{"id":26590,"date":"2023-03-02T16:37:54","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T00:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=26590"},"modified":"2023-03-02T16:37:54","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T00:37:54","slug":"still-doing-this-for-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/03\/02\/still-doing-this-for-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Still Doing This For Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1264,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.theverge.com\\\/2023\\\/2\\\/28\\\/23618804\\\/google-facebook-login-ads-web-design-hell&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/2\/28\/23618804\/google-facebook-login-ads-web-design-hell\">I don\u2019t want to log in to your website<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  I was on the internet in the 1990s, and I remember when people just made stuff for fun \u2014 as a gift to other people. It seems like there\u2019s less and less of that spirit remaining, and it\u2019s why the internet sucks now. It\u2019s why I have to append \u201creddit\u201d to my Google searches to avoid getting SEO glurge \u2014 the for-profit stuff drowns out everything else. It\u2019s why people are using DALL-E for newsletter header images to make sure their newsletter gets a bigger card in a social media feed \u2014 because it doesn\u2019t matter what the image looks like as long as it exists. It\u2019s why people intentionally put errors in their TikToks to juice engagement \u2014 because all the people commenting to tell you you\u2019re wrong boost you in the algorithm. This is the bad place!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In a lot of ways, I miss the &#8216;net of the &#8217;90s. But I&#8217;m still here, doing my part, without any annoying login popups. I may not post as much as I once did, and the majority of it may be my short little book reviews, but at least I&#8217;m still going, and working on posting more regularly again. I figure I&#8217;ll keep doing this as long as I can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;I was on the internet in the 1990s, and I remember when people just made stuff for fun&#8230;&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-26590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}