Curiosity Blog, Sols 4604-4606: Taking a Deep Breath of Martian Air https://science.nasa.gov/blog/curiosity-blog-sols-4604-4606-taking-a-deep-breath-of-martian-air/ #NASA #Blogs

David's article really resonated with me because I've been thinking for a long while now to create a newsletter (or three) to surface barely heard voices.

On Substack, for example, the voices I hear are overwhelmingly from the United States, and it is incredibly hard to find voices from Asia and South-East Asia. It's a source of huge frustration for me because the most common narratives about my part of the world is from the United States, and a lot of times these narratives are distorted, skewed to American values and is not what is really happening in my region. Yet, when I try to speak up on Substack, I never get seen as the algorithm is prioritising US voices and Substacks. Worse, they are also boosting only popular ones, which means the most popular narrative is the loudest.

I have occasionally shared links to South-East Asian Substacks and blogs, and each time I do, I get messages of gratitude. However, I still wondered if my tiny act of rebellion would do anything to move the needle in terms of being heard in an English-speaking Internet overwhelmed by Western voices and narratives.

David's post reminded me that yes, I should put in some effort to help surface more unknown corners of the Internet. Maybe we won't get rid of the algorithmic complacency sweeping society now, but at least we'll do some tiny thing to help create a messy but human algorithm instead.

https://www.raptitude.com/2025/06/how-to-surf-the-web-in-2025-and-why-you-should/

Latest mailing list update, New posts from https://buttondown.com/weirdwriter/archive/new-posts-from-0256/ #Blog #Blogs

New #TIL post on #BurgeonLab

https://www.burgeonlab.com/blog/my-first-github-pull-request/

My beginner's guide on how to make a pull request on github.com. It's my first try at it and I'm pleased to say the dev of the repo I'm contributing to accepted my PRs and merged them swiftly! Will tackle a larger #pullrequest this week regarding #retext.

Cool Tools Around the Indie Web

Lately, I have stumbled across some pretty cool tools focused on the indie web. So, I thought I would try out a few.

https://readbeanicecream.surge.sh/2025/07/20/cool-tools-around-the-indie-web/

New #blog on #BurgeonLab

https://www.burgeonlab.com/blog/customize-retext-markdown-editor/

My full guide on how to customize the look and feel of ReText (Python Markdown Editor)! I'm quite happy with this post—one of those "learning while doing" type scenarios.

I've written about #ReText before, so if you're interested in trying a new #markdowneditor, read the first post too on how to install it on macOS.

https://github.com/retext-project/retext

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4602-4603: On Top of the Ridge https://science.nasa.gov/blog/curiosity-blog-sols-4602-4603-on-top-of-the-ridge/ #NASA #Blogs

Dear Bloggers https://mtwb.blog/posts/2025/rants/dear-bloggers/ #blogging #rss #blogs #blog #blogpost #howmanyhashtagsdoineed

AI Audiobooks are not accessible https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/20250527/ #IndieWeb #Blog #Blogging #Blogs

https://www.burgeonlab.com/blogroll/

Added a /blogroll page to my blog... Will be adding more soon like /uses, /junk(sale), /now, /postroll, /self-hosting, and /sitemap.

Inspired by https://slashpages.net! What other slash pages do you use for your blog? Let me know!

Shoutout to some of the cool people I've discovered/connected with on Mastodon in the last few months!

@joel
@kev
@jbaty
@shellsharks
@adamsdesk

#slashpage #slashpages
#blog #blogging #blogs #personalsite #smallweb #hugo

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4600-4601: Up and Over the Sand Covered Ramp https://science.nasa.gov/blog/curiosity-blog-sols-4600-4601-up-and-over-the-sand-covered-ramp/ #NASA #Blogs

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4597-4599: Wide Open Spaces https://science.nasa.gov/blog/curiosity-blog-sols-4597-4599-wide-open-spaces/ #NASA #Blogs

AI Audiobooks are not accessible https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/20250527/ #Blog #Blogs #Blogging #IndieWeb #NoPaywall