I very much enjoyed Tracy Durnell's long post about listening without a streaming subscription, part of a series on wanting, or perhaps needing, less. It mirrors, at least partially, my own experiences of music in the past few years; having first reduced friction I now find that, in order to be more intentional, I need to reduce friction all over again

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There's a temptation to review the whole year, not the month, which I shall try to resist.

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One of the primary reasons to design a new ClassicPress theme from the ground up was so that I would understand how it worked. That, in theory, would make it easier for me tinker and so, by and large, it proved. The last thing I knew I had to do¹ after it went live about 10 days ago was to add t...

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The chat at indieweb.org has been quite busy lately with people brainstorming about taxonomies, specifically about how to classify places that serve coffee. This isn’t something I am interested in, although the broader topic of classifications and taxonomies I do wrestle with from time to time. What triggered this post is the discussion over there that focused on emergent versus deliberately designed taxonomies.

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Yesterday, almost nine months after starting, my from-the-ground-up redesign of the podcast website went live. Of course I was not working on it full time, although I have notes from 25 different sessions. Now that it is up and running, it seems like a good idea to reflect on the process. The primary reflection being, it is a pain.

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