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Mark Rogers
The newsonaut is Mark Rogers, a writer, designer and web coder living in beautiful British Columbia.
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[This post is for RSS Club members only.] There are four sites I occasionally check to catch up on what’s happening in the indieweb world: Bubbles, Bear Discover, Pika Pulse and Pagecord. In two of them you find posts about people’s hobbies, things that interest them, updates on their lives. And that’s about it....
My post about Firefox generated a lively discussion on Hacker News, with many good points raised. The top comment (as of this writing) summed things up well: “It's exactly because Firefox is so important that you'll see people here complaining when Firefox does things to push away users . . .” Overall, the passion...
A 1958 “Buy Canadian” promotion from the Canadian Advertising Association, found on Reddit.
It’s popular for certain news organizations to have their reporters ask politicians how many genders there are. The “right” answer, apparently, is two. But a question like this is not fair to the politician or to voters. A politician’s opinion about the number of genders is irrelevant. The number is what it is, and...
#julyreply Michael Harley prefers to read books on an e-reader, and makes sure he truly owns them by stripping off the DRM if possible. » I own my books This is not a problem for me because I mostly borrow books from the library with an app called Libby. The library system where I live has a great selection. If a...
There’s a steep hill at the end of the block that goes through a park with a nice view of the city. It’s the equivalent of about six blocks long. At one time, I would be huffing and puffing by the time I got to the top. If my wife was with me, I would jokingly tell her to leave me for dead. But after a few months of...
I took another stab at creating an 11ty site, and this time succeeded. Not only that, but I’ve decided to grow the Neocities blog I made into a work of fiction complete with story and character arc. There are many 11ty tutorials, but the one that caught my eye was this one from Flamed Fury: Create A Static Site...
When I’m travelling in another country and meet a fellow Canadian, there is a feeling like we can relax and relate. With anyone else, there is a bit of barrier, even if we’re trying hard to be friendly. Now that I’ve had a chance to spend a few days on Gander, a Canadian social media app just out of private testing,...
So, Cauê Napier has created this nifty little thing you can add to your site called Town Square. Of course, I signed up for it right away and implemented it on Newsonaut. So where is it? Right over here. It's a joy to use. A stickman version of you hangs out with other stick people, tossing out messages that...
In my newfound zeal for the indie web, I joined the IndieWeb Webring. You can see my version of it at the bottom of the page. You get some code to copy and paste into your site, but as I soon discovered, the presentation can be whatever you imagine it to be. I wanted to make mine obvious but also fit in with the...
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