I just came across the Awesome Blog Club on Lobsters. It’s basically a directory of personal blogs that are arranged by tags. I really like the I’m Feeling Lucky button that takes you to a random blog from their directory. However, what I don’t like is that Git is a huge barrier for entry here...

How I curate links for my blog by Jan-Lukas Else (jlelse.blog)

On my blog there is a section called “Links” (recently not only in English but also in German). But how do I find links that I find interesting and worth sharing? In this post I will describe my process. What I like to read most are blogs of other people. I don’t know many of them at all, at l...

A few days ago I asked for advice on whether it was a good idea for me to start The Meta Blog. In this post I talk about the decision I’ve made and why. Quick recap – I started a niche blog about blogging a couple of weeks ago (The Meta Blog), and since had reservations as to whether it was a go...

I started dating Liz - my now wife - one cold January back at university. We were young and disgustingly in love. This was it - 💕true love💕! And then, right in our honeymoon phase, she left to Australia for the summer holidays. We both wailed and made overly dramatic speeches about how we'd st...

Egal, Matrix is eh doof! by Matthias Pfefferle (notiz.blog)

WordPress und Matrix „heiraten“ wohl doch nicht, wie ich im vorherigen Post gehofft hatte 🙁 Caspar hat mich in den Kommentaren auf einen Tweet von Matt Mullenweg hingewiesen, in dem er das nochmal klar stellt. The same way that WP folks mix up New Vector, Modular, Riot, and Matrix, people out...

GNOME seeking feedback on defining GNOME software by Liam Dawe (gamingonlinux.com)

This is your chance to get involved in open source in a community way, that doesn't require any coding as the GNOME team are looking to gather feedback. In a post made from Red Hat developer Allan Day, who sits on the GNOME Foundation Board, they put out an official proposal to attempt to clear up w...

On Asses and Math by crystal (chicky.blog)

“Remember when I asked you for body weight exercises I could do in small spaces?” “Yeah, you wrote in your last letter that did something like 70 squats.” “Ok, so yesterday I did 120 squats, 40 each of regular squats, sumo, and ski squats.” “Nice! You’ll come out of there with an ass...

I came across a very interesting passage in The Storytelling Animal: how stories make us human. It explains the Lake Wobegone Effect, the effect that we think of ourselves as above average when it comes to positive qualities. Like being a good driver (which for a matter of fact I am). In