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Phil Gyford @phil.gyford.com · 13h

This, but about my career making websites. Getting going when it was nothing but HTML and – if you were fancy – a dash of Perl, grinding to a halt just as AI was being spaffed over everything.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20h

glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity

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Phil Gyford @phil.gyford.com · 2d

I wish there was a way to see more than one year at a time on those charts. Hard to get a long-term view of changes. Glad you're back on track!

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Hugo van Kemenade @hugovk.dev · 7d

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<img src="./brand_closed.png" alt="Closed for Business">
<h1>Typepad is closed for business!<br>Thank you for being a valued customer.</h1>

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Phil Gyford @phil.gyford.com · 7d

TypePad has not only closed but already has broken images on its "Bye!" page

A screenshot of typepad.com with a headline reading "Typepad is closed for business!Thank you for being a valued customer." There are two placeholders for missing images above that.

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Phil Gyford @phil.gyford.com · 8d

And all the more weird for only being on broadcast telly pre-VCR. One's hazy memories, as a young kid, of having seen it when even younger. It became almost mythical in my mind. "Did I really see that, when I was littler?"

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Phil Gyford @phil.gyford.com · 11d

Their finances sound like they might be getting on track pressgazette.co.uk/media_busine...

I usually choose them first in search results, as being better than most alternatives. Each to their own.

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Phil Gyford @phil.gyford.com · 12d

oh no

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Phil Gyford @phil.gyford.com · 14d

I remember around 1995 a woman knocked on the door, doing a survey about air fresheners. I never bought any so it didn't last long but I was quite excited that someone was asking my opinion about a product or service. At last! Finally, Gen X was being consulted!

Jon Mellon @jonmellon.bsky.social · 14d

Social scientists often bemoan falling survey response rates. A big part of the story has to be the proliferation of survey requests.

I took every survey I was invited to in an 8 day period and took 27 surveys totaling 33 minutes.

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Phil Gyford @phil.gyford.com · 19d

I just remembered I also use longplay.rocks a lot to browse and play albums.

Longplay - Rediscover Your Album Collection

Longplay is the iOS and visionOS app for music lovers who enjoy listening to full albums but have a hard time finding them in their music library. Rediscover, enjoy and organise your album collection.

longplay.rocks

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Phil Gyford @phil.gyford.com · 21d

Oh no. I'm putting off updating but I expect I'll be wondering similar when I do. I haven't tried Swinsian, but might be worth a go? swinsian.com Doppler blog looks worryingly quiet.

Swinsian

A powerful and flexible music player for macOS

swinsian.com

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Phil Gyford @phil.gyford.com · 22d

After Saturday's far-right march, police would like you to let them know if you recognise those suspected of violent disorder, using the platform owned by a man encouraging violent disorder.

A screenshot including the text "The Met said anyone who recognises those people in the CCTV images can call 101 quoting CAD 4624/15SEP25, or tweet @MetCC, or anonymously contact the independent charity Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111."

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Phil Gyford @phil.gyford.com · 24d

"Mr Moseley is free to say whatever he likes and, if I may say so, he looked jolly smart in his black shirt and jackboots. His video chat with Adolf, perhaps the world's greatest innovator and entrepreneur, shared some robust views but our government will happily continue to use his media platform."

James Chalmers @jameschalmers.bsky.social · 24d

As it is ever more clear that the right’s invocation of freedom of speech isn’t remotely content-neutral, the government adopts a position which is content-neutral to the point of vacuity: isn’t it great that there was so much freedom of speech yesterday? Never mind the message, taste the liberty!

Kyle said:

I thought they were slightly incomprehensible comments that were totally inappropriate. But what we saw yesterday was over 100,000 people who were expressing freedom of association, freedom of speech and proving that both of those things are alive and well in this country.

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goldmartin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 24d

26 Police Officers were injured in Londons fascist riots, but only 9 people were arrested.

At last week's Palestine Action protest 0 Police Officers were injured, but nearly 900 people were arrested.

The UK govt is chasing Reform votes & colluding with fascism, home & abroad.

#fightfascism

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Phil Gyford @phil.gyford.com · 27d

Exactly the same here. But never even got into linking from one note to another tbh, just lots of searchable notes.

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Phil Gyford @phil.gyford.com · 28d

Is it a difference between Grade I vs II listing?

Or a difference between 19th vs late 20th century buildings?

Or that one image is more embarrassing to the building’s owners/occupants than the other, and the listing is only an excuse?

What a mystery!

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Phil Gyford @phil.gyford.com · 28d

Odd that the Banksy had to be removed because the building is “listed and therefore legally protected”.

The two Banksys that appeared a few years ago on the Barbican, also listed, were preserved under clear plastic.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Banksy 'judge' mural scrubbed from Royal Courts of Justice wall

The artwork of a judge hitting a protester with a gavel has been removed from the listed building.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Phil Gyford @phil.gyford.com · 29d

No, unless it's changed in the past couple of days.

Phil Gyford @phil.gyford.com · 29d

It's possible to make a static archive of the blog using SiteSucker if you're on a Mac. I hope to write up the settings I've used by the weekend, but email me if you want to try sooner ([email protected])

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Phil Gyford @phil.gyford.com · Sep 4

If I started fixing things in TypePad’s HTML as well as updating links it would probably tip me over the edge :)

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Phil Gyford @phil.gyford.com · Sep 4

Metadata nerds: If I’m archiving a TypePad blog to a new domain and URL, and fixing links etc to work in the new location, should I also change rdf:about and dc:identifier values to use the new page's location? Or should they remain as they were because that's what the page "is” even if it moves?

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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · Aug 31

"I'm being as racist as I can" tearful Starmer tells voters

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Phil Gyford @phil.gyford.com · Aug 31

Help I’ve fallen into r/NotEnoughNelsonsSnark

“Spoiled, out of touch, over consuming, ethically bad Mormons who exploit all of their children and the birth family tragedy for financial gain—hope this helps!!”

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Phil Gyford @phil.gyford.com · Aug 30

I would subscribe to "ROO! The lifestyle mag about Roo's hobbies and enthusiasms".

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Phil Gyford @phil.gyford.com · Aug 28

And the TypePad export file is a single text file, no images or other media. The post HTML links to files hosted on your blog's domain, which will presumably disappear forever at the end of September. Let's hope whatever you import into can pull images over and change the HTML.

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Phil Gyford @phil.gyford.com · Aug 28

I have a TypePad blog with 2 posts and 1 comment. It took 2 minutes to get an export file. I wonder how someone like theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_p... will get on, with over *300,000* comments and who knows how many posts? That site is his livelihood.

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