The joys of a small, passionate audience

My rule for AI use is a border of interaction. Before the border, in private, I am happy to use AI as much as it helps: search, planning, code, transcription, translation, summaries, drafts, and any…

Disclaimer: Mesh networks over LoRa as described here (MeshCore/Meshtastic) do not require a license in the US, since they operate on the unlicensed & public domain 915 MHz ISM band under FCC…

A logo is a tool that reminds people of who you are. Your personal brand already has that. Your face. It ticks all the boxes of great logo design: It’s unique It’s memorable It stands out…

could this be where ravinia ends up?

Something finally clicked for me. When looking at an ASCII table, you will notice that after the uppercase Z, there are a few other characters before lowercase a: Decimal Binary Symbol 88 01011000 X…

I’ve written not one, but two new things for school publications! First, I’ve written about The Sound, one of my favorite bands, in Firebird. If you were wondering why I’d dug up an…

This text below post is presented verbatim, as it was typed with only a keyboard: without a display or any assistive technology. Typos are left in. The "Notes after writing" and "My writing setup"…

This post was written first with my screenless writing interface, and then edited in Ghost, which I use to publish blog posts to this website. The extent of my edits were fixing typos and reworking…

TL;DR: you may no longer use the content of this website for commercial purposes. In particular, you may not use it as training data for commercial language models. I decided to change the licence…

One of the great things about LLMs is how prevalent voice-to-text apps have now become. I first found out about this segment of apps with WhisperFlow, but was shocked by what they were charging,…

I’m working on something I’m very passionate about. I’m learning and doing things with WordPress I never imagined. Do you want to know what it is? I think you’ll find interesting, even if just to see…

here you go i wonder if I’ll ever be someone who wants to watch TV or films but so long as youtube exists i doubt it. the only tv show i am prepared to watch is the pitt. do not ask me how many…

Since about three years past time immemorial, the RSS feed for this site has been very anaemic. It had article titles and dates, and that was it. Many readers have requested that I include the full…

Added Uldren Sov shrine.

Hi, I’m Lena, and I’ve been off of instagram for 462+ days now. This could be a thing you know? And if you think I’m poking fun at it, I really am not. After ‘quitting’…

this is my entry to the bear blog carnival , hosted by kami. the question: "what's your favorite ___ in your niche hobby?" my niche hobby is taking pictures and videos of flowers. something about…

Between the motion and the act falls the shadow.

I’m overdue an update. Two months on from my last workflow post, much has shifted - some of it from new tools, more from joining an organisation that takes AI seriously. The biggest change:…

If you follow me on Mastodon you know it as my home server. If you click through to my ForgeJo you know it as my git forge. It’s the host that hosts my private Elk server where the majority of…

Been doing some tinkering with a hobby website the last few days.

On May 23, 2011, I bought Building Java Programs 2nd edition from bokkilden.no to learn how to program. A week later, product.support@pearsoned.com emailed me a password I had registered an account…

I have briggs.seattle.wa.us , and you might be able to get one for yourself, with your own city and state, if you're in the US! They're free, too. I had success following Frederick Chan's great guide…

we moved to sweden, so the last few days have been quite hectic. our wifi turned off on the last day of april, and for some reason my cell service was downright atrocious, so for the remaining days…

Oh you mean like with audio output instead Nope. No output at all. Just input. With the keyboard. Why Short answer: why not? Long answer: James floated this idea at IWC/BTconf of a PC that's just a…

How the conferences FediForum and 2mr.social this week show how fediverse is trying to build connections with European politics, as well as with the atmosphere.

As a heavy user of the bookmarking service Linkding I was delighted when this post from Cory Dransfeldt announcing his iOS app Ribbon showed up in my RSS reader. For the longest time I’ve been…

I’ve been chatting with a good number of folks who are turning down streaming services lately for various reasons. I’ve blogged about this before, and if you’re looking for advice…

I gotta start bugging Claude Code to help me make adding images here easier, before I'm sucked backed into Ghost. ✍️ Reply by email

Making zines is a great time, however figuring out how to print them on a home printer or a copy shop's xerox machine can be a bit tricky, so I decided I'd create a library of templates for…

“This year’s Earth Day in Ashland, Oregon, where I live, featured an interfaith service at the local Unitarian church, and I wasn’t too surprised to get a call inviting me to be one of the…

Recently a saw an article come across my feed that Notepad++ was now available on MacOS. Turns out that was partially true. TL;DR; Trademarks are incredibly important to the success of open source…

This post has been brought over from my Medium page, where it existed first. From April 2026 onward, all of my writing will be published here first and syndicated elsewhere. My altar is in a box in…

Yesterday I received an email from the Thunderbird team inviting me to join a preview of their new hosted email service, Thunderbird Pro. I love email, so was very keep to sign up and test it out.…

They can't stop the signal: Manyverse, Nostr, Delta Chat & Mitra

Podcasts intend to inform, inspire, educate - but most skip one essential element.

Coined in 1740, ‘Britannia! rule the waves’ was a dawn-of-Empire exhortation to assert British naval power worldwide. Today, the Law Commission exhorts Britannia (or England and Wales, to be exact)…

I've been thinking through some stuff while on vacation and just generally not being online as much, and I think for me one of the next big steps is going to be removing myself from text based…

Migrating this site from Hugo to Astro on Cloudflare, a real-world agentic coding project

I had 40 screenshots saved, three false starts, and 20 years of content with no coherent structure. I used Claude Cowork, Claude Design, and Claude Code to rebuild the whole thing. Here's how each…

For those who aren’t aware, Terry Godier launched Sourcefeed recently. The idea is intriguing; an RSS feed for sharing your writing that just exists in RSS. No website or newsletter. I’ve…

Hi. I have a new website update. Something very unfortunate happened last week. For now, I am distracting myself by working on my projects more. And so...here's something that's been in the works for…

The platforms that were supposed to keep us connected to the people we care about have spent the last fifteen years getting worse at exactly that job.I don't mean this in the abstract,…

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The Mindful Design Toolkit is a collection of free, open source templates, workshops, and resources, built to empower your design journey. To coincide with the launch, we’ve also opened up over two…

I just wrapped up writing a longer-form publication, maybe best described as a collection of short essays: Reflections on Public Interest Technology from someone with a governance /…

Depending on where I am, I work on different devices. Setting up and syncing local development environments is a problem I solved by not having local development environments.

I'm working on creating something I can call "functional web components".

You might know that I – with the generous help from Brandon Kelly on the Craft 5 version – wrote and maintain a Webmention plugin for Craft CMS. Today, I shipped version 1.3.0. It’s a security and…