New post: Goodbye big-social

content/curiosities.md

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 title: "Curiosities"
 emoji: 🧠
 draft: false
+type: timeless
 ---
 
 I'm a thoroughly [miriscient](https://www.miriscient.org) chap, and this often ends up in me creating toys, trinkets, projects and other artistic things. I've listed some out below.

content/friends.md

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ title: "Friends online"
 emoji: 🥰
 date: 2023-03-01T09:12:37-03:00
 draft: false
+type: timeless
 ---
 
 In lovely, nostalgic web 1.0 style, here are some links to the websites of friends of mine. Please enjoy, and get in touch with them if you like what they've built!

content/posts/fujifilm-repair-centre/index.md

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ---
-title: "Fujifilm Repair Centre"
+title: "The Fujifilm Repair Centre"
 emoji: 📷
 date: 2022-10-29T11:22:11+01:00
 audio: index.mp3

content/posts/goodbye-big-social/index.md

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+---
+title: "Goodbye big-social"
+date: 2023-04-28T15:21:00Z
+draft: false
+emoji: 🌊
+tags:
+- social-media
+- friends
+---
+
+<small>_**TL;DR**: I'm going to leave Meta's social networking platforms (Facebook, Instagram) on June 16th, 2023. This website, [byJP.me](https://byjp.me), will always show good ways to reach me and find out what I'm up to — please say hello if we haven't chatted in a while!_</small>
+
+---
+
+I'm pretty fed up of Facebook and Instagram. I barely use them, but when I do I _binge_, and end up feeling terrible afterwards. I'm familiar with how sites like these use data analytics to group humans into buckets according to the best ways to maximise dopamine release, and the _percent of our day_ we spent on their sites/apps, and it makes me itch.
+
+I don't want my attention to be milked. I don't want to feel _more_ distant from my friends on the platforms that claim to connect me with them. Six advertisements and four rose-tinted travel "influencer" posts between anything relating to my friends' lives isn't useful or good for me. It's clearly time to leave.
+
+{{< figure src="insta-ages.jpg" title="My first, precisely middle, and last posts on instagram. From left to right: the 'Creepy mounted fox head' I apparently joined Instagram to post a photo of (Nov 20, 2010); a scan of an old and wonderful photo of my Mum's late partner, Tony, standing over a moped looking ready to fly (Jan 4, 2017); a photo of my fiancée looking out over stunning Rio de Janiero from Pão de Açucar (Feb 15, 2023)." class="big" >}}
+
+I joined Facebook in 2005, excited at the technical and societal marvel that was [web 2.0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0), and Instagram (then independent of Meta) in 2010, delighting at having both a camera _and_ the internet in my pocket at once. I enjoyed sharing and creating on those platforms then (I did it though none of my friends had joined yet!) but now my every word and pixel is fed into a runaway marketing algorithm, and I'm going to get off the train.
+
+Sadly, by removing my accounts, I'll lose my ability to reach out to long-lost friends whose numbers and emails I no longer have. But I don't like being held hostage, so I've written this post on my own site (its [homepage](https://byjp.me) has all the best ways to get in touch with me), and I'll be sending messages to as many people as I can to reconnect and point them there.
+
+**I'll be leaving just after my birthday this year, June 16th** (as anyone inclined to wish me well then is someone who may want to know where I've gone to!) but you can find me online in a host of other places already (check the [byJP.me homepage](https://byjp.me) for the up-to-date ones).
+
+You can also [send me a postcard](posts/thoughts-on-postcards/), or message me on _[Signal](https://signal.org/)_, _iMessage_, and (if you twist my arm) _WhatsApp_. For my address or my phone number, being more sensitive, just say hello [by email](mailto:hello@byjp.me), and I'll excitedly share with you!

content/standing-invitation.md

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ title: "Standing Invitation"
 emoji: 📮
 date: 2022-10-20T11:25:37Z
 draft: false
+type: timeless
 ---
 
 This is a standing invitation to write to me about anything that's on your mind!

layouts/partials/about-me.html

@@ -3,4 +3,9 @@
   Hello! I'm <em class="p-name fn always-accented">JP Hastings-Spital</em>, a <span class="p-category category">maker</span>, <span class="p-category category">software engineer</span>, <span class="p-category category">swing dancer</span>, and all-round <span class="p-category category">miriscient chap</span> living in <span class="adr p-adr h-adr"><span class="p-locality locality">London</span>, <span class="p-country-name country-name">UK</span></span>. <span class="h-card">I'm a <span clas="p-job-title">principal engineer</a> at <a href="https://deliveroo.engineering/" target="_blank" class="p-org u-url" rel="noopener">Deliveroo</a></span>.
 </div>
 
-<p>{{ partial "welcome.md" | markdownify }}</p>
+<p>I post here infrequently about things I've created or care about. Recently I've written
+{{ $posts := where .Site.RegularPages "Params.type" "!=" "timeless" }}
+{{ range $posts | first 2 }}
+    <a href="{{.Permalink}}">{{ .Title }}</a>, 
+{{ end }}
+and {{ with index $posts 2 }}<a href="{{.Permalink}}">{{ .Title }}</a>{{ end }}.

layouts/partials/welcome.md

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-I [post](./posts) on this site infrequently about things I've created or care about. You're welcome to write to me if you'd like, read my [standing invitation](./standing-invitation) for more information.

themes/hello-friend-ng/assets/scss/_main.scss

@@ -123,8 +123,9 @@ a {
   color: inherit;
 }
 
-.always-accented {
+.always-accented, .always a {
   color: var(--accent);
+  text-decoration: none;
 }
 
 main p a, main li a, nav a, .social a, section a, .accented {

themes/hello-friend-ng/layouts/index.html

@@ -24,5 +24,6 @@
         <section class="posts" style="text-align:center">
             {{ partial "about-me.html" .}}
         </section>
+
     </main>
 {{ end }}