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Once upon a time I was heavily involved with the Textpattern community, but I haven’t used or kept track of TXP for several years now. It randomly popped into my head over lunch that Textpattern originally had an ethos which aligned really well with IndieWeb ideals.

It had a plugin system for extending the core, could define custom metadata, override how to display particular articles, and it was also easy to modify themes to add things like microformats/special meta tages, etc. Looking back, it sounds ideal for some users?

I could only find a passing mention in the IndieWeb wiki. If I find the time, I might explore and document setting up an IndieWeb-integrated site using Textpattern.

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Today I found out that my girlfriend has decided that when she retires from roller derby, she’s filling all that freed up time with playing Dungeons & Dragons, and painting GW figures. She’s already picked out Yvraine to represent her Elven Sorceress.

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đź”– Bookmarked: The Creative Battery by Craig Morrison

“Everyone has what I consider a creative battery. When it is fully charged it provides motivation, fuels our passion, and drives us forward. … It ebbs and flows like any other battery, we put energy in through our successes and call on its reserves when we face challenges. “

Craig Morrison (feelinstrangelyfine.com)
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It feels like the last few weeks have been really quiet around here (compared to normal)… February is always one of my busiest months of the year, and this year I’ve had two lots of illness thrown in on top of that already. Normal service should hopefully resume shortly!

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Apparently Forge World resin comes in black, as well as grey?!?
Anyway, got an idea for a mini display board I want to try out. Not sure if I’m going to use this flat tile, or the one with a wall that’s still in the post

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Has anyone seen any good conversion ideas for Imperial/Inquisition/Ministorum Crusaders recently? I’m weighing up whether to make my own, or get some of the old metal models from GW. Send me links, pictures, or even just your ideas, if you have them! ?

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đź”– Bookmarked: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. by an author

“This, in a nutshell, is DuckDuckGo’s proposition: ‘The big tech companies are taking advantage of you by selling your data. We won’t.’ In effect, it’s an anti-sales sales pitch. DuckDuckGo is perhaps the most prominent in a number of small but rapidly growing firms attempting to make it big — or at least sustainable — by putting their customers’ privacy and security first.”

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đź”– Bookmarked: Forget privacy: you're terrible at targeting anyway

“The state of personalized recommendations is surprisingly terrible. At this point, the top recommendation is always a clickbait rage-creating article about movie stars or whatever Trump did or didn’t do in the last 6 hours. Or if not an article, then a video or documentary. That’s not what I want to read or to watch, but I sometimes get sucked in anyway, and then it’s recommendation apocalypse time, because the algorithm now thinks I like reading about Trump, and now everything is Trump. Never give positive feedback to an AI.”

Every service I use which has moved to “personalised recommendations/discovery” using some ML algorithm has gotten worse by doing so.

Every. Single. One.