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A few days ago I came across an interesting post by Annie Mueller about getting older:

I remember having a conversation with my Dad right after I graduated college. So I was 22 and he was 52. I don’t remember what we were talking about but I remember when he looked at me and said, “You know, I still feel just the same inside as I did when I was 22.” - anniemueller.com

I was discussing the same thing with one of my colleagues last month and we came to the same conclusion, even though we’re getting older we feel the same as we did when we were much younger.

Probably our brain plays a big part in this, there are young people who seem old (not biologically but mentally) and other people who feel young even though they are in their eighties.

📷 Riva San Vitale, Switzerland

📷 Laveggio river, Switzerland

I believe that blogging (writing) is a kind of good therapy.

You write things down and let your thoughts flow. When you are in a flow, words can come one after the other.

As I’ve written many times, I don’t write for an audience (though I’m very happy if you find my ramblings useful), but for the need to let my ideas flow freely.

Does that make sense to you?

📷 Caslano, Switzerland

Cosa abbiamo fatto di male per dover sopportare lo scrolling infinito anche sui siti web? 😞

Awesome! An experimental reader mode has been added to Sublime Feed 👍 sublimefeed.com

Thanks to Robb Knight’s explanation of how Author Tags work on Mastodon, I was able to activate them on my Micro.blog site.

Prerequisite: I’m using the Sumo theme, which has full support for Microhooks.

The process is very simple from the Micro.blog web dashboard: go to Design -> Open Theme -> New Template

Give the template this location and name:

layouts/partials/microhook-head.html

insert this code using your fediverse handle name instead of mine:

<meta property="fediverse:creator" content="@prealpinux@mastodon.uno" />

Well done, you’re ready to go!

Disclaimer: I tried to use multiple author tags, but there seems to be no support for them at the moment.

There are a lot of funny domain extensions you can use for your website today. Some of them are run by companies (like .blog), while others are country top level domains. Examples of country top level domains are .it for Italy, .us for the USA, .de for Germany and so on… Most of us might think that using a “national top level domain” is safer than using a domain completely run by a private company, but this isn’t entirely true.

For example the British goverment has recently approved the transfer of sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius. This means that .IO domains seriously risk to disappear in few years, as explained in this article.

Climate and political changes can put your domain existence at serious risk. It is always better to keep this in mind, especially if you choose an exotic domain name for your website (as I did several times).

📷 Vacallo, Switzerland