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Hi, I'm Cory
diff --git a/src/posts/2013/blitzen-trapper-ever-loved-once.md b/src/posts/2013/blitzen-trapper-ever-loved-once.md index 8a413c27..722c46f5 100644 --- a/src/posts/2013/blitzen-trapper-ever-loved-once.md +++ b/src/posts/2013/blitzen-trapper-ever-loved-once.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- date: 2013-07-30 -dradt: false +draft: false title: Blitzen Trapper - 'Ever Loved Once' tags: ['music'] --- diff --git a/src/posts/2013/grapes-of-wrath.md b/src/posts/2013/grapes-of-wrath.md index 0f29350b..79b15e72 100644 --- a/src/posts/2013/grapes-of-wrath.md +++ b/src/posts/2013/grapes-of-wrath.md @@ -5,6 +5,6 @@ title: Grapes of Wrath tags: ['environment', 'politics'] --- -> "There is a fifteenfold difference in the price of cabernet sauvignon grapes that are grown in Napa Valley and cabernet sauvignon grapes grown in Fresno" in California’s hot Central Valley, says Kim Cahill, a scientist researching climate change's effect on viticulture who has also done consulting for the wine industry. "Cab grapes grown in Napa sold [in 2006] for $4,100 a ton. In Fresno, the price was $260 a ton. The difference in average temperature between Napa and Fresno was five degrees Fahrenheit." +> "There is a fifteen-fold difference in the price of cabernet sauvignon grapes that are grown in Napa Valley and cabernet sauvignon grapes grown in Fresno" in California’s hot Central Valley, says Kim Cahill, a scientist researching climate change's effect on viticulture who has also done consulting for the wine industry. "Cab grapes grown in Napa sold [in 2006] for $4,100 a ton. In Fresno, the price was $260 a ton. The difference in average temperature between Napa and Fresno was five degrees Fahrenheit." Interesting read on climate change, wine and agriculture via [Mother Jones](https://medium.com/mother-jones/e85d7d9689ea). diff --git a/src/posts/2014/fastmail-in-fluid-app.md b/src/posts/2014/fastmail-in-fluid-app.md index 430a4994..3b32f13f 100644 --- a/src/posts/2014/fastmail-in-fluid-app.md +++ b/src/posts/2014/fastmail-in-fluid-app.md @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ function transform(inURLString) { } ``` -Add this URL handler by going to the Fluid app's preferences, URL handlers and name the handler Fastmail with the pattern mailto:\* +Add this URL handler by going to the Fluid app's preferences, URL handlers and name the handler Fastmail with the pattern mailto:* Configuring the dock counter for the Fluid instance is also fairly straightforward and James Wilcox has [a great writeup on setting that up](http://jamesw.me/?p=347). @@ -39,6 +39,6 @@ Are you currently using Fastmail in a Fluid instance? Or do you have a particula If you don't use Fastmail, I would highly recommend it, and you can [sign up for it here](http://www.fastmail.com/?STKI=11917049). -**Edit (10.29.2014):** Updated the script to reflect Fastmail's new TLD (.com as opposed to .fm that they previously used; thanks to [Keith Bradnam for the heads-up](http://keithbradnam.com). +**Edit (10.29.2014):** Updated the script to reflect Fastmail's new TLD .com as opposed to .fm that they previously used; thanks to [Keith Bradnam for the heads-up](http://keithbradnam.com). **Edit (1.29.2017):** Updated the compose URL to reflect Fastmail's new compose routing. Thanks, [Fred Barker](http://fredbarker.com)! diff --git a/src/posts/2014/leaving-google-apps-for-fastmail.md b/src/posts/2014/leaving-google-apps-for-fastmail.md index 2ea13761..4935cd17 100644 --- a/src/posts/2014/leaving-google-apps-for-fastmail.md +++ b/src/posts/2014/leaving-google-apps-for-fastmail.md @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ I did quite a bit of research before switching to Fastmail and the following pos Have you moved to Fastmail? Are you thinking of doing so? [Let me know your thoughts](mailto:coryd@hey.com) on it or the move to it. You can sign up for Fastmail [here](https://www.fastmail.com). -[^1]: My interest in this idea, specifically was sparked by this blog post by Marco Arment: [Let us pay for this service so it won’t go down](http://www.marco.org/2011/04/05/let-us-pay-for-this-service-so-it-wont-go-down 'Let us pay for this service so it won’t go down – Marco.org') +[^1]: My interest in this idea, specifically was sparked by this blog post by Marco Arment: [Let us pay for this service, so it won’t go down](http://www.marco.org/2011/04/05/let-us-pay-for-this-service-so-it-wont-go-down 'Let us pay for this service so it won’t go down – Marco.org') [^2]: I had previously consolidated all of my old email accounts in to my Google Apps account via forwarding and by checking them via IMAP through Gmail. [^3]: I currently use the first-party mail clients on both iOS and OSX so not having contacts and calendars synced with Fastmail is really only an issue when in the Fastmail web interface (which isn't all that frequently). For now, I've been manually uploading vCard files to Fastmail which is clunky, but not all that annoying. I _do_ miss being able to create events by clicking on parsed text (which Google Apps supported), but not all that much. [^4]: If you do get tripped up switching from another provider, Fastmail does have extensive documentation. [You can also feel free to get in touch](mailto:hi@coryd.dev). diff --git a/src/posts/2014/photo-management-with-dropbox-hazel.md b/src/posts/2014/photo-management-with-dropbox-hazel.md index f4bcf574..f2dad2c8 100644 --- a/src/posts/2014/photo-management-with-dropbox-hazel.md +++ b/src/posts/2014/photo-management-with-dropbox-hazel.md @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ I recently abandoned iPhoto as a means of storing, organizing and managing photo I began by exporting my iPhoto library to a folder using [Phoshare](http://code.google.com/p/phoshare/)[^iphoto]. I then created a simple [Hazel](http://www.noodlesoft.com/hazel.php) rule to scan my iPhoto library for duplicate images or videos and discard them. Clearing duplicates from my iPhoto library saved me 6 GB in space which either speaks to how disorganized my library was to begin with or how bloated iPhoto managed to make it. -After clearing duplicate files I created another rule to rename all photos based on the date they were taken and what they were taken with before then organizing them in to a subfolder based on that date. From there organization was simply a question of looking through each folder and appending an event title after the date the folder was named with. +After clearing duplicate files I created another rule to rename all photos based on the date they were taken and what they were taken with before then organizing them in to a sub-folder based on that date. From there organization was simply a question of looking through each folder and appending an event title after the date the folder was named with. Once all of the above rules were run on my Dropbox Photos directory I edited them to run on my [Dropbox Camera Uploads directory](https://www.dropbox.com/help/289/en 'How do I use Camera Upload?'). This allows me to upload photos via the iOS Dropbox app or import it directly from my camera and have Hazel auto-organize any content based on event date which I then label and move to a folder in the Photos folder named for the year in which the pictures were taken. diff --git a/src/posts/2014/streaming-music-has-left-me-adrift.md b/src/posts/2014/streaming-music-has-left-me-adrift.md index 69750ca5..4d9f7e17 100644 --- a/src/posts/2014/streaming-music-has-left-me-adrift.md +++ b/src/posts/2014/streaming-music-has-left-me-adrift.md @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ tags: ['music'] I used to be (and suppose I still am — to some extent) a fan of heavy metal. Almost all the bands I listened to released records through small labels or independently with small print runs for each release being the norm. At the time, half the fun was not only finding new bands but actually _finding_ their releases, so you could even listen to them. No band is all that great if everyone can listen to them and all that — exclusivity is king and all that (there was a sense of ownership or being in the know that came along with finding a new band and being able to refer fans of similar music to them). -Streaming services have eroded a lot of the excitement inherent in the old process of discovering new music. Now you can follow playlists or immediately stream just about anything anyone recommends to you (there are some notable exceptions — one of my favorite bands, Canadian punk act [NoMeansNo](http://www.nomeanswhatever.com), only has a greatest hits compilation distributed digitally). As silly as it is, I get less excited about finding new bands now and I tend to over-listen to releases I'm excited about, burn out on them and move on. As fans, we're less invested in what we're listening to because we didn't make the effort to discover it and the financial investment in a physical release or digital download to really attach us to it. Sure, we _are_ paying for music inasmuch as paying a [Spotify](http://spotify.com) or Beats is paying for access to music ... but we're not directly supporting artists by buying those releases, by seeing the artwork, by having to go through the tea ceremony of pulling out a vinyl record and putting it on a turntable. +Streaming services have eroded a lot of the excitement inherent in the old process of discovering new music. Now you can follow playlists or immediately stream just about anything anyone recommends to you (there are some notable exceptions — one of my favorite bands, Canadian punk act [NoMeansNo](http://www.nomeanswhatever.com), only has the greatest hits compilation distributed digitally). As silly as it is, I get less excited about finding new bands now and I tend to over-listen to releases I'm excited about, burn out on them and move on. As fans, we're less invested in what we're listening to because we didn't make the effort to discover it and the financial investment in a physical release or digital download to really attach us to it. Sure, we _are_ paying for music inasmuch as paying a [Spotify](http://spotify.com) or Beats is paying for access to music ... but we're not directly supporting artists by buying those releases, by seeing the artwork, by having to go through the tea ceremony of pulling out a vinyl record and putting it on a turntable. We have more access to music now than we've ever had, but we're much less invested in it. Maybe streaming proponents are right and streaming services will raise the money spent on music consumption in the aggregate, but I can't help but think we're losing something in the process. We've gained so much in the way of convenience and lost a lot with respect to the experience. diff --git a/src/posts/2015/exploring-osx-mail-clients.md b/src/posts/2015/exploring-osx-mail-clients.md index c4f8ed95..e7134116 100644 --- a/src/posts/2015/exploring-osx-mail-clients.md +++ b/src/posts/2015/exploring-osx-mail-clients.md @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ tags: ['Fastmail', 'Email'] I've been using [Fastmail](https://www.fastmail.com/?STKI=11917049) for over a year now and have been exploring email clients the entire time I've been a subscriber. Until recently, the best client I've been able to find has been Fastmail's web app itself (whether that's in the browser or [in a Fluid instance](http://coryd.me/notes/fastmail-in-fluid-app). -I've tried [Airmail](http://airmailapp.com/), which is fine but isn't as flexible as I'd like (despite having a really extensive preferences pane) or as lightweight as I had hoped[^1]. I suffered through using OS X's Mail app and, though the [Gmailinator](https://github.com/nompute/GMailinator) plugin made it somewhat bearable, it frequently exhibited odd behavior that had me wondering just what the app was doing at times. I tried using [Mailmate](http://freron.com) on several occasions but would get hung up on the minimal nature of the app's designed and overwhelmed by its flexibility and featureset. +I've tried [Airmail](http://airmailapp.com/), which is fine but isn't as flexible as I'd like (despite having a really extensive preferences pane) or as lightweight as I had hoped[^1]. I suffered through using OS X's Mail app and, though the [Gmailinator](https://github.com/nompute/GMailinator) plugin made it somewhat bearable, it frequently exhibited odd behavior that had me wondering just what the app was doing at times. I tried using [Mailmate](http://freron.com) on several occasions but would get hung up on the minimal nature of the app's designed and overwhelmed by its flexibility and feature-set. I circled back to the Fastmail web app, but didn't love the idea of using a different web app for each of my email accounts (I have secondary Gmail accounts and would prefer a unified interface for all of my accounts). Frustration with using multiple web apps led me to give Mailmate another chance[^2]. diff --git a/src/posts/2015/moving-to-bitbucket.md b/src/posts/2015/moving-to-bitbucket.md index 9ddd9a24..548af74d 100644 --- a/src/posts/2015/moving-to-bitbucket.md +++ b/src/posts/2015/moving-to-bitbucket.md @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ title: Moving to Bitbucket tags: ['Git', 'GitHub', 'Bitbucket'] --- -I recently moved all the repositories for my personal and client development projects to [Bitbucket](http://bitbucket.org). I had been paying for Github's micro plan to manage a few projects that I didn't want public, but made the decision to switch after exploring a bit more and seeing that, well, Bitbucket provides the functionality I was paying Github for free. +I recently moved all the repositories for my personal and client development projects to [Bitbucket](http://bitbucket.org). I had been paying for GitHub's micro plan to manage a few projects that I didn't want public, but made the decision to switch after exploring a bit more and seeing that, well, Bitbucket provides the functionality I was paying GitHub for free. Making the switch itself was painless. I added a key to my Bitbucket account, switched the remotes out on my repos and pushed each repo to its new home on Bitbucket. Switching remotes out is as simple as: @@ -13,4 +13,4 @@ Making the switch itself was painless. I added a key to my Bitbucket account, sw git remote set-url origin REPO-URL ``` -Github is, of course, an incredible resource but, for my purposes, the switch made too much sense not to carry out. +GitHub is, of course, an incredible resource but, for my purposes, the switch made too much sense not to carry out. diff --git a/src/posts/2016/doj-takes-war-on-encryption-to-whatsapp.md b/src/posts/2016/doj-takes-war-on-encryption-to-whatsapp.md index 203ff675..15fc57ec 100644 --- a/src/posts/2016/doj-takes-war-on-encryption-to-whatsapp.md +++ b/src/posts/2016/doj-takes-war-on-encryption-to-whatsapp.md @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ tags: ['politics', 'security'] **[The EFF:](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/03/next-front-new-crypto-wars-whatsapp):** -> The government's theory, that the All Writs Act gives it the power to compel American companies to write code and design products to ensure law enforcement access to encrypted content, is virtually without limits. No devices, and indeed no encrypted messaging services, would be safe from such backdoor orders. If the government wins in San Bernardino, it could even force companies to give it access to software update systems, and send their users government surveillance software disguised as security patches. +> The government's theory, that the All Writs Act gives it the power to compel American companies to write code and design products to ensure law enforcement access to encrypted content, is virtually without limits. No devices and indeed no encrypted messaging services, would be safe from such backdoor orders. If the government wins in San Bernardino, it could even force companies to give it access to software update systems, and send their users government surveillance software disguised as security patches. The government is taking its war on encryption to WhatsApp's front door. This is, perhaps, even more terrifying than their effort to force Apple to hamstring its device security. It's one thing if the government can force its way in to devices but, oftentimes, services used on secured devices have their own, additional layers of security. This is the government attempting to compromise security further by making inroads in to security provided by messaging (and other) service providers. diff --git a/src/posts/2016/scriptable-backups-with-arq.md b/src/posts/2016/scriptable-backups-with-arq.md index b7492240..e64721b6 100644 --- a/src/posts/2016/scriptable-backups-with-arq.md +++ b/src/posts/2016/scriptable-backups-with-arq.md @@ -28,4 +28,4 @@ Arq pause 60 Arq resume ``` -Now you can easily control your backups from your CLI of choice or even script them from apps like [Alfred](https://www.alfredapp.com/) or [Control Plane](http://www.controlplaneapp.com/) (context sensitive backups anyone?). +Now you can easily control your backups from your CLI of choice or even script them from apps like [Alfred](https://www.alfredapp.com/) or [Control Plane](http://www.controlplaneapp.com/) (context-sensitive backups anyone?). diff --git a/src/posts/2016/throwing-together-a-blog.md b/src/posts/2016/throwing-together-a-blog.md index 1dc9e30f..06f036e5 100644 --- a/src/posts/2016/throwing-together-a-blog.md +++ b/src/posts/2016/throwing-together-a-blog.md @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ tags: ['development', 'Statamic'] I've been working on this site for longer than I'd care to admit (years at this point). It's been through a few domains, two content management systems, multiple versions of those content management systems, countless designs and several different hosts. I'm really happy with where it's at and what I've learned putting it together. -I started this site off running [Kirby](https://getkirby.com) on shared hosting. It's served as a design and development playground for me as I've learned and applied new things. It started off without being version and now the source for it is stored on [Github](https://github.com) and now runs on [Statamic](https://statamic.com). +I started this site off running [Kirby](https://getkirby.com) on shared hosting. It's served as a design and development playground for me as I've learned and applied new things. It started off without being version and now the source for it is stored on [GitHub](https://github.com) and now runs on [Statamic](https://statamic.com). I started off writing the CSS and JS for the site manually, before generating a Grunt build process, breaking out the styles to be more modular and rewriting them in SCSS. Dependencies are now sourced from [npm](http://npmjs.com) and [Bower](https://bower.io). diff --git a/src/posts/2017/congress-guts-internet-privacy-protections.md b/src/posts/2017/congress-guts-internet-privacy-protections.md index dcf503a8..fbb44202 100644 --- a/src/posts/2017/congress-guts-internet-privacy-protections.md +++ b/src/posts/2017/congress-guts-internet-privacy-protections.md @@ -7,4 +7,4 @@ tags: ['politics', 'net neutrality'] **[Techdirt:](https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170328/09565737026/consumer-broadband-privacy-protections-are-dead.shtml)** -> Thanks to a cash-soaked Congress there will be neither broadband competition, nor functional regulatory oversight of an industry with a documented history of aggressive, anti-consumer and anti-competitive behavior. What could possibly go wrong? +> Thanks to a cash-soaked Congress there will be neither broadband competition, nor functional regulatory oversight of an industry with a documented history of aggressive, anti-consumer and anticompetitive behavior. What could possibly go wrong? diff --git a/src/posts/2017/data-toxic-asset.md b/src/posts/2017/data-toxic-asset.md index a3a68db7..7a3bf6fd 100644 --- a/src/posts/2017/data-toxic-asset.md +++ b/src/posts/2017/data-toxic-asset.md @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ tags: ['security'] **[Bruce Schneier:](https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/03/data_is_a_toxic.html)** -> We can be smarter than this. We need to regulate what corporations can do with our data at every stage: collection, storage, use, resale and disposal. We can make corporate executives personally liable so they know there's a downside to taking chances. We can make the business models that involve massively surveilling people the less compelling ones, simply by making certain business practices illegal. +> We can be smarter than this. We need to regulate what corporations can do with our data at every stage: collection, storage, use, resale and disposal. We can make corporate executives personally liable, so they know there's a downside to taking chances. We can make the business models that involve massively surveilling people the less compelling ones, simply by making certain business practices illegal. > Data is a toxic asset. We need to start thinking about it as such, and treat it as we would any other source of toxicity. To do anything else is to risk our security and privacy. @@ -15,4 +15,4 @@ This piece by Bruce Schneier is worth revisiting in light of [yesterday's Equifa There will be more breaches, and we'll have to deal with the fallout, but we shouldn't be apathetic about it. Any company that collects that much data about the public should be held to higher standards when storing it (or, better yet, shouldn't store it at all). An insincere apology and a free year of some service provided by the company that failed to protect our data in the first place isn't good enough. -[^1]: They might consider starting by patching [nine year old vulnerabilities before they're exploited](https://qz.com/1073221/the-hackers-who-broke-into-equifax-exploited-a-nine-year-old-security-flaw/). +[^1]: They might consider starting by patching [nine-year-old vulnerabilities before they're exploited](https://qz.com/1073221/the-hackers-who-broke-into-equifax-exploited-a-nine-year-old-security-flaw/). diff --git a/src/posts/2017/fcc-continues-disregard-public-opposition-net-neutrality-repeal.md b/src/posts/2017/fcc-continues-disregard-public-opposition-net-neutrality-repeal.md index 2373e091..d75cb173 100644 --- a/src/posts/2017/fcc-continues-disregard-public-opposition-net-neutrality-repeal.md +++ b/src/posts/2017/fcc-continues-disregard-public-opposition-net-neutrality-repeal.md @@ -19,4 +19,4 @@ FCC chairman Ajit Pai has, for the entirety of the net neutrality comment period > Despite a study showing that 98.5 percent of individually written net neutrality comments support the US's current net neutrality rules, AT&T is claiming that the vast majority of "legitimate" comments favor repealing the rules. -> The Federal Communication Commission's net neutrality docket is a real mess, with nearly 22 million comments, mostly from form letters and many from spam bots using identities stolen from data breaches. +> The Federal Communication Commission's net neutrality docket is a real mess, with nearly 22 million comments, mostly from form letters and many from spambots using identities stolen from data breaches. diff --git a/src/posts/2017/senator-attacks-argument-for-net-neutrality-repeal.md b/src/posts/2017/senator-attacks-argument-for-net-neutrality-repeal.md index a32668cc..2085b621 100644 --- a/src/posts/2017/senator-attacks-argument-for-net-neutrality-repeal.md +++ b/src/posts/2017/senator-attacks-argument-for-net-neutrality-repeal.md @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ title: Senator attacks ISP and FCC argument for net neutrality repeal tags: ['politics', 'net neutrality'] --- -**[Senator Edward Markey, Ars Technica](https://arstechnica.com/?p=1135805):** +**[Senator Edward Markey, Ars Technica](https://arstechnica.com/?p=1135805):** > ISPs are quick to tell the FCC and the public that Title II is harming network investment, but they have presented a much rosier view when talking to investors. diff --git a/src/posts/2017/spotify-begins-to-gain-leverage-in-its-relationship-with-labels.md b/src/posts/2017/spotify-begins-to-gain-leverage-in-its-relationship-with-labels.md index 78c66aae..de6c2906 100644 --- a/src/posts/2017/spotify-begins-to-gain-leverage-in-its-relationship-with-labels.md +++ b/src/posts/2017/spotify-begins-to-gain-leverage-in-its-relationship-with-labels.md @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ tags: ['Spotify'] **[TechCrunch:](https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/18/dictate-top-40/)** -> But now that Spotify has grown to 50 million paid subscribers and a huge base of free ad-supported listeners, it's emerging from the streaming pack including YouTube / Google Music, Pandora, Apple Music, and Amazon so rights owners can't just favor them instead. Spotify has begun to gain some leverage over the labels so that it can make money without them and they need it to have a hit record. +> But now that Spotify has grown to 50 million paid subscribers and a huge base of free ad-supported listeners, it's emerging from the streaming pack including YouTube / Google Music, Pandora, Apple Music, and Amazon so rights owners can't just favor them instead. Spotify has begun to gain some leverage over the labels so that it can make money without them, and they need it to have a hit record. Spotify has done a lot to make music more accessible and available since it first launched. It's spent a lot of time since its launch beholden to labels and content providers so anything it can do, at this point, to gain leverage over those providers is only going to benefit it, and its users, in the long term. diff --git a/src/posts/2017/trump-fcc-chair-begins-dismantling-consumer-protections-and-subsidies.md b/src/posts/2017/trump-fcc-chair-begins-dismantling-consumer-protections-and-subsidies.md index 0bea9f4c..6cc96d43 100644 --- a/src/posts/2017/trump-fcc-chair-begins-dismantling-consumer-protections-and-subsidies.md +++ b/src/posts/2017/trump-fcc-chair-begins-dismantling-consumer-protections-and-subsidies.md @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ tags: ['politics', 'net neutrality'] > "The Federal Communications Commission's new Republican leadership has rescinded a determination that AT&T and Verizon Wireless violated net neutrality rules with paid data cap exemptions. The FCC also rescinded several other Wheeler-era reports and actions." -We're barely two weeks into the new presidential administration and it looks like net neutrality will be yet another casualty of this administration's drive to strip away consumer-friendly regulations. +We're barely two weeks into the new presidential administration, and it looks like net neutrality will be yet another casualty of this administration's drive to strip away consumer-friendly regulations. If a ruling or judgement is good for telecoms or ISPs it is very likely bad for customers. This is one of those cases. diff --git a/src/posts/2018/avoiding-phishing.md b/src/posts/2018/avoiding-phishing.md index e54e49b7..65ae1a18 100644 --- a/src/posts/2018/avoiding-phishing.md +++ b/src/posts/2018/avoiding-phishing.md @@ -7,6 +7,6 @@ tags: ['security'] **[Rob Dodson:](http://robdodson.me/avoid-phishing/)** -> Someone just tried to phish me and it made me want to put together a little guide to help you catch this stuff before it ruins your day. +> Someone just tried to phish me, and it made me want to put together a little guide to help you catch this stuff before it ruins your day. An excellent refresher on what to look out for to avoid phishing. Be careful out there. diff --git a/src/posts/2018/ca-net-neutrality-bill-makes-a-comeback.md b/src/posts/2018/ca-net-neutrality-bill-makes-a-comeback.md index 3058e97f..837077f5 100644 --- a/src/posts/2018/ca-net-neutrality-bill-makes-a-comeback.md +++ b/src/posts/2018/ca-net-neutrality-bill-makes-a-comeback.md @@ -7,6 +7,6 @@ tags: ['politics', 'net neutrality'] **[Ars Technica:](https://arstechnica.com/?p=1340051)** -> "They want us to just trust them to protect net neutrality, and I think history shows that we can't just have a leap of faith," Wiener said. "The ISPs have violated net neutrality in the past and they will in the future. The economic pressure will be too great for them not to violate net neutrality, so we need to have some rules in place." +> "They want us to just trust them to protect net neutrality, and I think history shows that we can't just have a leap of faith," Wiener said. "The ISPs have violated net neutrality in the past, and they will in the future. The economic pressure will be too great for them not to violate net neutrality, so we need to have some rules in place." I'm thrilled to see this bill making a comeback, compromises aside. The FCC totally abdicated their responsibility to protect customers from abuse by ISPs and states should move quickly to protect their residents and restore these freedoms. diff --git a/src/posts/2018/fcc-calls-community-broadband-an-attack-on-free-speech.md b/src/posts/2018/fcc-calls-community-broadband-an-attack-on-free-speech.md index 943305be..1670dd64 100644 --- a/src/posts/2018/fcc-calls-community-broadband-an-attack-on-free-speech.md +++ b/src/posts/2018/fcc-calls-community-broadband-an-attack-on-free-speech.md @@ -5,6 +5,6 @@ title: FCC calls community broadband an attack on free speech tag: ['politics', 'net neutrality'] --- -**[Techirt:](https://www.techdirt.com/2018/10/30/fcc-falsely-declares-community-broadband-ominous-attack-free-speech/)** +**[Techdirt:](https://www.techdirt.com/2018/10/30/fcc-falsely-declares-community-broadband-ominous-attack-free-speech/)** > ... ISPs could prevent this by simply offering better, faster, and cheaper service. But it's far easier and cheaper to try and buy laws restricting consumer rights, and to have your favorite public official mindlessly demonize something that is, at the end of the day, a legitimate, organic public response to a broadband competition and availability problem ISPs like AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast would prefer regulators ignore. diff --git a/src/posts/2018/fcc-sucks-at-repealing-net-neutrality.md b/src/posts/2018/fcc-sucks-at-repealing-net-neutrality.md index 957a27e6..e78e6412 100644 --- a/src/posts/2018/fcc-sucks-at-repealing-net-neutrality.md +++ b/src/posts/2018/fcc-sucks-at-repealing-net-neutrality.md @@ -7,4 +7,4 @@ tags: ['politics', 'net neutrality'] **[Karl Bode, Techdirt:](https://www.techdirt.com/2018/03/15/california-introduces-new-tougher-net-neutrality-rules-uses-ajit-pais-abdication-authority-against-fcc/)** -> ... the FCC shot itself in the foot, and when it neutered its own authority over ISPs at Comcast, AT&T and Verizon's behest, it managed to also neuter its authority to pre-empt states from filling the void. Of course this could all be moot if the FCC loses its battle in court, but it's amusing all the same, and it's another example of how Ajit Pai and friends didn't really think this whole thing through. +> ... the FCC shot itself in the foot, and when it neutered its own authority over ISPs at Comcast, AT&T and Verizon's behest, it managed to also neuter its authority to preempt states from filling the void. Of course this could all be moot if the FCC loses its battle in court, but it's amusing all the same, and it's another example of how Ajit Pai and friends didn't really think this whole thing through. diff --git a/src/posts/2018/net-neutrality-is-repealed-as-the-real-fight-for-it-begins.md b/src/posts/2018/net-neutrality-is-repealed-as-the-real-fight-for-it-begins.md index 6389d600..a4508ac2 100644 --- a/src/posts/2018/net-neutrality-is-repealed-as-the-real-fight-for-it-begins.md +++ b/src/posts/2018/net-neutrality-is-repealed-as-the-real-fight-for-it-begins.md @@ -9,4 +9,4 @@ tags: ['politics', 'net neutrality'] > So while many are understandably frustrated today, the elimination of the FCC's 2015 rules shouldn't be seen the end of net neutrality, or the end of the road. It's more like another chapter in a story that has neither a beginning nor an end. Net neutrality isn't something that simply "ends" with the creation or elimination of government guidelines. Net neutrality violations are only a symptom of a lack of competition in broadband and decades of regulatory capture. -I'm disappointed, naturally, about the repeal of net neutrality, the fight is far from over. From here it moves to state houses and courts, with public opinion on its side. ISPs and their allies at the FCC overplayed their hand and underestimated public backlash to the repeal and I'd be surprised if they manage to win the fight ahead of them. +I'm disappointed, naturally, about the repeal of net neutrality, the fight is far from over. From here it moves to state houses and courts, with public opinion on its side. ISPs and their allies at the FCC overplayed their hand and underestimated public backlash to the repeal, and I'd be surprised if they manage to win the fight ahead of them. diff --git a/src/posts/2018/silos-centralization-and-censorship:-losing-the-promise-of-the-internet.md b/src/posts/2018/silos-centralization-and-censorship:-losing-the-promise-of-the-internet.md index aa7f3435..d30fcc7e 100644 --- a/src/posts/2018/silos-centralization-and-censorship:-losing-the-promise-of-the-internet.md +++ b/src/posts/2018/silos-centralization-and-censorship:-losing-the-promise-of-the-internet.md @@ -7,4 +7,4 @@ tags: ['politics'] **[Techdirt:](https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180608/17022739996/silos-centralization-censorship-losing-promise-internet.shtml)** -> For years we've been saying that it's time for us to rethink the internet, and move back towards a more decentralized, distributed world in which this kind of censorship isn't even an issue. It hasn't happened yet, but it feels like we're increasingly moving towards a world in which that's going to be necessary if we want to retain what is best about the internet. +> For years, we've been saying that it's time for us to rethink the internet, and move back towards a more decentralized, distributed world in which this kind of censorship isn't even an issue. It hasn't happened yet, but it feels like we're increasingly moving towards a world in which that's going to be necessary if we want to retain what is best about the internet. diff --git a/src/posts/2018/time-to-break-up-facebook.md b/src/posts/2018/time-to-break-up-facebook.md index e387ae84..bf364ef2 100644 --- a/src/posts/2018/time-to-break-up-facebook.md +++ b/src/posts/2018/time-to-break-up-facebook.md @@ -13,4 +13,4 @@ tags: ['politics', 'social media', 'privacy'] > ... > "There's really nothing to stop Facebook from swallowing all of these verticals." > ... -> "Unless you believe that we want one ruling master of all social networking and it should be Mark Zuckerberg… then there's no good reason not to break it up," he adds. "What's the argument against it?" +> "Unless you believe that we want one ruling master of all social networking, and it should be Mark Zuckerberg… then there's no good reason not to break it up," he adds. "What's the argument against it?" diff --git a/src/posts/2019/waste-of-space-orchestra-seekers-reflection.md b/src/posts/2019/waste-of-space-orchestra-seekers-reflection.md index 749b12e8..1d87cf17 100644 --- a/src/posts/2019/waste-of-space-orchestra-seekers-reflection.md +++ b/src/posts/2019/waste-of-space-orchestra-seekers-reflection.md @@ -9,4 +9,4 @@ tags: ['music'] I could not be more excited for this release. -Kudos to Roadburn Festivam [for commissioning the piece](https://roadburn.com/premiere-waste-of-space-orchestra-seekers-reflection/). +Kudos to Roadburn Festival [for commissioning the piece](https://roadburn.com/premiere-waste-of-space-orchestra-seekers-reflection/). diff --git a/src/posts/2023/client-side-webmentions-in-nextjs.md b/src/posts/2023/client-side-webmentions-in-nextjs.md index 50d1a42e..7c5c9ecb 100644 --- a/src/posts/2023/client-side-webmentions-in-nextjs.md +++ b/src/posts/2023/client-side-webmentions-in-nextjs.md @@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ export default Webmentions The final display looks like this: -
+
## Alias-specific rules
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ In the event I've failed to tune a regular expression properly or an actual pers
## Mapping categories as folders
-I've tailored these rules to align with folders on a per-topic basis. I have a broad `Financial` folder for things like receipts, bank statements and bills. That folder contains a few granular subfolders like `Deliveries`, `Media`, `Medical`, `Promotions` and so forth. All multistep rules are set to filter messages when `any` of the tabled criteria matches.
+I've tailored these rules to align with folders on a per-topic basis. I have a broad `Financial` folder for things like receipts, bank statements and bills. That folder contains a few granular sub-folders like `Deliveries`, `Media`, `Medical`, `Promotions` and so forth. All multistep rules are set to filter messages when `any` of the tabled criteria matches.
The top level `Financial` rule [looks like this](https://pastes.coryd.dev/mail-regexes-financial/markup).
@@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ These I've left as a simple list wherein `any` included top level domain is file
],
```
-That covers _most_ of what I use to manage my mail (outside of anything particularly personal). I fully expect the regular expressions I'm using could stand to be refined and I plan on continuing to do just that. But, with that said, things have worked better than I expected so far and false positives/miscategorizations have been infrequent.
+That covers _most_ of what I use to manage my mail (outside of anything particularly personal). I fully expect the regular expressions I'm using could stand to be refined and I plan on continuing to do just that. But, with that said, things have worked better than I expected so far and false positives/mis-categorizations have been infrequent.
If you have any questions or suggestions I'm all ears. Feel free to [email me](mailto:hi@coryd.dev) or ping me on [Mastodon](https://social.lol/@cory).
diff --git a/src/posts/2023/i-dont-want-streaming-music.md b/src/posts/2023/i-dont-want-streaming-music.md
index 20fff722..cbc449e5 100644
--- a/src/posts/2023/i-dont-want-streaming-music.md
+++ b/src/posts/2023/i-dont-want-streaming-music.md
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ I don't want your streaming music service, I just want the music I've collected
Apple Music *kind of* offers this, [with some serious sharp edges to watch out for](/posts/2021/apple-music-a-tale-of-woe/). Spotify doesn't offer this, neither does YouTube Music. Want to stream music? Sign up for a service, hope your favorite artists and albums don't rot out of their catalogue and run with the algorithmic recommendations sourced from that ever-shifting catalogue[^1].
-I have the audio files for the music I care about and I've spent a long time collecting them. They're all tagged and named consistently using [Meta](https://www.nightbirdsevolve.com/meta/)[^2], shuffled off to an external hard drive, encrypted and mirrored up to B2 and GCP. *I just want to listen to them without using all of my local storage to do so.*
+I have the audio files for the music I care about, and I've spent a long time collecting them. They're all tagged and named consistently using [Meta](https://www.nightbirdsevolve.com/meta/)[^2], shuffled off to an external hard drive, encrypted and mirrored up to B2 and GCP. *I just want to listen to them without using all of my local storage to do so.*
I leaned on iTunes Match to do this for a while but, funnily enough, Apple will still dedupe your audio against their cloud catalog, overriding meta tags and audio availability as they see fit.[^3] You can sync music into Spotify via playlists, but that's not a scalable solution to, well, much of anything.
diff --git a/src/posts/2023/scheduled-eleventy-builds-cron-github-actions.md b/src/posts/2023/scheduled-eleventy-builds-cron-github-actions.md
index e675974a..7a242c5b 100644
--- a/src/posts/2023/scheduled-eleventy-builds-cron-github-actions.md
+++ b/src/posts/2023/scheduled-eleventy-builds-cron-github-actions.md
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ tags: ['Eleventy', 'JavaScript', 'automation', 'GitHub', 'GitHub actions', 'cron
In an effort to get away from client-side Javascript and embrace Eleventy for what it is (a static site generator), I've dropped my [social-utils](https://github.com/cdransf/social-utils) instance offline and my now-playing track display on my home page that still relied on it.
-To update my feeds ([feed.xml](https://coryd.dev/feed.xml) and [follow.xml](https://coryd.dev/follow.xml)) and [now page](/now) I've adopted [@11ty/eleventy-fetch](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@11ty/eleventy-fetch) and regular builds at [Vercel](https://vercel.com/) that are triggered by [Github Actions](https://docs.github.com/en/actions) that leverage cron for scheduling. [The workflow file](https://github.com/cdransf/coryd.dev/blob/e886857387661ceeba4f2b368989ec32f0c3f121/.github/workflows/scheduled-build.yaml) looks like this:
+To update my feeds ([feed.xml](https://coryd.dev/feed.xml) and [follow.xml](https://coryd.dev/follow.xml)) and [now page](/now) I've adopted [@11ty/eleventy-fetch](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@11ty/eleventy-fetch) and regular builds at [Vercel](https://vercel.com/) that are triggered by [GitHub Actions](https://docs.github.com/en/actions) that leverage cron for scheduling. [The workflow file](https://github.com/cdransf/coryd.dev/blob/e886857387661ceeba4f2b368989ec32f0c3f121/.github/workflows/scheduled-build.yaml) looks like this:
{% raw %}
@@ -36,9 +36,9 @@ jobs:
{% endraw %}
-This leverages three different Vercel secrets specific to your account that must be added to the [Github Actions Secrets](https://docs.github.com/en/rest/actions/secrets?apiVersion=2022-11-28) for your project (`Project repo -> Settings -> Secruity section -> Secrets and variables -> Actions`).
+This leverages three different Vercel secrets specific to your account that must be added to the [GitHub Actions Secrets](https://docs.github.com/en/rest/actions/secrets?apiVersion=2022-11-28) for your project (`Project repo -> Settings -> Secruity section -> Secrets and variables -> Actions`).
-Your Vercel org ID and project ID will be at the bottom of your organization/personal acount's settings (in the General section), with your project ID located in the same section of your project settings.
+Your Vercel org ID and project ID will be at the bottom of your organization/personal account's settings (in the General section), with your project ID located in the same section of your project settings.
If you need to manually trigger a build, you can do so using a workflow with a {% raw %}`[workflow_dispatch]`{% endraw %} trigger like this:
diff --git a/src/posts/2023/we-lost-the-thread.md b/src/posts/2023/we-lost-the-thread.md
index 6f71f915..1d671a54 100644
--- a/src/posts/2023/we-lost-the-thread.md
+++ b/src/posts/2023/we-lost-the-thread.md
@@ -5,17 +5,17 @@ draft: false
tags: ['social media', 'tech', 'culture']
---
-We've arrived at a point where we can say that our attempts to port relationships and social interactions to the internet has been an unambiguous failure. Cory[^1] Doctorow [captures how markets have driven this quite succintly](https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys):
+We've arrived at a point where we can say that our attempts to port relationships and social interactions to the internet has been an unambiguous failure. Cory[^1] Doctorow [captures how markets have driven this quite succinctly](https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys):
> This is enshittification: surpluses are first directed to users; then, once they're locked in, surpluses go to suppliers; then once _they're_ locked in, the surplus is handed to shareholders and the platform becomes a useless pile of shit. From mobile app stores to Steam, from Facebook to Twitter, this is the enshittification lifecycle.
-It's a failure of imagination, a failure of requirements and a natural outcome of market incentives that have us sitting here and, frankly, it sucks. We've got networked devices, humans maintain a network of relationships and we tried to facilitate the latter using the former and, like so much what we do as a society, we tried to use the opportunity to turn a profit. Sounds cool right?
+It's a failure of imagination, a failure of requirements and a natural outcome of market incentives that have us sitting here and, frankly, it sucks. We've got networked devices, humans maintain a network of relationships, and we tried to facilitate the latter using the former and, like so much what we do as a society, we tried to use the opportunity to turn a profit. Sounds cool right?
I'd say it worked reasonably well while the technology was a nascent compliment to existing human relationships, where those relationships were rooted in a real connection. But those benefits didn't last all that long — the value diminished as these platforms worked to climb to the top of the enshittification curve, privatize profits and replace real relationships.[^2]
Is a friend on a social network a friend or someone you went to in high school ten years ago? Is that a relationship or a data point in a social graph that you don't own?
-Your real social graph is a list of contacts — a list that may be tedious to main but, if a relationship is worth maintaining, you'll maintain its entry in that list. Modern social platforms make it easy to maintain relationships that aren't that. Log in, like some posts, log off. It's ritualized, it's addictive and it's devoid of value.
+Your real social graph is a list of contacts — a list that may be tedious to main but, if a relationship is worth maintaining, you'll maintain its entry in that list. Modern social platforms make it easy to maintain relationships that aren't that. Log in, like some posts, log off. It's ritualized, it's addictive, and it's devoid of value.
Pick up a phone and call someone, grab coffee, send them a text — if that's too much work then it sounds like you may have outgrown that relationship and moved on. We haven't scaled relationships or made them more convenient, we've created sticky platforms that don't benefit or empower their users.
diff --git a/src/posts/2023/webmentions-in-eleventy.md b/src/posts/2023/webmentions-in-eleventy.md
index 8161cfa7..d371edf4 100644
--- a/src/posts/2023/webmentions-in-eleventy.md
+++ b/src/posts/2023/webmentions-in-eleventy.md
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ When the build runs, it renders any mentions of a given post via a [liquid.js](h
This conditionally displays different mention types based on the available data after being passed through the `webmentionsByUrl` filter which I shamelessly lifted from [Robb](https://github.com/rknightuk/rknight.me/blob/8e2a5c5f886cae6c04add7893b8bf8a2d6295ddf/config/filters.js#L48-L84).
-I would like to also send outbound webmentions, but have yet to find a clear way to do so. One option I've seen mentioned is [Telegraph](https://telegraph.p3k.io/), but it's API interface requires a network call per link mentioned (which isn't untenable, but parsing posts for links and making a call for each _feels_ suboptimal)[^3].
+I would like to also send outbound webmentions, but have yet to find a clear way to do so. One option I've seen mentioned is [Telegraph](https://telegraph.p3k.io/), but its API interface requires a network call per link mentioned (which isn't untenable, but parsing posts for links and making a call for each _feels_ suboptimal)[^3].
[^1]: I've done so in [Next.js](https://coryd.dev/posts/2023/client-side-webmentions-in-nextjs/) and entirely in Javascript for [weblog.lol](https://coryd.dev/posts/2023/adding-client-side-rendered-webmentions-to-my-blog/).
[^2]: Or, better yet, read [Robb's post on the subject](https://rknight.me/adding-webmentions-to-your-site/).