❤ Liked: 2023

I posted a year in review for 2022 and wanted to get one of these out for 2023 as well. I'm trying to motivate myself to write more and it helps when there's a specific topic and deadline. I took some time off from my computer so this is when its getting posted. I also wanted to try something a little different this year. Here's some background music that I think fits the theme of my 2023. Welcome to Family of 4 - Aska Matsumiya Personal 2023 was an eventful year. It was the year I became an …

❤ Liked: Building community out of strangers

Last week, I updated my blogroll to include everyone in my RSS feed reader. While I read a lot of topical blogs and newsletters, I also follow a goodly number of interesting people I don’t know as well as acquaintances. I didn’t include these personal blogs on my blogroll before, but decided it was time to add them. After starting the process of pulling my website off of Google, I declared myself all-in on people; expanding my blogroll is part of that process. I used to think of blogrolls as …

❤ Liked: https://www.benji.dog/notes/1701460882/

Inspired by James and Mark's holiday decorations, I decided to add a winter theme to my site. If you're patient, you might even get to experience what a MN winter is like.

❤ Liked: Re-introducing Bridgy Fed

Hi! I’m Ryan. I’ve been building social network bridges and related tools for over 12 years, including Bridgy, which connects personal web sites and blogs to centralized social networks, and Bridgy Fed, which connects them to the fediverse. I love how decentralized social networks like the fediverse and the IndieWeb let us move away from walled gardens controlled by single monolithic entities. I love that we can control our own destinies online, nurture and grow our own communities and instan…

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