Author: Joe Brockmeier
One of the best job perks I ever had…
It’s been more than 15 years since I worked for Data393 (which doesn’t actually exist anymore…) but I still miss one of the perks of…
Caturday cat blogging: From dignified to derp in three seconds
We have, it’s true, a ridiculous number of cats. With six to choose from you might think that I’d have a favorite or two, but…
Last Bandcamp Friday of 2022! Eliza Rickman, Mdou Moctar, Asian Dub Foundation
It’s the last Bandcamp Friday of the year, which means Bandcamp forgoes its cut and artists get the entire price (minus some processing fees). Not…
Hello Percona!
Happy to share that I started a new job this week as Head of Community at Percona! I know it’s traditional to talk about how…
A cardinal sin of content marketing: Writing what you want the audience to have read
No matter who your audience1 may be – admins, developers, decision makers, or anyone else – they’re not obligated to read your content. It’s all…
20 blogging and article prompts for tech bloggers
Stumped for ideas what to blog about? Not sure what people would want to read that would be worth writing about? Here’s 20 prompts to…
100 day blogging challenge: Let’s get those RSS feeds going again
My Mastodon network is picking up nicely. It’s not quite reached the same level or variety of activity from Twitter, but it’s getting there. I…
20 and still Scrobblin’ – Last.fm at 20
The first song I ever “scrobbled” was, apparently, “Outdoor Miner” by Wire. That was 2006, several years after Last.fm made its debut. This year the…
Sam’s holiday sweater
Update: Sam actually likes his sweater. Or, at least, it chills him out. He’s an anxious cat and gets really anxious when we have a…
Extremely minimal blogging with WriteFreely
Loving the explosion of IndieWeb activity. For fun I decided to try out WriteFreely, a really minimal blog with ActivityPub features.