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Jeremy Cherfas

Pride goeth ...

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Blast. Just when I was reaching around to pat myself on the back for making webmentions work on the Mothership, I notice some big problems.

First, the home page is all messed up with duplicates of many things. Doesn't seem to happen on the local version, which means it is going to be tricky as all get out to solve.

Secondly, the markup on the Mothership leaves a lot to be desired. That one will be a lot easier.

There are probably others too.

Jeremy Cherfas

This is all a bit tense, but with any luck there's a chance that this reply will soon show up, suitably styled, on the Mothership. When (if?) it does, there will be dancing in the streets.

Jeremy Cherfas

Day One Premium and the Future

[T]he invisible hand is usually just giving you the finger if you care about what you make

This downbeat summary does seem to be on the mark, at least for good software. I didn't upgrade to Day One Premium, because Classic does all I need. Does that make me part of the problem? I don't believe it does, any more than darning my socks (which I don't do) or patching my trousers (which I do) makes me a bad consumer. Definitely, the people who make beautiful software need a better way to sell their creations, and no, I don't know what that might be.

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A Million Squandered: The “Million Dollar Homepage” as a Decaying Digital Artifact

No idea what happened to the million. But the page is an interesting artefact that, in its current state is, I venture, a more accurate keep[sake of the internet than it would be had it all stayed up and running.

The article suggests that:

Given the existence of powerful and widely accessible tools such as the Wayback machine, this kind of restorative curation may well be within reach.

To which I would be fairly vehemently opposed

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I donated to 'Help save Snopes.com!' - http://gf.me/u/biicca via @gofundme

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We watched Lobster with Colin Farrell and other luminaries last night, and all I can say is, er ...