Ok, that was a fun 4-ish month hiatus. Let me give you the TL;DR.This blog (currently, not for much longer) uses Ghost as a platform. Ghost recommends frequent updates, because, well, nodejs and…

As part of the Bear Blog Carnival this month, Juni asks "how do you stay connected while practicing digital minimalism, and how did you make the switch?" Good question. What if I'm still working on…

if my email address is worth that much to you, I am actually paying you with my data. thanks, no thanks :)

Speaking of remastering (and diacritics ), I grabbed my older Medium deep dive called The curious case of the disappearing Polish S , and put it on the new site. It looks so much better than on…

The snake eating its own tail.

If you had asked me five years ago, I would have never guessed that these ugly rusty boxes would prove such fruitful blog material.  But here I am again, after diving in to these news racks…

I’ve written about Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 many times over the years on this blog, and the arc those posts trace is worth pausing on before turning to where the…

Paul's Redacted Brands shows just how well following FIFA's World Cup branding rules have gone. Temporarily renamed stadiums, disguised brand logos, and taped-over product labels all triggered the…

somehow i've been able to remove enough friction to increase my writing output to a relatively satisfying degree. i blogged ~daily and reached 100 blog posts, and have over 40,000 tweets, and wrote…

Finally bothered to update this ancient article. Almost every forum has been rechecked, and section rewritten

Just a regular dude posting his thoughts.

The last few posts have been pretty dire, so hoping to inject a bit of fun back in here. In my search for weird , I was thinking back to EMA ’s (who ironically has written the saddest song in the…

Roshan: Wikipen [[File:{{#setmainimage:Example clickbait adverts.jpg}}|thumb|Fairly anti-memetic]] [[wikipedia:There Is No Antimemetics Division]] is a famous (in the subculture) book by…

I’ve been using Miniflux⁠ as my RSS reader for quite some time. It’s a simple and fast open-source feed reader convenient for self-hosting with a focus on keyboard-driven navigation. Few days ago new…

My personal website that includes just about whatever I do as a student and a creator. Website https://elswhere.neocities.org/ RSS Feed https://elswhere.neocities.org/home/feed.xml Social Media…

<p>After my <a href="/2026/06/23/making-blog-posts-harvestable-by-zotero-and-preserving-case-in-citation-fields/">previous post about Zotero ingest</a>, I wondered what…

You might have been reading… Human scientist with AI support. (P/C Generated by Gemini Nanobanana with a long prompt.) …about all of the new tools people are building for online research purposes.…

this is a follow-up to my previous blog post "we don't need facebook" (which got a lot of attention - thanks, bellas!) because i feel i have more to say on this matter. in hindsight, when i was a kid…

(Note: This is a special edition of The Torment Nexus, dedicated to my friend Om Malik, who passed away due to congestive heart failure at the age of 59. I wrote this on my blog, but I thought some…

Andrew Nesbitt is a software engineer and package-management blogger who also writes excellent satire in the form of standardized industry documents, such as change logs and incident reports. I have…

I love dark themes. All the software I use, is in dark mode, I have an extension that adds dark mode to every website I vist. Which is why, the first thing I did when setting up this blog was to…

For those new to CabbieBlog or readers who are slightly forgetful, on Saturdays I’m republishing posts, many going back over a decade. Some will still be very relevant while others have become…

But then real-world examples of annoyance pile up around you and nobody talks about it, so you finally just have to say it in a post and bring receipts. You feel like someone gone mad: “Is anyone…

One thing that often gets missed in debates around the internet, particularly now that governments are locking everything away behind an age-verification wall is how our relationship to the internet…

Fresh dump of interesting and/or useful web links I've found recently. Full link stash here . This week: That's right, I changed the name of this dumping of links. "Link stash" lost its appeal.…

This July there are seven dozen calls for submissions. All of these are paying markets, and none charge submission fees. As always, every genre, style, and form is wanted, from short stories to…

Akismet, which I’ve used since 2010, spat the dummy in the last 24 hours and the WordPress sites that used my API key were bombarded with spam. Akismet has enshittified, leaving only a very narrow…

Screenshot of the default view of a new website on Neocities Note that it helps a newbie visualize a website as a set of files. Note that it includes a link to download the entire site. This came up…

GitLab emailed me about a failed Let’s Encrypt renewal. Had to press the Retry button to encourage GitLab’s LE stack to do its thing. This has happened a couple times but not a big deal.…

No phone number. No username. No directory. Just a secure connection between two people.

@simonmaechling wrote:

Now It's Apps' Turn to Get Cheap Once the foundational tools are good enough, technique and training outperform hardware. — Seth Godin, "You don't need a better camera" Seth…

Joining part of the indieweb that feels like the best part of the old internet.

A Time of Monsters by Jonathan Rosen Walter Russell Mead identified a version of this phenomenon in his book The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People, where…

Huzzah once more to you, my friends! I treat this place like my diary which arguably is pretty bad as there is now written proof of my thoughts out in the wild, but honestly? I don't really mind.…

John Gruber wrote about Om Malik , who recently passed away after battling heart issues. Om is one of those people who has always been well known but in the periphery to me. I've seen many dozen…

Blogging and journalling are very different for me. When I blog, I have this idea that I need to have a message to deliver. But when I journal, I can let my mind be in its abstract form. It's partly…

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Eggnob's been progressing pretty slowly over the last few weeks; between trips away and the scorching heat I've been too tired to do much level design, but I have sorted out all gameflow / UI stuff…

In addition to getting the coveted Warp Door feature for my first Plano project, I recently contributed to Manifesto Jam 2026 ! You can read my NO MORE CRAFT manifesto here . I was glad cecile…

New blog post about learning to believe myself. You can read the full text by clicking here.

Tal y como ya comenté a principios de junio, blogblog.es es un directorio de blogs en español impulsado por matizeta. Entre sus características, desde hace unos días, tiene un webring: un anillo de…

I make a lot of webpages. I also use Lockdown Mode on iOS and MacOS for a bit of extra security. Sometimes I realize that I forgot to test on Safari and it looks like crap, or I test and don’t…

★★★★: Another excellent fantasy mystery full of political intrigue and layers of deception. Had me guessing at every step. There's a lot to keep track of, but it builds its case well. The…

a week of awesome events in NYC and beyond!

Building a personal data profiler locally, a system that collects parts of my digital footprint and helps me make sense of them.

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