Howdy! I'm Michael Bishop. @miklb
Chef, web mechanic, general mayhem maker.
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I had this whole big wind up about seeing Run Westy Run with fIREHOSE in New Orleans. Then, later about a road trip driving from Chicago to Minnesota and a quiet Monday night open mic, followed by this cheesy line about taking all your feels of midwestern americana shake over ice and pour over the…
Let’s Clarify some Misunderstandings around Sign In with Apple Aaron is the smartest person I know on this subject so I recommend reading his clarifications if you don’t understand what Sign in with Apple means. adactio shares the W3C Ethical Web Principles * There is one web * The web should not cause harm to…
I’ve been working on v2 of Jekyll-indieweb and the main change is that its a gem based theme. What was holding me back for a long time was that only whitelisted theme gems were allowed on GitHub Pages, with no clear path to how a theme could get whitelisted. Then I found Jekyll Remote Theme…
Quick thoughts and asides
August 22, 2019
Sometimes you need to speed up the process
August 21, 2019
all i can pictue is video screens. hooked up to a raspberry pi.
August 20, 2019
hey hey @jekyllrb 4 🎉 https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll/releases/tag/v4.0.0
August 19, 2019
@Omnifocus any timeline on when there’s going to be an iOS 13 beta? I’m getting a replicable crash (report submitted).
August 18, 2019
hey font nerds–are licenses clear ablut how they can be used commercially, say on a t-shirt?
August 17, 2019
Thinking through some ideas on how to pivot to something I can make money doing and two central themes have emerged:
no you are thinking about writing recipes as psuedo code.
August 15, 2019
Reading up on the Army Signal Corp during WWII trying to learn more about my grandfather’s service and can’t stop thinking about Misson of Burma (he served in North Pacific theatre)
one thing Ill never understand about web workers–they want to treat their personal blog like a professional site but will share intimate feelings on Twitter.
August 14, 2019
Just to clarify my thoughts from yesterday, I’m not quitting the Internet, I’m simply moving on from pursuing it as a career or volunteering my time to build things for it. I’ll still use it for the next chapter.
August 13, 2019
what a difference a decade makes
July was brutal to me on many fronts, but probably none more so than to come to the realization I’m really not good at building things for the web. Consider this the start of a draft for a long goodbye and return to analog/physical production. Y’all are amazing.
shout out to all my Gen X lefties that were forced to sit in desks designed for righties. And don’t get me started on scissors.