Monthly Recap: October 2024
What’s going on, Internet? Well, I drafted this on Thursday the 31st of October and am finally publishing it today. A long weekend away with family and juggling kids and sickness across the family didn’t lend itself to having any free time for any website work! Such is life, hey?
Blogging
Reading
- Freaks Gleaks & Dawsons Creek by Thea Glassman is a fantastic read if you’re like me and into these types of TV shows from the 90s and early 2000s.
- The Playground by 50 Cent was a great short story that didn’t take too long to get through.
- Hate, Liar, Fake, and Kate by Tate James was a two week journey that I’m not afraid to say that I absolutely enjoyed. The plot of these books was outright bonkers, but enjoyable at the same time. I’m planning on getting into the rest of the books in the Shadow Grove universe.
- The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman was an okay read, it was maybe 50/50 pop culture and American politics.
Music
The first of two copies of The Death Of Slim Shady arrived. This one was the original cover, still waiting for the alternative artwork cover to ship. Check out my recent post, The Death Of Slim Shady where I reminence anticpating, and enjoying music together with friends.
Gaming
Again this month, with what little time I’ve had for gaming has been spent with The War Within Season One. With my guild, we’ve managed to clear Heroic Nerub-ar Palace pretty quickly, and only needed 70 pulls to defeat Queen Ansurek. I’m not fully into Mythic+ this season, but I’m over halfway to getting Keystone Hero Master so I might end up finishing it. I’ll be sure to put up a wrap up post near the end of Season One to recap notable achievements.
I’m really looking forward to getting back into Cyberpunk!
Bookmarks
A shorter list this month. Some goodies in there, and as always, a focus on the web, blogging and having your own website.
- One personal website is enough for me - Categories and tags can help diversify a personal website. For everything else, there’s always a subdomain!
- If HTML and CSS are so simple, why haven’t static sites reigned supreme? - Why haven’t static site generators reigned supreme? It’s not that HTML and CSS aren’t simple, they both be simple and difficult at the same time. It’s that static site generators are still slightly out of touch with the non developer. Just take a look at what’s getting built across places like Neocities or Nekoweb to get a glance on what non developers are able to do with HTML and CSS and no SSG…
- Pluralistic: You should be using an RSS reader (16 Oct 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow - I’m rethinking on how I might better utilise my RSS feeds after reading this piece by Cory Doctorow. I’m following a small number of hand picked websites at the moment, but I feel like I can open up my world wider by subscribing to various OPML files that are available across our corner of the web. Will definitely help with new website discovery.
- Intentional web - Prealpinux discusses the concept of an “intentional web,” inspired by recent discussion about the social web. I agree with the characteristics, as they’re often brought up and define “our web” but I’ve decided I’m sticking to “the web”…
- A better web | niqwithq - Me too Niq, me too.
- Long live hypertext! – Tracy Durnell’s Mind Garden - Tracy Durnell talks about the importance of hyperlinks and how they help maintain the essence of an open and healthy web. How we can fight against a hostile future domination by corporate AI hell that would love to see our online experience turn from an interactive experience to a passive one.
- Is the internet the only place we can truly be ourselves? - The complexities of self-expression on the web. Serena Smith reflects on their teenage experience of navigating various aesthetics online, contrasting it with the constraints faced in real life.
- A Guide to Web Curation - The Wayward Web offers insights on effective web curation by analysing both successful and unsuccessful examples of curation! Hint: Provide context!
- The Small Internet has Already Succeeded - Cheapskates reflects on the contrast between the corporate Internet and the smaller, personal web, aka, the web…
- The Web, made by Humans - Andy Piper reflects on their love for the web, the semantic web and the human connections behind online content.
- I love the Web - Andy Piper loves the web too! Discovering unique websites and tools that foster creativity!
- The Blogosphere Lives - Mike Grindle explores the connections fostered by blogging and human curation on the web.
- HTML for People - Blake Watson’s hotly anticipated book is finally here!
- Fighting for our web - Transcript and recording from Molly White’s opening talk at XOXO 2024
Website
Not too many changes this month, and not all that I wanted to get done. I upgraded the backend to Eleventy 3.0.0 and tidied up the site structure and configuration based on Lene Saile’s guide.
Happening around the web
At the Cafe
Over at the 32 Bit Cafe we held our annual Halloween event. This year members participated by dressing up their websites, virtual trick or treating, wrote , and experimentations. Big shout out to xixxii for putting together the fantastic event page.
Everything else
Blake Watson published his digital book HTML For People this month. What I love about this book is that Blake really drives the message home that HTML is accessible to everyone, not just those in the tech industry. He believes that anyone can create a website using HTML, regardless of their prior experience with coding or web design.
Blake’s goal is to teach anyone the basics of HTML without a focus on CSS and friendly and approachable manner with the aim to empower anyone to build their own website.
If you’re ready to start your own website dive into this book and come and join us at the Cafe Forums to join a community of like minded people.
If you’re curious on how Blake approached this project, he’s provided a great write up over on his blog, The making of HTML for People.
Sweeet, catch you up, laterz 👋
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