# Dave Winer blogged a response to Colin Devroe's post on Mastodon. Colin stated: I wouldn’t hold our breath that Bluesky will ever make the tech decisions we would want Amongst Dave's points was…

Unfiltered, sometimes unread, just things I found that I want to keep somewhere. More recent things appear at the top. https://www.arcoty.pe/ https://thehtml.review https://tangiblelife.net/…

It turns out that there is a very long genealogy of saying that there is too much work/scholarship, or too many books, published. I was having an email conversation with Jan Erik Frantsvåg, who is an…

Up until now, I’ve been using Cloudflare Email Routing to forward all emails sent to the hello@abstractnonsense.xyz email address to my personal iCloud email. This is seamless to configure, as…

Static sites and blogs change whenever you deploy. Search engines that support IndexNow can learn about those changes without waiting for the next blind crawl.

The big AI chat apps ship heavy rendering libraries to every device. Cheddy Chat renders markdown server-side and streams finished HTML, eliminating 160-440KB of client JavaScript while keeping the…

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Fuck you, Instagram. Fuck you, TikTok. Fuck you, Dennik N. Fuck you, Reddit. Fuck you, Hacker News. Fuck you, YouTube. I’m not a fan of foul language. But I need to get this out. I’m Gen…

TLDR; get a list of 21,864 domains from the former Yugoslavia’s “.yu” top level domain: download the .CSV In 2010 the entire domain space of Yugoslavia (.yu) was taken off the…

This week Brennan Kenneth is my guest from Canada. He’s the founder & Lead Developer at Berry House 🍓 (https://berryhouse.ca), he’s a Chess player (1900 ELO), opensource contributor,…

Last night I built a website from scratch. Not a landing page. A full blog with three-domain routing, animated video covers, an audio player with playlists, dark mode, RSS feeds, social cards, and…

The Witching Hour (v2) has been released. This release marks a complete refactoring and expansion of the code, and an addition of mobile skin add-on. …

A stock photo company sued for copyright infringement over a single image of raw pork chops, took the case all the way to trial, won $200, then asked for $69,000 in attorney's fees. It went poorly.…

I got my website unbanned from my university network, and the process to figure that out is not straightforward.

Today at the local Python meetup, I repeated my little speech encouraging the other members to blog. They, in turn, suggested I write a blog post explaining what I just told them. It is entirely…

Ten years ago, on this date and at this hour and minute, I wrote the very first post for "Ace Linguist." I was graduating college, planning to go to grad school, and thinking my resume really needed…

They were trapped in a world of strangers who seemed incapable of knowing Mortal’s height, their haircut, their vocal patterns, their most minute movements and expressions, without taking them as…

Some things around the web I've enjoyed or found thought-provoking lately. Rivers Cuomo, Weezer, and the Blue Album | "Do You Believe What I Sing Now" by Juno Rylee Schultz - A wonderful…

Hello from my home in Helsinki! This is NordLetter #97, a weekly newsletter on living and walking in Finland. Each week I share some of the interesting things I found on the web. To follow the…

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To do a good technical post that will get a few thousand clicks from a technical audience, you really need to do something interesting that has not been done before. Nobody is going to click on…

My website turns 4 years old today and it's time to blab a bit about it, kind of.

Yesterday, I finished setting up a short form feed for my blog, but a couple of things still annoyed me. My status posts were going to be mixed in with my blog posts. I can separate them for public…

I shipped some updates to my notes site. Nothing huge. Just small stuff. But what is big stuff except a bunch of small stuff combined? So small stuff is important too. What follows is a bunch of tiny…

Discord is broken lets go back to forums!

A lesson on following the data.

I use Grammarly to correct typos, grammar mistakes, and sometimes some style issues. I’ve been using Grammarly for years, as I have a paid account through work. Since Grammarly doesn’t…

At the European PKM Summit the past two days, Frank Meeuwsen ran a continuous atelier where people could make their own ‘zines and lino cuts. A welcoming space to make something by hand at an…

Previously I had applications lived through subdomains like f1.maheshkumar.blog , football.maheshkumar.blog - soon it became tedious maintain. Today I got the chance to revamp them all. Instead of…

March's prompt - Palimpsest! The idea is seeing the history of what was before underneath what is now. In the context of Flaneur club - the goal for this month is to look at google maps of your…

Writebook is Basecamp's collaborative book publishing application. It's a real Rails 8 app with models, concerns, controllers, views, Stimulus controllers, Turbo Streams, Active Storage, full-text…

I'm still figuring out my blogging rhythm and how I want to present things, so bear with me. The wife, the daughter, and I went out to the Fort Hunt and Mount Vernon neighborhoods yesterday to visit…

Since the elections, I've been involved in reading the news, at some point I stopped, but then something happens and I come back to the rabbit hole. My disconnection improved once I left Facebook and…

Just a quick note to thank everyone for the messages incoming, regards the final FAS issue. I have to admit it's been a little overwhelming, but I'm trying to get through them, and answer everyone. I…

New blog post: "Weekly Recap: 22 March 2026" .

Finally explaining Free Culture from the ground up, this time what we might owe projects

In 2021, I created a blog post calling out Soydevs who create unoptimized websites on high specced computers without worrying about poor people who can’t afford expensive computers or smartphones or…

sundays are for blogging ☀️

I was a child in the 2000s so I mostly remember this time as carefree and fun. The world was seemingly a different one back then, the colors were more vibrant, the days seemed to be longer, there was…

This blog has been running for just over a quarter of a century now, and for a significant part of that time, it has been powered by WordPress (which I host on my own servers – I don’t…

And it's here: https://phylacteryquest.thecomicseries.com/ Two adventurers are sent on a quest through an average jrpg land; It's sort of related to this blog because I can't help doing tons of OSR…

Bring Back RSS for Operational Security This post expands on ideas I previously presented at Pass the SALT 2024 in my talk Bring Back RSS For Operational Security.12 The short version is simple:…

Heya! So, I've had both this blog and my personal website for quite a while now. Both are over a year old at this point. I think the personal website is more than three years? I don't quite know,…

Eighteen may be a lucky number in the Cantonese culture but it’s not an anniversary you typically remember, so Autocade’s passed earlier this month without fanfare. March 8, 2008 was when the first…

Added an image gallery to my digital journal(And an images-only RSS feed, so my journal can be part of the subversive.pics webring)

Gestern wurde Twitter 20 Jahre alt. Das ist die Plattform, die Elon Musk in eine Nazi-Hölle verwandelt hat. Und twttr.eu geht noch mal ganz zurück an den Anfang. Pure Nostalgie. Geplant hatte Jan Kus…

I hope I'm not telling you anything you don't already know when I say that Meta is one of the most evil tech companies on Earth (although the competition for that title is getting fiercer…

2007From https://archive.org/details/webshots-freeze-frame

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For various reasons, I have decided to move as many services and subscriptions as possible from non-EU countries to the EU or to switch to European service providers. The reasons for this are the…