It’s time for something a little different. Or rather, time to do something I haven’t done in a long time. I’m going to just write off the cuff, straight into a CMS today. Into WordPress, in fact.

Discover FreshRSS, a self-hosted, open-source RSS reader that keeps your reading habits private, ad-free, and away from surveillance capitalism.

Are we happy being an ever-shrinking niche social network? No. I joined Mastodon in the same first wave that Matt Birchler describes, and I've enjoyed it every day since. At the same time, it's sad…

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-42. The importance of communities around software Tags: tech, foss, licensing, community, ethics, governance Good reminder that licensing is only…

Dear readers, I need your advice on web hosting. For 22 years (yikes) I’ve lived on DreamHost’s Shared Unlimited plan, for which I currently pay $15.99 per month. DreamHost no longer…

What a DMCA takedown notice is, what it needs to contain, and how small directories and hosts should handle one fairly.

I paid BetaList $39 to list my new side project. Within hours, five other launch directories had emailed me to ask for more money. By the next morning it was eight. Congratulations to me, I had been…

I first built ToolNames in 2009 to help people find a domain name. Lobby Domains revisits that idea with Chrome’s built-in AI and direct registry checks.

I built Unbeholden Check as a small weekend project. Type a domain and it lists the services the site rents from other companies, shows the evidence for each, and names open source software that…

Thursday, October 15, 2026 — WordPress maintainers have created a new plugin for adding @followspec.org, @aboutspec.org and @contactspec.org to any WordPress website. Check out…

Thursday, October 15, 2026 — Micro.blog today announced that it has rolled out built-in support for @followspec.org to all @micro.blog users. A new SocialSpec plugin by Micro.blog founder Manton…

Yes, a party about surfing the internet. I’m serious. I recently hosted an in-person 'Internet Search Party’ (and single release) here in Boston. The purpose and position of the party...

I migrated my blog engine to Hugo. It was running for few years with WordPress previously. It was fine most of the time, but it had a few quirks that I did not like. I was thinking to migrate it to…

TL;DR: Jump to the instructions. I don’t want to say that the AIPocalypse has ended the era of the open web, but…yeah. Actual live human visitors have dropped to near-zero and all my…

Leading with the books: why the blog is moving to Cortical Drift.

Hi folks, just checking in real quick while I continue my break from blogging to let you know that I've decided to let my custom domain expire soon. This blog may be accessed by visiting…

The blog has moved back to being self hosted and off BearBlog. Largely due to Bears insane policy of shadowbanning paying customers. This probably means nothing to anyone not me, so don’t worry…

It's been a great 14 years. Can we stay friends?

Automattic's registry company named .php as its second choice in ICANN's 2026 round. What the application says, why a file extension as a domain ending worries security people, and why 21 October…

I decided to host my newsletter archive myself on this website!

A blog is a timeline. The newest post sits on top, everything else slides down, and after a while the only way to find the post from last spring is to remember roughly when you read it. That works…

Markdown for writing. Swamp for rendering, publishing, and checking the result. Agents help with the words, not the bookkeeping.

Browsing the internet, I landed on the IndieWeb site and went exploring that philosophy. I wasn’t new to the concept, but up until then I hadn’t taken the time to dig deep and really…

Earlier today, I used my Rool Machine to post on my blog from its chat window. I have updated the workflow and this new test will also crosspost to Mastodon and Bluesky. So, if you are reading this…

To Walled Gardens It is hard to imagine now, given the walled gardens we spend so much of our time in, but way back at the beginning of the web, people really cared about open standards. You could…

Last month I did the IndieWeb Carnival and before I get to write the roundup post, I need to shortly write about this new phenomena. During the month I received about as many submissions from AI…

In which I explore why I ranked what I did for Interop 2027.

Thanks for coming to Philly HWC 13 y’all! And thanks as always to Iffy Books for hosting (who recently turned 5!!) Notes are archived at https://indieweb.org/events/2026-10-04-hwc-philly ==…

Before I roll out the latest updates to the Home Network Guy website, I thought it would be fun to see if anyone could find a mistake that has been hiding on one of my pages for years! I do my best…

I use Facebook like 32 million other Canadians out of the 34 million who are 15 or older. I don’t like the platform; it’s a cesspool. The feed is just slop to capture attention at any…

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Lately, I've started receiving a few emails from readers. It feels so nice to know I'm not just writing into the void (although I don't write for anyone specific in mind). I love connecting with…

I just connected my Rool Machine to Neocities, where my website is hosted. This post was written by me, but in the AI chat window. If everything goes according to plan, you are seeing it converted to…

Made my sitebox look nice. I'm working on a refresh of the whole site behind the scenes, it'll come out sometime.

CrUX adds experimental Core Web Vitals for SPA soft navigations, while Firefox and Safari improve cache evidence, image delivery, and rendering.

People keep asking for the skill that turns my reports into episodes on my own private podcast feed. Here it is, with what I learned about writing for the ear and picking a voice.

--> So a good while ago I added a fun curl version of my site, meant for viewing in the terminal. Try running these commands! curl nytpu.com/gemlog/2026-03-18 # or curl nytpu.com (sorry Windows…

Hello! I've been having a ton of fun vibing up self-contained HTML pages to explore random interests and I finally assembled a hosting setup. You can find them all at…

Thoughts on what date format entries in a blog should display.

I made more of my blog navigable as pure Markdown by adding .md to the end of most pages. Navigating via .md files still sucks for a human, but agents can use it to save tokens. When the semantic web…

I have been writing a special Tuesday newsletter for paid subscribers for five years now, which means there’s a bunch of really good stuff just kind of hiding in the archives over there. I’ve tagged…

Introducing @socialspec.org: APIs for social engagement on the World Wide Web (of websites). Built on open standards. 🌎

In my Initial Launch post, I said that this site launched sometime in 1995 and that I had no idea when. I still don’t know the day it went up, but I found my original home page in an old project…

My Reading page has been updated, and there isn't too much to say about it, but I'm happy with it. Previously, all three status categories were the same: finished, started, and want-to-read books…

I invite you to blog about your best Player Advice for the latest Blog Bandwagon.

Quick one today. A lovely reader sent me a bug report with this pic: They told me they saw this in NetNewsWire (NNW) so I dug into the issue queue and found this thread . I don’t remember how I came…

A blog post explaining how the social network W Social is publishing as a record on the open social web the full names, nationalities and approximate birthdays of their verified users - who may be…

A local static website lets me keep all my patterns in one place, so I'll never lose a pattern again.

RE: https://www.searchengine.show/vladimir-putins-forkiverse So I had seen the #forkiverse hashtag a while back and didn't really pay attention, then didn't notice it disappear. I had zero clue what…