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How do we navigate caring about our work when that work is, by nature, disposable?
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I’ve been running this website on IndieWeb principles and tech for over a year now, so I thought it was time for an updated edition.

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I have lived in England for over a decade but have yet to visit the famous cliffs. It’s Thursday, it’s sunny, I’ve nothing to do until my new job begins next week, so I get up early and hop on a train to the south coast.

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Astro Bot is so so good.

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Well Kato refuses to go near the cat flap but it’s serving well as a window for all the neighbourhood cats.

A cream blue eyed cat looking through the cat flap. The same cat closer.
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First time I’ve managed a 5k in under half an hour since I was a teenager. To most runners I’m sure this is nothing but I’m ecstatic.

A Strava screenshot showing 5.05km in 29:04.
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· On not taking it personally
How do we navigate caring about our work when that work is, by nature, disposable?
Note

I’m sorry to say it’s just a very ugly cURL script! It looks like this:

url="$(echo $note | sed -e 's|content|https://www.joelotter.com|' -e 's|\.md|/|')"

echo "Waiting for URL to become available..."
until $(curl --output /dev/null --silent --head --fail $url); do
  printf '.'
  sleep 5
done
echo "Page is up."
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Had a very cute visitor today.

A very cute cat looking at us through our blinds. The cat on my shoulder. I decided his name is Salami. The cat on my shoulder in a slightly less convenient position.
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A lovely day at the footy. 7-0!

The football pitch at Champion Hill.
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Thanks! I’d heard a little bit about Astro but not really read into it - from looking at it just now I think it’s probably a bit more heavyweight than what I’d need. Additionally I’ve reached the point where anything running on Node activates a trauma response in my brain. 😆

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Great spot, thanks, have fixed!

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· IndieWeb, 2024 edition

I’ve been running this website on IndieWeb principles and tech for over a year now, so I thought it was time for an updated edition.