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The Searchable Amin Hollon :Clew: :Polymaths:
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Website
https://benjaminhollon.com
Blogs
https://benjaminhollon.com/blogs/
Liberapay
https://liberapay.com/benjaminhollon/
Web Search Engine
https://clew.se
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https://polymaths.social
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Amin is short for Benjamin. I just launched an independent search engine into public beta: https://clew.se

Life is truly a journey. Mine began in Bakersfield, California, but three months later took me to northern Afghanistan 🇦🇫. I took the scenic route through India 🇮🇳 and Malaysia 🇲🇾, and am currently braving a four-year foray through higher education at Texas A&M University, studying Communication and Professional Writing. Along the way I've learned musicmaking, storytelling, the art of performance, and technological mastery.

Wanna see where my journey takes me next?

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Hey, you. Yeah, you right there.

You should be proud of yourself. If you're not, well at least I promise that I'm proud of you. You are awesome and I'm honored to know you. And if I don't know you yet, I look forward to our impending friendship; say hello!

Fighting words, I know. But I still believe it to be true.

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I'm proud to announce the launch of the public beta for Clew, my independent web search engine! 🎉🎉🎉

Try Clew: https://clew.se
Add to your browser: https://clew.se/add/

Clew maintains an independent index and is aiming to be a copyleft (APGLv3), self-hostable, privacy-respecting, customizable search engine which prioritizes independent creators/bloggers/writers and penalizes sites with ads and trackers.

Many features are yet to come. If you'd like to support Clew's development and server costs, you can donate to its Liberapay team: https://liberapay.com/Clew/

Boosts are very welcome, as is feedback of any kind!

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Recent posts

I've been loving Manu's People and Blogs series, but one thing that has caught my eye is how much some people are paying to run their blogs. Sometimes, it's much more than I can afford and, I suspect, more than many beginning bloggers are willing or able to shell out.

So, for you wonderful, creative beginning bloggers, I’ve done some research and put together this guide to blogging on a budget.

https://benjaminhollon.com/musings/blogging-on-a-budget/

If you have recommendations I'd love to add them to this post, just let me know.

#100DaysToOffload 20/100

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Okay, I've moved Polymaths Alpha to use local storage instead of object storage. Turns out it was only 3.5G, not 61G, after deleting the remote cache. :)

Recently-fetched images might not show up (like from the last ten minutes or so) but things should be stable going forward?

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Well I worked out a way to back up my photos from my phone directly to my computer. Of course, in the process I accidentally deleted all the photos on my phone with a ill-advised rm -r, but at least the ones deleted are backed up to my computer? 🫠

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Every block of text in any website or app should use the default system font. (Headings get an exception.)

Poll closed , 53 votes total
  • Option 1, Yes
    35.85% , 19 votes
  • Option 2, No
    39.62% , 21 votes
  • Option 3, Who cares? Not me.
    24.53% , 13 votes
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Testing whether federation is working again

Poll closed , 73 votes total
  • Option 1, I see this (from another server)
    80.82% , 59 votes
  • Option 2, I see this (I'm on Polymaths)
    9.59% , 7 votes
  • Option 3, I don't see this (I'm a liar)
    9.59% , 7 votes
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