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Grinds are you still on Mastodon? If yes >> how is it? Do you find it valuable in any way? If no >> lol nice
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Your OBTF post has really gotten me excited about reading and writing in a way that is elusive to me. Frictionless idea-dumping is where it's at.
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mikegrindle
8 months ago
All credit to the plain text nerds of yesteryear. Still, I'm happy to have inspired you by sharing the idea.
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I think the sites that are just plaintext and html and look like they come from 1991 are pretty cool. I think the sites with gifs, buttons, autoplaying songs, funny animations and which look like they come from 1998 are pretty cool too.
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ghostscape
8 months ago
your "can your website fit on a floppy disk" post very nearly swayed me into doing a whole different thing because I'm also so into the 1991 look! but I have a Vision now. the tower has taken the wheel
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nohappynonsense
8 months ago
i will not stand for this erasure of sites that look like mid 00's blogger templates
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ryomakesthings
8 months ago
I haven't had the chance to read the book myself yet but what you discuss in your latest piece reminds me of the premise of Tamara Kneese's 'Death Glitch' - thought I'd flag that up as it may be of interest.
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I really enjoyed your "obtf" post. I've collected everything involved for further investigation. My simple bashscript for "shorts" pales beside obtf. I use another bashscript written by xwmx on github called nb. It's far more robust and collects many things for me.
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mikegrindle
8 months ago
Thank you! I have lots of improvements in mind, but I wanted to get it out there for others to test. I t hink I've tried nb before. jrnl is great too.
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I'm not hating, but it's funny how many times I click on an interesting looking site here only to realize it's yet another 'Serial Experiments Lain' fanpage.
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Hey, thanks for the follow. Love the simplicity of your site so far, and the shorts.txt page. Look forward to seeing how it develops.
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mikegrindle
8 months ago
New post where I talk for a good long while about a £1 album I didn't really like. It's riveting stuff: https://mikegrindle.com/posts/devil-music
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arkmsworld
8 months ago
"punks and metalheads are some of the nicest people you’ll ever meet" Yep. :)
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Yes and sorta. At some point I'll prob write a post on this, but in short...
It's better than twitter but it's still SM. Lots of the same shitty behaviours (especially recently) only w/ better politics and no ads. Gets better with blocking/filtering & i've met cool people there. But also, I should prob just stay in contact with email.
I want to try finding (or making) a smaller instance to see if my experience improves. Otherwise, I feel indifferent to it.
That's about what I figured. I need to get my work "out there" more but SM drains my soul
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