What is up with calling the first app menu item "File" even though the items do nothing related to actual files? 💡tl;dr – Please consider opting for something better than…

I had an interesting chat to one of the crew, regarding Lucire’s low social media metrics. This has come up once before—that the enquirer couldn’t see that an operation that began on the web before…

The second brain hype train of people looking at fancy graphs in obsidian of the content their clanker wrote for them is top tier cringe. If you actually...

Blogs have been around for a very long time. Some people would say that is a good thing. Weblogs (‘Blogs’) Blogs are definitely a “90’s phenomenon”. But for some people,…

on the furry neighborhood Alyaza Birze (August 21, 2026) canonical link: "on the furry neighborhood" Only gay people who were able to access enough money to separate from their oppressive communities…

Is that you feel like “curating is mean, I want to include every interesting site I’ve ever seen!” And then you end up with a spreadsheet of over 700 links…. And every time you browse the internet,…

So recently there was the passing of arts + culture magazines The Face and 4Columns (both of which I had written for) And then came the announcement of the acquisition / gutting of a bunch of music…

For a long time I thought it’d be nice if there was a simple way for people to interact with my posts. When you write something it’s nice to know that someone took the time to read what you wrote and…

Old lady yells at people online and thinks her opinions matter more than anyone else's on the Internet.

Added a /friends page to my personal site after @nickgraynews.bsky.social reached out. Always find interesting people through these indie web projects. It's a cheat code.

Don’t worry. They will let you know. And won’t they just. In a 2,000-word blog post. On a website they coded themselves. With a disclaimer in the footer that no part of it was generated,…

One line of math, one curve: a LinkedIn cover from geometric Brownian motion, in the same palette as this blog. Why it's grey, where the text went, and the 3x-then-downscale fix for crisp HTML-to-PNG.

Added more members to the Brazilian WebRing, added a recommendation field to the guestbook and changed the music on the index page.

A sign in Oakland - I can't help but reading this as a brave protestor against the ongoing onslaught of neverending road work... So this week I read China Miéville’s The City & The City , which was…

They built a new tram in my town, and it is pretty fantastic. It has a modern look, runs smoothly, has little delay between two trams, inside heating, is spacious and well lit, is kept really clean…

When I'm traveling and I need to remote into personal or build machine I would have to do some wacky port-forwarding over SSH to expose a host port to my local port. With Tailscale this is much…

When I was a teenager one of my favorite series of books was Inside Macintosh. Sure I liked lots of fiction stuff as well, but in terms of technical books that really changed how I thought about…

🍻 Why I Built This

Sam posted this on his blog (RSS feed) in the context of “AI” code review comments, but is broadly applicable: I wish people would just go back to being themselves. By Ruben Schade in…

I don't think it's a coincidence that atproto is taking off at the same time AI is. Well, okay, it kind of is a coincidence. I don't think anybody planned these things to work out at the same time.…

Federico Viticci and John Voorhees have posted an explanation about returning to X: MacStories is precious to us. It’s not just how we earn a living; it’s one of a small number of independent…

A template engine sits between your source file and the page a reader copies from, and it can rewrite the snippet without telling you.

2026-08-22 Message of the Day It's The Dark-Theme Update! There is now a [toggle-theme] button you can press to toggle between light and dark themes. Setting is saved on your local storage and…

ImmiBridge pulled 51,000 photos and videos out of iCloud and into my self hosted Immich server over a single weekend. Here's how the setup and the sync actually went.

The internet has gone from annoying to unusable. It once could be insipid or dangerously temptacious—Now I can’t even bear to be on it. One would be justified in wondering why I…

In which Steven goes over how to setup a custom email address

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Ultimate Guide: How to Export Your Reddit Data to Markdown Using Python & PRAW API Are you tired of scattered Reddit posts and comments lost in the digital void? Do you want a comprehensive backup of…

Hi! I just did a layout update to my home page and about page :) I'll be putting more stuff on my site later this month or next month, I'm working on new stuff (like the media log in the nav bar 👀),…

Earlier this month my blog turned 11 years old and, truth be told, I never thought in August 2015 that I would still be at it in 2026 (though admittedly, for the past year my output has diminished…

stick around to the end for an imagined job posting from a world where tokens are a first class consideration

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Some years ago already I really got fed up with big tech, especially the big US companies. This was before the more recent (geo) political issues arose. The fact that we have become their products…

I Just Want to Search

nikitonsky: See a mute button? Would be a shame if you move your cursor to press it and something else appears in its place #Hover #Button #Coub

For dreamiecatcher: Dreamie (20 Aug 2026)

Every other web platform feature I've ever written about, I've been able to test in some easy way. Open DevTools, type the name of the thing, see if it's there. Device Bound Session…

SpotCheck A collection of free bookmarklets that test for common accessibility issues directly in the browser. Each one maps to its related WCAG 2.2 success criteria. [ 📌 stephanieleary ] Butter Box…

How the graph keeps going up anyway

After the announcement of toot.community's closure, I was wondering what to do with my posts' archive. After searching for a tool to convert the archive into an HTML file, I ended up building my own.

Tech stack behind my web content.

Google announced an interactive Preferred Sources button yesterday that publishers can embed on their websites. One click marks the site as a reader’s preferred source across Search, Discover,…

A simple idea deserves a simple post.

[Having shared a bed with a cicada in France, we're firmly back in Blighty...] Now we’re all awake and back in Bromyard. And by ‘all’ I mean me and an uninvited house-guest. I’m in post-France online…

Graffiti.org Gets Zola

Workaround for WhatsApp Open Graph image bug in Docusaurus Faster (powered by SWC).

So far this year the Board affirmed a whopping 96% of the Section 2(e)(1) mere descriptiveness refusals reviewed on appeal. Here are three recent appeals. How do you think they came out? [Answer in…

I recently became nostalgic for the podcasts of the past. I think this came about from my desire to relive the golden age of the Giant Bomb video game site. Although it may be fine now (I don't…