Bookmarks #1

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Blog posts

• Less screaming into less void by Aria Stewart. Great article about how expectations and goals can set us up for a failure. It basically sums up my journey of trying to promote myself and always unsuccessfully. Which is why I decided to join the IndieWeb—I now want to do something for myself and because it brings me joy.

• NSFW on the IndieWeb by Paul Watson. I'm really looking forward to see more 'NSFW' art on the IndieWeb, it holds such a great potential for long censored and devalued forms of art to thrive and be destigmatized, especially for my fellow queer creators.

• Digital Garden Terms of Service by swyx. I'm not sure I'm implementing the idea of a digital garden right now, but it does seem interesting!

• Define Women! And Other Patriarchal Instructions by Sara Ahmed.

• Creating Joy in the User Experience by Dave on Design.

• The Intersection of liberal arts and Technology by Damien Erambert.

• Why are websites embarrassing? and Reckoning by Robin Rendle.

• Chaos with a Spreadsheet by Ash Huang. On the joy of drafting chaotically and unpredictably.

• Careening toward a meaningless world by Harold Jarche.

• Being a dick by Johan Halse. On using slurs.

• Hey Google, what happened to all the fun? by shane tully.

• Social Attention: a modest prototype in shared presence by Matt Webb.