I love how in winter you can notice how nature does it’s thing in special ways.

And that there’s a point in not sweeping the leaves 😬

Half rotten leaves getting pulled into the ground in between paving

I need to build something to make me use quotebacks more often. They just look way nicer and I hope it helps me using webmentions.

Let’s start with an adaption of my drafts share template.

<blockquote class="quoteback" darkmode="" data-title="[[title]]" data-author="AUTHOR" data-avatar="" cite="[[url]]">
<p>[[selection]]</p>
<footer>AUTHOR<cite> <a href="[[url]]" class="u-in-reply-to">[[url]]</a></cite></footer>
</blockquote><script note="" src="https://micro.blog/quoteback.js"></script>

I haven’t tried yet, but I thing I only need to adapt AUTHOR and add or remove parts when posting to make it really look nice.

Why quotebacks again?

The ethos behind Quotebacks is one of the reasons why I love the product. Yes, it’s a great addition to my thinking toolkit, allowing me to store quotes without polluting my note-taking and thinking system. But it’s also a tool which aims at making the Internet a more generous place. If you regularly write online, give it a try!

what micro.blog gets right by removing things

Jeannie McGeehan - The problem with the favorite button

m.b forces me into genuine interaction with a post’s author in a conversation-like manner which is a good thing, even If there is some resistance on that path. I now understand the problem with the favorite button and the path of least resistence. It removes genuine interaction and replaces it with a convenient click.

The other thing missing intentionally?

No simple boosts, but posting a proper quote. Comment on it or don’t.

The web is simpler

This is day 5 of #100DaysOfIndieWeb - Tantek

The #IndieWeb approach is the simpler day-to-day approach. […] Your own site. Write first, defer “destination decisions”. Create first, edit for audience(s) second. It’s refreshing & liberating. Whether text, photos, videos, podcasts, brief thoughts, thinking out loud, a considered essay or “thought piece”, or replies to any of the above, start with your own site. […] You can defer destination decisions & editing to some point in the future entirely, when you feel it’s worth your time. You decide how and when to spend time creating vs editing. You are in control.

I enjoy my home on the web more and more. Every day.

/via Dave Winer

Best saw ever. japanese saw sawing plywood

meh.

💫Start a Fucking Blog

This is a fucking blog, and it’s wonderful. It’s perfect. It allows you to share your words, in your own voice, with no corporate fuckery to fuck it up for you.

I’ve just activated automatic deletion of all messages on my mastodon thingy. I’m going to treat mastodon as ephemeral chat from now on.
It’s part of me remodelling my web usage and put even more focus on my own home. social.lol/@muhh

I’ve just activated automatic deletion of all messages on my mastodon thingy. I’m going to treat mastodon as ephemeral chat from now on.

It’s part of me remodelling my web usage and put even more focus on my own home.

Happy new year!

pastry which looks like pig’s head

Brossd Neujahr!

Gudn ruddsch!

fire red sunset

If todays sunset is an indicator of next year’s weather, it’s going to be on fire.

☕️ party preparations

Someone’s early

a ladybird on my wooden desk

Where the year has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Greg Moore · Litany Against Resolutions

lol'ing for over a year now!

I registered my beautiful muhh.omg.lol address over thirteen months ago, and it took me only a few weeks, until one day before Christmas Eve, to start using it properly. On Christmas Eve I entered Adam’s charity auction and I’ve had a lifetime address ever since.

In this year I’ve been a happy user and Adam is continueing to build a mighty empire of different small but helpful services. Some, like the mastodon server social.lol, I use heavily, some I don’t.
I even bought the domain muhh.lol to follow the IndieWeb principle to own my content, which led to omg.muhh.lol as my generic profile page for the web.

You really should use get an address there right now. Or next year, but then at a raised price.

What made me write this post, is that there is a referral programme for omg.lol in place. You can collect credits for referalls and then receive credit to use in time for the service(s). Or even make gift codes out of the credit for others to use.

So if anyone remembers they started using omg.lol because of me, please let them know. For science only, of course. I don’t need the credit.

If I ever get credit on my time account, I’ll give it away, like @maique is doing right now.

One thing that drives me a bit mad right now: I don’t know who brought me there and who I could put in as my referrer. Does anyone know how I found out about this fabulous place? Or how I could find out? It’s been such a long time.

But, and this is the personal part of this little rambling story: It changed me by putting the “LOL” in my head and directing my online consumption and presence in a more fun way. It’s led to me posting more this year than I have in a very, very long time. I’ve interacted a lot more. It made me enjoy all the things a lot more.

I’ve also realised that micro.blog does a lot of things right by denying access to unhealthy metrics like follower counts or “likes”. Which was a major reason why I basically stopped using the big, corporate social networks. I even doubt that my mastodon usage is right for me. It’s just too much for my easy to distract brain. It obviously prefers calmer and joyful places.

In short, omg.lol has brought fun into my life, made it better, and for that I am very grateful. My blog will remain my constant rock on the internet, and micro.blog is good for that right now.

Except I still have muhh.lol available and I feel the urge to build something up again myself. For the lols 🤣.

Merry Christmas to all you lovely people!

me in a Christmas tree  ball. Red and green.

Happy winter solstice!

Prami is now a physical part of my most important tools. prami

Photo of my dirty desk, with a hint of my beloved ikki68 aurora keyboard with Vim keycaps and my notebook with a fres prami sticker on it.