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Why I start most—but not all—replies with “In reply to,” you ask? So that the few folks following me via RSS would know what the heck I’m going on about.

In reply to https://degruchy.org/2020/07/29/lots-of-static/.

Well—I may have said this before—you could just host Markdown files on GitHub (or any semi-public repo) and have Netlify or whatever generate your HTML. (Note: I’m sticking with dynamic, for now. Real flexibility, zero need for 3rd-party services.)

Ugh. I don’t like 1-hour programming videos. Anything video, really. Written text is so much easier to navigate. Way faster to read through, too.

In reply to https://jan.boddez.net/notes/ddca8bb06a.

Actually, it probably still depends on the “URL” for the bookmark, i.e., in the author’s feed.

When, inside my Microsub reader, I bookmark a bookmark, it’ll bookmark the original bookmark instead. (I know.)

Bookmarked https://adactio.com/links/17196.

Note the fear with which publishers talk about Google (anonymously). It’s the same fear that app developers exhibit when talking about Apple (anonymously). Ain’t centralisation something?

Bookmarked https://inessential.com/2020/07/28/untrue.

This response to “the App Store does business like a grocery store”—hint: it doesn’t—is just about perfect. (There’s like a dozen different grocery chains and a whole lot of other options, which is the entire point. Also, retail margins are nowhere near 30% minus whatever Apple actually spends.)

Bookmarked https://youtu.be/IlGBzeGVB3k.

Was recently given a Philips HD8821 in need of a good clean, and, uh, this video helped.

Reposted https://nitter.net/dhh/status/1288114093883179011#m.