X and GitHub should let my agent talk to your agent. Today, I discussed the IPC work in the upcoming SecretSpec 0.20 on X. Marc-André Moreau replied with feedback from ChatGPT: Just some quick…

Reading Time: 36 minutes Got to be honest, it has been a genuinely HORRIBLE week in Discourse Land, specifically the UK bit of it, and I have had quite enough of the web for the moment. I am off to…

Ten years ago, I wrote a series of blogs called The Origins of Moneykind. They accompanied the launch of Digital Human and explored a simple question: where does money come from? Looking back a…

just put up a tribute on the Goofy Goober's webring page to commemorate his birthday today! Feel free to check it out and wish him a happy birthday!

Just updated my blog to WordPress v7.1 ( known as “Mary Lou” ) which contains various feature updates/additions, performance improvements, and bug fixes.

It's been over 6 months since I started posting on my bearblog, and I think it's good time for a bit of reflection - Like reminding myself of the roots. Bearblog post as a response to the update of…

Week of August 14–21, 2026: Google caps how many extensions one publisher can list in the Chrome Web Store, an essay argues web apps should let users generate their own sandboxed extensions, and the…

This is a situation I have written about so many times on the blog over the years. It happens in all sorts of different ways, but it‘s ultimately the same pattern every time. You figure something out…

added a blog rss feed. you can now get updates on that when i remember to use the feed thingy

TL;DR: I rewrote Name My Color to use Web Components instead of React! My anti-web framework kick continues; after using Web Components for the baseball triple crown tracker, I’ve been hoping…

I want to talk about something that's been on my mind for a while: search has quietly gotten worse over the past several years, and I think it's worth being honest about why, and what it's actually…

Yesterday night, I realised that I've spent all week surrounding myself of parts of what I call "the old internet". What I mean by that is the pre-social medias internet. It started when I was…

Good posts from Moonwriting and Olly about the benefits of using a website platform and why you might not want a fully DIY website. I agree with the points they...

delighted to discover that a) Jimothy has a Wikipedia picture and b) it's this Posted: August 21, 2026 at 12:29 AM UTC . Also posted to: Mastodon, Bluesky Tagged: Wikipedia .

Every block and inline element build.py can render, in one page, so a regression in style.css or the markdown pipeline is visible at a glance.

See, I told you I’d get tuckered out writing about vehicles and be back to protocols soon enough. “The internet is forever” is a great warning against the inability to unshare…

Thoughtful link handling/analysis and directory-based metadata aren't widely supported by static site generators, but I wish they were.

Got around to updating the Now page today. Now you know! chuckles Have a great weekend!

Chris kicked off a little 'blog and response' with Thinking Horizontally in CSS @layer . The idea was that if every component's custom properties live in a weak layer, unlayered CSS can override them…

Been a minute. But. Absolutely no comments.

Chuniversiteit has a fresh new look and more convenient packaging! Mostly for myself, but maybe it will also benefit you.

Between 16th and 20th August, ChatGPT's search tool call went from JSON to a compact query language with freshness windows, domain targeting and separate verticals for products, places, images and…

Ditherpunk has overtaken my artistic vision in a big way as of late. Since getting my Sony Mavica up and running, I've been absolutely obsessed with editing my photos with the explicit purpose of…

The new Inbox Collective website went live the other day. We’d been working with the amazing team at CamelCase for months on this, and to be honest, the day the website went live, it wasn’t really…

Stop doom scrolling and start creeping on the location of every boat on earth.

On 6 August, GitHub Actions was degraded for nine hours. At peak, 71% of workflow runs failed outright on infrastructure errors, and three quarters of the ones that survived were delayed by more than…

I haven’t been on my phone very much lately, let alone properly online. I actually think this might be the least time i’ve spent online in my entire life, which is strange considering how much of my…

On Friday all the Phoebe fans (hi) were searching for “ tamám shud ” after reading the lyrics to Kill Me .

I have just sent an open letter to the Board of the Wikimedia Foundation, the umbrella organisation for Wikipedia (and a number of other projects), expressing my support for Wiki Workers United and…

Updated the More Links page! Swapped a few links from categories, changed categories names, added my Hardcover profile link. Now it's all the same here and on my links list on Listography .

You might remember that I co-edited a book, Beautiful Solutions, that tells stories of solidarity economies around the world. Well, now it is A FREE, ONLINE TOOLBOX, thanks to the good folks at…

I worked on the following item: Gascoigne, B. (1991). How to identify prints: a complete guide to manual and mechanical and mechanical processes from woodcut to ink jet with 271 illustrations, 39 in…

RSS is a web-standard for subscribing to blogs. You, a reader, can enter this web-site’s URL into a RSS feed reader program and it’ll fetch updates. That’s how you subscribe to a…

This post is inspired by Doug Belshaw's review of what he has been up to over the summer. I don't think I have ten items, but I can live with that. I have just realized I haven't written a post since…

Is anyone reading this? I made another blog recently to put one of my domains to use and try out Pagecord. I decorated it all in rainbow and Comic Sans but it feels like some sorta facade almost. I…

Not in a "get hyped" kind of way. More like: oh, yep, I am doing that.

When I first learned about Unix and “Unix-like” operating systems, I was intrigued. I had only known the colorful world of Windows 3.1 so far. Like Japanese carpentry, everything seemed…

MP 174: It's a wonderful word, and an especially important concept right now."Ephemeral" is one of my favorite words; it's one of the words I remember learning. I don't…

"We, collectively, need to do better about antisemitism and call that shit out when we see it."

Sometimes it's hard to let go of the good stuff, like a beautiful summer...and the old web.I don’t think we talk enough about how much online publishing has shifted over the years. At a…

I decided to bring back 1 an old online identity: sinas. 2 I haven’t used sinas as my handle for years, but the old logo has a habit of resurfacing. As a profile picture here, a favicon there, a…

Unattributed Navigation Overhead exposes the part of Time to First Byte that Navigation Timing cannot explain, including hidden cross-origin redirects.

A card packs everything about one item (image, title, key facts, action) inside a clearly bounded rectangle that the user’s visual system sees as a single object, which is why cards excel at…

This blog has been online for 20 years, and I've tried to spend a lot more time writing content than fiddling with the toolchain or theme for it, because too many blogs never see the light of day…

Introduction Today I stumbled on an article about the Finger protocol (Finger: the 1971 social network that never died, written by Andros Fenollosa at en.andros.dev) and learned there was a social…

简介 今天刷到一篇讲 Finger 协议的文章（Finger: the 1971 social network that never died，en.andros.dev 的 Andros Fenollosa 写的），才知道原来 1971 年就有社交网络了，而且我的 Mac 上一直自带它的客户端。文章里提到的 happynetbox.com 是个把 Finger…

This is a cross-post from my Sound Club music club, where I regularly share an album for listening and discussion. Check out the club here. Secret Machines were one of the first artists I discovered…

When I signed onto the former Twitter the other day, I suddenly saw a giant notice with a new blue checkmark explanation. Anyone else? The post Have You Gotten the Blue Checkmark Explanation Notice?…