[2026-05-08 Fri] : Transcript, yay! I chatted with Shae Erisson about Emacs, keyboards, Org Mode, and life. View it via the Internet Archive , watch/comment on YouTube , read the transcript online ,…

a couple of hours ago i hit #1 trending on the bearblog discovery page for my post, the freedom of writing anonymously . i hope you understand that this is my equivalent of winning an oscar, and here…

Updated coords page majorly.

7OOP3D Live! 20 Year Mixterversary 20 Years. Countless Remixes. We’re celebrating 7OOP3D’s two-decade legacy on ccMixter with a remix party centered around their upcoming EP, Broken Rites . <br…

So, I was talking to my wife about trying to blog again, and her assessment was pretty blunt: “Blogging is dead.” I can’t say I disagree. Even at the outset of the reboot, I wondered whether the…

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Plus! Table Stakes; Agent-Based Modeling; Coordination Problems; Insiders; Compute

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After many years of running a few Wordpress sites, last year around September I moved the last of them over to static content serving. It&rsquo;s been over 6 months, and today as I was checking…

A bit late, but finally here are the few submissions we got for April&rsquo;s Vim Carnival about notes, and PKM. I hoped to get more people involved, but that wasn&rsquo;t the case. Perhaps the next…

Jonathan Chu is a software engineer and Emacs enthusiast who&#8217;s been looking for a note taking app that he can actually use. He&#8217;s tried all the usual suspects but found them too…

A true blue blog is now in a serif font as of today ^^ I will experiment with some more other fonts if/when I feel like it, but I started to get an idea that Space Mono is not the most comfortable…

Our internet bill was too high. It had gone beyond the promotional contract period and the triple-play bundle for 300/300 net, medium-level TV package, and home phone (yes, a landline!) was just too…

Amanda Shendruk writes about the work that’s done after Burning Man , where 150 people line up, side by side and arms apart, and slow walk the entire playa looking for Moop (Matter Out of Place).…

Chrome 148 shipped this week, and in the release notes you’ll find one of the best things to happen to web performance in a long time: loading=&amp;quot;lazy&amp;quot; for &amp;lt;video&amp;gt; and…

"Journalists, cultural workers, content creators, and other trusted messengers are enabling better civic insight for communities. How do we economically support the civic information future that…

North, Ember, Lintel, Flint, Cairn .... I'm sending a smoke signal to you all... to come and gather for a chat. No obligardo, but you may want to see what is the context before not coming The Commons…

Step by step explanation of a Zoom option, which can be useful if you tend to re-meet the same trusted people on an irregular schedule.

minimator. ( about ) ( github ) Minimator is a minimalist graphical editor. All drawings are made of lines in a grid based canvas. The lines are limited to vertical and horizontal lines, and quarter…

Ask Jeeves closes, and a small ceremony of human ignorance closes with it.

Stood up GoAccess on the production logs this morning. Noticed iOS clients 404'ing on /apple-touch-icon.png within minutes. Resized the admin avatar with PowerShell and System.Drawing, dropped the…

hyperactive radios "scenius" or just a crazy scene? you decide...

other people's stuff - may 2026 a bunch of my friends got backlinks. go check 'em out!

A recent survey by Pew Research shows that in 2025, 16% of Americans used a smartphone as their only source of broadband. The percentage has grown a bit over previous surveys. I’ve seen articles in…

The bad behaviour incentivized by prediction markets are a running theme on this blog, so I&rsquo;m sharing a few links I&rsquo;ve saved over the past few weeks in this vein: Polymarket criticized…

There&#8217;s a debate that&#8217;s been running on the internet for nearly two decades: when someone gets harassed or hurt online, whose fault is it? The platform&#8217;s? The creator who posted the…

Lately, there’s been a lot of buzz in my tech bubble about good old RSS&#x2F;Atom feeds. Not only are people rediscovering them and making them available on their blogs, but new services are also…

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I love this short open-access paper from danah boyd where she suggests shifting the term we use to describe social media.

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Way back when streaming services did not exist, me and my family watched movies by renting them out in a Video City shop in town 1 . I’m too young for VHS and just the right age for Blu-Ray and…

I have recently had the domain renewal notice for skryblans. It is set to auto-renew annually anyway, it's just they let me know a couple of weeks before that's due to happen. Even though I haven't…

I remember that ordinary paper was used but the splinter angle is news to me.

Thirteen things this Thursday that I have read, watched, listened to or otherwise found noteworthy.

The event's Leave No Trace principle isn't just a promise — it's measured, mapped, and made public.

THE SCHOOL SEMESTER IS OVER!! I AM FREEE

Fundação MEO, ISBN 978-9729968594, English, Portuguese, 204 pages, 2025, Portugal Still largely unacknowledged by official art history and the contemporary art scene, (inter)net art remains relevant…

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I've been on a newsletter kick lately. I came across Random Daily URls recently and signed up immediately. Now I get an interesting and fun internet link in my mailbox every morning. Highly recommend!

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So a week ago I added the human.json protocol to my site and wrote a quick and dirty script to load a ton of vouch links in it and added it to the links page and while I was at it updated my youtube…

Google Mail Chatbot now supplies me with suggested replies to emails. Since I have to assume the emails I get were suggested by Goggle Chatbots, it looks like if I send the suggested replies, there…

The HTML Sanitizer API is a new browser feature that helps developers prevent XSS vulnerabilities by safely sanitizing HTML content.

Contents Introduction Specifying what I wanted The Satori plus sharp libraries What posts are eligible for a generated og image? The renderer Caching the generated PNGs The orchestrator Conclusion…