I've been so preoccupied with things in my life I haven't sat down and really focused much. It's a good preoccupation though! So have a jumble of subjects and links.

First, Apple has been putting the pressure on Tumblr again to 'get rid of the porn' on the app, and it's lead to some of the most frustrating posts and wild accusations of people that ( Read more... )

After my whole 'why am I not doing the thing' post, I started to think a little about the adoptables stuff again and I figure I could do little art of that and it would also double for merch assets. But now that I'm sitting down about it I'm thinking 'what do I even make.'

Years ago when I first attempted to dip my toes into these, I was going to do ( Read more... )

I think I may have found the killer app in terms of communication options that are both self-hosted and accessible to most users...
https://mattermost.org/

MatterMost is an GoLang/React chat application comparable to the likes of Slack and Discord, with the added ability to run a mattermost server of own, separate from their cloud service. They have ( Read more... )

I thought? I had talked about this moderately recently but I guess not? But I've been working on my website, mostly on the CSS front.

http://armaina.com/

The overall look is still the same but I've been doing little things here and there to try to beautify the website a little, little things like adding little extra style and also adding in some nice ( Read more... )

One of the most significant banes of my existence has been the lack of proper webcomic CMS options available. See if you look for anything webcomic self-hosting related, most services direct you to the most available and common, Comic Press. A Wordpress Plugin.
http://comicpress.net/
It's not bad by any means I just have a great disdain for WordPress ( Read more... )

Learned about an interesting service today called Nushara. It has a feel of a WebRing except one that feels more web 3.0 than classic webring ( Read more... )

LB Lee does some wonderful articles and this recent one is great and topical for a lot of people out there ( Read more... )

first a couple of interesting links

PRINCIPLED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE:
Mapping Consensus in Ethical and Rights-based Approaches to Principles for AI
https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/42160420/HLS%20White%20Paper%20Final_v3.pdf

Programed biological organisms, referred to as 'living robots'
https://earthsky.org/human-world/1st-living-robots- ( Read more... )

So I like to watch new services grow, you know, as I do, because I've been on this wide internet for 25 years and I've seen services come and go. So the big 3 services I've seen all rise up in an attempt to take tumblr crown with the strongest running are Pillowfort, NewTumbl and Waterfall. I try to give all services a shot and see how things pan ( Read more... )

It's a sad day, after a few turbulent years, https://8tracks.com/ is finally shutting down ( Read more... )