This is the week of the RightsCon conference that wasn’t. RightsCon, the leading international Internet and human rights conference organised by civil society group Access Now, was cancelled by the…

Like a young child coming home from kindergarten with their latest crayon scrawls, the internet is currently awash with people sharing their AI-generated work. And just like the young child’s…

Wrap Up With Analytics And Takeaways

If you don’t want to support racism, transphobia, and other forms of hate, then maybe you don’t want to use Substack. While there has been quite a bit written about alternatives for publishers, there…

I have left Twitter a while ago now because it became a huge sh*tshow and it looks like a lot are currently doing the same.I built myself a little browser script to delete my public data from Twitter…

🔍 I Didn’t Plan to Switch I didn’t set out to replace Google. It just sort of happened. I was already using Ecosia out of habit, and then Perplexity started creeping into more and more of my everyday…

Here are three recent TTAB decisions in Section 2(d) appeals. Remembering that a TTAB Judge (now retired) once said that one can predict the outcome of a Section 2(d) appeal 95% of the time just by…

KISS FM (1982-1984) was one of several offshoots of the large Dublin pirate radio Nova. In this recording, Nova founder and boss Chris Cary is on air using the name Harry Cary. He is followed by…

Omg I cannot believe this, we have reached 20,000 visits on this blog! I never would have thought that we would get to this milestone by just 1 year later, thanks so much for reading and visiting my…

Just to revive it a little bit.

Kev Quirk wrote a post about who knows that you blog (as a response to Forking Mad on the same topic). Kev writes: I'm similar to David and Alex - I'm not forthcoming with the fact that I have a…

My perspective on how to build a website on the shifting grounds of the Web.

Networking has long been my Achilles heel. I know the very basics, but the more complex areas of networking have been a bit puzzling to me. By the time I figured out how IPv4 works, I found IPv6 and…

There are 2,507 videos in my YouTube Watch Later playlist. What on earth am I gonna do with 2,507 videos? I occasionally clear them but now I'm stuck thinking about what it's all for anyway. What's…

Made COMEING SOON TO DOGSPIT.SEX in the Library!

This is a post following up a story I posted on Instagram volunteering to help anyone interested to get off Instagram and onto something more open, with the hopes we could get a little crew together…

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A page for quotes that somehow changed the way I think.

I recently learned about PageRank, the original Google algorithm for ranking webpages. It works by constructing a Markov chain on links between pages and computing the stationary distribution. The…

tl;dr: plox is a canonical encoding of the did:plc directory, stored in an atproto PDS. as of may 2026 at://cerulea.blue/blue.cerulea.plox.bundle is taking up 35 GB on disk ( zstd -compressed; ≈80 GB…

Center-ish is an experiment around vertically centering content on a webpage, in an incorrect manner.

My new project FediLearns is a learning-focused classifieds page for the fediverse. Check it out!

My good mate Yaroslav wrote about his new solution for bundling a complete Bun runtime inside a gem - by all means, give it a read. A lot of points he makes are very sensible, but for a few months…

Over the last decade, I’ve made a bunch of sites using some mix of data/content. The most popular of these is endoflife.date , but there’s also hackercouch.com , mf.captnemo.in and a bunch more. My…

I Built My Own Personal Finance App, and Now I Want More Personal Software I do not think AI will replace every app with one giant productivity blob. I do think AI changes something more interesting:…

Fino, and the Era of Personalized Malleable Software I do not think AI will replace every app with one giant productivity blob. I do think AI changes something more interesting: it makes small,…

Free animated backgrounds for HTML webpages

I shipped a partnerships page. This is the why-now: capacity, an inbox auto-classifier I haven't built yet, and the years of compounding work that made it the right moment to tie it together.

Anime Dance Anime Dancing Sticker from Anime Dance Stickers Finally updated my site! What a pain in the (a)CSS. Unlike most of the peeps throughout the cyber quadrant of Bear Blog, Neocities,…

i deactivated my instagram account a few weeks ago. i don't know exactly how much time has passed, i'm not worried with keeping track. my first concern when thinking about deactivating was how i…

Welcome back to another Articles by Victoria, the place where I randomly write things I'm curious about. I have been thinking a lot lately about what it actually means to have a personal assistant. Ha

The Boring Internet is a wonderful post by Terry Godier about what’s dying and what remains as the internet changes. It echoes my own sentiments about RSS surviving its own death. The core idea is…

After 9 days (yes!) in review… You can now save articles on macOS via the plus button on the saved view, or by pasting a url into the command palette (cmd+k) You can now right click any source…

Subscribe to Google Calendar's secret iCal feed from any calendar app. Keep your Google account out of macOS and iOS. Worked example for Apple Calendar on Mac, iPhone, and iPad.

I’m back in the blog zone again! I’ve been reading a bit in the last week, I’ll talk about it some here!

Before I installed WordPress on this site, I coded up something in HTML for people to enjoy in the interim. Here it is: I believe that’s supposed to be a trademark symbol at the end that…

How to ghost post on Threads if you wanted to try a ghost post on Threads.

What's in a name?

The feed wants your work flattened into a habit. It wants your language shortened, your images standardised, your thinking made instantly legible and instantly replaceable. Creative resistance online…

Read the original post by David here Good day all :) I just came across Kev's answer, and as this is something I've been thinking a lot recently, decided to dedicate a post to this. Thanks for…

what & why i’ve always wondered - why don’t we do more cool things? we have enough compute to fund ourselves something we like, but we often prefer to invent ourselves pragmatics. i…

Building a caching layer for my blog turned into something else: a window into who actually reads it, and what reading even means now.

I just released a set of organic SVG shapes, featuring various dot shapes such as blobs, daubs, spots, and splatters. They can be used as decorative UI accents, background elements, icon backplates…

Stop fighting with MQTT brokers and zero-hop limits. The Flaresat Relay Bridge instantly connects your off-grid Meshtastic mesh to anyone online in seconds. Get real-time, bidirectional sync for live…

Those of us from Northern Ireland won't be surprised at the latest depressing 'themuns versus usuns' spat, with the Democratic Unionist Party Communities Minister Gordon Lyons now removing funding…

Welcome to Miscellanea- a biweekly newsletter at the intersection of content strategy, tech, and culture and how they …

Potential Attack Target Suppose some genre of content is under attack by powerful adversaries. Lets take political satire as a thought experiment in which powerful politicians are attacking sites and…

Re-publishing scams are big business. If you are an author with some older back-list titles and any kind of web presence, you already know. Constantly […] The post Re-Publishing Scams are Big…

Some years ago I learned about security.txt, a proposed document that could be added to a website to let security researchers know who to contact in the event a security concern is found. It’s…

The ampersand used to be consider the 27th letter of the latin alphabet... i.e. ex, why, zed, "and - per say - and"... I.e. "and" was a letter after zed (Z). Then came XML and HTML. As a company with…