I just realized something… something I hadn’t thought about until now. I was googli…er… duckduckgo-ing my website, as one does, and on page 3 of the results I started to…

The other day I posted about my internet radio explorations. A few people weighed in with their experiences and questions. You can see those in the comments of that post. Mostly it was me talking…

A few months ago I was getting ready for a trip by doing what I normally do: fill my e-reader full of new books. The trip included a very long journey on a train, so I wanted to make sure I had…

I’m looking at the future of the HTML5 Boilerplate (H5BP) organization and repos right now and, in addition to formulating plans for the existing projects, I’ve decided to try something…

NetNewsWire 7.1 for iOS, now available on the App Store, has the same new features as the Mac version… The Current Activity screen shows what the app is doing The Activity Log screen shows what the…

Somehow @bunniesin.space managed to perfectly summarize why microblogging isn't for me, and why I think it does more bad than good overall.

Once upon a time, way back when I was an architecture major in college, I had been using a SquareSpace site to show off my architectural design projects. (Before, I had used Tumblr as a site-builder,…

Lab Notes 031: we're drafting a corps good at drafting — apply if you'd like to write a weekly digest on an atmospheric community, and in exchange, get free Leaflet Pro!

I have officially finished See You In Hell. I’ve actually been done for awhile now. I’ve been taking the opportunity to work on my website, change my newsletter provider, and to retool my Patreon.…

CORS is a browser security mechanism, not a server one. What the Origin header and preflight checks actually do, what CORS protects against, and why it is not CSRF protection.

I’ve gathered up two of my themes for bear blog and made them available for all to use. I plan to make some more and hopefully get a good collection going. Feel free to check out the themes page if…

I've flattened the site even flatter. The index is just another page that is generated and everything is in a clean "src" vs "dist" structure so that "dist" is rebuilt each time and has everything…

I use Bearming to get the job done

I had an interesting interaction these days. While I was in class waiting for it to start, I opened Bearblog (the class happens in the “computer room”), and the girl who sits by my side asked what I…

Ampache to Navidrome, with a side of Proxmox and Tailscale

NetNewsWire 7.1 for Mac includes new features that help you understand what’s up with your feeds: The Current Activity window shows what the app is doing right now The Activity Log window shows what…

I made another short film, this time a little bit inside the sausage factory that makes Current, my rss reader. I won’t be able to hold up this cadence of two videos in a week, but this one was…

At first glance, Tuta Mail seems like just another email provider. It isn’t. It’s one of the few services I’m aware of that has consistently prioritised privacy and security for protocols that were…

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What is Brave OriginBrave is great as a browser, but most of the side products just add noise to the user experience, and users are not happy about it.Because of that, in June 2026, Brave launched

GigaOm, was one of my favorite feeds in my RSS reader.

En plots was er de drang om iets te schrijven. Het is niet nagelezen, het is gewoon mijn gedachtenstroom vandaag, op mijn blog. Klinkt het niet, dan botst het, en dat is ook oké! fertiliteit Ik kwam…

Download Transcript | Keywords: Virtual Assistants; AI; Wake Words; Summons; Turn design ‘Wake words’ such as “Alexa”, “OK Google” and “Hey Siri” have become commonplaces within everyday talk,…

8609/21528I am not a fan of Threads. It's a place for ninnies, which seems to be full of banality and clickbait and people asking ridiculous questions like "Would you agree to be locked in…

Tracking the progress of a process at INPI is essential — whether to know if your trademark has been granted, if your patent has entered examination, or if there is any pending requirement. But the…

Hi folks, the next Scottish Research Online course from Pharos Teaching and Tutoring Ltd ( https://www.pharostutors.com ) returns 6 July 2026. The following is its description: Scottish Research…

The dot-com bubble (and subsequent crash) happened over a two-and-a-half-year period between 2000 and 2002 (the year I started the blog). I was reminded of this period while watching a video…

Escape the silo with hot, warm & cold backups for your privacy tools. Learn redundancy, data portability, and resilient strategies to stay in control.

As a walker I come across these painted rocks (and objects) from time to time. I’m supposed to carry them home, look them up on the web and re-hide them. I guess I’ve found about ten of them over the…

Let me short-circuit the flames. He wasn’t using AI, but my attempts at trying to rid myself of AI slop in my feed reader flagged him as the worst offender. Is he? No. It just points out how hard…

Happy Pride everyone, hope you’ve had a great time celebrating wherever and whoever you are! My newsletters are always free and here’s where you can follow ’em: RSS | Mailing…

updated the blog section, working on using it more.

For the first time since the pandemic, I have resumed active, public development of Plerd , the software that freshly publishes this blog every time I update a certain directory of Markdown source…

Hi! Monday marked sixteen (!) years of me writing this newsletter. I don’t have a formal way of celebrating it — how do you get a driver’s license for a newsletter? — but I wanted to mark the…

I don’t think I can legitimately write that I am “on vacation”, given that the state of being on vacation presupposes another activity – often work-related – from which we have…

This site runs on WordPress on a cheap hosting plan, with W3TotalCache and Cloudflare in front of it to hopefully make it a bit faster. It turns out my quick setup of bundling this all together…

You stroll around a traditional market in town, stop at a stall and have a look at what’s on offer. You’re never alone, as others are doing the same. Unless you’re in a hurry and you like people,…

A short documentary about A/B testing, algorithmic optimization, and the small act of ignoring both. In 2009, a Google designer quit over forty-one shades of blue. The machine was making his…

Notes on the contest.

In 20ish days, the blogosphere produced 80 blog posts about randomness. I present them all in a roll table. Roll a d80 and read a blog post!

By humans, for humans We’re approaching—or arguably are in —an era where ‘made by humans’ is a differentiator. A notion that something beyond money and prompts was put into whatever the heck it is…

Om Malik–GigaOm founder, True Ventures partner, and one of the writers who, as the article I’m linking to puts it, taught Silicon Valley to read itself–died on June 24 after a long road with his…

This junk would appear without that little speedbump

I wanted to jump in here quickly and assure folks who are looking for the next posts on ark that they are coming. A combination of events slowed me down temporarily. But I’ve got Part 4…

So Britain will soon wave off yet another prime minister; they’ve been dropping like flies ever since the 2016 Brexit vote. At the Guardian, John Crace snarks that come Remembrance Sunday…

The OSS/BSS company Innovative Systems recently released its eleventh annual survey about rural household broadband usage. As usual, it contains a number of interesting insights. The survey was…

Postcard: Kedara.eu is 2 years old today! :)On 26-06-(20)26 of all dates! This is one of my postcards: short, handwritten messages—from me to you. Thank you for reading this via RSS! View this…

This is going to sound like I'm one-hundred years old. To be fair, I practically am. But in any event, when I started in the business--and going back 25 years before that because my father was in the…

I am a fan of becoming one’s own algorithm, and I may describe my own experiences working towards that in another post. But here I want to endorse a tool I’ve come to depend on for the process,…

beorg supports a number of ways of syncing your files. One of these is WebDAV. WebDAV isn’t owned by a company, but is an open standard that anyone can build services around. Many of the…