I miss the World Wide Web that I grew up on and fell in love with.

Sylwia Vargas@sylwia.bsky.social · last wk.

Something endearing about the times when you’d still say World Wide Web

Wonderful 4 day weekend, @monica.dev came to visit me 🥰

Great closing keynote from @monica.dev !! Full of really good advice for all creative coders. Check it out when the recordings come out! #virtualCCfest

A few years ago, I attended #virtualCCFest for the first time and left inspired! Today, I will be delivering the closing keynote at CC Fest. I'm looking forward to sharing my love of creative coding and encouraging others to archive (and share!) their creative work.

#virtualCCFest is kicking off soon! It's a free, virtual creative coding festival, and there's still time to register at: ccfest.rocks

I’ll be speaking at Creative Coding Fest! It’s free, fun, and open to anyone who wants to explore creative coding. Hope to see you there!

Saber Khan@saberkhan.bsky.social · 11mo ago

#virtualCCFest features two amazing keynotes, @monica.dev, software engineer, community organizer, and @charstiles.bsky.social, computational artist, educator. All the details and RSVP at ccfest.rocks

#virtualCCFest is back on Sunday, Sept 28, with amazing keynotes and workshops on creative coding lined-up. You can see and details and RSVP at ccfest.rocks. If you donate your funds will go to support the costs of the free event, Zoom licenses and small stipends for presenters and keynotes.

Based on my collection of memes and photos iOS classifies these celebs/notable figures under my “People”: * Beyoncé * President Obama (& “The Rock” Obama) * Rihanna * Issa Rae * President Biden * Taraji P Henson * Simone Biles * Janelle Monae * Dr. Cristina Yang * Redacted 🍊

Grateful for small joys these days, like a little more sunlight every day. Fun little map I made last week 📊

Axios@axios.com · last yr.

Parts of the U.S. will gain three hours or more of daylight between Thursday's spring equinox and the summer solstice on June 20, per NOAA's solar calculator.

For a while I've viewed my website as my digital playground, so naturally last week's Webmention adventure—plus all the amazing blogs I've been diving into via RSS lately —have me wanting to get more involved with the #IndieWeb community. aboutmonica.com/blog/hello-i...

you are not alone.

I think the next phase of my Webmention project will be setting up a linkblog to share my favorite content & bookmarks.

Simon Willison@simonwillison.net · 2y ago

(In my ideal world everyone would get their own link blog too, but sharing links on Bluesky and Mastodon is almost as good)

Essential to remind that libraries are not just vital sources of knowledge and information but also excellent community centers devoted to under-served populations. Services for job-seekers, the blind, for senior citizens. They lend out books but also tech, cooking equipment, media players.

Kathleen Fitzpatrick@kfitz.info · last yr.

This, by the by, is an effing disaster if it holds up. The number of public libraries that will go under if IMLS is shuttered is mind-boggling. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

#VirtualCCFest is happening tomorrow, and it looks like registration is still open! If you're interested in #CreativeCoding, this free event is a great way to spend your Saturday learning and getting inspired by fellow creators. Sign up here: ccfest.rocks/register/

Monica@monica.dev · last yr.

Virtual #CCFest returns on March 15th! 🎉 It's a free, welcoming event with keynote talks & hands-on technical workshops for anyone curious about #CreativeCoding with tools like p5js and hydra.

This Saturday, 15 March, I'm invited by #virtualCCFest to give a talk about my creative coding journey (and my ten years of daily art project). Lots of more exciting keynotes and workshops will be hosted online; so do tune in! ccfest.rocks

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

We don't spend a penny on marketing. It's all word of mouth for @costplusdrugs.com That's how we keep prices so low. Please spread the word !

I've been playing around with adjusting my Webmention workflow all week! Here's an overview of my current Webmention implementation and how I'm using GitHub Actions to review incoming Webmentions. aboutmonica.com/blog/automat...

Fetch Webmentions Automatically with GitHub Actions

An overview of how in addition to using Brid.gy and Webmentions.io I’m adding GitHub Actions and soon Webmentions.app (or its closely related CLI tool) to automate updating my website with the latest ...

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There's no shortage of ways math can be used in #CreativeCoding to generate visuals, like this donut-shaped Clifford Attractor that uses linear interpolation for color distribution. 🎨 aboutmonica.com/blog/craftin... 🍩 paulbourke.net/fractals/cli...

I noticed someone mentioning that they couldn't afford "How Git Works" right now. we have a "buy one give one" program where we give away 1 free copy for every zine sold. You can use code BUYONEGIVEONE to get a free PDF copy of How Git Works if $12 is a lot for you. wizardzines.com/zines/git/

How Git Works

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The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025. This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.

at sxsw, @jay.bsky.team pokes fun at mark zuckerberg by mimicking a version of a t-shirt he designed for himself, which said "aut zuck aut nihil" (either zuck or nothing, like "aut caesar aut nihil"). jay's shirt? "mundus sine caesaribus" (a world without caesars). techcrunch.com/2025/03/10/a...

At SXSW, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber pokes fun at Mark Zuckerberg with Latin phrase T-shirt | TechCrunch

When Bluesky CEO Jay Graber walked on stage at SXSW 2025 for her keynote discussion, she wore a large black T-shirt with her hair pulled back into a bun.

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Hi everyone! Here to announce that Friday was my last day at Auth0/Okta. I’m excited to be looking for my new role though! I’m interested in: ⭐️ Technical writing ⭐️ Developer education/advocacy ⭐️ Developer marketing ⭐️ Technical program management Reposts much appreciated!!🔁 More details below✨

Also this gif has now followed me to three or four different machines now because SPARKLES: aboutmonica.com/blog/how-to-...

How to Make Your VSCode Sparkle

This article shows you how to customize your VSCode set up to display animated sparkles while you are typing. There's a VSCode extension, Power Mode that adds animated flair while you're typing. It ha...

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I've been tidying up my @astro.build site with @zod.dev & Astro's content collection schema functionality. aboutmonica.com/blog/organiz...

Organizing Content with Astro Content Schemas

With Astro's Content Collection Schema functionality, you can enforce structured, uniform tags to keep your content organized and SEO-friendly. In this post, we’ll dive into how you can define and val...

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I've re-wired webmentions on my site, so now likes and mentions of my articles on @bsky.app will (eventually*) appear on my site! *It's not fully automated yet, because I ran into an issue with Cloudflare's bot protection blocking brid.gy requests 🤖

I'm testing sending WebMentions from BlueSky to my (new-ish) Astro site. Testing 1,2,3... aboutmonica.com/blog/getting...

Getting Started With Webmention and NextJS

An overview of setting up Webmention on a NextJS site to collect comments from across the decentralized social web (i.e., Twitter, GitHub, Pinterest, Reddit) in a centralized place.

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Virtual #CCFest returns on March 15th! 🎉 It's a free, welcoming event with keynote talks & hands-on technical workshops for anyone curious about #CreativeCoding with tools like p5js and hydra.