đïž Superpower | June 24, 2025 - 8:00 p.m.
My superpower is my ability to create a well written, pointed comment that is a little flippant and slightly sarcastic; then, simply deleting it without ever hitting "post."
https://readbeanicecream.surge.sh/chatter/#superpower-june-24-2025-800-pm
#comments #commenting #socialmedia #blogging #blog #indieweb #smallweb #personalweb #forum #bulletinboard #texts #messaging #messages #email
The proper use of comments is to compensate for our failure to express ourself in code.
â Robert C. Martin
May is book's month in Uruguay, May 26th being National Book's Day. I promised to release my books freely in a #FediverseEdition proposal.
I expected to do that in their original language (Spanish).
Translation is a full time professional job which I am not prepared to do. However, some LLM helped me improve a bit my amateur translation attempt of my opera prima The Hungarian Soprano.
The main story is a nonlinear chronology which mirrors the dissonant harmonies of La Traviata.
Its structure forces the reader to become the investigator, piecing together a conspiracy the text refuses to spell out.
It is a historical fiction work covering espionage, arms traffic, government cover-ups spanning South America and Europe during the Yugoslavian wars.
The proseâs clinical tone (dates, decrees, serial numbers) sharpens the horror, making The hungarian soprano's death feel not like fiction, but like historyâs darkest aria.
Six more parts await inside covering #fanaticism, #prejudice, #mystery, #psychedelia, #travel, #alcoholism, #friendship, #africa, #trans, #MedecinsSansFrontieres, #southamerica, #Brazil, #tarot and more.
Hope you enjoy it. If you feel like #commenting, #sharing or #rating it, thanks in advance.
Completely #free. :cc_cc: This book is distributed under a Creative Commons License CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
https://cloud.undernet.uy/s/jxozFDWGZcaNR3Q
Entirely written in #FOSS.
#uruguay #bookstodon #books #epub #TheHungarianSoprano #operaprima #fiction #historicalfiction #Latex #calibre #bechdelpass
Komments
Seven months ago I had an idea, which led to me creating a thing!
I was using a #blogging tool but there was no #commenting feature on it. I decided to write something myself, as a side-loaded app, to add to my blog. It quickly became a bigger thing and I decided to offer it to anyone.
Komments.cloud was born.
It's a really simple idea. You create a Komments page related to your own page and add this link on your web page. Viewers to your page can then click on the link and add #comments. There's no login required. No hoops to jump through. No annoying Capatcha. Any comments are then quickly moderated by you before publishing.
Continue reading: https://forkingmad.blog/komments-seven-months/
08.14.2024 Screenrecording
https://makertube.net/videos/watch/4c56a4cd-516c-4e6f-b697-58bdea941728
The ABCs of Blogging: Always Be Commenting
I think it was the great Scottlo that underscored the âAlways Be Commentingâ mantra while teaching ds106 in Japan, and itâs something Iâve returned to constantly over the last 10+ yearsâeven when not living up to itâs eternal truth. So this blog is not only an ode to blogging, but a peaen to those folks who take the time and energy to share some love in the comments. Back in the fall of 2010 I was teaching my second ds106 course and trying to figure out what made an online course community work, and from the very beginning it was all about the âart of commentingâ:
In my mind commenting is key to such an experiment as DS106, itâs a sign of both engagement, distributed sharing, and relationships outside of some central discourse of learning. With every comment, there is the possibility of a whole new conversation. Itâs not always the case, and not all comments are equal, but the expectation has to be established immediately in my mind. Be part of the community, even if somewhat forced and arbitrary as we often find in any given class at the beginning. We all have to move beyond the impulse to remain unengaged and do the minimum, without the willingness to explore and discover how we learn out in the open you can not truly be a part of this course. The whole enterprise requires that we feed off each otherâs ideas, we think hard about how we create for others, and both offer and respond to feedback regularly.
Damn, that kid was locked-in in 2010! Laying down truth like it was his job: the blogosphere was hot!
In fact, Twitter was where a fair amount of those comments went, and they resulted in a networked community for the course starting in 2011 that was pretty much pure magic. But comments on the work still happened in droves, and the idea of the students being engaged with each otherâs work was still paramount. Twitter was like a portal to the world beyond UMW (although the course was the context) and there were some students who stepped through, but others that didnât. With the fall of Twitter came the diaspora with folks decamping to Facebook, Instagram or LinkedIn (lord bless their souls!) while others headed for the hills preaching the coming federated rapture on Mastodon. But as Iâm feeling more smitten with the blog than any one platform these days, I idealistically wonder if a return to commenting might help re-focus the vision of a distributed community. I know commenting is far from perfect, and amazing bloggers like Audrey Watters turned them off on Hack Education given all the bullshit an open form on the web can result in. This is why we canât have nice things!
So acknowledging the definite limits of commenting to save the world, Iâm still making a commitment in 2025 to spend a lot more time commenting on other folks work than I have in a long time. I may be overthinking this, but I have gotten the sense that folks might be planning a return to the blog. Aaron Davis is back at it, and uses a quote from Audrey Wattersâs recent post to frame the title, âBut here I am, blogging on my own domain. Silly me.â If Audreyâs back, why not? Iâll join that club.
My number one guy of all time, Timmmmmmmmmmmyboy, is absolutely owning the blogosphere, as he is wont to do when he gets something in his head. Iâll ride that train to its very last stop. All aboard the blog train!
But it doesnât stop there, Tim Klapdorâs been way down in Adelaide blogging the hell out of the Southern hemisphere for some time now, and more recently he has figured out how to get his static site to ingest comments from Mastodon for specific postsâbridging the federated world and his blog, which is quite cool. Iâm telling you, there is something in the blog water.
I think thereâs something in the water
And of course Maren Deepwell has rung in the new year on the blog with a personal tech stack review series, thatâs one I still need to comment on.
Kin Lane, the mighty API Evangelist, is always blogging and recently he made an apt analogy between AI and automobiles as he thinks out loud. I still need to blog/comment on this, there is so much awesome here. And I found it thanks to Kate Bowles on Mastodon, so how about those networked apples?
Post by @kate View on Mastodon
And was it my blogfather DâArcy Norman who essentially wrote an abbreviated 30-year history of edtech on his blog like a boss? Yes indeed!
Post by @grantpotter View on Mastodon
Maybe Iâm just delusional, but something tells me blogging is gonna be hot in 2025! Hold all my calls, Rowan, Iâm blogging (and commenting)!
When you feel the need to write a comment, first try to refactor the code so that any comment becomes superfluous.
â Martin Fowler
Great article! And h/t to @carlschwan too, for creating this most valuable Fediverse communications capability!
I offered up a follow up boost of the subject matter here in the #Fediverse as well, and hope to see many more #Hugo sites/blogs roll this out - it's soooo much lighter than spinning up a WordPress instance!
Let's hope it works from Mitra. if not, I'll open an issue for it on Codeberg. I'm so over seeing any verbiage that begins with masto... instead of Fediv..., as I believe that this really should be a tool for #Fedizens instead of mastotrons.
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"I Stand With Penguins!"
yasaman posted "How to Comment on Social Media" by Rebecca Solnit and mefites are offering their cheeky addendums.
https://www.metafilter.com/202363/How-to-Comment-on-Social-Media-by-Rebecca-Solnit
#commenting #lithub #RebeccaSolnit #satire #SocialMedia #funny
Are You Getting 'Anonymous' Blog Comments? How To Stop Them. https://hughsviewsandnews.com/2024/01/29/are-you-getting-anonymous-blog-comments-how-to-stop-them/ #AnonymousComments, #BloggingAdvice, #BloggingHelp, #BloggingProblems, #BloggingQuestions, #Commenting, #Comments, #HelpWithBlogging, #HowTo, #WordPressHelp
đ¶ I Was Told No One Wants #FatGirls
âGrowing up, my #body was a punch line.
The first time I recall a boy #commenting on my body was when I was in the fifth grade. I must have been #ten.â
This egregious, blatant #fat-shaming of women and girls (particularly in the post-Ozempic remedial launch) is heinous, damaging and harmful to all of society. #WeightShaming in the U.S. is leading to mental health declines, emotional/physical violence and tragic suicides.
Added Fediverse-commenting to my blog.
Comment to a WordPress blog post via the Fediverse https://rolle.design/comment-to-a-wordpress-blog-post-via-the-fediverse
#Fediverse #Commenting #SocialMedia #Mastodon #MastoAdmin #WebDev #WebDevelopment
When you feel the need to write a comment, first try to refactor the code so that any comment becomes superfluous.
â Martin Fowler
This youtube video was created in an editing software like #DaVinciResolve which as developed in 2004 for #Windows, #Linux and #MacOS. The #90s aesthetic composed of intentionnaly blurry footage adds a welcoming dose of total immersion. However, I yearned for a longer #tutorial! It ended too quickly, I really need to know more techniques on how to #harass people online! This video reminded me of my childhood memory when I fell of my bike, broke both ankles but thanks to that were allowed to play games on my computer 24/7. Such great times. Welp, looks like I'll be thinking of new ways to step up my #commenting game in my sleep tonight! (art)
