Writing
What I Found on the Web This Week
This week’s bookmark collection includes a magnificent time suck at the Internet Archive, thanks to Jarrod Blundy from HeyDingus.net.. Also included are the YouTube channel of the week, the blog of the week as well as a helpful tool for skirting paywalls, a great article on the Fediverse, new AI tools and more.
Internet Artifacts
Summary: It’s an online museum with exhibits. Want to see the first SPAM email ever sent? It’s here. Want to see a diagram of the Internet when it was only 111 computers big? It’s here too. This site is extremely well done and prepared to cost you some curious time if you get sucked into it.
Hugging Face Assistants- Open AI offers custom GPTs to it’s $20 a month customers, but Hugging Face does the same for free. You can choose from a variety of fine-tunes helpers to accomplish anything from web design to cooking.
Archive.is
Summary: Archive.is is the ultimate tool for viewing paywalled material. I don’t even try to open Medium links anymore without pasting them into Archive.is. If you want to read something from the New York Times, Washington Post or Wall Street Journal, chances are you can find it already archived here. There’s even a browser extension to make it easier for you. You’ll thank me later for this one.
cyclelou/Amerpie: Downloadable Markdown files for Obsidian (github.com) - This is my personal quotes collection, broken down in separate markdown files suitable for importing into Obsidian
The fediverse, explained
Summary: The always excellent Davis Pierce interviews himself about our corner of the web. “The buzziest new thing in social networking is a big deal. It’s also very confusing. And it’s not actually new. Let’s talk about it.”
Marco Serafini - YouTube
Summary: Marco is this charming Italian guy who makes videos about Obsidian, note taking and PKM in general. I learned how to use some use plugins from his concise explanations of them.
Tracy Durnell
Summary - Tracy is a blogger and consultant in Seattle who does a great job on her personal blog. She wrote a series of posts on blogging around the first of the year I found personally very helpful:
I shit you not. We actually had a user call the help desk today to tell us she has a doctor’s note to excuse her from having to use two-factor authentication to log in to university resources. #techsupport
Why the Right Hates Public Education
I wrote this 10 years ago today and it’s just as true today as it was then.
Well, I’m just going to say it. Here’s why education is under attack…And why the legislature is getting away with it. 1) There is a nationwide movement under way to characterize all public employees as lazy and overpaid 2) Teaching is still seen as a woman’s profession 3) The media and its consumers love stories about how our students are underperforming without actually investigating the validity of those claims 4) Education is the largest part of the state budget. Any money saved there can be used for tax cuts. 5) Channeling money to religious schools through vouchers panders to the religious right.6) The right-wing legislators who caused this get elected because too many voters are convinced that ALL tax money goes to lazy poor people.
The weekly update to my /now page, with my thoughts on True Detective: Night Country, some of what I’ve written this week, info on cross posting exploration and what I’m enjoying. Amerpie/now
I put together an updated collection of links to share, part blogroll, part blogging tools, part web geek fun stuff, part curiosities. It’s my first shot at something like this but it’s something i enjoy adding to each morning over a cup of coffee. Amerpie’s Bookmark Page
#MyFirstMac - The school system I worked for supplied me with a brand-new titanium Powerbook G4 in 2001. It was an amazing computer and dual booted OS X and OS 9.22. I used it to manage and configure some of the earliest versions of Mac OS X server.
Updated my /now page with quotes from the best stuff I read this week, what I’m watching, what I’m making and where I’m eating. amerpie.omg.lol/now
Finally got DNS fixed (because it’s always DNS) thanks to @manton and now amerpie.lol is a real thing