I’m thinking of murder mysteries. It’s 2022, does anyone still have a butler?
I still want at least 8 major English language web search engines with their own indexes. At least there are contenders forming now. Seirdy has the best rundown.
I got a haircut today. As I watched large chunks of my hair hit the apron thing I noticed most of it has gone beyond gray and onto old man white. Oh well, at least I still have some hair to cut. :)
Huge mega cities get super hero’s like Super Man and Bat Man. But what kind of resident super hero’s do small cities like South Bend, Indiana or Sioux Falls, South Dakota get?
Today: Submitted a URL to two small directories for inclusion. Maybe. One had a reCaptcha that did not confirm transmission so maybe not.
Got garbage bin to curb. Paid stack of bills and mailed same.
it’s quiet. I think everybody is melting.
What a world. What a world.
I got my 2nd Covid booster this evening. (4th shot total). I’ve had 3 Pfizer shots so this time I went with Moderna to mix things up.
I keep running across people who are members of Status.cafe. Kinda nice. Part specialized micro blogging social network with a forum attached, which is a nice touch. Popularity growing.
Yikes! Prices: Aldi brand steak sauce (like A-1) $1.09. Real A-1 brand $4.95 at Aldi. You can save a heck of a lot of money by going with the house brand.
Actually I'm testing linkblogging using Quill and Micro.blog. The question being will Quill and MB accept markdown links in the title.
Also, this is a good article one that every webmaster should read.
These are my impressions about the hosted blog service Mataroa.blog. Mataroa is a minimalist type of hosted blog somewhat on the same order as Write.as.
Mostly it's the look that is minimalist because the feature list is pretty good. I won't go through the entire list because you can see that at the link above.
That's just at the free level. The paid level adds the ability to use your own domain but get backups emailed to you regularly. Free is free and the paid level is only US $6.00 per year. (For now, that number has to eventually go up.)
Mataroa uses Markdown to customize your writing so there is no elaborate editor. You can post photos as well. I have no idea how much storage space you get, but photos are not the point of Mataroa as a blog host, text is. This is a place for people who want to write with the minimum of fuss. There is almost no friction standing in the way of you writing a post.
One downside is there is no site search. All blogs should have a site search. They need to add a site search.
I have to say, I’m impressed. You are not going get the rich and powerful feature set, syndication and community like you would with Micro.blog but if money is tight and/or if you just want to experiment with a personal blog Mataroa just might be for you.
I’m sitting here, pining for the Bronze Age.
Lizard people armed with French baguettes are coming to take away our pickup trucks.
Hey I just discovered that there is an official Micro Blog app for Android! I totally missed that. I must have been sleeping during class again. It’s nice and works well.
If /e/ foundation made an /e/OS tablet I would purchase it. If they made a 4G tablet with US carriers I would run and purchase it.
I was delighted to find a FOSS Internet Radio app via F-Droid for my /e/OS phone last night. This morning it’s still stuck on trying to download a list of stations. I get the big swirlie thing. Story of my life.
I just joined Tumblr. After listening to this podcast about Tumblr becoming a better Twitter than Twitter. So I’m preparing the ground should I ever have to leave Twitter.
Thank you so much for the page obscuring, pop-up asking me to sign up for your newsletter. Of course, that’s exactly why I stopped by your website, to sign up for, yet another ad choked newsletter with a popup no less. It really must be - special.
The more I use it the more I like Quill for posting to Micro.blog.
I have finished my morning ration of coffee and have started on tea. Black tea. Hot.
It occurred to me that I have not been using or keeping up on the best of the Slo-web* search engines and needed to do something about that. Since I don't use these every day I decided to just make a Speed Dial with these engines on it.** This should help my work/search flow.***
Marginalia Search - for text heavy web pages which gets rid of commercial. Crawls the web and has built a small index. Very interesting results.
Wiby.me - The index has grown quite a bit! Mainly indexes static HTML sites. Just keep clicking for more pages of SERPs because there is good stuff deeper. This search engine crawls sites submitted by humans but does not crawl the web.
Searchmysite.net - small index of non-commercial pages. Some good stuff here.
Indieseek.xyz - okay so this is my directory not a search engine but I use it daily and I need a link it in with those above.
Right Dao - This really isn't a slo-web search engine. It's really a growing general search engine but I've been neglecting it so it's on this list so I'll use it more.
I recommend trying these search engines. They are not intended to replace Google they are intended to find the non-commercial sites that get drowned out in Google.
Foot Notes:
* Slow-web aka Retro web, Yesterweb, Web Revival.
** Speed Dial is standard on Vivaldi Browser. It has become sort of a generic term. Other browsers have copied it or there may be an extension available for your browser that adds it.
*** Mojeek remains my default search engine.
Interesting video, The Early Internet is Breaking, about what has been lost from Web 1.0 and attempts to catalog the Web as it keeps evolving. About 9 min. I like how they draw out lessons to be learned from the 1990's web of personal homepages.
Hat Tip: Chris Hannah via Kev Quirk on Mastodon.
Tonight’s meal will be frozen Chimichangas microwaved to perfection, refried beans and Spanish rice.
I’m disappointed that Ubuntu does not have the Pale Moon web browser in their software repository.
The good part about 3 day holiday weekends is it gives me time to build web things without distraction. The down side is I have to wait till the holiday is over before I announce my - creation - since nobody is around. Pfft. Tuesday then.