On debating puppy kickers – This day’s portion
We all want reasonable, rational, civil, nuanced, consensual, whatever discussion, but that’s not possible with fascists. Sometimes screaming is right.| www.thisdaysportion.com
Pablo wrote a good post on the hurdles to joining the indieweb and getting your voice heard, offering a not uncommon solution: …we must make software tools that make self-hosting and website ownership easy and beginner friendly. To be clear: here, “indieweb” means a website you host, rather than publish via a platform, such as Substack, Medium, Typepad, Blogger, Pika or Bear. In this regard, it’s not just owning your domain, such as thisdaysportion.com, but also the server it sits on ...| This day’s portion – Posts
I spent a fair bit of last week apologising. Firstly to Manuel for my original reply to his post on online discussion, and secondly to anybody who had read (or even cited) my reply only for me to go and completely rewrite it. (I should make it clear that Manuel never asked me to edit or remove the post.) So what did we learn from all this, Leon? Firstly, to be more direct about what I mean, and to spend a bit more time getting the tone and voice right. I stand by what I said about Manuel’s ...| This day’s portion – Posts
We all want reasonable, rational, civil, nuanced, consensual, whatever discussion, but that’s not possible with fascists. Sometimes screaming is right.| www.thisdaysportion.com
A couple of weeks ago I put this blog into “hibernation”, which meant I: unpublished links to the RSS feeds completely removed site navigation unpublished a few posts I’ve just undone all those changes, so we’re back to normal. I’m cursed with a distinctive name – shared by literally no-one else who has a findable internet presence. Apart from the current Pope, who’s nearly there, but not nearly enough. And a long-dead Belgian cyclist. Normally, this would be a good thing, but o...| This day’s portion – Posts
Analytics are a military and financial tool. Your blog is not and you shouldn’t surveil you readers.| www.thisdaysportion.com
This is a note to record a problem I’m having with Codeberg (which I think originates in forgejo, the software Codeberg is built on). I recently installed elementary, an Ubuntu based operating system, on an old Mac Mini, the idea being to use it as a file server. That went pretty smoothly. I could have just stopped at installing the file server with Samba, but I wanted to give elementary a proper work out. Part of that involved seeing if I could edit and publish my website using its default...| This day’s portion – Posts
On putting the blog in hibernation mode.| www.thisdaysportion.com
Yesterday I entered a mildly manic state. This is not uncommon at the weekend, and manifests online – through reading a bunch of articles, posting links, commentary and notes to social media, tweaking this website’s typography and even publishing a blog article – rather than in completing IRL tasks, which would probably be a lot more useful. The blog post will often begin as an attempt to unify the disparate ideas the reading and posting generate, and, thankfully perhaps, that will ofte...| This day’s portion – Posts
There are degrees of self-hosting, but the more elements you control, the more resilient your site and freedom to express yourself.| www.thisdaysportion.com
The open web exposes us to bad faith, increasingly dangerous actors. We can mitigate our social media presence, but what of the most open, barebones medium of all, the blog?| www.thisdaysportion.com
Blogging is informal, amorphous and inconsistent, but it still has an ethics.| www.thisdaysportion.com
There are lots of reasons to self-host, but as ever there are technical and cultural hurdles.| www.thisdaysportion.com
Indieweb alternatives are often developed by small teams or one person, which can mean inaccessible features. How to tackle this problem?| www.thisdaysportion.com
Because blogging is based on techno-individualism it can be hard to set up your own website. We need more co-operation.| www.thisdaysportion.com
