I watched a video about the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die and someone built a web app to help you listen to them all with a daily recommendation. I think I’ll give it a shot as part of my #TodaysAlbum project.

Woo, new year, new blog post! Thanks for participating. I do hope the Skirts Awards come at some point, though.

Aye, and the remix album is just as good!

Yay! If you’re looking for writing inspiration, there’s a monthly blog carnival. This month’s topic is “Affirmations” by my friend @artlung.com. More coming up: indieweb.org/IndieWeb_Carnival

🎶 It’s a TRON: Legacy soundtrack kinda day.

“We need things like RSS, the open web. We need websites back. That’s my dream is to bring back blogs.”

— Taylor Lorenz on We’re Not Kidding!

Version 0.2.3 of the ProcessWire IndieAuth Module is released:

• Fixed a bug when adding profile information to a token response
• Install now attempts to add the introspection-endpoint
• Improved admin: list of granted access tokens
• Add an option to no longer advertise the backwards-compatible link-rels. These remain on by default; future release may change to off by default.
• More in the changelog

Previously

Hey San Diego, some of the lovely people in Fan Favorite are presenting next week: Navigating Fractured Realities and the Need for Clean Air (“During the Pandemic” is Right Now). January 21, 6:30pm–8pm at Centro Cultural de la Raza. Masks required and provided? Air purifiers? You know it! 😷💛

Also, check out and share the Instagram post.

Thinking about the bad user experience around this emergency alert I got last night:

Emergency alert: Extreme

ENDANGERED MISSING ADVISORY. Details at https://bit.ly/EMA0022025

I was a bit suspicious, especially in light of the recent inaccurate evacuation alerts that went to all 10 million residents of Los Angeles County. A bit.ly link for an official government alert, really?

I used the bit.ly preview tool to see where the link would go before clicking (add a + after the bit.ly link). It showed the destination was the @CHPAlerts Twitter account, so it was legitimate after all.

I get that Twitter is still a good way to get out emergency alerts and you want links that pop up on phones to be short, but it would probably be better if they used a short link on ca.gov so it looks official.

I’m trying out the Pomodoro Technique for the first time in a while. I’m using tomatoi.st for the timers. It works pretty well, though doesn’t seem to keep track of which break length you should take next. That’s minor, though.

New year, new personal website? (Or update your existing site?) Join us for a virtual IndieWeb meetup, Homebrew Website Club, January 8th at 6PM Pacific!

Want to read: Polio: An American Story by David M. Oshinsky (ISBN 9780195325966)

🎶 Happy New Year! I’m listening to Edgar Wright’s Top 50 Songs of 2024 playlist.

h/t Emily Haines from Metric

Currently reading: The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin (ISBN 9780316229265)

Finished reading: The Free People’s Village by Sim Kern (ISBN 9781646143306)

From indieweb-dev chat today, I found that validating a microformats1 hEntry post (example) can show some misleading messages. In this example, the original post has a microformats2 u-syndication class. php-mf2 and others won’t parse that since the specification directs to parse for backcompat classes.

The parsers don’t indicate if the result came from backcompat or not, so IWM is reporting that no syndication links were found in the post (example). This is definitely confusing for publishers, because the suggested markup does appear in the permalink. I don’t know the best way to do this, but ideally the validator should warn if backcompat was used and explain that a mixture of microformats2 classes won’t be found.

Soon. isitchristmas.com

Ooh, Sufjan’s are so good! I bet you’ll like Rosie. She and Sufjan have worked together.

Haven’t listened to much holiday music yet, so fixing that with the new Ben Folds, Sleigher. Next up: Scala & Kolacny Brothers, December; and Rosie Thomas, A Very Rosie Christmas. What’s on your list?