diff --git a/content/notes/2024-05-17/jynmr/index.md b/content/notes/2024-05-17/jynmr/index.md index c1c96c07..b270b100 100644 --- a/content/notes/2024-05-17/jynmr/index.md +++ b/content/notes/2024-05-17/jynmr/index.md @@ -1,10 +1,15 @@ --- date: 2024-05-17T16:46:40.515+01:00 publishDate: 2024-05-17T16:46:40.515+01:00 -slug: jynmr +syndications: +- https://hachyderm.io/@byjp/112457221988469529 +- https://bsky.app/profile/byjp.me/post/3ksp3jnfugc2c +tags: +- crowdfunding +- Kenya --- -My friend and his hundred year old cũcũ (granny) are #crowdfunding to build a cultural archive of the language and stories from their family home in Embu, #Kenya. They're also helping fund the tenth episode of an animated children's show exploring African nursery rhymes! +My friend and his hundred year old cũcũ (granny) are [crowdfunding](/tags/crowdfunding) to build a cultural archive of the language and stories from their family home in Embu, [Kenya](/tags/kenya). They're also helping fund the tenth episode of an animated children's show exploring African nursery rhymes! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/njeru/uli-and-tatas-african-nursery-rhymes-embu-special diff --git a/content/posts/your-space-on-the-web/index.md b/content/posts/your-space-on-the-web/index.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..db7db78f --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/your-space-on-the-web/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +--- +title: "Your space on the Web" +emoji: 🚀 +date: 2024-05-17T12:04:51+01:00 +summary: Friends! Are you unsure how to make your own space on the web? I'm offering time, money &experience to help you build your online garden, away from the ads and head-hacking of the social media giants. +topics: +- IndieWeb +tags: +- IndieWeb +- hosting +- offer +- web +draft: true +--- + +Hello friends, I miss you! I'm barely on the giant social media sites any more, which means I don't get to interact with so many of you in the ways I used to. It sucks. + +So I have a proposition for you: if you're feeling a little creative, if you'd like to _be_ the change bringing more personality and creativity to the internet, then **I'll help you get there**. + +I'll help you find your voice on the web — maybe a hobby, your thoughts, photography, art or poetry; I'll help you build your site (sharing what I already know and learning more together); I'll buy you a birthday present's worth of tools that suit you; and I'll help you find others doing the same. + +Leave the attention-seeking, profit-optimised, social media [slop](/bookmarks/slop-is-the-new-name-for-unwanted-ai-generated-content/) to wither and die — come and bring your creativity and joy to the IndieWeb community! + +## Inspiration & joy + +Here are some favourites of mine; some intimidatingly impressive, some simple and expressive: + +- This poetic ode to [soft tech](https://helena.mmm.page/soft-tech), and its [author Helena's creativity](https://hjaramillo.com/projects-20). + - …and [mmm.page](https://mmm.page), the gloriously expressive (free!) platform its made on. +- The beautiful [kinetic woodwork of David C. Roy](https://www.woodthatworks.com/) — [this piece](https://www.woodthatworks.com/kinetic-sculptures/duality) in particular just mesmerises me. +- [Red Blob Games](https://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/) is [Amit Patel](https://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/) writing explaining the super geeky world of game development in a way that's really accessible and engaging. +- [Neocities](https://neocities.org/) is the spiritual successor of the 1990s' "GeoCities" site that made "having a website" a possibility for everyday people. _This_ is an internet of creativity and passion — sometimes unfathomable, but always intriguing. +- [Low←Tech Magazine](https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/), an online publication powered by a solar-powered computer — sometimes, often at night, it won't be available, and that's totally fine. +- This incredible interactive article on [the physics of how how bikes work](https://ciechanow.ski/bicycle/) (with many other similarly fantastic articles along side) +- [Jennifer Mills News](https://jennifermillsnews.tumblr.com/), a cute weekly one-page newspaper covering the everyday adventures of Jennifer Mills. +- [chia.earth](https://chia.earth/), a deconstruction of a calm landscape, represented in text, that you can explore and change. +- [neal.fun](https://neal.fun/), particularly the delightful [Internet Artifacts](https://neal.fun/internet-artifacts/), bringing the concept of an internet museum (about the internet to life. +- A good old [blogroll](https://blogroll.org/)! A list of interesting blogs you might like to visit. + +I should stop there, or I'll never post this — the internet is so full of hidden creativity and joy, I hope you'll be a part of that! diff --git a/layouts/_default/_markup/render-link.xml b/layouts/_default/_markup/render-link.xml new file mode 100644 index 00000000..09a4a51a --- /dev/null +++ b/layouts/_default/_markup/render-link.xml @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +{{- if and (hasPrefix .Destination "/tags/") (not (strings.HasSuffix .Destination "#")) -}} + #{{.Text}} +{{- else if or (eq .Text "") (eq .Text .Destination) -}} + {{ .Destination }} +{{- else -}} + {{ partial "rich-link.html" (dict "Text" .Text "url" .Destination "Title" .Title "references" .Page.Params.references) }} +{{- end -}} diff --git a/layouts/_default/rss.xml b/layouts/_default/rss.xml index 6188f437..1c1c5a0c 100644 --- a/layouts/_default/rss.xml +++ b/layouts/_default/rss.xml @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ {{- with .OutputFormats.Get "RSS" -}} {{ printf "" (.Permalink | absURL) .MediaType | safeHTML }} {{- end -}} - {{ range $pages }}{{ $page := . }} + {{ range $i, $page := $pages }} {{ .Title | default (delimit (slice "An untitled" (.Date.Format "January") (.Type | singularize)) " ") }} {{ .Permalink | absURL }} @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ {{- $reference := partial "reference.obj" (dict "url" .Params.bookmarkOf "page" .) -}} Thoughts on a bookmarked article{{ with $reference.name }}: {{.}}{{ end }}. {{ else }} - {{ .Summary }} + {{ index (split .Summary "\n") 0 }} {{ end }} diff --git a/layouts/shortcodes/emoji.gmi b/layouts/shortcodes/emoji.gmi deleted file mode 100644 index 2bbe1b17..00000000 --- a/layouts/shortcodes/emoji.gmi +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -{{- .Get 0 }}{{ " " -}} diff --git a/layouts/shortcodes/emoji.html b/layouts/shortcodes/emoji.html deleted file mode 100644 index 28685f01..00000000 --- a/layouts/shortcodes/emoji.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -