Ham Readio

Tuning in and twittering out

If the Twitter exodus yielded any good (aside from further outing Batman as a terrible role model), it's that we should control our content and our message as if it were a resource worth preserving. I've been excited to see folks blogging again. Not only blogging, but call-and-response blogging with one another.

Call and Response

Here are two examples:

Chris Coyier writes The Great Divide in January 2019
Zach Leatherman reflects on it 4 years later within JAVASCRIPT, COMMUNITY
Chris revisits his themes within The Great Divide Was Indeed Divisive
Jeremy Keith reframes it all thoughtfully within Chain of tools, adding more context

and also:

Dave Rupert writes So you want to make a new JS framework
Chris dives a bit deeper via What does it take to make a JavaScript framework?

The second chain ain't as long, but I can time travel to make it longer, because it links directly to thoughts Salma Alam-Naylor has had earlier with Should I write a new JavaScript framework? and updated herself via I changed my mind about writing new JavaScript frameworks. I find a lot of value in these conversations. I am grateful for those that spend the time to put them to paper rather than on blast within brittle social media.

Ham Readio with RSS

RSS and the linkability of H T M L are helping me keep up to date on these messages. It's easy to miss a single node on a busy week, but a durable network of folks talking with one another can withstand entropy. The short-burst messaging of these blogs is nice too. Only a couple of paragraphs in some cases, but enough to articulate a thought in a novel context. Something I can consume with coffee or between meetings (or during meetings).

Let's all invest in ourselves, each other, and the ham readio economy.

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