Of course, you can’t spell Matt Spitz without AI. I did some Cloudfront, Route 53, and ACM gymnastics, and now the default domain name for this website is mttsptz.ai. All of the links from…

Governments around the world are introducing age-verification and youth social-media laws, but these policies may be doing far more than protecting children. They are quietly pushing identity into…

Reading Time: 36 minutes   Hello! Do you remember the last time that everything *didn’t* feel like it was teetering on the verge of total collapse? No, me neither; EXCITING, ISN’T IT? Anyway,…

Everyone I discuss either age verification, or the forthcoming Android app installation…

Mass-Driver just released MD UI , a neo-grotesque type family that’s been designed to compliment Rutherford Craze and Co.’s already excellent mono-space . And just as the name implies, MD UI is…

We are sad, but grateful too.

Hello, Internet. I’ve had a lot of things going recently. If you have any knowledge of Pokémon, you could consider this an evolution. My new blog is at https://dalmatian.life/ and yes, that…

nixersnewsletter — 2026-03-20

Truth be told, this is the first blog I've ever had. I've read so many other Bear bloggers mentioning how they've been blogging their whole lives. I never had the instinct. One of the reasons I've…

Added a new webring, tweaked some styling all over the place, and updated the Sol giffypet page to layout 3.0 finally. Only 4 pages still on the old code.

I was ignoring it, only making veiled references to it. But I think I'm just going to say it at this point. Can I Be Un-Banned? Today makes one month since my infamous post that seemingly tripped the…

Oh, neat! (I said to myself): Within Sigil (an ePub checking/editing tool), you can add a plugin to run Ace (an accessibility checking tool)! …What’s that? (I said to myself.) The plugin doesn’t work…

Dream server room. The last few days here I've been moving the CozyNet site to a different hosting provider. Originally CozyNet was setup on a VPS with Afterburst, but unfortunately they're planning…

After getting my first Forgejo PR merged today I was struck by the realisation that I finally have a linkable public example of a type of accessibility bugfix that's been a recurring thing for years…

Over the past few years, I have been toying around with my static site generator, Lumaca . What sets Lumaca apart from the plethora of other static site generators loose in the world? Very little,…

enerally, you can use reader mode to get around these paywalls to view the article. But the other day I mistakenly stumbled on a new way to do it for the Star Tribune: if you scroll down to the…

I'm investigating alternatives to GitHub Pages for hosting this blog.

Updated the Pokémon shrine layout a bit, added new merchandise and a card to my collection, and refreshed my list of favorite Pokémon. New statuses have been posted. A new entry was added to the…

dear vsb12,

Hi wiki friends! We moved the GTA Wiki off Fandom last weekend, so that’s kicked off a new round of wiki admins finding my blog post and asking for advice on how to get their wikis off Fandom too.…

The Social Smolnet It might have been an email thread. Or a lobste.rs comment. It was a discussion about yet another attempt at a new decentralized social protocol. And we reached the conclusion that…

I didn’t leave the internet—the internet left me. And despite the “it’s not X it’s Y” structure of the previous sentence, and the em-dash used, a real human wrote this. Or more accurately: is…

enerally, you can use reader mode to get around these paywalls to view the article. But the other day I mistakenly stumbled on a new way to do it for the Star Tribune: if you scroll down to the…

My personal tech stack in 2026 I previously did a post like this in the beginning of 2025. This is updated version for 2026. My personal tech stack in 2026 Email Drive Search Blogging Microblogging…

For a brief amount of time, I had a proper comment section on my blog. It was based on selfhosting isso . But it was a pain to handle the spam and it was rarely used by anyone. So I decided to remove…

Hello friends! This blog here, the very one you're reading, well, she's one year old! cue flying confetti and bell ringing noises Technically, she's a year and 5 days old, but I'm sure she doesn't…

NetNewsWire of Yore had an Error Log window (on Mac) which could help you figure out what’s going on when a feed or account is acting weird — when it’s stopped updating, for instance. NetNewsWire…

Poster, Höchstspannungsleitungen; Designed by Robert Probst; USA; Gift of Various Donors; 1981-29-221, at the Cooper Hewitt museum.Found on The Tenth Muse, an explorer of art from a number of museums…

Country estates.  Buffalo trace.  Woodland grove.  Rolling acres.  Everybody is aware of it, even if they haven’t actively noticed it.  It’s the adoption of rural, almost…

Backups, bad slides, quite a lot of links, couple of pictures, what more do you need?

Book censorship is very, very, important to me, so when I see libraries that directly challenge book censorship, well, I love them! I’ve written many times in my blog about why I love libraries and…

This is my annual list of DjangoCon US talks I’d like to see. I have been doing this since 2015, and it’s one of my favorite traditions. DjangoCon US 2026 is in Chicago this year, August…

I put together another zine of indie game recs, this time featuring ten recommendations! You can find it here at Zines Forever. Last time I posted my zine, I didn't realize you can actually zoom in…

Welcome to your primer on a post-Spotify/Apple Music/Amazon Music/Youtube Music future. Shit sucks, so we fix it. A range of options from "I just need something new to sign up for" to "I'll just make…

I'm very excited to be participating in two events for A Writer's Party here in Philadelphia this Saturday! The first, blogs without the bullshit, will be a workshop focused on getting folks started…

Just to let everyone know, I've migrated CozyNet to a new hosting provider (BlueHost.) So far everything seems to be functioning. If you see any issues then let me know. I suggest refreshing your…

Clubhouse, Twitter Spaces, Fireside.. what's the big deal about social audio?

tags #internet The Domain Name System, or DNS, is a system for establishing globally unique, human-readable names that correspond to various types of network resources, most commonly IP addresses.…

Testing custom background patterns in the feed.

Finally getting around to putting more music on my site! I've got a new page: The Shed. It's part partice diary, part musical sketchbook. Today I made an all-acoustic version of the forest theme from…

I was reading paco’s post and I was about to send an encouraging email only to find their blog doesn’t have a way for me to contact them. So I guess I’ll make one of those “Re:” posts that are…

Post last updated 3 days, 15 hours ago Gary's self host EVERYTHING appeared on my RSS feed today and I wanted to add a few impressions after toying around with a homelab myself for some time. The…

hundred rabbits and i share a similar philosophy , which is how i first found them through our interest circles. they are: an artist collective that documents low-tech solutions with the hope of…

The following are two emails I sent to my member of parliament on March 13 and 18 respectively. I encourage everybody to read, copy, and take inspiration from these. Hi <MP Name> I’m writing to…

https://dominicroye.github.io/color-for-geoscience/ A set of palettes used in geographical visualization, easily copyable via bsky

ancient errors in itunes

No sense of irony.

“If we lose this as a public good and as a free public service, we will have lost everything,” says Mariame Kaba.

I've never lived in the US, yet I feel as if my life has been shaped by them