according to the very vague analytics, someone was going through a significant chunk of my blog over the weekend, or just before it. given that i hadn't written anything new around that point, i can…

Metrics can provide deep insights into our open source projects, but they can also be overwhelming, and because every open source project and every situation is a bit different, metrics require…

On the 20th of August 2008 I registered Eatweeds.co.uk. I had started documenting what I was finding in the hedge, blogging recipes and observations ... Continue The post 18 years of Eatweeds…

I’ve been quietly seething for months now about the dumb emails I get from people wailing about my podcast’s invisibility on YouTube. Increasingly urgent, promises that this is the last time, more in…

If you work in SEO, GEO, or AI search optimization, you have probably seen the same recommendation repeatedly: “Add an llms.txt file to your website...

Recently I ran into a strange problem with my Bluetooth headphones. They support multipoint Bluetooth audio, so they can be connected to my PC and phone at the same time. Normally the PC takes…

I love the Mastodon social messaging service. That said, there are some things I wish it did differently.

Ana Rodrigues has transformed a past talk into a lovely read about how her personal website became her third-space. That place that is neither home nor work, where you gather, wander around and meet…

I worked from home full time long before that global pandemic, before zoom even existed. I loved being in my home, in my community every day. But within a few years the isolation of the work got too…

Response to My writing is not 100% organic anymore I am so tired of posts about AI, so I'll try to write about everything besides it. Believe it or not, I am not a native english speaker either. When…

Sometimes I take a selfie that looks sooo good and I wanna post it here, but at the same time, I kinda like being more anonymous. It's easier to feel less judged when you can only make your opinion…

Çok uzun zamandır blog yazıyorum ama hiçbir platformu benimseyemedim. Belki burayı da benimseyemeceğim ama şimdilik iyi gidiyor diyebilirim. 2026 Şubat…

Last August I left my previous synagogue, which had just voted to merge with another and move out of the neighborhood, and joined Beth Shalom, the…

The Dial was a Transcendentalist literary journal initially published in 1841 and continued intermittently for approximately 85 years. I did my best to collect the whole of the journal and model it…

A couple days ago, the fucking crawlers ramped up their efforts to get past my 429 error page, so I finally set up a fail2ban rule that would block anything that kept on poking at things.

Since I use a lot of unique fonts on my site (I love bitmap fonts!) and I have not put much effort into optimizing the page loads, I was noticing quite a bit of Flash of Unstyled Text. Before the…

Having a nickname is cool, but having a Nicholas Name is even cooler. If you're wondering what a Nicholas Name is—a term I kinda sorta was hoping I invented (but, as it turns out, has already shown…

Over the past few days I’ve been going down blogging rabbit holes, reading random blogs by following random links. I think it’s been better than my absurd Youtube habit, since it involves…

Back from vacation with a brand new Bugtunez, here ya'll go! He Has Left Us Alone but Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms… Also, I did a little bugfix for the front page that…

This is where my day job comes in handy

One of the nice things about writing your own blog on your own website is that the form of it is completely up to you. There are absolutely no constraints or rules about how you present yourself or…

In posts about SearXNG on Hacker News, the original creator of SearX showed up in each post to promote his new project, Hister . Hister is essentially a personal search engine, based on the premise…

Internet à moda antiga: conheça a indie web, onde as pessoas ainda fazem seus próprios sites Also posted on IndieNews

Accessibility helps people use the web directly and gives browser agents a better foundation for assisting them - without taking control away.

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I've already written about FOUCE twice …it's that annoying Flash of Unstyled Custom Element that occurs when the page first loads. It's one of the most common complaints from folks who use web…

Can a blog post be handwritten? Suppose I handwrite a post on my supernote, then export it as a webp, which supports XMP metadata. Pretty sure I should be able to read that with javascript. Then, I…

How I build my site with Astro, GitHub Pages, and a few other things.

Why software built for one is no longer an escape from scale, but its new starting point.

Disable AI slop and bloatware in Chrome and Firefox.

Resonant Arc Resonant Arc create the gaming podcast/YouTube series State Of The Arc. While they do episodes on various topics, the main focus of the series is long-form book-club style analysis of…

Comments on the current exploratory WCAG 3 conformance proposal and the Working Group’s related Conformance issue record. AFixt appreciates the substantial effort the Accessibility Guidelines…

Howdy!Been awhile! I started Town Hall Citizen (THC). Proud of the work I did there, but one man - or at least this man - isn't going to change a nation. I'll be bringing the THC content…

When this blog published its first post in May 2020, it was called Data & Games, and its subtitle billed it as “the Recommend.Games blog on board game analyses”.1 It has been Analysis…

This is a fun experiment that started as a way to generate deterministic "usernames" for Nostr npub keys (see the last section).

I’ve always had a soft spot for blogging and reading blogs. How cool is it that you get to read people’s lived experiences and thoughts from all over the world? Super cool. My first subdomain was…

Blog post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1166/the-aesthetic-rebellion

Today, while browsing through the Way Back Machine on Internet Archive, I stumbled upon an old website that I had made, RunWithTheBest.net (archive link). This was almost certainly my first…

I accidentally logged into baty.blog 's admin and said, "SQUIRREL!", and spent time taking another look at the site. Who knows, I might start using it again. Baty.blog runs on Pure Blog , by Kev…

"In one particular the civilized man still is brother to the savage: His thoughts seldom rise above the dust of which he is made." —Robert Quillen, "When Guests Saw Only the…

A simple threat model that provides insight into how complex the internet is

I let Claude log into my atproto PDS with a temporary password and fix my messy Bookhive reading data against my Obsidian vault. Ten minutes later, everything was in sync. Imagine what we could do if…

Twenty years ago I participated in NaNoWriMo. I was just remembering how I had a printed book that was all synonyms and antonyms. Handy when I got stumped on just the right word to use. That’s…

Formatting Syntax DokuWiki supports some simple markup language, which tries to make the datafiles to be as readable as possible. This page contains all possible syntax you may use when editing the…

I2P addresses I want to talk about how to find I2P eepsites , but first a bit about how the addressing system in I2P works at a high level. An eepsite is just a cute name for a website on the I2P…

Chris Shiflett turned 50 in May and wrote a piece about it that I keep thinking about and that I kept marked as “unread” in my RSS reader to come back to it later. Now I found the time to reflect on…

New old photos of San Francisco to goggle over.

Lubin Manufacturing Company in 1911 Table of Contents Introduction Lubin Vault Fire Fox Vault Fire MGM Vault Fire National Archives Vault Fire Universal Studios Fire Still Confusing Conclusion…

Web Authentication Level 3 is now a W3C Recommendation! This post covers the new features in L3 to support passkeys, advanced deployment scenarios, improved developer ergonomics, and a peek at…