6 and the end–to–end principle pretty please?

Here’s a great article that implements reading webmentions natively in hugo. There’s always a soul out there who has tried what you’re thinking about.

Aria is such nice nostalgia.

Ever wonder how some writers become very prolific? Hire a bunch of freelancers… Okay – I’m being a bit facetious, but having a proper drafts workflow is one important factor. The more drafts started, the more chances there are for completion.

Drafts on this static micro blog are somewhat in a sensible state now. My drafts are public since I’m too lazy to separate my content from the demo content.