"I love Kevin Marks"

2022-05-02 11:31:28

Kevin MarksKevin [email protected]: September 13th 1966Want me to write, speak or consult? email or dm me.Things I madeSVG share 2015-01-28A site to share Vector images, as silos like Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and Slack don’t show them. It makes a PNG version so when you link to it, the previews work. Formerly known as svgur.comNoter Live 2013-06-23A web app to make live note posting (aka live-tweeting, live-blogging) easier. Used for the notes below.Recent PublicationsCircuit breakers and microservices (or, how to really use Hystrix) at Datawire 2016-11-09Making microservices resilient and self-healingHow the Web Became Unreadable at BackChannel 2016-10-19I thought my eyesight was beginning to go. It turns out, I’m suffering from design.How Twitter Got Angry at Fast Company 2016-08-23As Twitter attempts to stem abuse, a look back at the service’s earlier design shows how it became so ripe for it.How To Break Open The Web at Fast Company with Dan Gillmor 2016-06-29The Internet's designers and a new generation of hackers are unraveling the knots keeping the web from living up to its original promise.Live notes and essaysTwitter Edits You 2022-04-06With all the fuss about Twitter’s promised edit button, and how they might design it, we’re missing a disturbing development — Twitter is using its embedded javascript to edit other people’s sites. Google I/O Chrome Follow session 2021-05-19Nick Krasney: We want to build out the next 20 years for RSS on the open web Johnson is not Jobs 2021-05-02Johnson, by all reports, will do anything to put off making a decision; no-one who worked for Steve Jobs was left guessing about what he thought.Replies to Silos only at my own site 2020-12-10Can we POSSE to twitter with just a URL?IndieWeb Camp London Notes 2020-03-15Suze Shardlow: I found a lot more motivation to do this today with having other people doing it too, and thank you to @ohhelloana, @cheukting_ho and @calum_ryan for organising this very well.Homebrew Website Club Teesside Notes 2018-08-07good practice would be to always ping archive.org to stash pages when you link to them. This is something I do at https://mention.tech when sending webmentions - I archive both the links involved too.Public Sevice Internet notes 2018-10-23Solana Larsen: I'm worried about the global dystopian surveillance society, and anyone who reads the newspaper can see this now - free speech, freedom of movement everything is at riskMapcamp notes 2018-10-03Simon Wardley: I would love for people to find better ways of mapping - mine are primitive and I made them creative commons so someone else can fix them.XOXO notes 2018-09-09jonny sun: I've been thinking about tweets as things that create conversation spaces - you create a little micro community in the replies to a tweetTeacamp: Jacqui Taylor on GDPR 2018-06-07Dr Jacqui Taylor: GDPR is about building our web world with privacy at the core - so citizens can trust usThinking Digital 2018-05-17Sarah Wiseman: when my friend finally bought her house, I responded with ???carp streamers - I then realised that this was only a celebratory emoji for me and my sister. Just as 2 people can listen to the same audio clip and one hear Yanny and the other Laurel, they can look at the same emoji and see a different meaning.Future Blockchain Summit Dubai 2018-05-03Jamie Burke: The hedge funds will come in and crash the crypto token market.All the senior partners are waiting on the sidelines to enter this market, but there is not enough liquidity for them - they will break the market when they come in.Future Blockchain Summit Dubai 2018-05-02Wesam Lootah: Yes, blockchain was not invented in Dubai, Satoshi Nakomoto is not a Dubai citizen.We want to be the blockchain capital of the world. If you have spent any time in Dubai over the last 10 years you can see that we make big promises and we deliverJeremy Silver and Jeremy Bailenson on 'Experience on Demand' 2018-04-26Jeremy Bailenson: Start with a problem that needs to be solved, if VR or AR helps to solve it, great. Don't use the technology for the sake of it Future Social Media - Digital Catapult 2018-04-17Mark Little: When I went to work at twitter I started to see the antithesis further - big platforms are a contradiction. We are rows of corn to be harvested by big companies into data and sold to advertisers. So we need synthesis - what do we do? Do we leave it to platforms or governments to fix this? GDPR and Media Innovation - Digital Catapult 2018-03-15Kathryn Geels: Half of web users are faking their data due to security fears. Lawyers have told me that anyone who says they are 100% GDPR compliant is either lying or doesn't understand the regulations Internet of Agreements 2 - Digital Catapult 2018-02-23Michael Mainelli: Anyone who says they they are giving you database write for $35 - they are an idiot Homebrew Website Club London 2018-01-24We are celebrating one million webmentions - and @calumn_ryan brought cupcakesMore news this week - WebSub (formerly known as PubSubHubbub) is a w3c REC and IndieAuth is a w3c NOTE Decaying Silos as dead malls 2018-01-20Every Silo has it's own custom preview markup, but Microformats make you smile.Creative Investment Forum 2017-11-07Phil Parker: The idea today is to start a conversation about the key problems of the creative industries. Over 90% of the creative industry is freelancers, and access to finance is a limiting factor for them.Homebrew Website Club London notes 2017-10-18Grigor : I haven't heard of indieweb before - I understand that you don't want to be bound to a specific platform and I like itTwitter’s Nazi Filter 2017-10-13It's not something that Twitter advertise, but they do have a built-in Nazi-blocking filter.Long Finance notes 2017-07-17Michael Mainelli: I have never seen a new technology take out an existing technology - even landlines are taking their time to go. The role of governance is to help us through these transitions of technologyHomebrew Website Club London notes 2017-07-12Calum Le Tour ??: This is the 1st anniversary of Homebrew Website Club LondonOpenTech 2017-05-13Jeni Tennison: Sam asked me to round out the day with vision things, look at the future, be optimistic"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams" - Eleanor RooseveltByte The Future 2017-05-12Jonathan Rivers: Innovation Theater - all the fancy gadgets in the lab to look cool - a MS surface table, a 3d printer for some reason. There is more innovation in a stack of post-its than in a room full of fancy gadgetsNewspaper firms must face heavy fines over extremist content – MPs 2017-05-01An inquiry by the Commons home affairs committee condemns Newspaper companies for failing to tackle hate speech.Mastodon, Twitter and publics 2017-04-24Long ago, I wrote about the theory of social sites, with the then-young Twitter as the exemplar. As Mastodon, GnuSocial and other federated sites have caught some attention recently, I thought I'd revisit these theories.Homebrew Website Club SF notes 2017-02-22EJ Harkness: The amazing thing about the internet is that it is everything - no-one cares whether it is MIT or oxford or my brain. If we have some stable means of establishing identity we can compare your history of what you sayMicroservices Summit 2017-01-31Rafi Schloming: Start with the people and think how to divide up the work first, let that lead to the technical perspectiveDay 4: Broke my Known site #100daysOfIndieWeb 2017-01-26 23:42-0800I think I extended the meaning of Tantek's js;dr tonight anyway.Homebrew Website Club SF notes 2016-01-11#ThatTechGirl:I don't have a homebrew site, but I did a 4 hour hackathon on a new website last night—I built a birthday website for a friend of mine, and he hasn't seen it yet - it's at http://granisoncrawford.com/Homebrew Website Club SF notes 2016-12-28Stacey DePolo: is there a non-silo'd option for posting video or audio?Homebrew Website Club SF notes 2016-12-14Kevin Marks : a great example of service workers is @adactio's https://resilientwebdesign.com that caches pages so you can read on a planeStacey DePolo: if I'm someone who frequently travels on airplanes I can read stuff offline without paying for wifi?Homebrew Website Club SF notes 2016-11-30Aza Raskin: we are working on "the chatternet" - the internet of conversationNext Economy notes 2016-10-11Paul English: when the human agent overrides the AI, that's when the AI learning kicks inNext Economy notes 2016-10-10Steven Levy: the rap on these deep learning systems is that they are black boxes - you don't know what they are doingHomebrew Website Club SF notes 2016-10-05Jean M Russell: how do you make pooping OK? Unicorns and soft serveI don't have code to share - I have help I needDistributed verification 2016-09-22 Now, we already have the rel="me" standard for linking between different sites to show that you own them both. Its been around for 13 years, and is widely adopted. How about we make it into a badge?Homebrew Website Club SF notes 2016-09-21Ben Werdmüller: the interface on medium is designed to encourage longer responses, and the out-of-network ones are hidden by defaultHomebrew Website Club SF notes 2016-09-14Kevin Marks: Last week I showed rel-me detection on my website - this week I have a chrome plug-in at j.mp/indiemeHomebrew Website Club SF notes 2016-09-07Christina Warren:I wouldn't put a brand in my twitter handle - I know betterHomebrew Website Club SF notes 2016-08-24Dan Gillmor: when I teach journalists, I get them to buy a domain, set up their own hosting and create a blog or websiteHomebrew Website Club SF notes 2016-08-10Kevin Marks: how blogging worked in 2000 we'd click through our blogroll each morning and see our friends stories. That's snapchatHomebrew Website Club SF notes 2016-07-27Known: teach.kqed.org is a community space powered by Known, and there are more comingHomebrew Website Club SF notes 2016-07-13Joe Nelson: Email I affectionately call the “cockroach of the internet,” because it is older than the web yet we still use itHomebrew Website Club notes 2016-06-29Dmitri Shuralyov: I discovered indieweb a week ago, and the values and motivations were thinking along the same lines. I found indieweb through someone's personal website.Decentralized Web Summit 2016-06-09Dan Gillmor: it's about more than a decentralized web, but about control too - net neutrality may be a short term victoryDecentralized Web Summit 2016-06-08Tim Berners-Lee: Incremental change and only adding the pieces that we needed was key. It was never clear that the web would take off, but it didDecentralized Web Summit 2016-06-07Mitchell Baker: If we can keep Immediate Open Universal Agency then the web remains decentralizedIndieWeb Summit Demos 2016-06-05Aaron: we're going to demo what we've done this weekend at #indiewebsummit - 5 minutes eachIndieWeb Summit notes 2016-06-04Tantek: we encourage everyone to share what they have built whether on our wiki or a open source code on github or whereverHomebrew Website Club notes 2016-06-01Tantek Çelik:Webmention is now a Candidate Recommendation for w3c which is kind of a big dealwe incubated and developed webmention in the indieweb community and brought it over to the SocialWG at w3cWhen u- means 2016-05-24I'd suggest if you are going to do this kind of thing, use a prefix of hack- or style- instead. Homebrew Website Club notes 2016-05-18Kathy Ems: My app is at http://tranquil-caverns25242.herokuapp.com determining your outfit for your next adventureGoogle I/O 2016 2016-05-18Sundar Pichai:Today we are announcing the Google Assistant - we want to ask our users "Hi, how can I help?"IndieWeb Camp Düsseldorf demos 2016-05-08Julie Anne Noying:I made my nick name Julie Anne Noying a while ago, and this week a domain name was registered at the barThe Joy of Sparks 2016-05-08I made a Joy Division inspired graph of activity in indiewebcamp IRC over the last 90 daysIndieWeb Camp Düsseldorf notes 2016-05-07Aaron Parecki: I think we know why we're here - we are making our own websites and helping each otherHomebrew Website Club notes 2016-05-04Tantek: Webmention spec has reached 0 open issues, is basically ready to go from Working Draft to Candidate RecommendationInternet Identity Workshop Notes 2016-04-27Doc Searls: the whole adtech industry is falling apart. I know one $100M adtech company that says it is a zombieInternet Identity Workshop Notes 2016-04-26Phil Windley: 12 years ago Kim Cameron of Microsoft defined the 12 laws of identity - I asked him to talk and update these lawsInstant BCC 2016-04-22Ashley Mayer: The only innovation I want is to be able to start an email thread and bcc myself out of it at the same time.Homebrew Website Club notes 2016-04-20Tantek: there's a new site at webmention.rocks for testing webmention support on your site, as part of the @w3c webmention standardsSVG Sparklines 2016-04-18Making sparklines that embed the datapoints directlyIndieWeb Camp Nürnberg demos 2016-04-17Pelle Wessman: there are some exotic webmention types, and it can be hard to get people to send you webmentionsIndieWeb Camp Nürnberg notes 2016-04-16Jeremy Keith: now the point is not just to keep things to yourself on your own site, but to share them out to twitter or flickr tooHacks/Hackers Buzzfeed Lab notes 2016-03-28Ainsley: What is key that you are looking at the system and the system is looking at youTwitter's 10th Anniversary 2016-03-21Sandro: what stops me from having a website is that I have lots of different websitesIndieWeb Camp MIT notes 2016-03-15Sandro: what stops me from having a website is that I have lots of different websitesHomebrew Website Club notes 2016-03-09Kyle Mahan: this is woodwind.xyz my reader - when it detects that a post is an event, it adds 'interested' 'going' 'not going'Homebrew Website Club notes 2016-02-24 Tantek Çelik:imagine everything that you do on sites like twitter on facebook, but on your own site, and able to do moreHomebrew Website Club notes 2016-02-10 Ben Werdmüller:I like the idea of a webring, and of a public timeline - as it shows 'here are the people'Homebrew Website Club notes 2016-01-27 Tantek: sometimes something really small that is less than a page of code can really help someone understandHacks Hackers Connect SF 2016-01-23Corey Ford: there is always a drunken walk- you need prototyping and executing. Twitter started as a podcast companyMaking the trains run on time 2016-01-13A modest moonshot for Google: track trains and buses, and sponsor free wifiSocial Computing Symposium 2016-01-12 Judith Donath: Weizenbaum gave up programming and wrote a novel warning of technology built by people what don't understand socialSocial Computing Symposium 2016-01-11 Vivienne Ming: whether a neural network is biased or not depends on how it was raisedHomebrew Website Club notes 2015-12-30 @kylewmahan: I added goodreads support to silo.pub so I can post to goodreads with micropubSF New Tech notes 2015-12-09Myles Weissleder: welcome to the last demo night of the year, and thank you for making it awesomeMatter.vc Demo Day notes 2015-12-09Corey Ford: These companies have been doing what I like to call the drunken walk of the entrepreneurIndiewebcamp SF 2015 afternoon demo notes 2015-12-03 18:30-0800Ben Werdmüller: today I decided that I hate Known, so I'm going to export my known site to wordpress Indiewebcamp SF 2015 morning notes 2015-12-03we're here to hack on our own websites and hope to build something to show off at the end of todayHomebrew Website Club notes 2015-12-02@t: we are doing commitments to update our sites by the end of the year, like we did last yearHomebrew Website Club notes 2015-11-18@t: welcome to the 2 year anniversary of Homebrew Website ClubNext Economy Notes 2015-11-13@zeynepton: what I saw was that retail was operating in a vicious cycle where labour was treated as as cost to minimiseNext Economy Notes 2015-11-12Kristian Hammond: I miss the old world when everything was simple when we'd build AIs in robot bodies and they'd kill us allSF Music Tech Notes 2015-11-10@rocknty: I've been in the data business for 18 years and I just figured out what I am doing nowNot in our Stars 2015-11-08We can get back the much-mourned favorite star on twitter by an 'add a comment' retweet with a ? emojiHTML as TeX replacement 2015-11-06In which I learn that SVG Text and mathematical fonts are annoyingHomebrew Website Club notes 2015-11-04Homebrew Website Club notes 2015-10-21Homebrew Website Club notes 2015-10-07Accelerated Mobile Pages - a quick reaction 2015-10-07Homebrew Website Club notes 2015-09-23XOXO Notes 2015-09-13XOXO Notes 2015-09-12XOXO Notes 2015-09-11Homebrew Website Club notes 2015-09-09Read Terry Pratchett's The Shepherd's Crown this weekend with this simple 6 step process 2015-08-29Homebrew Website Club notes 2015-08-26Homebrew Website Club notes 2015-08-12Homebrew Website Club notes 2015-07-29Hadley Beeman at OSCON 2015-07-22Homebrew Website Club notes 2015-07-15Indiewebcamp Portland 2015-07-12Indiewebcamp UK 2015-07-11Homebrew Website Club notes 2015-07-01Microformats 2 and Schema 2015-06-30Homebrew Website Club notes 2015-06-17Homebrew Website Club notes 2015-06-03Mentions as quotes 2015-05-22Homebrew Website Club notes 2015-05-06Homebrew Website Club notes 2015-04-22Homebrew Website Club notes 2015-04-08Homebrew Website Club notes 2015-03-25w3c Social Working Group Face to Face Demos 2015-03-17Homebrew Website Club notes 2015-02-25Puzzled by Medium 2015-02-25the Web in an Eye Blink 2015-02-24Homebrew Website Club notes 2015-02-11Archiving - Netgain Challenge 2015-02-10We Like IndieWeb Software 2015-01-16Hacks Hackers SF notes 2015-01-15Homebrew Website Club notes 2015-01-14New Clues repost 2015-01-09highway1 Demo Day Notes 2014-12-09Mmindding Notes 2014-12-05Future Of Money Notes 2014-12-02Homebrew Website Club notes 2014-11-19SF Music Tech Notes 2014-11-11My First Website 2014-10-29How did Twitter become the hate speech wing of the free speech party? 2014-10-04XOXO notes 2014-09-14XOXO notes 2014-09-13Homebrew Website Club notes 2014-09-10IndieWebCamp UK Demos 2014-09-07IndieWebCamp UK notes 2014-09-06Homebrew Website Club notes 2014-08-27Homebrew Website Club notes 2014-08-13Homebrew Website Club notes 2014-07-30Homebrew Website Club notes 2014-05-21Matter Design Review 0 2014-05-20SF Music Tech Notes 2014-05-20Internet Identity Workshop XVIII 2014-05-08Internet Identity Workshop XVIII 2014-05-06F8 live notes 2014-04-30Homebrew Website Club notes 2014-04-23Fragmentions for Poets 2014-04-23Amber Case Passion Projects - IndieWeb 2014-04-17Fragmentions - linking to any text 2014-04-17w3c Annotation notes 2014-04-02Patent Trolls, Innovation, and You notes 2014-03-18Homebrew Website Club notes 2014-03-12IndieWebCamp SF Wrapup Demos 2014-03-08IndieWebCamp SF IndieWeb Apps notes 2014-03-07IndieWebCamp SF Your Friend the Silo notes 2014-03-07IndieWebCamp SF Indie Comic notes 2014-03-07IndieWebCamp SF IndieComms notes 2014-03-07IndieWebCamp SF Demos notes 2014-03-07UXNight Bootstrap and Foundation notes 2014-03-05Bitcoin Meetup notes 2014-02-27Homebrew Website Club notes 2014-02-26Launch conference 2014-02-25How to tell your personality from your code (1998)Homebrew Website Club notes 2014-02-12The Crunchies 2014-02-10Money and Tech Launch notes 2014-02-05Model View Culture Launch notes 2014-01-30Homebrew Website Club notes 2014-01-29ReadWriteWeb Paypal notes 2014-01-21Homebrew Website Club notes 2014-01-15Le Web notes 2013-12-10Homebrew Website Club notes 2013-11-20IndieWebcamp UK notes 2013-09XOXO Fest Notes 2013-09SF Music Tech NotesDemo Fall 2013 NotesGigaOm Roadmap 2013 NotesSlopegraph after Tufte 2011-07-13My very first home page1995Me elsewhereNotesBlogPhotosTwitterGoogle Profiles Google PlusgithubPodcastsxoxo.zoneindieweb.socialMastodon.social (deprecated)AngelListFritter←An IndieWeb Webring ??→Friends & ContactsChris MessinaTantek ÇelikThis page is designed to last.