January 2024

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Sticking Around

Stephen Hackett with a bit that resonates: There are all sorts of things that can end the career of a professional creators, including burnout, financial pressures, losing relevance and more. These are things I would like to avoid so I can keep writing and podcasting about the topics I care deeply about, with people I […]

Where have all the websites gone?

This tweet went around: To which Jason Velazquez says: I have good news and bad news. The good news is that websites didn’t go anywhere. […] the bad newsβ€” we are the ones who vanished, and I suspect what we really miss are the joys of discovery. There has been a real uptick in I miss the […]

What do you do?

A biting first sentence from Robin Berjon: No one can explain what you do. Let’s face it, you don’t do a great job explaining it either. The Chimeralogists I’ve always wanted to be good at answering this question. My default answer is “web design and development”, but I find 90% of the time people assume […]

“Just an idea” Event Types

Maggie Appleton thinks there should be Speculative Calendar Events. I don’t want to add them as real events. Because they are not real events. They are speculative possibilities of events. The majority of them won’t be filled, and having both speculative and real events looking and behaving like the same type of thing is messy […]