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Change is inevitable. Nothing is fixed, and that includes our understanding of things.
❤️ Add webmention.js to my site
Access token grants for feed readers fluffy rambles
This year IndieWeb Summit was canceled1, and some pretty good conversations took place. As usual my biggest interest was in doing authenticated, secure sharing of private posts, which has been a huge focus in how I’ve been building Publ.
I wasn’t really able to participate in any of the development stuff (as I’m still in quite a lot of pain due to whatever the hell is going on with my chronic pain stuff interacting with whatever the hell has been going on with my shoulder for the past month), but I did join in on the ending of a discussion/dev session about AutoAuth.
⭐️ Shrove Tuesday (observed): If all stories were written like science fiction stories
📅✅ IWC Eat Your own Cooking Pre-Party Notes
I’ll have to make some food tickets to hand to my cats or something.
⭐️ ‘Splain You a Thing: Ableism Challenge
Life update whatever things I dunno fluffy rambles
Publ survived the load test. Will fluffy survive the ego test? Time will tell.
Anyway. Today I finally had my first appointment with the new rheumatologist. It went really well. I didn’t get any real new information, but at least this rheum is way friendlier and actually treats me like a human, rather than a pile of symptoms. Plus she actually listens to me and is interested in the things I’ve learned about fibromyalgia and so on.
Since my current meds aren’t doing enough for me, she offered two immediate possibilities, either switching the gabapentin with Lyrica (pregabalin), or supplementing it with Cymbalta. Both were things that the previous rheumatologist had suggested but I loathed working with him and never felt like going back1.
Perfect eggs over-easy Food
There’s a bunch of things out there about the way of making eggs perfectly over-easy, with fully-cooked whites but nice and runny yolks. Most of them involve either basting the eggs with oil, steaming them with a lid, or flipping them with much trepidation.
But my favorite way: heat the oil to medium-high, crack the eggs, wait for the whites on the bottom to set (1-2 minutes), and then set the remaining whites with a culinary blowtorch (Amazon affiliate link).
Perfectly-cooked whites, perfectly-runny yolks, and no breakage in sight!
Advice to young web developers fluffy rambles
I’ve been making websites in some form or another since 1995. After 25 years of experience I think I’ve accumulated enough knowledge to know a few things. Here’s some things I’d like younger developers to think about, in no particular order.
Bagel Island Birthday Journal
