This is is the first post of an experiment inspired by a post I read on Ryan Trimble's blog, Things I Like. In it, he says he's been feeling bad about web development and wants to remind himself of what he likes about it.
I'm feeling same but just bad in general about a lot of things including web development. And, like Ryan, I'd rather remind myself about things that make me happy, that I like.
I'm going to post some of those good things I see throughout the month. I hope to do one of these each month, updating as the time goes by, same as I've done with my October movie posts.
Let's see how many I manage to do.
Things I liked in August
In no particular order.
I've been enjoying reading Aubrey Sambor's Blaugust posts. I've gotten some great ideas from her posts about her journals, how she's set up her blog writing system, and her post about website ideas and inspiration. I've enjoyed reading her other posts too and am feeling inspired to try to do much better about my own blogging.
My friend, Dee Wells, shared a beautiful post he wrote about his father - The Questions I Never Got to Ask My Father.
I enjoyed Ana Rodrigues's post Towards a personal online third space
This a ramble about what a safe personal online space focused on creativity, community, and self-expression could look like.
After reading her post, I feel inspired to work more on my own sites.
The Authors Together website is a directory of where you can find the books that were published by A Book Apart.
The rudbeckia that I planted a few years ago finally really took this year and now I have a huge patch of them. They started off as a little 1 gallon pot from Bemis Farm in Spencer, MA.
No to AI, A handy guide for avoiding intrusive AI.
This is a guide for people who would like less intrusive AI in their tech environment. Maybe you like AI and find it useful? That’s fine, this document is probably not for you.
ht Ethan Marcotte A handy guide for avoiding intrusive AI
Jeremy Keith linked to a beautiful article on They History of the Web, A website for everyone about Fray. This one definitely hit me in the nostalgic feelings. I miss the web of back then and reading Fray. I never got to an in-person event though. I wish I had.
I enjoyed Dave Letorey's post about his eclipse viewing adventure .