Every morning a prepare coffee as part of breakfast. I usually drink a full cup (8 oz) of coffee every morning. Half of the cup I have with my breakfast and the other half I finish while going through my blogroll feeds. This has become a ritual that is quite joyful as I start my day in a relaxing way giving myself time to appreciate the coffee and as well reading something interesting from the feed.

I know others have written about this wait more in depth that I could ever do but I want to list some ActivityPub projects that I have played with. First if you don’t know ActivityPub is a protocol for decentralized social networks and it is an oficial W3C open standard. Second, there is Mastodon which is the most popular ActivityPub project today but I won’t talk about it because I am assuming everyone knows what it is.

I’ve seen some people keeping tracking of what they are reading and watching on their blogs. I have done some posts in the past talking about tv shows and movies I’ve seen but never made tracking a habit. As I consider starting tracking things I read and watch I have been thinking what would be the best format for doing this. Should I just make a normal blog post, should I have a separated session on my website just for this or should I include it on my garden.

I get a lot of the content a read from blogs you can find in my blogroll page. This has became important to me and I have found that reading other peoples opinions have helped me to expand my thinking and understand the world better. Everyone have its own point of view and when you are exposed to it you will learn new ideas, new way of thinking and new cultures.

In a blog post by Kev Quirk back in June I got thinking about what makes me happy. Here a try to compile a list, by no means exhaustive, of what makes me happy. eat a fruit salad for breakfast drink a cup of coffee in the mornings walk around in nature watch a good movie or tv show read anything that teach me something new get together with friends spend time with family talk on the phone with a friend for a long time (when distance keep us apart) get a message from a friend (when we haven’t been in touch for a while) I think that is it.

A while ago, I can’t remember when or how, I came across an article titled This Page is Designed to Last, by Jeff Huang, an Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Computer Science at Brown University. He talks about how websites eventually die of because the maintainer gets tired of migrating services (as the services shutdown), updating libraries, and technology stacks. So he proposes to use plain HTML and CSS.