Tagged “Links”
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Links for 2024.46
Award Winning Animated Short Film | Koji A really cool animated short film I found on YouTube.
From Zero Linkin Park's new album is finally here! I've already listened to it all the way through a couple of times, and thoroughly enjoyed it. Emily Armstrong is a great singer and perfect for the next chapter of the band.
Protocol Wars - The Fediverse Explained! A deep dive into what the Fediverse is, as well as discussions about Mastodon and Bluesky.
Ping A free, minimal service that notifies you when your website goes down.
Murmel Murmel is a service that provides you with a daily email digest containing the top news and stories from the people you follow on Mastodon. A 30-day trial and then $1.99 per month after.
An In-Depth Tutorial of Webmentions + Eleventy I wanted to set assign this tutorial for later if I decide to add webmentions to my Eleventy site.
Your Standing Desk Might Actually Be as Bad as Sitting All Day Yeah, this seems kind of obvious. But, having a standing desk you can raise and lower throughout the day appears to be ideal (for me).
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Your Standing Desk Might Actually Be as Bad as Sitting All Day
Your Standing Desk Might Actually Be as Bad as Sitting All Day
The researchers found no association between time spent standing and the risk of cardiovascular disease, suggesting standing desks and similar work postures might not be enough to stave off the health problems associated with sitting around.
Not that sitting is much better either: beyond 10 hours of daily sitting time, every extra hour spent on your butt increased circulatory disease risk by 26 percent.
I love my standing desk, and I swap between sitting and standing throughout the day. While standing may not make you healthier, sitting all day is definitely not good, and the standing offsets that.
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An inspiration to blog
I was reading (again) The Memex Method by Cory Doctorow and found it inspirational for those who want to blog.
Like those family trip-logs, a web-log serves as more than an aide-memoire, a record that can be consulted at a later date. The very act of recording your actions and impressions is itself powerfully mnemonic, fixing the moment more durably in your memory so that it’s easier to recall in future, even if you never consult your notes.
Blogging is an excuse to write out your thoughts that your future-self will appreciate.
These repeated acts of public description adds each idea to a supersaturated, subconscious solution of fragmentary elements that have the potential to become something bigger. Every now and again, a few of these fragments will stick to each other and nucleate, crystallizing a substantial, synthetic analysis out of all of those bits and pieces I’ve salted into that solution of potential sources of inspiration.
The more we blog, the more connections we can make.
The availability of a deep, digital, searchable, published and public archive of my thoughts turns habits that would otherwise be time-wasters — or even harmful — into something valuable.
And, the more history we create for ourselves, that we can reflect on.
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