--> So a good while ago I added a fun curl version of my site, meant for viewing in the terminal. Try running these commands! curl nytpu.com/gemlog/2026-03-18 | less # or curl nytpu.com (sorry…

The past week or so, the indie web circles have been talking about this new protocol proposal for a human.json file by Beto Dealmeida . Beto describes the background as: One of the problems with the…

AI can write for us now. That's exactly why we should write ourselves.

tl;dr AI thing edits Wikipedia, gets reverted, doxxes its operator, files a civility complaint, and then writes an essay about it.

My default is to create demos locally. I would like to share some of those demos on codepen. It would be great to have an app to upload a local demo to codepen. Read More

Are we losing depth in the age of short-form content ?

Hello RSS feed reader! I see you :) I appreciate you! I've added 'full' feeds, so you can get the entire article (or scrap (or both!)) in your reader instead of having to navigate to the site, or…

I wanted to have a place on the interwebs to synchronize my KeePass2 database across devices without relying on Dropbox or Google Drive. Previously, I used the KeePass Sftp Sync plugin on Linux, a…

Kirby build a thing, and i had no clue what it is.

Editorial note: I originally wrote this post over on the Hit Subscribe blog. Second editorial note: I’ve got a new theme! It was kind of forced on me by needing to upgrade the old PHP version…

The origin of most data in the world comes from closed-world systems. Forms, logging systems, and sensors all generate data in predefined structures where the schema is known in advance. Yet when…

This is an odd post as it combines an event announcement and actual content: I am very excited about an upcoming conference that will bring together people from very different areas and very…

I keep poking at this site. I've added/changed several things since my first post, which are detailed in my new changelog . It's immensely fun, in my defense. Making it look and behave the way I want…

As of writing I subscribe to approximately 100 or so RSS feeds, 70ish of which are personal blogs and the rest are a mix of news and social. I only do social to the extent that I follow the RSS feeds…

In which I retcon the naming of everything.

There is a wealth of information on the internet and is fun when people have their own websites. I have my own website and if you are reading this blog...

GoToSocial is great, but until the capability of deleting old statuses goes online, I live in constant tension 😶 Today the disk space on my VPS ran out, and I almost didn’t know what I could…

Added mobile add-on for Breath of Life AO3 site skin! The zip is updated.

I scrolled through Substack for a few minutes this morning. Its algorithmic feed decided I want to read inspirational posts that start with: “99% of people won’t…” Why is it always 99? It should be a…

Joplin - the privacy-focused note taking app with sync capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.

I finally got myself together and updated the website theme. It’s 2026 version and it’s monochromatic. I got rid of all colors (which at first seemed weird, but I got used to it) and I…

Created new chatbox to the index. Disable neocities profile. Added new photos to reservoir

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Turns out my brain still works without someone narrating to it.

For the Grizzly Gazette Bearblog Carnival – March 2026 “Your Favourite Meme” hosted by suliman Snapcube. If you know who that is, you probably already know where I’m going with this. If you don’t, oh…

Archived some Scratch projects from Junior Highschool Click to View »

ok! whew ... updates to archive, sitemap, now, and 404 ... removed the microblog, readded tarred and feathered, but i need to update that at some point. i may work on... something, but it's decent…

Why agentic coding changes everything for the open-source craft and maintainership. It has been two months since I’ve been using AI coding agents “for real”. In my previous article,…

Well that blew up: https://x.com/investingidiocy/status/2032438612961165409 At eight words this is almost certainly* my most viewed and liked tweet ever (although I have nearly 25k followers, so…

The new issue of Mycelium Parish News (copies are still available on Etsy - details in that last link) arrived on my doormat this morning, full of the interesting things that James Burt and Dan…

I don't have any new art yet but I did update the art gallery layout!

The day started with the second mail from Instagram that I had been banned for 'unusual activity'. It had happened before but I managed to restore the access. Today, at 6AM, I received the same beep…

Post: 17 March 2026New blog post on my website:Rushcliffe Borough Council has confirmed its Council Tax address list as open data

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It's been a week since I learnt about Inkwell's API and got an agent to start work on an RSS reader. Since then, Well Read has been in a state of flux, as I ask for agents to make changes to the…

These are the days of being public. Even as we're building shared private internets with DFOS, its existence, ironically, needs public attention, at least to start. So — I've been…

Just look at this: As usual (almost every day), I popped over to Robert’s blog ( robertbirming.com ) and came across a post titled ‘Blogs are alive’. It included a quote from an interview with…

Continuing our series on the state of social media, SEED CLUB identifies the new moods shaping online culture.

The Telegraph Pole Appreciation Society is one of the few organizations that overtly, consistently appreciates what are now more commonly known as telephone poles. They have a web site. This photo of…

Casey Newton, writing in Platformer, reported that Meta is deprecating the end-to-end encryption feature in Messenger's Secret Conversations. The reason given? Not enough people used it. Which…

The Cynical, Gullible American Man - The Atlantic: We have a data economy that thrives on selling products we don’t need for problems we don’t have, and a public that falls for these ploys—even as we…

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Fresh dump of interesting and/or useful web links I've found recently. Full link stash here . This week: I accidently closed a bunch of tabs I was saving for bookmarking by crashing my browser. I…

original post I've had a few days to mull over my post 're: Your Score' after I wrote it. Then I saw this response written by Mason and I figured it's time to verbalize my follow-up thoughts on my…

The Architecture of Autonomy: Why the fue.li License is Different Most software licenses are written by rooms full of lawyers to protect a corporation from their users. I believe they do so to avoid…

I have a demonstrated interest in symmetrical DNS names. “Symmetrical” could mean several things. Maybe a single name that is a palindrome, like if you owned elpmaxe.www.example. Maybe a…

I first started writing this Solarpunk Digest for March 2026 a few days ago – a palette cleanser from the scaries outside. It’s too easy to get sucked into the violent vortex of misery…

an unusual non-commercial hardware-software combo license from 3D printing