A tiny publication usually does not need a grand content strategy first. It needs a clear reader path through the homepage, the archive, and the next click.

Love this page by Terry Godier: The Last Quiet Thing . I found it via this HN thread about Gary's post, I love my dumb watches , which cites Kev's post on smartwatches, which helped me shelve my…

What is the web? I’ve been working in the web since the beginning of the web, and I co-chaired the W3C Technical Architecture Group for over a decade, so you think I might be able to answer this…

Love a nice, clean theme on a blog like most of us have here on Bear. However, I can’t stand minimalism as a whole. It lacks personality and crushes whimsical ideas. That, combined with a strong…

Why Markdown is the Ultimate Power Move for Your Data In an era where tech giants treat your personal documents like raw material for their AI models and subscription fees feel like digital rent, the…

getting rid of my 2025 to-play folder...

I Last year, I replaced my Apple Watch with a Casio F-91W, a marvel of engineering. Terry Godier has just posted an essay, ⊕ ᔥJohn Gruber beautifully designed, about the merits of that very model…

The Agent Skills spec claims to be "A simple, open format for giving agents new capabilities and expertise." But the creator of Agent Skills, Anthropic, is also the company behind the…

Having spent some time with Grokipedia back in October of last year and written it up, I went back earlier today and took another look. It’s now V0.2. More significantly, it now has 6,092,140…

It starts to feel like something is off, that on a visit to a library — not a glass and concrete one, but one built with brick or stone or leaded glass — one should encounter not books,…

A special edition of the data diary that sketches out the rough shape of where we're heading.

So it turns out I didn't like the mustard yellow and steel blue design that I created a couple weeks ago. It just didn't sit well with me, and if I look back over my design history the designs that…

The promise of Breaking Change is that with every major version (this being the 60th episode of the program, but only the 53rd such release), I will break something. Well, I finally did it. I think I…

If you’ve attended any of our presentations or office hours, you’ve probably heard us mention just how complicated the U.S. federal statistical system is. Luckily, our partners at the…

Since waking up early in the morning (sleep? What sleep?) I’ve been active around my blog and enjoyed dedicating time to this personal work that doesn’t get much attention during my…

This is where I plant ideas. It’s a little bit like a commonplace book, wiki, biji, memex, digital garden, or public notebook.

Kanban TODO is a markdown based kanban board implemented in a single index.html file. You can download the index.html and the helper kbtd script from GitHub. Or download the zipfile containing both I…

i stole this name from a deserving furry, and chose to be a whole pack of wolves, because wolves are a) very cool b) very cool (again) (unlike me) c) come in packs, which i'm not, but like to project…

Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast Quick Bite for March 20 2026 Download audio On this show, I talk about the rise and fall of my idea for a local honey marketplace with a side journey into a…

Thanks to Naty, and her post, I discovered iine. It enables you to show appreciation for a post, as you can see on Bear blogs. A couple of months ago, I tried to find something similar for Hugo, but,…

I finished my mini podcast zine.

A Complete Solution Built on the W3C Accessibility Maturity Model Being successful in accessibility isn’t a one-off project. Like all compliance domains, it’s an organizational capability…

just a little house keeping i realized my contact email was out of date on my connect page. should be correct now!

the sublime Web The sublime form of the Web is when complete nerds geek out in minute detail over their obsession in a manner specifically designed to let any random surfer-by understand and geek out…

There are moments in business when an opportunity presents itself that is simply too meaningful to pass up. Acquiring LakeMinnetonka.com was one of those moments. This wasn’t just the purchase…

Comments on a site don't have to be cumbersome, you can build with the audience and the tools that already exist on Bluesky.

This post is part of the March IndieWeb Carnival for 2026, “Museum memories,” hosted by James . I think of myself as a Museum Person. I come from a family of Museum People. I married a Museum Person.…

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Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince just predicted that AI bot traffic will exceed human traffic online by 2027. His company powers approximately 20% of all websites and is used by approximately 80% of…

it's the first day of spring and so I've updated my spring event page! explore music, pixels, recipes, and even an egg hunt~

Post: 20 March 2026New blog post on my website:Glasgow City Council has released its Council Tax address list as open data

The Ruby2JS documentation site now runs its live demos using a selfhost architecture: Ruby2JS transpiled by Ruby2JS itself into JavaScript. The Opal dependency that previously powered the in-browser…

Dear Tech Bro, You’ve never finished a novel. You avoid friction in everything. You wear On sneakers 24/7, drive a Cybertruck, and don’t own a single candle. Your house is an empty rectangle, the…

If I weren’t going on sabbatical soon, and if I were so inclined to update my resume, I too would be highlighting the “tech sovereignty” work I’ve done. It’s not resume…

On writing, finding your voice, and making a corner of the internet yours.

I'm currently working on adding #Micropub support to #Lamb . This makes posting to Lamb accessible from phones and laptops/desktops, terminal and other places using any client that supports this open…

There’s a frequent lament of missing the “old” Internet. It’s different for every person that thinks it, but it’s usually a feeling of loss for things like personal websites, blogs, RSS feeds, quirky…

Just a quick note before we get into this issue. We're moving back to a once per week cadence on Fridays after this issue. We've got a lot on in the studio right now, so making time to curate two…

It’s easy to forget, now that so many computer interfaces seem to be getting more inscrutable, that in the early 1990s the shift from the command line to graphical interfaces and the desire to…

The online publication Ixbt.com published "The National Messenger Max Has Opened Up New Business Opportunities: Integration Is Available for More Than 8 Million Companies and Individual…

Ofcom don't consider geoblocking the UK to be sufficient for an overseas website r/LegalAdviceUK: "I run a self-help forum for people with depression. Ofcom has been bombarding me with emails…

Good night, Good work. Sleep well. I’ll most likely kill you in the morning.

If we are to take Postman, Adam’s, and the Futurists understanding of technology and movement as generation defining. Then we should do the same for the second “micro generation” following the…

Hi! Yep: Today, I’m asking you to financially support Now I Know For 15 years, I’ve been writing Now I Know — a little story in your inbox most weekdays, sharing surprising, curious, and often weird…

Last week I spoke at the very lovely Web Day Out in Brighton. My talk was about browser support, based on the work I’ve done over the past almost five years on Baseline. I ran through the…

This post is the fourth and last in a series comparing the same sample blog in Web Origami and Eleventy : Eleventy version: Source code and Demo Origami version: Source code and Demo As a very crude…

Should doctors publicly share the knowledge and insights they gain in their practice? Yes. Do doctors need to go through a costly, cumbersome submission-publishing process in a scientific journal…

Overview I’ve always admired people who release web toys for the anonymous public to play with. I’m also interested in bridging the gap between online spaces and real life. In some ways,…