Notices by Juhis (hamatti@mastodon.world)

Yesterday I learned about a new Eleventy feature: custom data file formats.

It allowed me to easily define a custom format for storing game score data in an easy to input format for our Pokemon TCG Progression Series website.

https://hamatti.org/posts/leveraging-eleventys-custom-data-file-format-feature-for-simpler-game-scoring-format/

#11ty #eleventy

If you want to find new things to read, check out #ScribesAndMakers tag: people are sharing three books they consider classics today.

I generally consider myself quite well read but oh boy today has shown that I am in fact not. So many books I have never even heard of and lot of classics I know by name but not what they are about.

#Books #Bookstodon

Something I learned from many discussions with others that didn't really bother me has led me to discover the First Rule of RSS:

"You don't need to read everything in your feed"

A very common reason for people to stop using #RSS readers is that they become overwhelmed with things to read, kind of like a "task list" of required reading.

The trick is, it's just a catalogue of things that might interest you (because you picked the blogs in the first place) and you can skip some or all of them.

Is there any handy mnemonics for remembering in which order the values come in CSS for things like margin or padding?

I never remember if it's left-right or bottom-up first in the one with two values or in which order they come up when using all four.

I always just put in values and then open developer tools to see how it went. But I'd like to learn them because I always get them wrong.

#CSS #WebDev

I'm one of those people who publish a blog post in the morning and then in the afternoon I see a new post in my RSS feed and get excited until I realize it was my own.

Back in the day I was the solo webmaster of organization's website and I still went to check the site few times a day to see if anything new had been added - knowing very well I was the only one who could add stuff.

I wrote about how I teach #Eleventy from scratch to my friends.

This 6 step workshop covers the basic fundamentals of Eleventy in a way that helps understand what happens if you then decide to start with a starter kit.

https://hamatti.org/posts/how-i-teach-eleventy-from-scratch/

#blogging #11ty

When the company calls their home appliances "smart", what I hear is:

- they spent money on features I don't care about
- those features will be worse than standalone devices but will drive them out of market (looking at you TVs)
- the appliance is more likely to break
- my data is likely being sold to advertisers
- when the company loses interest in it and cut support, I will need to buy a new device

So no, I don't want "smart" home appliances.

Why invest into a personal site rather than just have a social media presence?

@kevquirk shared his thoughts on the matter which inspired me to add my own on top.

https://hamatti.org/posts/why-personal-site-rather-than-social-media-presence/

#IndieWeb #PersonalWeb #Blogging

@KentNavalesi @kevquirk You're right. For a completely own, it does require either a tech-savvy friend or a lot of time to explore how to set up own site.

I think there are valuable middle steps though: for example setting up a hosted site or blog with custom domain using sites like Wordpress.com, BearBlog.dev, Pika.page or Micro.blog.

Please, don't force me to log in.

One aspect of software enshittification that really grinds my gears is that more and more apps require you to create accounts and login.

https://hamatti.org/posts/please-dont-force-me-to-log-in/

Spotify already skews payments towards the biggest names and now they are going to do that even more in the future while still benefitting from the art by these artists.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/30/spotify-smaller-artists-wrapped-indie-musicians

This could very well be the best #cookbook of all time.

from the co-author @youseeatortoise :

> I co-wrote a cookbook for depressed people and other folks with zero spoons, only knives. It's not meant to be gourmet cooking so much as a survival guide for late stage capitalism. And you can get it for free!

https://traumbooks.itch.io/the-sad-bastard-cookbook