Huzzah once more to you, my friends! I treat this place like my diary which arguably is pretty bad as there is now written proof of my thoughts out in the wild, but honestly? I don't really mind.…

John Gruber wrote about Om Malik , who recently passed away after battling heart issues. Om is one of those people who has always been well known but in the periphery to me. I've seen many dozen…

Blogging and journalling are very different for me. When I blog, I have this idea that I need to have a message to deliver. But when I journal, I can let my mind be in its abstract form. It's partly…

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Building a personal data profiler locally, a system that collects parts of my digital footprint and helps me make sense of them.

★★★★: Another excellent fantasy mystery full of political intrigue and layers of deception. Had me guessing at every step. There's a lot to keep track of, but it builds its case well. The…

In addition to getting the coveted Warp Door feature for my first Plano project, I recently contributed to Manifesto Jam 2026 ! You can read my NO MORE CRAFT manifesto here . I was glad cecile…

Tal y como ya comenté a principios de junio, blogblog.es es un directorio de blogs en español impulsado por matizeta. Entre sus características, desde hace unos días, tiene un webring: un anillo de…

Eggnob's been progressing pretty slowly over the last few weeks; between trips away and the scorching heat I've been too tired to do much level design, but I have sorted out all gameflow / UI stuff…

a week of awesome events in NYC and beyond!

I make a lot of webpages. I also use Lockdown Mode on iOS and MacOS for a bit of extra security. Sometimes I realize that I forgot to test on Safari and it looks like crap, or I test and don’t…

New blog post about learning to believe myself. You can read the full text by clicking here.

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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

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

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,…

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.

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…