2023 Three hundred and seventy-eight posts

I posted 378 times in 2023 using WordPress. 286 of those came from Instagram —more than 75%— Total word count for 2023 was 21,898 words with approximately 328 images and approximately 306 external links I posted 167 posts tagged "swim2023" I made 4 comics that year I made 2 headers that year

• 17-Dec-2023

  
  Day 2 of #indiewebcamp San Diego was a low key delight. Long live the web! #indieweb

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• 17-Dec-2023
  Open Graph and Invisible Code The first time I wrote HTML code it was by hand, on paper, on a break working night shift as an RT. I was left to imagine what the resulting code would look like. But once I entered it into a computer at the UCLA Extension computer labs I could see it! It was amazing....

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• 17-Dec-2023

  
  Handwriting to my website My recollection of OCR – optical character recognition – from years ago was it was expensive, fiddly, and not very good. Nowadays a free product like Google Docs has it built in. I saw this post by Chris Aldrich: Typecasting with IndieWeb Building Blocks and one of his steps is to use Google Docs to...

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• 17-Dec-2023

  
  IndieWeb Camp San Diego Day 2 IndieWeb Camp San Diego [1] [2] has been a blast. Great bunch of people and great ideas in a terrific outdoor context.

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• 16-Dec-2023

  
  Spent the day speaking with smart creative people about things #indieweb and exhausted my voice and brain and the capper was a dip in the water and a few wave rides.

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• 15-Dec-2023

  
  Noon sesh

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• 14-Dec-2023

  
  Freaky Geek Ball The Freaky Geek Ball was an event — a Halloween Dance Party — put on by various defunct San Diego tech groups in October of 2000. I was running the WebSanDiego listserv at the time and played a big part. It of course had a domain, and a website. Here in 2023 I have started...

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• 14-Dec-2023

  
  Good practice today

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• 14-Dec-2023
  Marquee Moon I spoke To a man down at the tracks And I ask him How he don’t go mad He said “Look here, Junior Don’t you be so happy And for Heaven’s sake Don’t you be so sad” RIP Tom Verlaine I somehow missed this death, from January.

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• 13-Dec-2023

  
  My Favorite Bodysurfing Quote “I’ve got basic bodysurfing tips: know how to swim, have a suit that’s gonna stay on, kick like hell, and come out of the water smiling.” — Mark Cunningham (captured in Mark Cunningham: Great Quotes By (And About) The Legendary Bodysurfer)

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