Kris created an Apple shortcuts flow for posting images to her Wordpress blog. I had something similar at one stage but grew unresaobly angry that Shortcuts couldn't access the secure Passwords app so I had to hardcode the bearer token into the shortcut. Like a barbarian! You know, maybe I could just..you know...do that anyway.
The beginning of examination of how linked the systems within which we operate are, and how that affects us.
Building a personal web reader
The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.
This fairly closely aligns with why I am having so much trouble using micro.blog, a service I have been paying for since the Kickstarter. Using it just doesn't align with my read of the idea of owning my own words (I mean, I guess content is the right term but it has such a gross meaning in our degraded, hustle-ised culture). When I think about ownership, I think of having control of it. But obviously when I put those words on someone else's service, I have ceded control. Sure, Manton seems like a nice guy. So does @shlee@aus.social. Nevertheless, I am giving them a bit of me every time I post to their databases.
An understated call to action to reject the lure of "the global town square"; not the same stridency as Cory Doctorow's "enshittification" themed articles, but the same basic point.
Tending and caring for an indie web in the midst of generative AI content farms