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?

Friend used a new-to-me phrase for the holiday blahs that’s perfect: “blah humbug” 😂

★ I screen printed some stuff

Mutemath/Paul Meany released Distance, an acoustic EP of some songs from the vault. Very chill.

In that vein, I recommend this album by Resistance Revival Chorus

Another thing I did during IndieWebCamp San Diego’s Create Day was add a page with food and drink recommendations. This morning I added an emoji before each one as a quick indicator of the type of food. I like that it adds some color and variety to a page of mostly text.

This is cool! I don’t think it’s correct that Webmention requires a permalink for each post; sending a fragment link as the source URL should work. The verification step should be per-media-type, so receivers could verify that text/plain example differently than a text/html document.