One of the reasons I'm trying to blog regularily is to find my way around words again. There's one big reason why: ✨️ precision ✨️ My brain is less-than-good at handling ambiguity. I tend to get…

Just yesterday I was looking at my wristwatch and appreciating the fact that it just sits there, telling me the time.

In 1999, David Bowie sat across from Jeremy Paxman on BBC Newsnight and told him the internet was going to change everything. Paxman pushed back — it was just a tool, he said. Bowie shook his head.…

A userChrome.css guide for ensuring that Firefox always copies a 'Clean Link' if available, while only showing the default 'Copy Link' button on right-click.

Adding a little “extra” to a blog often makes it feel more alive. For my search page, I decided to implement a typewriter effect that cycles through my post titles as placeholder text in…

Today marks the first time everything I host on the Internet has moved away from a dedicated Linux VPS. This blog had moved to Cloudflare Pages in 2022, and previously it had been hosted on a…

updated my homepage to have a link to the newest Laura Quest chapter

Why does everyone in Hawaiʻi speak Japanese? For the same reason everyone only ever talks about the latest AAA video games, which is to say: to experience reality, you need to leave your bubble and…

I’ve been doing a bunch of CSS tweaking recently, and keep being surprised by how nice modern CSS is to work with. As someone grey-haired enough to remember writing HTML without CSS, it’s amazing to…

my little ol' post got traction! i've been meaning to do a blurb about this. end of february, i logged on to see if i had a draft idea saved since i couldn't find it elsewhere. literally just…

hey, it’s been a while, hasn’t it? i’m not gonna do the whole self-deprecating song and dance worrying over “not posting enough”—i just didn’t feel up to making blog posts for a while. life happens,…

Guten Tag! Guten Tag! 👋 Have you heard of focusgroup ? Did you try aliases in Node.js imports already? Or do you know that CSS is available in JavaScript? Turn on the Web Weekly tune and find some…

It's been almost 2 months since I started this blog. Excitement, ideas on what this blog will be about, on what I'll write and of course how often. As it is, initially It went as I imagined. I've…

There is a sentence near the beginning of Arielle Roth’s remarks to the Media Institute’s Communications Forum luncheon, delivered in Washington on 25 February, that is worth sitting…

Finally emerging from my cave to post this month's What Else Is On! I've been a very busy little bee for the past few weeks in the job search mines, updating my portfolio, updating my resume, working…

Originally I was going to stay off the website for a bit. But… things have changed. I don’t really mind not seeing the effects my life journey might have on others. But boy do I squeal with joy when…

I love places that evoke magic sans effort. Places like Mt. Saint Michel and Konstanz. Fortresses on waters. Where nymphs who hand out swords as basis for rulership definitely dwell. My latest…

It's the first day of March December Adventure (really the second day, but I was busy yesterday), and my goal for this week is to learn more about how Jessica Tallon's Mandy prototype works so that…

Last week I had the pleasure of attending SCaLE 23x in Pasadena, California. I love SCaLE, it’s probably my favorite conference. It’s big, but it still feels so local, and I always walk…

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'What Else Is On?' is a collection of things from elsewhere on the web that I want to share. Finally emerging from my cave to post this month's What Else Is On! I've been a very busy little bee for…

Hallo allemaal, Vorige maand mailde ik over wat verbeteringen, waaronder dat als kamerstukken verwijzen naar andere kamerstukken, OpenTK daar nu klikbare links van maakt. Hier is een boel fanmail…

If you look at tech broadly as it stands today and you listen to a "loud majority" of voices coming from X, reddit, and other media, you'd get the impression that there are some ground truths that if…

There’s a new cancer on the web. It’s been around for at least 20 years, but recently it’s gotten to unprecedented ubiquity. I’m talking about the spinner.

<p>It seems like fate that <a href="https://jamesg.blog/">James</a> chose <a href="https://jamesg.blog/2026/03/01/indieweb-carnival-museum-memories">Museum…

Radicle is an open source, peer-to-peer code forge built on Git.

Goose: I gotta make a quick getaway! I'll use the vents! playing together: Goose: This is aurora! Snap: gravely baby roar I suddenly realize: au-roar-a: we are delighted

This is supposed to be my fifth blog post. The truth is, every time I sit down to write, I find no words despite the swirl of them endlessly in my brain. Sometimes, they combine to form mixtures of…

The small web is growing, and getting more active. Good news.

I built a Chrome extension to make NYC apartment hunting on StreetEasy less painful by showing move-in dates, hiding noise, and adding notes/tags/ratings.

I've done a lot of postings about bookstores on this blog, including a few I've never visited since they are no longer around. Many of the earlier ones are listed in this post from April 2022. In…

A couple of days ago I found out about human.json - a protocol for people to claim the human authorship of their site and to vouch for others. Post by @EvanHahn@bigshoulders.city View on Mastodon So…

So You don't like these brown on the website, right? Or want to use a dark mode skin? Then why not use our fresh color theme changer?! Login, and You can set your very own colors within our…

An article making the case that the Fediverse is a fantastic communication platform for public institutions - because of its openness, transparency and reach.

Your programming books deserve better than monospace blobs. Merrilin renders code beautifully in EPUBs and PDFs now.

I have been carried away posting on my secondary blog, to the point of neglecting my main blog, which is the reason I was blogging in the first place. For that, I owe anyone that has been waiting for…

Importance : 7 | # | pg , enshittification Paul Graham : Branding isn't merely orthogonal to good design, but opposed to it. Branding by definition has to be distinctive. But good design, like math…

14 links to get you ahead in community

My experience with Queering the Map, and how it made me confront queer grief, lost time, family pressure, and missed chances.

I had a fantastic time. In Many ways. Here are my photos of Web Day Out 2026 in Brighton. (#WebDayOut) Reply via Email

I’ve got a new page on my site! Just for fun! Hats !

This blog has been a part of my life for over fifteen years ago. When I first started, I was inspired by Patrick McKenzie’s article Don’t End The Week With Nothing. This post left a memorable…

New Blog Post. I kind of want to take a bit of a break from social media.

How To Stream Global Television With VLC Media Player A quick how to article to supplement my previous post How To Remove Ads From Youtube on All Devices. When I offer free media alternatives,…

A month has passed yet again and I have continued to track my favorite blog posts from across the RPG blogosphere this month. There's a lot of great writing to read, think about, and use in your…

Leica Double-Gauss Lens Design The news about Cloudflare’s new pay-per-crawl API caught my attention for a few reasons. Read on for why, a bit about what the results look like, and what I learned…

JSON imports finally work natively. Learn how import ... with { type: 'json' } changes runtime behavior, caching, and makes bundlers optional.