Tending my little plot of the Internet

As many parts of the Internet continue to get worse, I figured it was time to improve my own little plot. I mean, I’m always tinkering, making small tweaks regularly. Did you know I keep /now up-to-date? But anyways, a couple changes here felt big enough to write about. My microblog is mine I’ve been outputting random microposts since… checks archive 2009, apparently. They were “status updates” back then. With Twitter dying, I started doing that sort of thing on Mastodon, and then on BlueSky. Wherever the people want to be, I suppose. At first they were just silly jokes. But eventually, besides announcements, they became ways to express raw (bad) ideas and get feedback. But something about that always bugged me: they were on someone else’s property, and linking to them (let alone finding them again) felt bad. So, I own my microblog now. They have their own place on this domain. They get a dedicated RSS feed. And they are included in the main feed (currently prefixed as “Micro” so you…