Walter Koenig died. 🖖 Which reminds me that I had started a Babylon 5 watch through years ago that I never continued for reasons unknown. One day I'll start over and watch it all. And then Sir Patrick Stewart died. 🖖 May they both rest in peace.
What started quitely turned into an... interesting week. I ended up not having enough energy of getting further along with some blog articles I started to write, or of putting all the fun links into these weeknotes that I wanted to. But there's always next week, or the one after that, etc. The good news: We're back to standard time. (I hate DST with a passion.)
Every friday I look at the week's document thinking: This week I have almost nothing to say. And then the page fills up over the weekend just like that.
Not a lot going on this week that I want to write about here. (Read my rants in the fedi.) But over the weekend I started to learn a new CSS thing and am generally getting back into improving my web dev skills. Yay for HTML and CSS!
So it's October. At least we'll be on normal time again, soon. (I hate DST with a passion.) And the temperatures have been too warm, but at least it hasn't been cold too often yet. (I hate cold weather.) Lots of hate in this preface. 🫣 So let's turn our attention to the good stuff.
I don't remember when exactly I wrote this text, probably around a year ago. A few days ago I found it on my work iPad. I added a paragraph or two to finish it and here it is.
Every once in a while there will be a blog post about the death of the web, or that it was in fact never dead, or one about the resurgence of personal websites and blogs, etc. I generally nod a lot when reading those. Sometimes I shake my head. I always start thinking about it all. I think about how the rise of social media changed how we use the internet and the web. But also about why that is, or could be. I am speculating here, I am not a scientist or expert on any of it. I also don't know if I really have a point here. Many of my blog posts are just thoughts put into text, to expand on at some other time. And I think this is one of those.
I love the internet. You find something here, then hop there, and off you go. That's how I found this questionnaire and with it a whole slew of new to me blogs. I saw one of Ariadne's posts in the fedi, clicked through to her site and read her version of the topic. From there I jumped to Thomas Rigby's post, and from there to the original: The Wry Writer. This is also the version of the questionnaire I'm using here.