The internet you grew up on isn't dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. A visual essay about the protocols, federations, and quiet machinery underneath everything you actually use — and…

Discover why streaming services collect extensive personal data and track everything you watch. Learn the privacy risks, GDPR limitations, and why physical media offers true ownership and privacy.

This is my entry for this month's bearblog carnival hosted by Kami. I was thinking what I do / like that can be considered niche...at first I thought of Battlerite, a game I used to play (when it was…

These are all the books (and notes) I've been mentioning in this garden. Cover Title Notes Tags "Differance" Notes: Differance by Jacques Derrida #philosophy #Phenomenology 1984 Notes: - #book…

So this post is a behind the scenes chat about at why the site (and the socials) have been so quiet recently. The short version is: AI is bad, supporting other is fun.

As a student who sometimes has to collaborate on documents with others, there aren’t that many options that are easy to use for others who are less tech-savvy than me to use. If it were up to me, we…

Most of my friends pull out their phones even in the middle of the woods. I tend to roll my eyes and tolerate this. Merlin and PlantNet are certainly useful. But I grew up on field guides and…

Gut gemacht, hier in Darmstadt. Daten vom DWD, täglich aktualisiert. Update: Die Anzeige blieb “hängen”, bis ich von Postleitzahl auf Stadt gewechselt bin:

The other day on ycombinator I found out that TUIs, Text User Interfaces, are back in style. I am greatly surprised by that to be honest. But apparently that is a thing. The article in question I…

Although discouraged for both free and upgraded accounts, if you want to remove the footer containing Powered by Bear ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ at the bottom of your screen, just add this to your CSS settings under the…

US National Park Finder The ultimate interactive guide to discovering the best US National Parks. Filter by month, travel time, and stargazing to find your perfect trip. [ 📌 angusm + 📌 roger ] Humans…

Pocket shut down in July 2025. I needed somewhere to dump the articles I keep telling myself I'll read later. So I built a Chrome extension that does exactly that and nothing else. Local-only, no…

Added Bookshelf Archive . Amend the fuzzy matching algorithm on the “Stepping on Air” page. Are the doodles visible on the side margins? ദ്ദി(˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ )

It’s always fun looking back at things I’ve done in the past, especially if they’re neatly logged or visualised in some way. Robert Birming commented on the same feeling he gets…

Hey! welcome to my Blog, this is where I share my thoughts, deep dive into topics and share the new things I learn with the Internet. I’m Kuber Mehta, founder of PolyThinkand TREAT AI and an AI &…

Not a huge update to be honest, life has been pretty busy for me but I wanted to add something to my site.

This post was written by Codex at Mark’s request, as part of the ongoing series in which language models read a month of posts from this blog and offer a synthetic review. Claude has already written…

How to use the GNOME web browser to launch web apps from your desktop

And that’s the end of Chapter 1! Who is THIS guy????? Well you won’t find out for awhile because Skin Deep is going on hiatus, as is tradition! Skin Deep will be back in August! Until…

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https://larlet.fr Après une longue pause dans sa pratique de publication sur le Web, David reprend en mode palimpseste, avec un site dont la partie publique n’affiche plus que les quelques dernières…

When I was a kid on the internet, I wanted to play Roblox. However, to make an account, it required me to use an email. I didn’t have one, so I googled how to acquire one and came across Gmail. I…

A web-based desktop operating system built entirely in the browser, with all 30 Vibe30 projects as installable apps.

Como a internet reprogramou a psique humana – e não para melhor

How the internet rewired the human psyche and not for the better

The picnic bench at Mt Carmel Junction, Utah, where JOSS was launched from – May 2016. Ten years ago this month, I announced a small experiment on this blog: a developer-friendly journal for research…

I'm happy to annouce my 15th book: Vanilla Web published by Manning Books. It's currently available at MEAP (Early Access Program): you can read it while it's being written and get the final eBook or…

Although the days of every site having an RSS feed have long past, I still find that it remains one of the few ways left to curate your own garden of content on the internet. There’s no…

Almost ten years ago, I moved from WordPress to Jekyll. It felt like time for another change, so I have now moved the site to Hugo. There was no particular need for it, build times weren't too bad,…

I've spent the better part of two decades inventorying public APIs across the U.S. federal government, and the catalog has grown to a point where it deserves its own roundup. There are 211 agencies…

My primary domain ( captnemo.in , where you’re reading this) was suspended by my registry ( .in ) for 3 hours last night (4th May 2026). I discovered the issue roughly 30 minutes after it happened,…

Dia is better than I expected, but with a huge turn-off (or lack thereof).

Olly sent you here, which means I can skip some of what I'd normally say to a cold reader. You already have a list. It's probably been working. Something about how it's running is starting to feel…

Another small this and that post. Blog Stuff I decided to remove all web fonts from my blog. At the end it was nearly 500Kb just for a slightly different font. Well, I used self-hosted WOFF2 Fonts.…

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Who Knows That You Blog? First, this is a response to David’s post: Who knows that you blog? . It is also a response to the other people’s responses that I have seen in my RSS feeds. For the most…

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Added a recent artwork of Aldebaran to CaelOS page. Renovations on the place we'll eventually move into have been taking up some time and energy, so it's nice to be able to make something again.…

Hello, World. The Void is listening. Thoughts Hello, world // Mick's Patch Restarting My Blog (After 10 Years) // Princeyesuraj Hello Bears! A bit about me. // why's thoughts Willkommen im digitalen…

The other day I posted about how you can no longer use Reddit on a phone without downloading their app. Several people wrote in to tell me about libreddit, a great frontend for Reddit that bypasses…

I gamified donations in an organization that gives everything away for free. I volunteer at Noisebridge, a hackerspace in San Francisco. Anyone can walk in off the street and use our 3D printers,…

Heya! So, I'm hosting the bearblog carnival this month! Well, I was supposed to anyways. It's been four days into may now, and... Uh, I kind of forgot. But we're here now! So, the topic for this…

Table of Contents April 2026: The fall of the theorem economy - David Bessis These are some links to interesting posts around the web, with some quick quotes/notes. April 2026: The fall of the…

Most people on the internet hear the term "blog comments" and think ugh (derogatory) so much so that there are t-shirts and pins about how everyone should ignore them outright.As someone…

Welcome person who wants to share something with others. I created this guide because I disliked pretty much every resource I could find about dissemination. I think they teach you the wrong way to…

Amusing ourselves to death This is gonna be a long one.. buckle up I added a little warning when entering my site, and on the blog post page.

“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” L. P. Hartley’s quote has a life completely beyond its origin in the book The Go-Between. I think a lot of people…

I wrote my first website in Notepad. There were no developer ergonomics whatsoever. No syntax highlighting, no linter, no autocomplete, nothing. It was 1996. Since then I’ve written HTML by…

I was featured on Hyde’s Over/Under series this week! Go read it and check out the rest of the series while you’re at it. Each week, Hyde interviews another blogger to get their opinions…