Quim Gil @quimgil@writing.exchange

RT @kateo

I love these two for making a funny to help people remember the difference.

Remember:
@vgcerf = Internet, ~1969.
@timberners_lee = WWW, ~1989.
Both of them: awesome, always.

#Web30 #ForTheWeb

Presenting: The Wikidata Card Game Generator! It uses @wikidata, the free and open knowledge base, to generate fact cards on arbitrary topics, like metro systems, planets, or hackerspaces. Made with @Bleeptrack at the @verschwoerhaus last month. ✨ https://cardgame.morr.cc ✨

I wrote up the API I'm thinking about for my #ActivityPub #PHP library! If you're interested in building federated PHP applications, I'd really appreciate if you check it out:

https://github.com/pterotype-project/activitypub-php

I opened an issue where people can give feedback and discuss the API so that we can make sure it will meet the needs of Fediverse developers. If you have any feedback or suggestions, please contribute to the discussion:

https://github.com/pterotype-project/activitypub-php/issues/1

1.5 Million Slavery Era Documents Will Be Digitized, Helping African Americans to Learn About Their Lost Ancestors http://www.openculture.com/?p=109682 https://t.co/uVZlvwiKwM

by @kateleth@twitter.com https://twitter.com/kateleth/status/1083110527352467456

Michelangelo’s Handwritten 16th-Century Grocery List http://www.openculture.com/?p=82015 https://t.co/S8gt7JKYMZ

The view from the Istanbul University Library

A Short Video Introduction to Hilma af Klint, the Mystical Female Painter Who Helped Invent Abstract Art http://www.openculture.com/?p=1059102 https://t.co/34Um6wZ8ur

Public Domain Day Is Coming: On January 1st, 2019, Copyrighted Works Will Enter the Public Domain for the First Time in 21 Years http://www.openculture.com/?p=1059485 https://t.co/NJLTtDaXtM

Doom was released 25 years ago today. It was about 2.39 MB, the size of an average webpage today. News sites average closer to 8 MB.

Please shotgun the javascript demons and make more efficient & accessible websites.

None of these faces are real. All made up by AIs. The end of photography as evidence. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.04948.pdf

The Mercator projection vs the true size of each country: https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/a4ug8h/the_mercator_projection_vs_the_true_size_of_each/

I saw this on a comment thread on open source project interaction with community members (and vice versa). I’d say it nails it! #programming #foss #opensource

@jaffathecake Hey you lost the bet

Mastodon instance of the day: glammr.us, "a space for folks interested in productive conversation about, well, galleries, libraries, archives, museums, memory work and records".

I just published: "Why Mastodon is defying the 'critical mass'" https://medium.com/@poshaughnessy/why-mastodon-is-defying-the-critical-mass-de3454109099