A trip to a zine festival

Who is at the sprints? Sprints at PyCon US are organized by the attendees. The conference provides the space with tables, power strips, Internet connectivity, and, for the first two days, catered…

Watch out for digital zombies on May 4, 2026 It’s fair to say the World-Wide Web has been under heavy fire nearly since it began. “The Web is Dead!” has become a meme headline, much like “The Year of…

Wasted life is wasted time. Patreon shoutouts are NEVER a waste of time though, so as usual, here it is!: Roque Mapache, Vidani, Buttercup, Joe, River Buizel, Sherry, Constantine Justovic, Sparky…

I finally made a page for buttons and other personal-web related links instead of shoving them all in my webmaster page. I had been neglecting to do so for a while because I'm simply not very…

I have forty-four long-form posts since 2019 for your reading pleasure below, but perhaps you’d like to read a few words on how they came to be first? I am happier writing for myself than I ever was…

How do casual blogs like mine retain their interested readers when every distribution channel is degrading?Well, if you scroll to the bottom of this post—or any other post here—you…

I won’t just gaze into the abyss, I’ll maintain uncomfortable eye contact with it. About me For contact and about me see: About Me Blog posts Author: Marta Author: tihyltew Favourite quote Quote The…

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The answer wasn't a better law. It was a better substrate. From Asimov's deadlock to the Companion architecture, 1994 to 2026.

I mistakenly thought that Wendy Reid was on the W3C TAG, I thought this, as each time I have encountered her (including now by the fire), she has struck me as brainiac. Wendy worked accessibility at…

More making the site better with Claude.

Remove the guesswork from feed discovery.

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ImportantEDIT: I WROTE ALL THIS FUCKING SHIT AND FORGOT TO CREDIT THE AUTHOR OF MY JAVASCRIPT CODE! FUCK MY STUPID LIFE! I'M SORRY JONATHAN!The javascript & css for the bluesky comment support from…

As I have been re-scoring documentation sites with my updated afdocs tool, I have had the opportunity to see a snapshot of various docs sites a few weeks apart as the industry is starting to pay a…

The zips are gone again. Clearly my host doesn&#8217;t like zips. I&#8217;m working on importing all the FocusWriter themes to Github, but there&#8217;s a lot &#8230;

Somewhere between talks on day one, I think it was during a hallway conversation about how badly LLM crawlers struggle with rendered DOMs. A question I had been chewing on for months finally…

After writing a two-part series last year about Reddit heavily scaling AI-translated content, I wanted to check in to see how things were going now. Below, I&#8217;ll cover how Reddit&#8217;s AI…

Apparently, they do not accept display: inline/inline-block/inline-flex;. Well, how about that. Today I learned. I kinda see why, but it definitely made this layout a bit harder to accomplish. The…

Another new AO3 site skin ✨

I want to be more consistent in blogging here, but I think the internet has ruined it for me; there is so much friction in me when I open a new post. It was so easy in the early days before…

I was reading Future Perfect's blog the other day about their ideal blog. This led to me sending off a quick email and receiving one back. (SIDE NOTE: It’s nice receiving actual email outside of…

With Mother&#8217;s Day approaching, many people may consider sending flowers. But here is a word of caution: be careful about finding local florists through internet search results &#8212; they…

Sent out a new issue of my newsletter

nikitonsky: I tried to copy a link to a shopping list from Ikea web app. Of course, it’s an app, so links don’t work, you need app to “support” copying a link. For some other reason, Ikea decided…

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The Which Side Are You On? (remix) by Rebel Diaz came out 11 years ago, and it&rsquo;s more relevant than ever&hellip; Gave the money to suckas while our community&rsquo;s still poor Withdrew the…

.no-copy .code-copy-button { display: none !important; } CensusMapper is a web-based Geographic Information System that allows for dynamic mapping of Canadian Census data. CensusMapper is eleven…

scroll down for playlist links... every year i publish a sixty page zine of my best writing over a six month period. the pieces are similar to the writings you'll find on this blog, written very late…

A Proof-of-Concept Browser written in Javascript for minimal Web 2.0 browsing experience. This DOES NOT depend on any browser engine like Blink, Gecko or Webkit. Use an existing HTML rendering engine…

I introduce three “cults of digital aura” in Digital aura and the source of Truth — you can read this without having read it but it will give you more context. Tl;dr audiences judge the authenticity…

Web browsers do an astounding amount of stuff with language - and we're always trying to do more. Like most things that we get "for free" and don't give a lot of attention to, there is a lot more to…

A new food-based metaphor about a potentially emergent category of software.

So I switched to a regular old github repo rather than using Nekoweb's Git, and I configured Deploy2nekoweb. What a blast.

I've always felt something is missing when I look at the weather forecast. Even my own creations of MatService and Skywatch... they are just numbers and dials - not experiences. So I'm experimenting…

I hate typos. Everybody does, but I think it occurs to me way too much. It only gets worse because english is not my first language, but I’m a failure in portuguese too. I consistently get words…

If you can't think of what to write, the problem usually isn't the writing. It's that you're letting too many interesting conversations pass — or not having enough of them in the first place. You're…

So now I play the waiting game. I went through my PayPal and could not for the life of me figure out what this "LemonSqueezy" was that I was paying every month. Duh...... When I cancelled it and got…

This is a longer story from Radioland, my radio trends newsletter. Welcome to Tapt Media, the new owner of a number of talk radio stations across Australia as of May 1. The company is owned by Craig…

I got a new phone number, it’s great! I no longer have to deal with a deluge of political spam from when I donated to a politican 10 years ago! No longer I have pig butchers and cons text me about…

NoteSummary PyCamp is the kind of community event that recharges your batteries and restores your hope that another way of relating to one another, beyond stressful competition and selfish goals, is…

I decided to open source the blog engine, not much of one to begin with, but still people want a simple blogging system without the cruft that happens to go with most blogging engines. The moment its…

A while back I decided to stop using Tailwind for new projects and to just write vanilla CSS instead. But one thing I missed about Tailwind was the colour palette ( here as CSS ). If I wanted a light…

Contents Introduction Highlights Analytics Deployment Tooling Finding my web dev tribe in retirement Eleventy becoming Build Awesome Conclusion Introduction I'm finding it increasingly hard to…

When Google retired Jamboard, a lot of facilitators lost the tool they&rsquo;d been quietly relying on. It wasn&rsquo;t fancy. It just worked in a room full of phones, laptops, and a projector, with…