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Notes expressing the moment

Comment I'm considering to…
Tobias Tom 4th June 2018 at 12:48

I'm considering to bringing back my dev diary. Not sure how and what I would be able to write about client projects, but for Colloq and my other personal projects I'm really tempted.
Comment After all: really…
Tobias Tom 12th May 2018 at 20:05

After all: really great event for now, just the things around it could be… organized. At least tried to be organized. 😃
Comment Third rule of the…
Tobias Tom 12th May 2018 at 20:36

Third rule of the song contest: you better used your toilet at home, these ones are just for decoration.
Comment Second rule of the…
Tobias Tom 12th May 2018 at 20:03

Second rule of the song contest in Lisbon: you don’t go there if you expect something to drink, whatever you want.
Comment First rule of the…
Tobias Tom 12th May 2018 at 20:50

First rule of the song contest in Lisbon: you don’t get there hungry.
Comment Watching the…
Tobias Tom 10th May 2018 at 19:34

Watching the semifinals of the ESC. I feel old. Watching all the Portugal advertisings in between is worth it. This country is beautiful.
Comment Frankfurt ✈️…
Tobias Tom 9th May 2018 at 17:35

Frankfurt ✈️ Lisbon. Flying home after an excellent Beyond Tellerrand. So nice to meet all the existing friends and getting to know new people. Thank you to everyone who was a part of it and a special thank you to the conference genius Marc Thiele.
Comment In about an hour the…
Tobias Tom 6th May 2018 at 15:12

In about an hour the team of Colloq (Anselm, Holger and me) will reunite in person for the first time after we started this Company. Of course this has to happen at the conference where we all put our head together to build this thing.
Comment Siegburg 🚂…
Tobias Tom 6th May 2018 at 15:35

Siegburg 🚂 Düsseldorf. Last part in my journey to Klassentreffen at Beyond Tellerrand. As I missed last year, I‘m really looking forward to this one.
Comment Things that don’t…
Tobias Tom 5th May 2018 at 21:33

Things that don’t make your day: the connection train is delayed by 80 minutes. This will be “fun”.
Comment Lisbon ✈️…
Tobias Tom 5th May 2018 at 16:38

Lisbon ✈️ Frankfurt. After surfing today morning I think I’ll be able to sleep the entire flight.
Comment That’s how…
Tobias Tom 4th May 2018 at 23:36

That’s how webmentions work only site from day one. I get a notification. Nobody else, that’s how I liked it.

In reply to jeena.net/notes/936.
Comment I think my approach…
Tobias Tom 4th May 2018 at 14:22

I think my approach to happiness ruined me for all the bad and stupid things out there:

Accept it. If it’s worth changing, try. Don’t let it drag you down.
Comment This website has…
Tobias Tom 4th May 2018 at 9:20

This website has webmention support since it launched. It was one of the features I defined as a requirement. When you link to this site (an you support webmentions as well) I'll get a notification automatically. In addition I could always have used brid.gy or other solutions to pull in likes, retweets and other stuff from social silos. With that I would be able to display details of these mentions underneath each post, note or photo.

I was always intrigued to add support for this feature. It looks so nice, active and community driven on sites that use it. Users can see which articles got liked and even more interestingly which discussions grew out of the original post.

The thing is: I did make the careful decision (actually multiple times) that I don't think it's correct to publish them here. Users on e.g. Twitter will not know that they end up here. Indexable and stored "forever". Who am I to store data without telling publishers about this. With the case of Twitter I actually through about mentioning the user automatically, but… seriously? »tobiastom.name published your like about…«.

In the recent days an excellent article from Sebastian Greger crossed by feed reader multiple times: The Indieweb privacy challenge (Webmentions, silo backfeeds, and the GDPR). Today I finally found the time to read it and I could not agree more with what he writes.

… while the idea behind pulling in the social backfeed is about “owning the conversation” around my content, an Indieweb site is at the same time also taking ownership of other peoples’ content, expressions and conversations – this comes with responsibilities.

he continues:

“unliking” a tweet later will not reliably remove it

That is exactly the reasoning why I don't show third party content here. I don't want the responsibility of other people’s data. They keep theirs, I'll be busy taking care of mine.

The more people complain about the GDPR, the more I like it. I actually enjoy that people have to think about this stuff. It's not only about what's legally ok to do, but also about your own reasoning behind all that. If nobody reasoned with this things before, the GDPR is a good start to force them to. It's a little bit sad that we need a law for this, but that seems to be how things are. People don't seem to think when there are no implications for themselves.
Comment I’ve never talked…
Tobias Tom 20th April 2018 at 23:59

I’ve never talked with people about the ESC as much as the times I’ve been living in the awesome country that will be hosting it this year.

Locations have been locked out of public access, tourists will flood this little city and overall everybody will try to earn as much as they can with all stranger flying in. That’s just how it goes.

Before all of this I through it‘s just an television event. Today I know it’s much more to every country that hosts it. I‘m not convinced that it’s a good thing, but after all that’s how things are. I decided to support this country I choose to spend time in. Not everything is great here, but in summary living here makes me more happpy then every place before. That’s worth supporting.

Support the things you like. It will be fine. 🇵🇹⛱🏄‍♂️
Comment Have fun! How did…
Tobias Tom 13th April 2018 at 15:19

Have fun! How did your talk go?

In reply to jeena.net/notes/920.
Comment Writing seems to be…
Tobias Tom 9th April 2018 at 0:12

Writing seems to be more about dropping my words then publishing them these days.
Comment Andy Butt in The…
Tobias Tom 28th February 2018 at 8:12

Andy Butt in The benefits and challenges of running a slow-growing business:

I’d prefer to see 100 successful start-ups making 10 million in revenue each, than one billion dollar unicorn and 99 failed ventures.

I can very much relate to that. Not only because we want to grow Colloq slow as well, but also because it makes more people happy because they can make a living out of what they want do. Out of passion, not out of the agenda their investors see for themselves.
Comment Weekend plans done.…
Tobias Tom 7th February 2018 at 21:32

Weekend plans done. We are finally going back to Nazaré:

The Big Wave Tour (BWT) is placing the Nazaré Challenge on Green Alert, and is set to run Saturday, February 10, 2018. Praia do Norte (North Beach), a break notorious for its powerful waves and dangerous whitewater speeds, has seen monstrous waves this season and now event organizers are tracking conditions favorable enough to run the highly-anticipated competition.

Rental book, room booked, now I just have to wait until the weekend. Obviously I won’t surf there, but that doesn’t make it any less amazing.

🏄
Comment On Instagram you can…
Tobias Tom 2nd February 2018 at 15:56

On Instagram you can express yourself in your unique way, they said.

Oliver makes the most out of it: Instravel - A Photogenic Mass Tourism Experience

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