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hey!
firstly
you might have previously signed up for historica11y, a newsletter that was supposed to be about the history of web accessibility (a, eleven letters, y, what web developers lack in wit we make up for in acronyms)? or perhaps you signed up to olu (extremely) online, on substack? you don’t remember? i forgive you.
either way, you’re here now. which is to say, feel free to unsubscribe if you were dead set on substack or on the wholly accessibility themed newsletter. all the advice i got about moving mailing list said to just lift and shift, so i lifted, shifted, and then didn’t write a newsletter for a long time.
everyone who is still here? thank you for sticking around. 💟
onto our scheduled programming
i’ve been thinking SO MUCH about social media, and reading through run your own social, a guide to running small social media sites, rather than assuming that i knew what it was going to say, as well as the copious research i’ve been doing on social media for a youtube video i am going to put out this at some point this year (subscribe in anticipation?).
i am particularly obsessed with this idea about archipelago architecture (what a fun word, archipelago), but i don’t want to write go, and i don’t know if there’s an implementation of what i want in javascript. please reply to this email or comment if you know off the top of your head!
the video is about why i love social media and am sad about the town square thing we were all sold about old twitter was a lie for most people (everyone who wasn’t me hated twitter, who knew!).
previously, on olu.online
i’m not going to link my entire discography of blog posts here obviously, but:
weeknotes #39 is my most recent of the genre. weeknotes, for the uniniated, recount what happened that week! i take a much more “what’s my internal weather?” approach than a lot of people, so no hard feelings if they’re not for you.
depending on how long it’s been since you’ve seen my digital face, i’ve been writing a series of posts that start with a theme based on a letter of the alphabet about “life flourishing through, with and despite tech” (i slightly change this summary whenever i say it). the challenge is called alphabet superset.
last but not least, we are chugging through the second quarter of the year, so thinking about what i wanted out of it again. i wrote out some hopes, as is my custom.
i also write an intro on geeks for social change, check them/us out!
things i’ve seen semi-recently
perfect sentences - newsletter that does what it says on the tin
computer science for fun blog - makes me nostalgic for a uni experience i didn’t have; i was studying philosophy :(
last but not least
don’t be a stranger! i really love and value talking to people online — rapport is literally one of my written down values — so any comments, replies, or thoughts would be so appreciated and welcomed. i appreciate you and hope you are having such a good week.
bye for now!