So this morning was another Creative Mornings Boston meetup in the Venture Café space at CIC HQ. The speaker was Erik Modahl of beantrust, a coffeebar and distribution company in Beverly. He started beantrust back in 2015 at CIC. If you’ve been to a #cmbos meetup in the last many years you’ve likely met Erik, … Read more
New puzzle – the characters from The Office Look familiar? George Seurat’s Un dimanche après-midi à l’Île de la Grande Jatte (Sunday Afternoon at the Island of La Grande Jatte), from 1886:
Went in to Kendall Square (CIC HQ at One Broadway) this morning to hear Tamara Sanderson at Creative Mornings Boston. Tamara is one of the co-authors (along with Ali Greene) of Remote Works – a book coming out next month about how to successfully manage remote work. She shared her own experience as a digital … Read more
Anyone taken the time yet to understand the format of an Instagram data export (posts and media) and import into WordPress, preferably as a wp-cli command?
Via Ethan Marcotte, Jeff Eaton responding to Down with the Design System: The problem is that treating a design system as a pantry full of widgets is, in and of itself, a failure of both craft and imagination. Think of it like a language: if a writer’s only engagement with it is grabbing words from … Read more
Paul Stamatiou’s Thoughts on Twitter, Mastodon, and owning your data says many of the things I’ve been thinking but unable to articulate as I start stumbling into the Fediverse and the Indie Web. So much is focused on how one publishes (posting here, federating there, syndicating there) and not on the reader experience: how do … Read more
I know lots of folks picked up new hobbies during the pandemic era. We didn’t, but actually in the last few months have started to do jigsaw puzzles, inspired by this one which we sent to the 10up team late last year.
Love this from @joe@mastodon.joedean.dev: https://mastodon.joedean.dev/@joe/109455796397314685 Definitely a risk that getting into the fediverse results in lots of federated updates about federation ;) #mastodon #self-hosting #federation
Trying out the combination of ActivityPub, Friends, and WebFinger plugins for WordPress – should result in status updates on this blog (johneckman.com) being available for federation. For now, just working to make this work – believe I am @jeckman@johneckman.com
The theme for Creative Mornings this month was “Abundance,” and Creative Mornings Boston had Ayana Mack in an in-person event at CIC HQ in Cambridge. I’m excited to see in-person events starting to return, and Creative Mornings have a stable home at CIC.