Jan Boddez @[email protected]

“Wait, how you gonna earn badges and things if you’re not actually importing these from Untappd?”

I won’t. I don’t, and I don’t care. Your gamification leaves me stone cold.

Drinking a Kwak Blonde by Brouwerij Bosteels.

#beer

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Pretty sure I saw it here first—can’t quite find it anymore. Anyhoo, heard it exactly once and it’s been stuck in my head for two days now, so here ya go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0qfCa4TezY

(1) DCA into a broad, low-cost ETF, and (2) never look back.

‘Hoe zet u 25.000 euro spaargeld rendabel aan het werk?’ https://www.tijd.be/markten-live/analyse/hoe-zet-u-25-000-euro-spaargeld-rendabel-aan-het-werk/10404611.html

“Long words are funny” = “English has changed”

Kinda reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chaos, too.

Ain’t German that’s weird. (Emphasis mine.)

> *English* is unusual in that even simple compounds made since the 18th century tend to be written in separate parts. This would be an error in other Germanic languages such as Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, German and Dutch. However, this is merely an orthographic convention[.]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_(linguistics)

He “liked” one of my drawings, too, way back on Twitter.

If there’s so much profit to be made, libertarians say, it won’t be long before more innovative competitors show up, like TikTok, and end the “monopoly.”

Wrong, the other party says (and I tend to agree). These giants can (and will) undercut (think Amazon) or simply gobble up (as Facebook did with Instagram) new players, and regulation *is* needed to create an *actually free* market.

Either way, would be cool if some of these f—kers were to implode all on their own, due to incompetence.

Single strings (and numbers) are shown as such, everything else is either a (JSON) array or object, but still editable here.

WordPress, by default, hides meta fields when their value’s an (associated) array. I don’t. JSON’s easier to read, and potentially edit, too, than serialized arrays.

Hearing Paper Girls is out. Loved the original comics, or rather, Cliff Chiang’s art.

Worth saving not just because I’m somewhat of an IndieWeb enthusiast, but also in light of the discussion between free market fundamentalists and (more moderate) economists like Stiglitz on whether these “natural” quasi-monopolies ought to be broken up, or not.

> Facebook is trying to copy TikTok, but this strategy may well signal the end of these legacy platforms.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/tiktok-and-the-fall-of-the-social-media-giants

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Stealing this for my feed reader’s entry previews. (I used to do something similar but it wasn’t nearly as clean—I think.)

https://css-tricks.com/recreating-mdns-truncated-text-effect/

#css #WebDesign

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Couldn’t remember at first, but it was Livewire acting up that prevented me to run Filament.