The TypePad service, which pioneered personal blogging, is shutting down. Both TypePad and the software it was based on, Movable Type, were fantastic back in the day; I used both. WordPress lapped them.

TypePad is like one of those elderly vigodaesque actors who, when you see their obit, you say, “They were still alive?”

On r/ObsidianMD: Core insights for Obsidian beginners

I’m back on the Obsidian train again. These all look like good tips, except for the one about folders. You’ll take my folders away from me when you pry them from my cold dead hands.

Kobo now supports Instapaper.

I updated my Kobo to support Instapaper yesterday. It seems fine. All my Instapaper articles now seem to be on my Kobo. I haven’t tried reading anything on the Kobo yet, which, tbh, is how I generally use a read-it-later app: I save articles to the app and then don’t read 99% of them.

“What is very funny about being a specialist in juvenile law is that I never… actually liked children?”

Dave Winer wants you to think differently about WordPress. He wants you to see it as something comparable to Mastodon and BlueSky.

I’ve been watching Dave’s work with WordPress closely. I find his approach to blogging very simpatico.

I hosted my personal blog on WordPress until 2022, but ultimately decided it was not suited to my style of blogging. WordPress doesn’t like short, untitled posts. Maybe that will change. Maybe it has changed.

Alex P. has made breaking HR recruiting chatbots his mission:

Look, when a chatbot asks me, “Why do you want to work here?” I don’t respond with: “Because your mission statement aligns with my long term career goals.” No. I say: “Because your CEO looks like the kind of man who smells faintly of cinnamon rolls, and that’s a leadership quality I respect.” When it asks for weaknesses, I don’t write “perfectionism.” I write: “Free pizza Fridays. I physically cannot resist.”

Mitchellaneous CXXIV: Thirteen things I saw on the Internet

Holiday Inn, 1971. This photo smells like cigarettes.