i.webthings hub

recently noticed 05-17-24

• BUKMARK.CLUB 📌

  To be eligible for a listing in this directory, a website must have a curated collection of bookmarks and/or links to other websites.

• W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.0

  W3C Working Draft 16 May 2024
  work in progress

• Fedi.Garden 📌

  ...a small human-curated list of nice, well run servers on Mastodon and the wider Fediverse. All of them have opted-in and promised to obey specific standards of reliability and responsible moderation.

• AI isn't useless. But is it worth it?

  AI can be kind of useful, but I'm not sure that a “kind of useful” tool justifies the harm.

• Noises Online 📌

  The idea behind an online background noise machine like this website, is to make use of the noises you like to mask the noises you dislike. The concept is simple, works extremely well, and does not require expensive equipment, such as active noise cancelling headphones.

  Site is made by the creator of myNoise ®, offered as “a much simpler alternative to myNoise, offering the same audio quality through the easiest user interface one can think of.”

today.i.loved 05-15-24

I discovered this morning that the html review redirects to Issue 03 - the interface is astounding. I check out the first link - Lizz Thabet’s my computer is a home that my friends can visit. It’s actually an invitation to connect with her computer home via the Tor browser.

* ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ *
it may take a moment
for everything to load
* ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ *
take your shoes off,
hang your coat up,
stretch your legs
while you wait
* ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * *

Her home is like a big infinite desktop full of draggable folders, files, and furniture - I’m immediately enjoying this little folder party when I discover a text file about how I can host my own party space and then, a guide to setting up a secure spot on my own machine that can be accessed by Tor. So I’m off to find Lizz’s ‘tiny folder party generator script.’ When I do, who knows what might come out of this morning’s little excursion!

I love this stuff…

resource.explorer.05-14-24: regular expressions

This post includes some sites I would not normally link to, which I’m overlooking today to illustrate a simple point - sometimes, exploring the web can lead to things that makes one go, “eww!” 😎

• Regular Expressions cheat sheet (.pdf) 📌
  → Regexper → Reading Railroad Diagrams
  → Finite-state machine @ Wikipedia
• Searching with regular expressions: the mighty regex
  → Regular Expression Library (affiliate marketing)
  → Regular-Expressions.info (ads, affiliate marketing)
      → Easy Regular Expression Builder (commercial)
• AI Powered Text to Regex 📌
• RegExr (ads) ⇦
• regex101 ⇦
• Regex Generator - Creating regex is easy again! Not so much. 😎

<!--joe crawls out of the rabbit hole -->

linkylove 05-12-24

• Just Fluffing Around
• ★❤✰ Vicki Boykis ★❤✰ 📌
• Robin Rendle ⇦
• melkat.blog ⇦
• Truncate ⇦ 📌

build something useful and people will find it

Hi all! Well, I didn’t plan it, but word got out anyway: Bridgy Fed‘s Bluesky <=> fediverse support went online a couple weeks ago, quietly and without announcement, but people still found it. Over 1200 accounts have turned it on so far and bridged themselves one direction or the other. It’s great to see so much early interest!

𝕞𝕚𝕩𝕖𝕕 𝕓𝕒𝕘 𝟘𝟝-𝟘𝟡-𝟚𝟜

• We can have a different web 📌

  Many yearn for the “good old days” of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better — and if anything, it would be easier now than it ever was.

• The Ultimate CSS Shapes Collection 📌

  The modern way to create CSS shapes using a minimal code and a single element. A collection of CSS-only shapes created by Temani Afif.

• OSS Gallery

  A crowdsourced list of the best open-source projects on the internet.

• coolshapes 📌

  100+ Abstract shapes with cool grainy gradient. Ready to use with any design dev project.

• CoMiGo’s Palette Generator ⇦

  Nope, it ain’t your regular triad/complimentary color generator, it is a palette generator, and it is backed up by science™️.

notes from the hub 05-08-24

update 05/16/24 4:26 PM: We’ve now been notified (yet again) that the move will be taking place on the evening of May 17, 2024. There has been so much confusion on my web host’s part in communicating with it’s customers about the move that I’ve decided to cross my fingers, hoping the move will be occurring sometime soon, if at all, and ignore the whole matter moving forward.

This post has taken a beating - sorry ’bout that..

update 05/15/24 10:45 AM: We’ve now been notified that the move has taken place successfully as originally planned.

revised 05/14/24:

Our key hosting provider recently notified us that our server will be physically moved to a new data center on May 14, 2024. They advised that moving to the new ‘state-of-the-art’ facility will bring a number of ‘world-class improvements.’ I’m most impressed to hear the new facility “has been recognized for its sustainability efforts as an L.A. Green Business.”

Not all of the webthings will be affected, as shown below.

These sites are on a different server and will not be affected:

• i.webthings hub (https://iwebthings.joejenett.com/)
• simply. (https://simply.joejenett.com/
• joe. ideas. (https://ideas.joejenett.com/)
• joe. brainstormer. (https://brainstormer.joejenett.com/)

The following active sites reside on the soon-to-be moved server and are expected to be down for 2-4 hours on the day of the move. Moves will be performed “outside of regular business hours so as to minimize downtime.”

• i.webthings directory (https://directory.joejenett.com/)
• jenett.wiki (https://wiki.joejenett.com/)
• bulltown 2022 (https://bulltown.2022.joejenett.com/)
• dailywebthing archives (https://dwt-archives.joejenett.com/)
• a.k.a. joe jenett (https://joejenett.com/)

Older archived sites are also on the affected server.

Thanks,

joe jenett