Getting into my inbox should be a privilege. Strangers should ask first, every sender should get one line, and everything I keep should be labelled for me.

While I was pretty happy with my previous site design, I couldn’t help but wonder if it could be even better. I’d cobbled together elements from my old design with a new WordPress…

Marisabel is hosting this month’s IndieWeb Carnival, and the theme is Pages.1 I thought I’d add my version to this appealing topic. The first thing I realized while thinking about pages…

Yesterday marked the sixteenth anniversary of this blog. It has been a great year, with more readers, more subscribers, and the placement of posts on LinkedIn for the first time, so that readers have…

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Cloudflare Monetization Gateway lets sites charge AI agents per request via the x402 protocol and HTTP 402. I explain how it works and who it really suits.

Why your confidence in accessibility could be a sign of how little you know

Why I left Notion, Obsidian and Hashnode for tools I built with AI, what I still depend on, and what it costs.

so i wanted to clarify by choosing not to bury the lede in this post that i don't intentionally title things based on a topic i only mention in the last paragraph of a post. i normally come up with…

Howdy, link fans! I wanted to get this one out a little earlier than the end of the month because this issue marks ONE FULL YEAR since I started whatelseison.net , and therefore one full year of…

There is a particular kind of optimism that comes with downloading something from the internet. You find an image you like, stumble across a video that catches your attention, or discover a…

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Description In a capitalist world on the brink of climate collapse, the fragility of the infrastructure we rely on becomes more and more apparent, at different levels. In particular, the digital…

The Neo-Luddite Weekly, issue one. October 18, 2026. (Name is subject to change.)

[!QUOTE] "Fast, technical videos" Scripts for my talks on the YouTube channel. up to the 43rd are in https://github.com/0atman/noboilerplate , then I switched to publishing them here on this site…

A history of how I have evaded my own privacy on the internet, and maybe some of my sense of self as well.

My Blog as a Library IVI am redoing it again lol#blog #redesign #pixels #websiteThank you for following my feed! ♥ Leave a reply here.

I added a countdown timer to my sidebar to the right. It will count down the days until this site will close for good. However, I will keep you posted about things that are happening until that…

Until now, your account on the forum has been separate from your main account. They're now the same.

I improved the RSS feed to include full blog content and added an Atom feed

With apologies to Dijkstra, this is about a smaller kind of harm than unstructured control flow, and a more common one: the noreply@ address or emails that direct responses to an “unmanaged” mailbox.

Two unofficial bids for .ether and plans for Ethereum, Tether and Solana.

A few years ago I was stricken with a desire to move away from any and all Google services, after it became clear to me that the company had no interest in doing anything other than collecting and…

On Tuesday, Caleb Hailey announced SocialSpec around the premise that the future of social media is websites. This maps out a consistent way to expose key social data (about, contact, following) from…

The 2027 Web platform Interop proposals window recently closed, and the Firefox team has launched a website to allow us to rank the proposals , and influence what should make it into Interop 2027. I…

We haven’t previously focused on traditional search for the Outer Web; there are a few good options out there and wanted to focus on /connect functionality as well as exploration. But with…

lab web experiments. details table a b c blah blah 1 2 three blah blah 1 2 three 4 5 6 seven blah blah 1 2 5 6 seven details tabs "hi" "bye" "hi" "hi!" "hi" "what's up?" details lazy embed click to…

A year and half of blogging, in numbers

Inspired by Gemtext, I use only one link per line.

I wasn’t going to blog about the Return To X fad. At least it’s voluntary, unlike the Return To Office fad. What finally inspired me was a blog post by Matt Birchler, Why does this chart just go…

Hi, I added a little density heatmap thingy on my Notes index to visually display how frequently (or infrequently, as it were) I publish here. Heatmap for /notes (ignore inconsistent width, done is…

I recently came across Brennan's post noticing that Claude Code has been showing up in the commit history of a bunch of my IndieWeb projects lately. That's true! I was wondering when someone would…

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Using the WebSub protocol to notify interested parties that there's new content on my blog

<p>I’ve had a bit of free time lately which I’ve dedicated to a long-overdue rewrite of my website! Most things should look pretty much the same as they did before. The most notable user-facing…

Parting away with the former design language in favor of a new one

Did some minor cleanup and added some new art to the gallery. Sadly miicharacters.com is no more, so I had to take the site off my ‘useful websites‘ list. I also found out another site's owner is a…

Sites that do exactly one thing are fast, memorable, and oddly delightful. Here is why they keep winning bookmarks.

There are countless tutorials on how to install an Envato theme. Upload the zip, activate it, install the required plugins, import the demo and you are done. An afternoon of work, if all goes well.…

Share your Mastodon posts to other social networks

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skryblans (the site) is still here. Scribblans (the author – me!) is also still here. Putting the two things together might lead you to the reasonable conclusion that there could have been some newer…

Behind the scenes of Penguin's SXSW-winning digital storytelling experiment, and why so much of the early web has vanished.

It’s true, my parenting podcast was featured on the homepage of Apple’s iTunes… 20 years ago. iTunes was where most people discovered podcasts back then; even Yahoo! had its own podcast directory,…

I’ve been invited to quxnet.net, a private network that looks and works like the forums and message boards of the early web. Its sysop on the about page: “The old internet was for farmers. The new…