note
letter to the editor, 1995
my things were here before
there were some projects described here before but some SaaS and IaaS providers remove “always free” tiers or decide not to continue supporting some “features”…
Types of Publishing
"Don't call it an artist's book, just call it a book." — Lawrence Wiener Self DIY DIO (ourselves) Indie Independent Alternative Underground Counter-cultural Zine Fanzine Small-scale Small Press Micro…
1 May 2026 - Updated with Media Log
Happy International Workers' Day! Go out and make your voices heard! Updated Media Log with media from March and April. In other news, there are only few weeks of schoolwork left. I wont make any…
Tenth Circuit Redeems Itself in ‘Tiger King’ Fair Use Case
A replacement opinion affirms Netflix’s fair use of a one-minute funeral clip—and gives documentary filmmakers the post-Warhol roadmap they’ve been waiting for. The post Tenth Circuit Redeems Itself…
capitalism is its own parody at this point
Two truths and a lie. Which of these ad reads are real and which is fake. ACME Day is almost here!!! ACME's big sale is almost here. From 4/25-4/27, you get a front row seat to the best deals at…
Today is a perfect day to begin blogging
Manton said : Haven’t started a blog yet? Today is a perfect day to begin. I did start a blog (this one, and several other ones more than a decade ago). However, it is true that today is a perfect…
Release | The Digital Transformation of Social Research: On the Emulation of Theory within Theory and the Emergence of Repository-Based Academic Writing
Abstract: The digital transformation of social research has significantly expanded the empirical and methodological capacities of the social sciences. Yet, social theory itself remains largely shaped…
Gedling Borough Council has released its Council Tax address list as open data
Post: 1 May 2026New blog post on my website:Gedling Borough has released its Council Tax address list as open data
2026 UCalgary Conference on Postsecondary Learning & Teaching
This was the 10th annual University of Calgary Conference on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching, and it had the highest attendance for an in-person offering of the conference. The theme this year…
Federation Has a European Legal Problem
What the Russmedia ruling means for ActivityPub and atproto.
questions kanban
not started doing What would an open standard for tutoring data look like What’s so high about tutoring anyway-Dosage Quality Impact Do cosine-similarity metrics correctly identify ...
Security envelope blue diamonds
T his envelope security pattern features diamonds on blue paper. Those are tilted squares The registration markers can be seen in the upper corners of the wings. <span styl
Thoughts on Leaving GitHub
I've read a few posts about people leaving GitHub recently, and following my short note to the Fediverse a number of people have piped up saying they're not fans of GitHub, either. From the reading…
Site Marathon: Our Kingdoms Eternal
I’m launching a new event: The Our Kingdoms Eternal Site Marathon will run from today until 4 October 2026! Sign-ups start today. Please help spread the word if you can! Song Cradle — Added Joker’s…
The Best Introduction Guide to SVG You Will Read
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is the image format for the web that isn’t raster (aka pixel-based) like JPEG and PNG. It’s vector-based as the name implies, meaning that the computer draws the image…
Writing Advice from the Unpublished, LOL
One of the best things about writing is that everyone has opinions. Including me. The second best thing is that no one is wrong. There are no rules. However. There are some fundamentals you need to…
And then you put the rag in the bottle like THIS.
The post And then you put the rag in the bottle like THIS. appeared first on Indexed.
Filled to the Brim With Excess Idolatry
Hey! Good news! Showed up in my email box yesterday morning. The above's the email in it's entirety, when I click the PRE-SAVE UPCOMING MUSIC NOW it links to spotify and youtube and other shitty…
Bye Spotify, hello MP3s
I was on and off on different streaming subscriptions like Spotify or Apple Music for a long while. I would eventually cancel my subscriptions for 2 main reasons, price and the algorithm. In Germany,…
North Tyneside Council has released its Council Tax address list as open data
Post: 1 May 2026New blog post on my website:North Tyneside Council has released its Council Tax address list as open data
let's steal ai's job
"Your AI slop bores me" – a website using the whimsical as a vehicle for protest.
Running Adobe’s 1991 PostScript Interpreter in the Browser
The HP C2089A “PostScript Cartridge Plus”, a 1991 add-on for the LaserJet II/III, adds PostScript Level 2 support through Adobe’s own reference interpreter (version 2010.118) on a 2…
11 SmallWeb Finds
If you’re not using Kagi SmallWeb, you’re missing the best of the internet. While two-thirds of posts are currently, “I accidentally wiped my Keychain, deleted my backups, and posted my ‘weird porn’…
Liens entre culture crypto et pensée magique new age / désirs post-capitalistes — Gala Hernández López (UnU 5/8)
Voilà la cinquième vidéo de la journée d'étude Unblocked & Unchained Symposium ! Gala Hernández López discute des liens entre culture crypto et pensée magique new age / désirs…
Swift Blog Carnival Roundup: Tiny Languages
The very first Swift Blog Carnival is a wrap. Six folks took the prompt of Tiny Languages and ran with it in directions I hadn’t anticipated – from task runners and result builders to symbolic math…
Follow-up on FOSSGIS
English version based on an automatic translation with deepl. Following the discussion about my post on FOSSGIS membership fees, it has become clear to me that my account – and especially the…
Blogs and Posts I enjoy lately
A list of blogs and articles I like revisiting every now and then.
Mastodon 2026
January 2026 Natasha :mastodon:🇪🇺 @Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt I finally managed it ... .img-1056052fca829c6d1a1eac5675db065d { aspect-ratio: 720 / 817; } 9:16 PM • January 3, 2026 (UTC) Adam…
neden bu blogda türkçe kullanmıyorum?
evet başlık şu anda türkçe kullandığımı düşündüğümde biraz ironik ama anlatmaya çalıştığım şeyin açık olduğunu düşünüyorum. türkçe benim ana dilim ama ben neden bu blogda hiç türkçe bir şeyler…
Giving My Blog a Voice
As a visually impaired person, I tend to listen to most of the content I find on the web, whether it’s blog posts or social media entries. As a rule of thumb, I rely on the built-in…
re: Who knows that you blog?
I have seen a blog post asking Who knows that you blog? making the rounds lately and for me the answer is pretty easy: probably everyone who knows me but not many people are even remotely interested.…
News for May 2026
Making a splash for Mermay! Our header features Sonia from Sombulus, Addie from Prophet of the Sun, Teraat from Kings of Sorts, Lucy from Adelaide and the Shooting Star, and Ice from Keyspace: A…
Mozilla’s happy valley conveyor belt
She co-founded Great Jones, a venture-backed property management startup where she raised $30M, reached $10M in ARR, and led a successful acquisition by Roofstock. — Welcoming Abigail Besdin,…
nixersnewsletter
nixersnewsletter — 2026-05-01
The legacy of spam
One of the things that I can observe nowadays as a 50 year old man is how spam has changed the world, but mostly the people. You see, when the Internet started it was just a random connection…
Bye bye, Google Maps
Bye bye, Google Maps... Deleted the Google Maps app from my iPhone
[Thoughts] May 1, 2026
There was something off with this year’s theme. Seriously… To the point where I don’t even want to post anything. I guess it’s the fact that I’ve become a person that…
I Read a Lot. I Remember Almost Nothing. So I Built This.
I Read a Lot. I Remember Almost Nothing. So I Built This. I finish a book. I feel good about it. Two weeks later, I can barely recall what it was about. That's the problem. And it's not a…
whoosh-duster
blog post: whoosh-duster go there
Launching a permanent archive for XOXO
We launched a permanent archive for all eight years of XOXO, along with some ridiculous merch, and we're really proud of it.
reading matters 2: keeping it in the Family
Our Kid with a Rabbit Holed about the wacky world of the Young Wikipedians who are frenziedly writing the second draft of music history. (The first draft being the journalism that…
Highlights from the May Post Archives on GeometryCode.com
Here’s the fifth installment of selected blog posts published in May in recent years on GeometryCode.com. Each entry below includes the post title, published month, and a sample image to entice…
My ideal blog
I wish more blogs were like the old school online journals. People just talking about their day. Not too much detail, not too confident in their opinions, not trying to prove any points, etc. This…
Microblogging is so much easier than macroblogging! Which is probably bad.
I've been a pretty active microblogger for a long time now. My husband and I didn't meet on Twitter but we did quite a lot of bonding over it in our early relationship, which was during the first…
A Recipe for Sustainable Data Products
By and large, digital systems consist of two different parts: data and information. This website, takuti.me, for example, is composed of a combination of numbers, text, images, and links. They exist…
Fediverse Meet-up at Hamvention 2026
Members of the Fediverse are invited to join fellow users at Hamvention 2026 . An informal meet-up will take place Saturday, May 16th at 11:00 AM. We'll meet in front of booth 1506 in Building 1 ,…
On Taste
I’ve been refining this blog’s design for two decades now. With each new version, I get a little better at knowing what I want. Turns out, my designs tend to get simpler with time. At this point,…
April 2026
As April turns to May, I’m sending my seventh clipping from the garden: a collection of what I’ve been writing and reading since December . And before that, if I could quickly break the fourth wall:…