I hereby dub Maxwell Joslyn the Crown Prince of gRegorLove.com.

Context: During May 26, 2021 Homebrew Website Club I learned that some American was dubbed the Crown Prince of Korea.


myself in front of a graffiti mural of the word 'love' written repeatedly in cursive

Well, it’s been almost five years. Time for a new profile photo.

I’m really pleased with how this came out, particularly since it was an offhand “hey, get my picture in front of this since I'm gRegorLove” as we walked by the mural in Hillcrest.

Previously

myself giving a thumbs up with a big smile and a 'I got my Covid vaccine' sticker on my shirt

Circle circle, dot dot, I just got my (first) Covid shot.

It felt surreal when I was next in line, realizing I had been waiting a whole year for this and it was actually finally happening.



selfie where my hair was rather wavy

I kind of had Farrah hair the other day. #wavy


Some Thoughts on Commenting

Today I dipped my toes back into IndieWeb land (lake?) by joining the pop-up session, “Respectful Responses.” I didn’t go in with a specific goal; it just sounded like a good topic:

How do we enable more positive serendipity & discovery via our websites, between both existing friends & family, and new positive interactions. And how do we raise barriers to spam, harassment, and other unpleasant social media interactions.

The session got me thinking more about the commenting experience for people without personal websites. David talked about the experience of leaving a comment and expecting it to appear immediately. Some sites will display a message that the comment is pending moderation, and some will even show the commenter a preview of their comment. My site does the former if I have not approved a comment from your email address before. I had not considered that could be a negative experience for some people. The more I thought about it, I realized that many times when I link an article on Facebook or Twitter, people will come to my site to read it then go back to the social site to leave a comment instead of using my local comment form.

This could be for various reasons. The most obvious is probably the ease of posting on the social site. It’s one text field, the comment appears immediately, and that is how people interact online the majority of the time. My local comment form with fields for name, email address, website, and comment is tedious by comparison. I realize the required email address field is off-putting as well.

I like the idea of changing that experience around so instead of a comment form that’s always public, comments are allowed from a trusted audience. That audience could be as broad as “people who have logged in to my site.” I think the barrier of logging in would still mean people would go back to the social sites to respond, though. I am not sure how to get around that. That is often the challenge with IndieWeb: creating experiences that are at least as easy as the silos.


My Christmas card this year is courtesy of Bitmoji. Merry potato!


I’ve released version 0.0.3 of mf2 to iCalendar, a library to convert h-event microformats into iCalendar.

It no longer throws an Exception if no h-event microformats are found. Instead it will generate a minimal, “empty” iCalendar. I had run into an instance where an upcoming events page was empty and the URL for the iCalendar was returning the Exception message.

I also changed the default domain to example.com, did some minor code cleanup, and renamed the git master branch to main.

Previously


statue of a muscular snowman lifting weights

Do you want to build a swoleman?



myself wearing a navy button-down shirt and pajama pants. Tag on my shirt has the Zoom logo and meeting ID: 867-5309

I’m a Zoom Work Call for Halloween.

Oh, I also got my hairs cut about a month ago.

#mooz

I’m attending Homebrew Website Club - The Americas.

It’s been a minute!


Want to read: Going Indie by Brian Schrader (ISBN 9781636259598)


Want to read: Born Again and Again by Megan Westra (ISBN 9781513806754)


I did a double-take while scrolling, thinking, “what new feature is this, Twitter?”

Then I remembered that out of frustration I started adding fascists to a Twitter list titled “Fascists.” Now apparently Twitter is promoting it to me. XD

screenshot of twitter.com, a tweet from Tomi Lahren with 'Tweet from Fascists' above it


pink sky just after sunset reflected in the wet sand
Pink Sky, Pink Sand

My mental health has not been great lately. I’ve been feeling pretty stressed out and all over the emotional spectrum. On Saturday I decided go to the beach at sunset. I always find that soothing. I really liked the symmetry of the pink sky being reflected on the wet sand.

I finished watching The Good Place recently and loved it. They talk about one Buddhist conception of death being an ocean wave that crashes on the shore. The wave is gone, but the water is still there. I thought about that as I watched the waves and took some moments to breathe and be present.



Want to read: James Acaster’s Classic Scrapes by James Acaster (ISBN 9781472247186)

Loved his Netflix show Repertoire so really looking forward to this one.


selfie with my hair down to my eyes, clearly in need of a haircut

Wanted: haircut. Or emo bandmates?


Want to read: Broken (in the best possible way) by Jenny Lawson (ISBN 9781250077035)