Blog: July 2023

Send a Friend a Webmention Day

2023-07-30 by Pablo Morales

This post was written in en

Send a Friend a Webmention Day

Webmentions

By Pablo Morales
info icon In reply to Send a Friend a Webmention Day on IndieWeb Events

It's been a great year so far! Lot's of good things have happened. I've overcame a few things. I started my blog again. The little things add up. One of the major events was becoming part of the IndieWeb Community. It's been a great community that is welcoming. I have learned so much from the people in the community and at Homebrew Website Club. Every single one of them has been pretty amazing.

Since it's Send a Friend a Webmention Day, I want to send a webmention to a few people.

Angelo Gladding

You were the first person I interacted with at Homebrew Website Club. He gave me the run down and help me connect the pieces based on the information I knew already. Thanks for being so rad! Your bot trained with your voice is pretty tight alongside your mediasoup-based setup.

Tracy Durnell I really enjoy your style of writing! I have been looking for better ways to express myself through writing and to find my style of blogging, it's inspiring and I enjoy your content. I've been wanting to make the Apple crumb pie. I'm excited to try it soon! If you need some more information on Oaxacan cuisine, I'm your guy!

James G Everything you do is super cool especially the programming language you created! You'll have to try some Coffee (and hot chocolate) from Oaxaca. I really enjoyed this month's IndieWeb Carnival topic.

Benji I love what you are doing with your site. I love the minimalist approach. The Sparkles is so rad! It works beautifully with one of my sites.

gRegor Love I hope you picked the blue shirt! I still haven't seen the movie? Yay or nay? Thank you for pointing me in the right directions when it comes to marking up content in a different language. More of content in different languages coming soon.

Alex Sirac Ton site, Réussir Mes Études est super cool et informatif! J'aime le blog de ton site web principal. You've inspired me to write in French again!

Jo dead.garden Since I love languages, I started looking into toki pona. Thank you so much for sharing this. Hopefully we can speak soon.

Anthony Ciccarello Thank you for helping me out microformats and "likes" and getting that squared away. Every time I see you post about your puppy I immediately want to pet but we haven't broken the virtual-physical barrier yet to pet dogs yet. Any ideas?

Also as a Midwesterner, I saw you have a recipe for Puppy Chow. I will probably be making a batch once I get home.

Colin Walker I'm really digging your site. I also stumbled on your Music and I'm really digging it! I'd love to talk about your music since I am teaching a sound engineering class. I've been making progress on the e-book as well.

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How I got Into Personal Websites

2023-07-30 by Pablo Morales

This post was written in en

A Trajectory: How I Started Building my Personal Website

A timeline

By Pablo Morales
info icon In reply to Send a Friend a Webmention Day by Sara Jakša

Before I jump right into the post. I want to thank Sara Jakša for creating such a great blog post on Sending a Friend a Webmention Day. Thank you for the prompt on How I got into Personal Websites. I've been meaning to write this so this is the perfect time!

I've had a presence since I was a young kid. I've been very fortunate to be around computers since i was three with these interactions been in school.

Having access to computers was game changing for me and has helped me. I would say I signed up for MySpace when I was ten. I know I am such a rule breaker. When I discovered personal websites, my mind exploded . . . metaphorically.

Curiosity didn't kill the cat

I remember when my parents upgraded from dial-up to DSL. I remember the lady at the phone company explaining all the details of the features included in our internet plan. Something that struck me was the FTP storage space. I thought, "Wait, I can create a my website and have it hosted for free?" This was in 2003 when I started my first personal website. I remember using basic HTML and clip art. I cringe just thinking about it. This was the stepping stone for me building and hosting websites. Using FTP was pretty advanced for an eight year old. I would stay up late just tinkering my site to make it perfect with poor HTML skills. It worked somehow?

Expressing Myself

I've always wanted to find ways to express myself. Since I was big into computers and tech, I figured I would use the website I built to share the things I enjoyed. I wanted to share who I was as a person. I had an idea who I was but I was still developing.

Inspired by others.

I would look at other people who would blog and that would make me super gitty. I remember stumbling upon Matt Mullenweb back in 2003 and being inspired by him. He and many others taught me a lot about blogging. Learning by (browsing the internet) doing.

Being Resourceful.

I would create new websites over the years. I couldn't afford to a pay for a website domain because I was eight years old and I wasn't going to ask my parents to spend money on something when I was more than grateful to have a computer and fast internet. I would use any free service I could until I could pay for it on my own.

Services I'd use

I would use a site in 2010 called Altervista where I officially used Wordpress for the first time. I made a big leap from HTML to the most popular CMS (of course I had no idea at the time). I decided this was the moment I would start expanding from a basic site to start blogging even if the posts had a few sentences. I used:

  • Altervista
  • DynDNS
  • Wordpress.com
  • Freewebhosting

Today

Often, I really feel like that 8 year old who was discovering how to build things on the web.

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Things I've eaten in Oaxaca in the last 48 hours 3

2023-07-27 by Pablo Morales

This post was written in en

Hello from rural Oaxaca! I've been eating so much food since I got here. There are so many foods I don't get to eat except when in Oaxaca. Food is a very important in my culture. Oaxacan food is probably the best cuisine out there! It is one of the most I might be a little biased, so don't judge me.

I'm definetly over indulging

Here are the things, I've eaten in the last 48 hours.

  • Tlayudas (Huge Tortillas)
  • Tortas
  • Ice Cream
    • Leche quemada (Burnt Milk/Cream)
  • Tasajo - A certain cut of meat
  • Tacos - Ingredients
    • Tlayudas
    • Tasajo
    • Quesillo (Our version of string cheese)
    • Salsa Verde
  • Paletas de ( Popsicle)
    • Limón (Lime)
    • Tuna (Prickly Pear)

If you want to know more about Oaxaca, please send me a webmention or email me at hello@lifeofpablo.com.

Enjoying a Simple LIfe and a wake up call about daily conveniences

2023-07-26 by Pablo Morales

This post was written in en

Back Story

Currently I'm in Mexico City for the night. I'm on my way to my final destination somewhere in Mexico. This is a place I've gone since I was a young kid. This place isn't the glitz and glamour people imagine when going on vacation. I'm going to a small town in rural Mexico. It's big enough to have a local mom and pop stores or business such as food establishments and weekly farmers markets.

There are things to note that give me a sense of why we are so lucky to have good (relatively) infrastructure in the United States such as good plumbing, and safe water to drink, I'm looking forward to going to this vacation to appreciate living a simple life.

I want to preface that these are not complaints but situations I will simply experience and have previously experienced. There's not point trying to be negative since I know what I am going to encounter. I've done this many times.

Things I will experience

Can't drink tap water:

  • I have to buy bottled water such as the five-gallon jugs and bottled water when I am out and about.
  • I can't use my non-disposable water bottle until I get back to the United States.
  • I have to be mindful of what I consume with water; solid or liquid.

Air Conditioning:

  • Don’t get me started. TLDR; non-existent

Electricity:

  • Currently there seems to be no electricity in the city. Apparently, lightning from storms and overloads took out a few transformers in the electrical grid.

Manually Starting Heating Water:

  • Since the gas line infrastructure is non existent where I'm staying, we have to rely on tanks of Liquid Propane (LP) which is limited by the amount of LP in the tank and manually sparking the water heater.

  • Using a portable water heater that you plug into the electricity.

  • Boil the water on the stove which also uses liquid propane.

Cell Phone Service/Internet Access:

  • This is the least of my worries. The tower tends to go out after a storm, when their are electrical blackouts or equipment failures . It's a 21st century nightmare but I can go without it.

Solutions to keep me up beat and safe

  • Read
  • Go enjoy the outdoors and take pictures on my camera.
  • Take advantage of being disconnected from the online world. I always forget to enjoy life as much as I should with a phone. I will simply have an expensive paper weight.
  • Learn to enjoy a cold shower
  • Learn to prepare ahead of time.
  • Learn to work with what I got!

Many people dread the idea to living like this for two weeks. People do this on the daily ! I know this will humble me and learn to appreciate the things I take for granted when I am back home. For now expect me to be disconnected most of the time and live in the moment.

I would love to talk more about my experience!

Off to catch a flight in the morning!

I'll post again during the next two weeks or after the two weeks!

A well deserve detachment of the US Food diet

2023-07-24 by Pablo Morales

This post was written in en

I've noticed that my diet hasn't been the best in the last few weeks. I've been eating out a bit more than I would like. I hate to say but I've been busy building new things on the web, work projects, and life overall. I'm taking a well deserved holiday soon to a place special to me in Mexico. I've been thinking how I need to cleanse and detach myself from the US food culture. I want to stay away as far from chemicals and additives. Don't get me wrong these are found in all countries, especially in processed foods.

I'm excited to get some homemade food in Mexico. I'm excited for fresh ingredients from the farms and gardens in the village I am staying in. I feel that it's hard to know where your food is coming from when in the United States.

The goal is not to eat at any US-based chain fast food places or hamburgers, pizza - you know the common fast food culprits? This should be relatively easy because those are far away from the village I am staying in. Fast food has infiltrated even the most remote places. I want to indulge in so many authentic foods I don't get the chance to eat except when I am in Mexico. This is a change to reconnect with my roots, reform past relationships and find parts of me that United States culture has suppressed. Food is a good way to reconnect with lost parts of me. I will attach to good things and detach from bad things. At least for a while.