Axxuy recently talked about how he drinks coffee and asked his readers to do the same.
Growing up and watching Captain Janeway in Star Trek: Voyager, I really wanted to like coffee, too, but didn't. I thought it was bitter and harsh. Over time I grew to love it though. I learned that if you have good quality beans and know how to prepare it, the coffee is not bitter at all. Buy good quality coffee, people!
The only social media I'm using these days is the fediverse. I have several accounts on different software for different applications: I use Shareky for micro blogging (i.e. general chatting and blabbering things into the universe), Pixelfed for photos (though I don't really use it and am actually thinking about deleting my account), and BookWyrm for keeping track of my reading and for writing little reviews.
There are many great features about the fediverse. One of which is that you can migrate your account from one server to another. That's really cool...
David at Forking Mad created a new blog questions challenge: 10 pointless facts about oneself. They are not very intimate, yet personal enough to get to know me a bit better. And they are fun. So, here we go.
This is in reply to Joel's post about his name. Which is a reply to Alexandra Wolfe's post about names. Yes, I guess you could say this is another Blog Questions Challenge.
My dear English speaking readers: This blog post is written in German. It is a response to Annette's call for ideas for how we want the web to be.
Ich bin im Fediverse auf HerrTommis Blogpost #SoSollWeb: Wünsche für die Zukunft des Webs gestoßen und darüber dann auf Annettes Aufruf, doch darüber nach zu denken, wie ein gutes Web aussehen sollte. Normalerweise schreibe ich auf Englisch, aber das hält mich nicht davon ab, auch mal was auf Deutsch zu schreiben. Danke für den Impuls, Annette!
I have always used social media for fun, never for getting news or talking current affairs. I had a "no news, only fun" policy. For many years it worked. I mainly hung out on Instagram and only followed people in certain niches, who, including me, all stuck to posting within those niches. (I am starting to wonder if this is an Insta/ photo sharing specific thing?) So everything I ever saw was stuff in those niches. Kind of. We all know how fucked up the algorithm has become.
Some weeks ago I posted my answers to the Blog Questions Challenge that's been making the rounds. Now it's time for the Music Question Challenge. I can't remember where I read abou it as I didn't bookmark that post. But through a little link hopping I found out that TakenVaullt is the author of this challenge.
A few weeks ago I saw fLaMEd post about this challenge in the fediverse. His blog about it is here. I wanted to take part as well, so here are my answers:
I am not a web developer. I am not particularly clever or know great things. I don't make art that I'd like to show or even sell. I don't have projects, nor side projects. I don't offer any service. Technically I do not need a website. But I still have one. Why?
I am not the worlds biggest cook. I don't even love to cook. But I do it anyway because I love to eat. That's why I really love easy recipes that still make tasty dishes -- and soup is exactly that. It's also a wonderful heart warmer, especially on cold days.