never-obsolete:Real.comApril 2001

I toyed around with using Language Embeddings as a way to categorize my RSS Feeds interesting HN comment around low-cost home usage of LLMS/embeddings: "I toyed around with using Language Embeddings…

Removing some YouTube channels and other things from my sight.

It's possible, even in surprisingly ancient times, to have hugely sprawling cities -- but they're not quite the same type of sprawl we see today. The reason is simple: how are you going to get…

Added some more useful links, including some revolving around Linux.

yodaprod:Ebay (2005)

Matt Mullenweg recently gave a small group of trusted contributors the authority to overhaul the site without approval....

So Long and Thanks, Crayfish

nixersnewsletter — 2026-05-08

Reading Time: 44 minutes   Well, even in its partially incomplete form that’s a, er, miserable-looking set of electoral results, isn’t it? Good to see, based on the extent to which the Reform…

and they're better than ever

An article dispelling myths about W Social, the new European platform that aims to rival X: it is a fork of Bluesky that shares many similarities with Eurosky and requires government ID to sign up.

This recording features weekend shows on Cork pirate Radio City in summer 1981. Up first is John Ashford (RIP) with the final part of his Saturday Nightbeat show. He is followed by Jamie Roberts, who…

Over the last twenty years I’ve posted numerous images on the internet. Mostly here on FITK, but many were on various forums and even some in Wikipedia. In the early days of the internet  people…

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Finally: successfully leverage all the chatbot friends, and an entire year's worth of tinkering experience to get MEH commenting up and running on my site. Leave me a note!

Corporate social media is having a devastating effect on queer peoples' lives

Juha-Matti Santala is hosting this month’s IndieWeb carnival, and the theme is “A love letter”. Thanks, Juhis, for hosting! As a small intro, this is a love letter to sixteen-year old me, with…

Sad news: Robert Reich's site has become paywalled. As a result, access to an article there requires running nonfree JavaScript code (https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html) and requires…

US citizens: call on Congress to refuse to fund Trump’s executive order that could label millions of Americans as domestic terrorists, or in any fashion block it. See the instructions for how to sign…

Today I opened my university's Canvas and attempted to take a quiz. The quiz did not load. Instead, I saw a ransom note from the hackers who have been attacking Canvas. Frustrated, I watched the due…

This page is auto-generated from Github Actions workflow that runs every day at night and fetches the 5 latest articles from each of my favorite blogs.

finally reworked my links page and added a whole art resources section with my csp favs, also updated 2026's gallery and added a new comic section (mature)

After attending recent conferences and learning that I can swap out buckets of JavaScript for the HTML native popover property, I've been using it liberally throughout my own projects. For little pop…

Nick sent me a great post from one of the engineers at Goodenough, the fine folks behind Jelly, on the topic of self-updating screenshots. It is near and dear to my heart: their approach, which uses…

Can someone explain TikTok algo-crafting to me? Seriously, I think it might just be an insanely massive cope for screen addiction, but at the same time it's such an easy way to stay Tapped In—so I…

Inspired by The Online Webring , I made an Indieweb webring button that has mapped clickable regions for previous , next and webring links. < area shape =" <span style="color: #B8BB

How my blog is setup (•̀ᴗ•́)و

Paying homage to a tradition, this time, with a more radical change.

These are the most recent articles from the blogs/sites I follow. Updated daily. 2026-05-07 llm-gemini 0.31 simonwillison.net Big Words simonwillison.net Behind the Scenes Hardening Firefox with…

LinkedIn 2002, 1.1 billion users in 2026. The reach algorithm penalises external links (~18.8 per cent reduction in van der Blom 2026, n = 1.3M), penalises thematic breadth via a topic fingerprint,…

What the rise of agents means for software UIs

AVIF, JXL, or WebP?

No-Vary-Search lets HTTP caches ignore irrelevant query parameters such as UTM tags, while still keeping meaningful ones like product variants in the cache key.

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Funny. I think this a lot - but never quite put my finger on it. 🔗 Geography is four-dimensional But that place is long gone. It’s not like that anymore. 💬 Derek Sivers When it gets down to it I…

Nobody really talks about radio anymore. And by "nobody", I mean people my age. Speaking of people my age, I've been noticing this uptick in content about curation. Its the mechanic behind online…

T he lettuce outlasted Liz Truss. And the T-shirt has outlasted the Standards Authority at which it poked the finger. In a move that sees this blog praise this Government twice in one week -- an…

I was clicking around in App Store Connect as I wait for Inkwell to be approved. The long list of submissions and rejections is unusual for me, so thought I&rsquo;d capture the table here as a blog…

What is a Static Website? # A static website is like a digital brochure that remains unchanged unless manually updated. Every page of a static website is a fixed HTML file, meaning the content is…

Static sites are a great part of the small web. They are easy to configure, deploy, and maintain. You can use a static site generator or write the HTML yourself. Static Site Generators # To help some…

Via Flowing Data , The Public Domain Review on “The Polish System,” a grid system for visualizing a century’s worth of history : The Polish System — which almost anticipates Piet Mondrian’s abstract…

A couple of years ago, I wrote some code to display my archive of images from ffffound, an image bookmarking site, with the ability to filter by date and generated tags. That&rsquo;s not the only…

Such a gorgeous evening in the south of the UK today. Wish I was out with the camera You're getting this because you follow my global (everything) feed — if you'd like to filter what comes through,…

In a previous post, I mentioned that my first AI project was to develop an application to create a archive of US newspapers based on RSS feeds. I initially used Claude Code to review a list of US…