Apple Podcasts is introducing HLS video support, forcing creators to choose between traditional audio-first feeds and the new video-driven standard.

nostr is a great tool for helping people get over their social media addiction... by making them never want to post again other social media networks are user-hostile in service of generating…

It’s been an eon since I’ve had anything meaningful to talk about in the world of Open Source, so maybe it’s time to post about some nonsense I’ve been working on! I have a…

I think it's Stephen King, in "On Writing", that talks about the need to have an audience in mind when writing. He calls his Constant Reader, and when he writes, that is who he's writing to. He…

We built WP Packages, an independent Composer repository for WordPress plugins and themes with 17x faster dependency resolution than WPackagist.

The ordinals BIP pull request was closed on March 4th, 2026 after being open for over three years. I tried to respond to all topical comments and criticisms, which was made slightly challenging by…

Earlier this year, I decided to force myself to read more. Not a New Year’s resolution, because those never last. The reason is that growing up as a child and young teenager, reading often felt like…

I haven't made anything with AT Proto. Okay, technically, I did made the Bluesky ThinkUp Tribute , which syncs with your Bluesky account and sends a nightly email about who changed their bio or…

I present a system for communicating how AI is used in articles

Getting started with responsive design really comes down to two things: where to put the navigation, and how to arrange content. As screens get larger, each of these has a well-established set of…

Trends can swell interest in particular top-level domains,.ai is the latest on the back of the AI boom. What is the impact of domain naming trends?

There are good reasons why you might want to be able to run asciidocr on your phone. Or rather: there are good reasons why I want to be able to run asciidocr on my phone. Specifically, I want to keep…

I'm bored and can't think of what to say, so here's Ava's Bear Blog Question Challenge ! I've always want to jump on that bandwagon because it seems fun. Why did you make the blog in the first place…

Today we face our own giant. Your brain is under attack by a trillion dollar adversary intent on destroying it. Algorithms built by the richest companies on earth, designed to do one thing: keep you…

I love contributing to open-source projects. There is this insanely good feeling that I get when my changes get merged into the main branch. Dopamine goes through the roof when I see the number of…

Russian bibliographer Semyon Vengerov (1855-1920) spent his life accumulating two million filing cards, but he died before he finished the dictionaries and bibliographies he set out to create. His…

I’ve just found out that Michael has died... I didn’t know him personally, but I know he was a blogger. I’d only recently started reading his blog. I saw a post on Mastodon that was published today…

I was trying to learn more about TTS processes and available solution on the internet and as usual I did my regular Google search for the research. As always this was suffocating to see that most…

No, that isn't a euphemism for gambling on a fart. At least not in this context.

Just a quick note that I have now updated https://scalie.computer to a newer linkhut version. Now users can see the original linker in the link info (click the amount of saves button). Seems theres…

Remembering Joe Halpern (\(\mathbb{M}\)) focuses on Joe’s pivotal role in founding and guiding the CS section of the arXiv.

Long ago, while hiking far from the big cities, we passed through a small village. Something happened that caught me completely off guard. People we had never met before invited us into their home to…

I have lost all interest in blogging. Both to read and to write. This space does not interest me. Or the form that attracted me a lot no longer does. I do not know the reason for this sudden loss of…

What is an ebook? An ebook is a digital file which contains the same contents as the equivalent physical book. The key difference is that rather than being printed on paper, the data is digital. This…

Apertium is a free software alternative available online in a web browser. Interestingly, contrary to most translators, it doesn’t use a machine learning (deep learning) model, but a rule-based…

Engage with the Web from plain text files

I have an odd situationship when it comes to audiobooks. I used to swear by them. I still enjoyed actually reading the words, but when I worked out in the public, I would almost always have an…

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It's been five months since I last updated it, so here's some updates on what I've been doing recently.

A treatise on the Do's and Don't's of posting on Discord, and also an FAQ.

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My backlog is close to clear. An Oral History of UNIX. (via) How old are README files? Probably the 1970s, possibly earlier. Found in a thread that ends with this. The scariest bootloader code. (via)…

(Alright, we are in buisness! -mint)(I don't think we're going to get paid a lot for this... -slick)(Love of the game, baby! Also I'm sure the other shop guys will be grateful... -mint)

My internship is ending soon, so I'll be completely back into looking for work mode. I do hope things work out though. Things are looking very uncertain post-graduation that I'm not going directly…

48% of docs traffic is now AI agents. When they hit a 404, they don't see your cute illustration— they hallucinate.

The Idea Behind PSFutureMail Have you ever wondered what your past self would say to you today?

For as long as I have been in this industry, the WebPKI compliance conversation has run on impressions. People with long memories and regular conference attendance have built up a picture of which…

If you’ve been paying attention … you’ve noticed I’ve been mysteriously quiet for a bit. This wasn’t accidental. Not at all.

When size matters I have marked my recent visit to Manchester with a series of posts on three of the city’s small architectural gems – a cinema, a chop house and a library – structures that many…

I often think that I cursed myself picking the domain name multitasked.net for my home on the internet. I picked that because I’d just had twin daughters at that point, but since then,…

Imagine turning on a computer. There is no operating system, no desktop, no apps. The machine holds just enough code to make a single HTTPS call. It reaches out to a remote LLM, describes its…