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More People Should Write
James Somers encouraging more people to write: More people should do what I’m doing right now. They should sit at their computers and bat the cursor around — write full sentences about themselves and the things they care …
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A Few Shot From My Morning Walk
Really early on a Sunday morning, and with sore legs from a long run the day before I took my Richo GRiiix out in Grantham to see what I could find. The answer was not a lot, but I loved the cold air but nice low …
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Making a Blogroll
One of the great things about making your own website is that you can build new things. One of the worst things about making your own website is that you keep building new things. After web mentions and a way to publish …
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Not Really Webmentions Part 2
In keeping with my ways, as soon as I published my rather long-winded method of pulling in pseudo webmentions, I knew I wasn’t satisfied. Functioning is one thing, but seeing all the code on a page and having trouble …
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Varied Writing Needed
I’ve been struggling to write about much else besides writing. Sure, it’s occupying much of my time right now, but it isn’t a subject I typically cover. This isn’t a ‘worry’, but a post I read earlier highlighted factors …
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My Blog Webmention Counts
This week I have been building parts of my blog, to learn and to get it to a point that I am happy with. A large part of this was webmentions, and thanks to a few excellent guides I got 90% of the the way their. With …
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Doing The Work
For the last few weeks, I’ve fallen out with myself and the place I publish all of my things online. I don’t want to go into the specifics, but I turned back from the brink not that long ago and don’t want to again. As …
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Falling Back In Love
It’s less than 24 hours until Valentine’s Day, but this post isn’t about my wife. Although she is great. It’s about the very real love I have for running again, and it’s all because I gave myself something that I …
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Missing The Point
It seems my throwaway post about not publishing to my blog gained some traction. Many people took it as it was intended, a commentary on it being too easy to reply and push it in front of my face, but many more people …
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Some Thoughts On Slugs
Adam Newbold, writing about using URL as a sentence: URLs convey valuable information, and good URL design ensures that they provide the right level of context and set proper expectations. Incidentally, good URL design …
