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personal website: joe crawford. code. occasional comics. toy robots. bodysurfing. san diego. california. say hi. 

November 2021 Forty-nine posts

30-Nov-2021

Why are so many folks compelled by web3? I think this describes it well, by Robin Rendle: The future feels like it’s already owned by Google or Facebook or some other enormous corporate interest, so I can understand that impulse to create something new like web3 because of that. Read the whole thing. I suspect people–particularly younger people–see “just websites” created by individuals...

indieweb linkrot social-media social-software web3 webdev
30-Nov-2021

Frequently Asked Questions (2011 or earlier) More old stuff! Deleting the former page, turning it into a blog post. Things got to change if they’re to improve! Affiliations What do you have to do with the Web Standards Project? Are you active in that group now? I wrote the first version of the Baseline Proposal / Manifesto when the WSP was...

reorganization
30-Nov-2021

Obituary: Jennifer Simpson I don’t think I saw this obituary for Jennifer back in December 2020. It’s a lovely tribute to a person I miss a great deal. A person who encouraged me to write and gave positive feedback at every turn. A good friend to me. Talk Story Publishing founder, Jennifer Simpson, passed away unexpectedly—December 2020 Jennifer...

Jennifer Simpson obituary
29-Nov-2021

Kelly and I at SDCCSE! Looking forward with hope and trepidation to July!

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28-Nov-2021

Religion! Last week I did some work importing the Words section of my site into WordPress. I pulled all that ephemera in as pages. It was fun. I like working with WordPress. I also found a stub of an essay I never finished. The preamble on the page said: People keep asking me about my evolving...

religion
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28-Nov-2021

Comic Con Special Edition was a new, different, interesting thing. I had fun.

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28-Nov-2021

The first swag I picked up on this day of Comic Con Special Edition was pretty special.

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28-Nov-2021

It was glassy. Caught some rights. #stoke

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27-Nov-2021

I got photobombed by the charming @robertbroski, actor and Lincoln-lookalike on the way to @comic_con #CCSE #SDCCSE

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26-Nov-2021

It’s not a comic con without a robot selfie.

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