It being too hot to do anything outside, I got back into the swing of bringing old blog posts in here, from February 2005. One in particular seems worth bringing to life. Take back the net is about a crazed scheme to game search engines by encouraging bloggers¹ to add the words Online Poker to their blogroll but -- and here's the crazy part -- to link to the Wikipedia entry for Online Poker.² Back then, Ozh wrote:

This sounds crazy, I know, but after three days of testing myself round and round in circles, I am beginning to think that there is some fundamental way in which the Grav webmention plugin behaves very differently in a local MAMP development environment versus the live, production environment.

I need to go back to first principles, I think. If only I could work out what those are.

Over at his personal blog, Jason has this to say:

What could possibly make 10C better than WordPress with a myriad of plugins? Despite what people might want from the 10C platform, it is a silo. Even in v5, which involves a globally distributed system of servers operated by anybody who might wan...

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