Have I finally managed to set my website up as a fediverse entity?!
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Still figuring this out.
I’ve been trying to get Mastodon to play nicely with scottmallinson.com since Automattic bought the ActivityPub WordPress plugin, but I’m not having much luck.
And to make things more challenging, IndieWeb/Fediverse components need testing in live environments.
That feeling you get when your favourite restaurant removes your favourite dish from the menu.
I’ve been attempting to follow the Wildebeest documentation to create a Mastodon instance using CloudFlare’s infrastructure and it’s not quite a turnkey solution, and at a minimum of $10 to get started it’s not a cost-effective option either (compared to using a VPS).
Well, we did it. We migrated all 112 plugins to the new framework version and addressed the breaking changes and inter-dependencies in the process. Dare I say, we may have even improved some of the code. Though it may be too ambitious to say at this time until regression testing has completed.
https://scottmallinson.com/blog/2023/02/02/1040383/ by scottmallinson
Some wins, some losses today. Managed to get a bunch of plugins migrated at work. Huzzah! Dishwasher broke. Boo!
Dishwasher not broken! A couple of calls to customer services and we managed to fix it. Also, rounded out Friday with approximately 75% of plugins migrated.
https://twitter.com/TwitterDev/status/1621026986784337922 by (Twitter) Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead 🧵
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Some wins, some losses today. Managed to get a bunch of plugins migrated at work. Huzzah! Dishwasher broke. Boo!
The fun of self-hosting web apps. Following a step-by-step installation guide verbatim until you realise one dependency is newer/no longer available/renamed/no longer consumes other dependencies, and you hit a wall, hard.
Exhausted after a two and a half days planning the next 8-10 weeks of work, with some of it exciting and challenging. But for now, the weekend!
I’ve been having a play around and with Chrome DevTools Recorder, Testing Library Recorder and ChatGPT you can create Jest tests and Gherkin feature files. Not perfect results but handy for getting started with UI integration and automation testing.
Any recommendations for low-volume Mastodon or Pleroma hosting? I want to set up an instance for my own use. mastohost seem well-priced…
I’ve been playing around with ChatGPT and it’s fun to see the responses it generates across different domains. It pretty accurately generates HTML code, and can help break down complex, technical topics into more digestible material.
I’ve been working on the self assessment for my annual review, and it feels weird, to say the least, against the backdrop of the recent tech layoffs.
15 years ago today I signed up for a Twitter account. Will it be #MyLastTwitterAnniversary?
The recent changes to Google Maps Timeline in the Android app are buggy. When saving changes to past events it jumps to the most recent event, and scrolling is slow to the point that the UI becomes detached.
A 970 file PR is one of the largest I’ve seen, and still a work in progress! It doesn’t seem like it can be broken down due to the architecture of the plugin and the nature of the breaking changes it needs to address.
Working with Meta has made working across multiple repositories so much easier. Updating dependencies, running tests, linting etc. all from one command.
Joined a taskforce at work to help with an in-house framework upgrade of more than 100 plugins and packages. Breaking changes affect only a few of the plugins, but due to the inter-dependencies between some of the plugins the changes/PRs are going to be many.
The Sony NW-ZX707 is a thing of beauty but at a reported $800+ I’d be more interested if it was a ‘dumb’ Walkman without Android and it’s built-in obselence.
House of the Dragon Ep 3: Second of His Name | Official Website for the HBO Series | HBO.com from hbo.com Stream Season 1 Episode 3 of House of the Dragon online or on your device plus recaps, previews, and other clips.
Late to the party but I started watching House of Dragons last night… with Episode 3. Realised our mistake when the next episode timer appeared.
I’m curious. Has anyone managed to build a personal (music) recommendation engine? Something where you could plug-in your own trusted sources. The same music daily across each of the eight personal Spotify auto-generated playlists is tiring.
https://scottmallinson.com/blog/2023/01/06/894812/ by Implemented better caching on my website through Cloudflare Cache Rules. Let’s see what impact it has on loading times as well as on server load and bandwidth.
This post serves several purposes: to test caching changes I’ve made on my website, #indieweb replies, and Micropublishing to Twitter.
Went to El Llobregat estuary and the Delta del Llobregat today. It was cold, windy, and at times, wet. Fun to see the planes taking off and landing so close though.
Starting off the New Year with a morning of self-care. Had a mani pedi courtesy of @tesshumphrys.
Implemented better caching on my website through Cloudflare Cache Rules. Let’s see what impact it has on loading times as well as on server load and bandwidth.
I had the dried bean in my piece of the Roscón de Reyes. That means I have to buy next year’s, right?
The neighbourhood’s Cabalgata de Reyes or Parade of Kings, celebrated on the Twelfth Night, was somewhat underwhelming considering the significance Epiphany (Día de los Reyes Magos) receives here in Spain.
Literal has one of the best onboarding processes I’ve come across for a web app and a much better UI/UX than Goodreads.
Looking to get into reading some more for 2023, starting with 1984.
A lunch break well spent. Managed to finally get webmentions working again by simply changing the microformat structure on my website. The output of microformat parsers can be a little challenging to interpret.
Looking at setting up a Pleroma instance for personal use as it seems lighter-weight than Mastodon and supports fediverse (OStatus and ActivityPub) standards.
Discover scottmallinson’s listening stats for Last.year (Last.fm) Check out scottmallinson’s 2022 in music on Last.fm
- 10,099 scrobbles
- 3,503 albums
- 38% new artists
- 67% new albums
- 58% new tracks
- 27 days, 11 hours listening time
- 28 average daily scrobbles
Sadly general listening stats are down compared to 2021. That needs rectifying.
Code Stats for 2022 (wakatime.com) - 581 hours coded
- 3 hrs 2 mins daily average
- Top languages: JavaScript, TypeScript, JSON, and Gherkin
Bring back personal blogging by (The Verge) As social media changes, Twitter slowly falls, and the landscape seems bleak, let’s take a moment and consider blogging. The personal blog built the internet, and maybe it can help fix it.
The personal blog built the internet, and maybe it can fix it.
Source: Bring back personal blogging – The Verge
A (long and slow) project I intend to undertake in 2023 is to work on my website and to IndieWeb-ify it in an effort to move away from Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
Heading back to Barcelona having spent a couple of days in a great spa resort. Feeling relaxed and refreshed ahead of the new year.
I’ve received an early Christmas present. My Drobo 5D seems to have died. Thankfully everything is backed up, but now considering alternative storage solutions. I’ll likely go for a NAS rather than DAS.
The vibration is barely noticeable now and the hum is easily drowned out by typing and music. Looks like the Desk Cable Management Guide has advice for how to tidy up the rat’s nest I’ve made.
I’ve spent most of Día de los Reyes Magos assembling a new desk and configuring my new workspace to find my Drobo unit has a vibration that’s now amplified to a low hum.
Installed Yarns microsub server and coupled with Indigenous as a reader/microsub client I can now respond to blog posts in a more social/IndieWeb kinda way.
Looking into PressForward as a replacement for Feedly based off Chris Aldrich’s write-up of the WordPress plugin. Being able to read and respond to blog posts in the same app is appealing and might even help me keep on top of my ‘Read Later’ list.
My Last.fm last.year listening report has confirmed what I’ve long suspected. Through our shared smart speaker @tesshumphrys has infiltrated my listening habits with @BlossomsBand being my most played artist of 2020.
Google Home routines set
IFTTT applets configured
Data consolidated
RSS unread count: 0
Email unread count: 683
Booting 2021…
Happy New Year!On the topic of gardening, I’ve been spending the holiday period pruning duplicated and redundant files dispersed across various storage platforms and devices: NAS, DAS, external USB drives, and cloud services. I’m confident it’s all backed up following the 3-2-1 strategy.
I’ve decided. My website is in need of an overhaul. I like the concept of cultivating a digital garden whilst also combining some of the social aspects of the IndieWeb, so in the New Year I’ll don my gloves, a trowel and see how I get on!
In spite of the torrential rain and thunderstorms on Saturday that almost put an end to our camping adventure, we had a great time visiting the Costa Brava. Historic Tossa de Mar was particularly splendid in the sun
😍 The light in Barcelona! And look at those blue skies 👌
Had a great time exploring the Stanley Kubrick exhibition at the Centre de Cultura Contemprània de Barcelona. Kubrick is one of my favourite directors and it was so inspiring to see his life’s work presented in such a way.
Stretching our legs in the hills overlooking Barcelona city (our new home for now), just thirty minutes away from our apartment. Endless blue skies, warm weather and fresh air 👌
The different perspectives of Busuanga Island from Mount Tapyas 🗻
Merry Christmas from Boracay! We’re having a #whitechristmas on the soft, clean sands of White Beach.
The theme of this year’s festival is ‘the wind of time’ and it features visionary work from some of the world’s most renowned photographers. The striking images, from fashion shoots to food factories, can be seen at the Lianzhou Museum of Photography in southern China until 3 January 2019
Source: Vogue shoots and bike cemeteries: Lianzhou Foto festival 2018 | Art and design | The Guardian
In the last month or so I gave three talks about blogs and me: one lightening talk at ViewSource, one at TODO London and another one at ReactJSGirls. Although I had applied for them at different times, they all happened close to each other and with IndieWebCamp, FFConf, organising a career panel and a work deadline in between it is fair to say that I had a busy November so only now I’ve had time to convert my talk into a blog post.
Source: Oh Hello Ana – Blog
All this WordPress 5.0 Gutenberg stuff got me thinking. With WordPress it seems like the Indieweb starts making serious and cool progress and the WordPress people come along and knock the game board…
Source: Blog Engines and Indieweb Controlling Upstream | Brad Enslen
Today, Nextcloud 15 has been made available. As there is so much new and improved in this release, we have dedicated separate blogs to each main area of improvement. This blog covers the brand new Nextcloud Social, introducing social networking to Nextcloud. Download now! The Mastodon project is excited that…
Source: Nextcloud introduces social features, joins the fediverse – Nextcloud
Since 2007, photographer Jono Rotman has been documenting the Mongrel Mob, a violent brotherhood with over 30 networks across New Zealand.
Snapshots from a couple of weeks ago. These photos of @xjtlu’s Central Building – my second home – were taken 6 days apart when air pollution dropped from absurd to bearable 😷🙁
China’s Orwellian Social Credit Score Isn’t Real by (Foreign Policy) Blacklists and monitoring systems are nowhere close to Black Mirror fantasies.
Early days with my new OnePlus 6T but the night mode camera has produced some nice photos so far.
At China’s Internet Conference, a Darker Side of Tech Emerges (nytimes.com) The World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, China, has long showcased flashy new tech. This year, discussions also dealt with counterterrorism, data breaches and surveillance.
China’s state-run press agency has created an ‘AI anchor’ to read the news by (The Verge) But the agency’s new host isn’t any more sophisticated than a CGI puppet
How MTV Alumni Came to Rule Digital Media by (The Information) MTV is trying to re-establish itself as the network for millennials. What would help is if it could hire back just a few of the many executives it has lost over the past decade to internet firms like Facebook, Spotify and YouTube.Perhaps more than any other TV network, MTV has been a hunting …
A Contract for the Web (A Contract for the Web) The web was designed to bring people together and make knowledge freely available. Everyone has a role to play to ensure the web serves humanity. By committing to the following principles, governments, companies and citizens around the world can help protect the open web as a public good and a basic right for everyone.
A great idea, but when companies such as Google and in particular, Facebook, are listed as supporters you have to wonder if they really intend to develop technologies that support the best in humanity and challenge the worst.
Designing, laws, and attitudes. — ethanmarcotte.com (ethanmarcotte.com) What would happen if the law required us to design fast websites?
The business value of design (McKinsey & Company) How do the best performers increase their revenues and shareholder returns at nearly twice the rate of their industry counterparts? The value of design comes from top management rigor, company-wide teamwork, rapid iteration, and relentless user-centricity.
We Need to Have an Honest Talk About Our Data (WIRED) VR pioneer Jaron Lanier talks with WIRED about why the original architecture of the internet forced us into a kind of information trickery, and how we can fix it—to everyone’s benefit.
China is making the internet less free, and US tech companies are helping by (The Verge) While doing business in China, US tech companies must play by local rules — or face getting kicked out.
The Chinese Farmer Who Live-Streamed Her Life and Made a Fortune (The New Yorker) Liu Mama, a loud-mouthed, ruddy-cheeked Northern farmer with millions of online followers, is one of many Chinese streamers participating in a virtual gold rush.
Measuring Performance With Server Timing (Smashing Magazine) The Server Timing header provides a discrete and convenient way to communicate backend server performance timings to developer tools in the browser. Adding timing information to your application enables you to monitor back-end and front-end performance all in one place.
The EU’s Link Tax Will Kill Open Access and Creative Commons News (Electronic Frontier Foundation) All this month, the European Union’s “trilogue” is meeting behind closed doors to hammer out the final wording of the new Copyright Directive, a once-noncontroversial regulation that became a hotly contested matter when, at the last minute, a set of extremist copyright proposals were added and…
How China complicates Apple’s chest-thumping about privacy by (The Verge) A former Facebook executive points out that Apple likely has to make compromises, too
Headless WordPress: The Ups And Downs Of Creating A Decoupled WordPress (Smashing Magazine) Everyone knows that if a website is slow, users will abandon it. Many studies demonstrate the connection between website performance and conversion rates. In this article, Denis Žoljom shares his experience and the basics of creating a decoupled WordPress.
China systematically hijacks internet traffic: researchers (iTnews) Exploited omission in US-China cyber detente agreement.
UK data watchdog fines Facebook maximum legal amount for Cambridge Analytica scandal by (The Verge) The fine is just £500,000, but regulators say it should have been ‘significantly higher’
Server to Client by (alistapart.com) Before anything can happen in a browser, it must first know where to go. There are multiple ways to get somewhere: entering a URL in the address bar, clicking (or tapping) on a link on a page or in another app, or clicking on a favorite. No matter the case, these all result in what’s called a navigation. A navigation is the very first step in any web interaction, as it kicks off a chain reaction of events that culminates in a web page being loaded.
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Can I? Should I? Will I? A fellow @beijinghikers assessing one of the many peaks in the Baicheng Landform.
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Thank you @mathiasheng for awarding me first prize 🏆 for this photo from our recent trip to Xinjiang. A special thanks to @beijinghikers for organising the incredible and eye-opening trip.
The Baicheng Landforms in Xinjiang are how I’d imagine the surface of Mars to look. Vast and barren with rich reds and browns.
The tool and the task. — ethanmarcotte.com (ethanmarcotte.com) Our design tools change the design of our products and, at times, they can change us. How do we talk about that?
Research, Empathy, Simplicity, Speed: A recipe for great digital products – Designer News (Designer News) Research, Empathy, Simplicity, Speed: A recipe for great digital products
André Staltz – Reinvent the Social Web Google’s CEO confirms it’s returning to China with a censored search engine by (Fast Company) The censored search engine is known internally as “Dragonfly” and has been in testing since last year.
A thread written by @real_vijay (threader.app) 1/ Google is working on a new search engine code-named “Dragonfly” that will aid China’s effort to censor information from its citizenry.
As a former Google engineer I wanted to share some information on what it’s like to be inside Google as these decisions are made https://t.co/HAts5wXwsU
Google CEO says it’s ‘important for us to explore’ search in China by (The Verge) Sundar Pichai downplays concerns that a China-centric search product would stifle freedom of thought
How Poor Branding is Holding Chinese Companies Back Abroad (Sixth Tone) As domestic competition mounts, some Chinese brands are taking aim at international markets, but their strategies remain a work in progress.
Sheep 🐑, cows 🐄, camels 🐪, and goats 🐐 all for sale at Kashgar’s livestock market.
An evening wandering the dark, smokey streets of Kashgar’s Old City.
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The legendary Tomb of the Fragrant Concubine near Kashgar, Xinjiang Province, China.
How Google’s China project undermines its claims to political neutrality by (The Verge) A leaked internal presentation about censorship frames the issue correctly — but the company’s work in China contradicts it
Rethink: Web (Open Space) When we struggle to explain the inherent qualities of a medium, we tend to defer to analogies and metaphors. This is especially true of the internet.
Back to work in Suzhou after an eye-opening National Week holiday exploring Xinjiang in far-west China. Lots to process – photos, views/opinions, and memories.
Workplace topology | Clearleft by (Clearleft) Within our organisations, we have increasingly been introducing practises such as dev ops and design ops, to reduce operational inefficiencies.
Notes from a crosswalk. — ethanmarcotte.com (ethanmarcotte.com) On the route, the steps, and what follows.
Stretching our legs on a 6km there-and-back trek to break up the drive from Baicheng to Aksu.
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The ruins of Subashi, an ancient temple complex in the Taklamakan Desert, used continuously from the 3rd to 10th centuries. Subash is a Uyghur word meaning “the origin of water”.
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Distant views from a short hike over the Tiemenguan, the end of the Great Wall of China in Korla, Xinjiang, and a key passage on the Silk Road.
Visited Tiemenguan, the western-most gate of the Great Wall of China, and a key passage on the Silk Road.
The incredible sculptures at the Longmen Grottoes, painstakingly carved out of rock over several hundred years.
Arrived into Korla earlier this evening. Hungry, we stumbled into the nearest eating establishment we came across. Only after ordering a couple of dishes did we realise it specialised in dog and donkey meat 😳
Home | Solid (solid.inrupt.com) Goodbye Zhengzhou. It’s been short but sweet. Hope to see you again. Next stop Korla (库尔勒).
The Longmen Grottoes are truly spectacular. So many sculptures ranging from 2cm to several metres tall. It’d be an incredible feat to construct them today with modern tools, let alone 1,500 years ago!
Arrived in Zhengzhou and checked into our hotel. Initial impressions of the city: modern, clean, and illuminated. So many lights!
Hurtling through China at 300km/h towards Zhengzhou, the first destination of our National Week trip.
[Chile unveils Patagonian Route of Parks hiking trail](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-45663960) Yes, yes, YES!
How to Build a Low-tech Website? (LOW←TECH MAGAZINE) Our new blog is designed to radically reduce the energy use associated with accessing our content.
Can Google make the web faster without taking over the web? by (The Verge) Google’s Malte Ubl on The Vergecast
My favorite design tool. — ethanmarcotte.com (ethanmarcotte.com) What if someone doesn’t browse the web like I do? Or like you do?
Charging ALL THE DEVICES in excited anticipation of our trip to the north west of China for National Day Golden Week.
China’s hunger for soybeans is a window into an encroaching environmental crisis by (Fast Company) How China’s desperate efforts to source soybeans from all over the world is explained by the country’s fear of running out of water.
Preparing a conference talk (adactio.com) I gave a talk at the State Of The Browser conference in London earlier this month. It was a 25 minute spiel called The Web Is Agreement.
While I was putting the talk together, I posted some pictures of my talk preparation process. People seemed to be quite interested in that peek behind the curtain,…http://blog.bellebcooper.com/leaving-microblog.html by (blog.bellebcooper.com) It Isn’t About The Technology (blog.dshr.org) A year and a half ago I attended Brewster Kahle’s Decentralized Web Summit and wrote: I am working on a post about my reactions to the fi…
My foreword for Image Performance. — ethanmarcotte.com (ethanmarcotte.com) I was asked to write an introduction for Mat Marquis’ new book on images and performance, which I loved. (I think you’ll love it, too.)
Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track Search Users in China by (The Intercept) The company forced employees to delete the document, which stated that a Chinese partner would have “unilateral access” to user data.
The vast, impressive, and arid landscapes of Gansu Province in Western China.
See the ghostly remains of a failed techno-utopia by (Fast Company) These secret cities of the former Soviet Union point to a “perfect technocratic future that never happened.”
A framework for web performance | Clearleft by (Clearleft) Here at Clearleft, we’ve recently been doing some front-end consultancy. That prompted me to jot down thoughts on design principles and performance:
Whatever Happened to the Semantic Web? (twobithistory.org) In 2001, Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, published an article in Scientific American.
Google is giving up some control of the AMP format by (The Verge) Sending the project to committee
RevAMP. — ethanmarcotte.com (ethanmarcotte.com) Google’s Accelerated Mobile Project (AMP) has announced it’s moving to a more open governance model, which is great. I still have some questions.
Tech in Asia – Connecting Asia’s startup ecosystem (techinasia.com) Cloudflare goes InterPlanetary – Introducing Cloudflare’s IPFS Gateway (The Cloudflare Blog) Today we’re excited to introduce Cloudflare’s IPFS Gateway, an easy way to access content from the the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) that doesn’t require installing and running any special software on your computer.
What is ActivityPub, and how will it change the internet? by (Jeremy Dormitzer) A new kind of social network
There’s a new social network in town. It’s called Mastodon. You might have even heard of it. On the surface, Mastodon feels a lot like Twitter: you post “toots” up to 500 characters; you follow other users who say interesting things; you can favorite a toot or re…
The weather here in Suzhou has been much cooler and more humid these past days, so I’m thinking warmer, drier thoughts of our California road trip earlier this year that took us through Joshua Tree.
Today, Europe Lost The Internet. Now, We Fight Back. by (Electronic Frontier Foundation) Today, in a vote that split almost every major EU party, Members of the European Parliament adopted every terrible proposal in the new Copyright Directive and rejected every good one, setting the stage for mass, automated surveillance and arbitrary censorship of the internet: text messages like…
Taking back control of my digital life – Timo Zimmermann by (screamingatmyscreen.com) Google Is Handing the Future of the Internet to China by (Foreign Policy) The company has been quietly collaborating with the Chinese government on a new, censored search engine—and abandoning its own ideals in the process.
EU approves controversial Copyright Directive, including internet ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’ by (The Verge) Those in favor say they’re fighting for content creators, but critics say the new laws will be ‘catastrophic’
Why we’re building a social network supported by people, not advertisers by (Fast Company) The designers behind Are.na explain the thinking that led to their nascent social platform, winner of the 2018 Innovation By Design General Excellence award.
The top four web performance challenges | Clearleft by (Clearleft) Counting down the charts—what will be in the number one spot?
The future of the Home of the Future by (The Verge) We join Grant Imahara in examining where the Home of the Future goes next.
Robustness and least power | Clearleft by (Clearleft) A tale of two principles.
To prevent overfishing and to improve the quality of the environment, fishing is banned on Lake Tai for 6 months of the year. On 1 September, the first day of the finishing season, I was invited out on one of the boats.
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Had fun exploring the less visited, more wild parts of Hangzhou with @lands_remote this weekend.
Three tools to help automate your SEO workflow (Econsultancy) As digital marketers, we find ourselves limited on the most valuable resource: time.
Accessibility is not a feature. — ethanmarcotte.com (ethanmarcotte.com) Lately, I’ve been reflecting on some of the language I use to talk about accessibility. It might be language you use, too.
Digi.me wants to put you back in charge of your personal data by (Fast Company) Harnessing the data that companies collect about you sounds like a great idea, but how much are they willing to share?
Logged off: meet the teens who refuse to use social media by (the Guardian) Generation Z has grown up online – so why are a surprising number suddenly turning their backs on Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat?
Facebook has removed all cross-posted tweets (TechCrunch) Facebook users are complaining the company has removed the cross-posted tweets they had published to their profiles as Facebook updates. The posts’ removal took place following the recent API change that prevented Twitter users from continuing to automatically publish their tweets to Facebook…
The Low Hanging Fruit of Web Performance – Media Temple (The Media Temple Blog) There is so much to know about making websites fast. It’s rather incredible. Things like understanding servers and networks, how browsers parse things and make decisions, efficient coding…
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The different landscapes of Joshua Tree National Park 🌵⛰🌴🏜
The Real Deal About rel=”me” by (wiki.zegnat.net) Earlier today, Barry Schwartz published a piece over on Search Engine Roundtable called Google Does Not Use rel=me Microformats. The article got shared around Twitter a lot, and those tweets surfaced on the microformats IRC channel. In it he mentions a few things that I would like to respond to, tha…
This island’s “water microgrid” is saving its aquifer from tourists by (Fast Company) Bluewater is making Baltic Sea water drinkable for visitors to the tiny Swedish island of Sandhamn–and helping other water-strapped communities thrive.
As WordPress provides sufficient insight into how visitors use my website through Jetpack, I’ve now removed Google Analytics tracking from [scottmallinson.com](http://scottmallinson.com). Immediately seen an increase in performance.
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More from our Southern California roadtrip. We stopped at Salvation Mountain ⛰ to witness one man’s commitment to God.
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Trekking the 49 Palms Oasis Trail in Southern California earlier this year
Already thinking about my next trip 🤔 Somewhere away from the oppressive heat of the city, like the hike we did earlier in the year in Ninghai 🚶🏻♂️🏕⛰
Has it been a week already since Tioman Island?! 😯🌴☀️⛰
Gaokao exam results are being released and we’re starting to see spikes of traffic to our admission results system at www.xjtlu.edu.cn/gaokao/. If you’ve applied to @XJTLU, good luck!
Things I love about MacOS… NOT! Hello MacOS, please meet iCloud Drive.
Is it valid to write … enclosing a whole page’s content, navigation etc. within a schema type?
Testing…1…2
Trying to work out a publishing strategy that combines the benefits of POSSE, captures engagement through webmentions, and importantly makes sense.
Back in Hong Kong 🇭🇰 Spent the evening wandering around Kowloon taking in the Blade Runner-esque sights
It’s fascinating to see how Shanghai has changed since its portrayal in 1987’s Empire of the Sun. Whilst the Bund remains largely unchanged, the same can’t be said for the rest of the city. The skyline is quite different!
Hiking in China – exploring the Ninghai national trail system (Lands Remote) China's first national hiking system, the National Trail System – Ninghai, offers 500km of waymarked hiking trails through the mountains near Ninghai city in Zhejiang province, China. Ninghai is just 2.5 hours south of Shanghai on China's highspeed train.
Hard work but had great fun getting away from the office, and into nature on this trail.
That feeling when the web service you’re pulling data from changes their encoding, doesn’t do any testing nor informs you of the changes 🤦
Finally getting the hang of #webmentions. Managed to successfully poll and retrieve responses for scottmallinson.com and landsremote.co.
The only emails I seem to receive from Apple are either invoices or to sell me a new product. As someone who has invested a lot of 💰 in Apple products, would it hurt to send the occasional email offering advice on how I can get the most out of my purchases?!
There are definitely worse ways to spend your Saturday morning/lunch. Devouring excellent food at The Commune Social in Shanghai.
Excited to see Bill Bailey in Shanghai!! #internationalcomedyfestival
Trying to get my head around microblogging, #IndieWeb, WebMentions, valid RSS feeds, and a #POSSE strategy.
New toy. For work, of course! #raspberrypi
We haven’t quite managed the 50km of the Ninghai Trail we intended to do, but we’re happy with the 35km or so we’ve covered. Resting our feet before catching our train later.
Yesterday we managed between 18 and 21km on the Ninghai Trail (distance varies between GPS watches). Attempting to do another long stint today. Had a cold night camping with a colder one to come.
Breakfast at @McDonalds. On our way to Ninghai for a long weekend of camping and hiking.
Since getting a @Sonos speaker I’ve found I’m listening to a lot more music and, through @Spotify, discovering more artists 🤘🔊 https://www.last.fm/user/boardstupid/library?from=2018-03-01&rangetype=month
Prepping for hiking the Ninghai Trail this weekend. Aiming to complete 50km over three days. Need to test out our tent 🏕️, make sure our packs 🎒 aren’t too heavy, whilst ensuring we’ve enough food and water!
CloudFlare’s new DNS 1.1.1.1 blocked in China 🤷♂️
Fun afternoon-into-evening in Shanghai drinking coffee, beers, cocktails meeting up with friends, old and new.
Busy, productive day 👨💻😓💪 followed by drinks and food🍹🍔. Hello weekend!
[https://www.wired.com/story/china-megacities-gallery/](Spectacular!)
Had a productive meeting with a local web development agency here in #Suzhou to undertake a priority project 🤞
So I’ve set up a little micro.blog over at [http://scottmallinson.com] as a means of POSSE-ing to Twitter and Facebook. If I’ve set up Webmentions correctly, comments and likes should backfeed to my website 🤞
Let’s see if this works…
Last year was great for traveling. Here are my #2017bestnine. Spot the photo that wasn’t taken in 2017.
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#2017bestnine #2017 #happynewyear #2018 #bestnine2017 #newyear #instagood #photooftheday #instadaily #photography #travelgram #travel #travelphotography #explore #life #wanderlust #travellife #travelpic #best9 #instatravel #trip
Tianjin West Railway Station 🚊throwing some shapes
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#tianjinwestrailwaystation #tianjin #china #railwaystation #reflection #trainstation #train #highspeed #instasize #shotoniphone6 #iphoneography #highspeedrail #architecturephotography #exploretianjin #archilovers #vsco #building #chineseexperience
Minyuan Stadium, Tianjin, built in 1926 and modelled after Stamford Bridge in London. Now home to shops, hair salons, and eateries
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#minyuanstadium #tianjin #china #wudadao #minyuan #vsco #vscocam #minyuanplaza #stadium #daily #architecture #travel #5thavenue #yellow #sunset #oldbuilding #building #fiveavenues #igworldclub #instadaily #agameoftones #weekend #structure #tj #architecturalphotography #nightlights #plaza #arch #dailyphoto #travelphotography
Part of the adventure is the journey ✈️ .
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#adventure #travel #explore #wanderlust #photography #instagood #travelgram #travelphotography #love #photooftheday #instatravel #beautiful #vacation #picoftheday #traveler #traveling #trip #fun #lifestyle #life #instadaily #photo #travelling #holiday
Looking out over the Sea of Clouds 🌊☁️⛰
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#huangshan #china #anhui #travel #mountains #nature #yellowmountain #mountain #hiking #landscape #traveling #travelphotography #asia #yellowmountains #travelgram #huangshanmountain #instatravel #instagood #nationalpark #holiday #clouds #wanderlust #photography #love #adventure #beautiful #explorechina #view
A fun weekend hiking Mount Huangshan with @t.ennis27 and @lands_remote
Ascending Mt. Huangshan
Suzhou’s Panmen Gate looking resplendent in the Autumn sun 🌞
En route to Ningbo
