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Ep #251 Guppy Pimpin In Trip Pants While Debugging IE5 Robbie and I do a mostly whatnot episode about our path getting into tech, playing in bands, and getting into trouble. We sip Glen Morangie…

I’ve been building a website theme. It’s called Popular, after the song Pop!ular by Darren Hayes. A theme whose whole job is helping small communities put on a good show deserved a name…

404 Pages Can Be Cool Wanted to highlight my website’s cool 404 page. That’s all for today… You can view it here.

Yeah, hi, Carlo here. Good on you for being able to overlook all the racism; the “LOL fascism” attitude promoted by both the network’s owner and his algo; the white supremacy shit;…

Just a genuine question that came up in my mind. I've been reading a lot of Insta posts about the (new) algorithm and that you get the most profile views / new followers / engagement if people…

What lives between sharing raw chat transcripts and "I solemnly swear I used AI responsibly"?

A recap and summary of the first ever Homebrew Website Club: Asia Pacific IndieWeb event.

Eight years ago I posted Optical Media Durability and discovered: Surprisingly, I'm getting good data from CD-Rs more than 14 years old, and from DVD-Rs nearly 12 years old. Your mileage may vary.…

For causing such a huge drama, I've gotta say that new site design looks underwhelmingly shitty lmao

As one or two people may know, along with others that have seen it in passing, I've been trying to make it a regular thing to start streaming my gameplay on...

I'm so glad I didn't commit myself to Blaugust. I thought about it, and it would've been cool.. but I also know it would've gotten to the point where I would start feeling resentful for making shit…

For a long time I have considered the beginning of this blog a post on February 3, 2002. But a few days ago I came across a calendar entry showing July 10, 1997, as the day I registered the domain…

From the birdwatching colophon: Posts are written in Markdown because writing requires restraint. I added some new pages to the site recently, including a colophon. I’m pretty sure the first…

Another year has passed, and Relay is now 12 years old.The versions of myself and Stephen who started this podcast network in 2014 feel incredibly different to me. We’ve learned a lot, changed…

Like I did for https://ccid.apdu.fr/ (see Some web statistics about ccid.apdu.fr) I also analysed the web server logs for this blog at https://blog.apdu.fr/. I used the logs from June 2026. The…

Git Links is an unbelievably simple format for permalinks in the code. Imagine a file in your repo refers to mydoc.md:32. You specified the line because files can be large. But an edit to mydoc.md…

Sometimes you gotta admit you're beat. For the last few years I've progressively retreated from online spaces in the name of my own peace and sanity. First, uninstall the mobile apps. While you're at…

I would call myself adjacent to Mememaps on the map of memes. Hence, I decided to start a bearblog to take my contribution to the next level. Please let me know if you are part of mememaps working…

Newsletters are one popular way to publish one’s self-hosted work, including on a paid subscriber/supporter basis. … Newsletter alternatives to SubstackRead more Source

On August 18, 2007, I had the honor of co-organizing Nashville’s very first BarCamp, an “unconference” meant to bring together diverse voices in technology, new media, and entrepreneurship. We held…

AI makes it cheap to build software for exactly one person's workflow. The idea is twenty years old, but suddenly feasible. And it breaks an assumption at the heart of open source collaboration.

Self-portrait / Rolleiflex 2.8D STATUS : Getting rid of something every day feels really good TODO : Decide about moving the external drives back to Linux READING : "Platform Decay" by Martha Wells…

I have long been a fan of Shadertoy website, and the vast collection of computational animations made by people far smarter than I therein. This beautiful fractal-like animation is just 40 lines of…

Some thoughts on the unnarratability of the extremely online life.

There are very few pieces of software that I would consider essential, but uBlock is definitely one of them. I’ve been using it for years, and I genuinely love it. For me, browsing the modern…

Here's some interesting stuff about browsers you might not know, and a new API proposal that might interest you...

A friend let me know about Olly’s recent blog post. Olly owns and operates Pagecord, a very nice blogging service running in the same world as Pika. It sounds like...

Why so much fuss on clarification of Em Dashes (—)? Just grow your own. Human generated.

Folks were looking for a centralized website for Chorus which wasn’t just the repository, so today I threw together another site, MecaGorp, which will be hopefully where I put all future…

How Family Dashboard v3.34 enlarges the weather summary text and removes the AI-generated commentary line — and what six months of daily use on a wall-mounted iPad teaches about readability, service…

I am building a website, for work. It feels like a radical act these days. I am not using an LLM, I am coding with my own hands, wading through documentation, tinkering, reverse engineering, console…

While checking if the train's onboard internet system had improved, I discovered an nice web-based dashboard showing my trip on a map fed with accurate real-time data. One thing led to another, and I…

I went out to dinner and a show with a friend the other day, enjoying some pizza and then wandering over to watch a mediocre blues/country/folk band. This friend was my first roommate from when I…

Four ways to surface AI Mode and AI Overview queries hiding in Search Console, from a custom regex to a free classifier that labels 100,000 queries per run.

What lies in the center of the maze?

Generative content for thumbnails is a turn off from engaging any further with the media that is attached to it.

Towards the end of a long conversation, it becomes increasingly obvious that Emma Kingdon is frustrated.

Today (August 17, 2026) marks my first complete year using Last.fm. It's a shame I didn't discover this great service earlier, knowing it has existed for more than 20 years, and that I've been…

Prose Poetry Code has been running for over a decade. I’ve written 806 posts, only one of which was never uploaded. (As it turns out, things changed, and I no longer needed to say what was…

August Updates and Links I genuinely don’t understand how it’s the middle of August already. I think my brain is still stuck somewhere back in April? Summer was somehow both a million years long, and…

"Open Source" Transparency: A Regulatory Analysis (#OnyxAudit) Prepared 14 August 2026. Evidentiary tiers: Tier A = verified against a primary source (regulation text, official regulator document,…

This is sacrilegious among some parts of Apple fandom, but I like using web apps. Oh, sure, I can imagine a world in which there’s a carefully crafted Mac app that has all the functions of a website…

How I browse the Web with uBlock (Hard Mode) Figure 1: Actually I surf with Images off I have been asked quite a few times, whenever I show my browsing setup to people, Why don't you use the web as a…

I've seen a lot of posts here and elsewhere that have this little badge at the bottom: At first I found it kinda cute and made a mental note to add it to my template, but after a very short time I…

If you have not seen my previous posts, I have been working on nixpkgs-multiverse. It is a tool that lets you pin any package to any version it ever shipped, from one flake input.1 nixpkgs-multiverse…

It's more than 7 years, closer to 10 years I suppose, since I've started watching some videos made by that person. Long run, I'd say. So what are they? What is that so captivating for me in his…

Back in the 90s a notably pedantic coworker informed us ignorant peasants that, according to International Electrotechnical Commission standard IEC 80000-13:2008, disks and memory were now to be…

GitHub has been having enough outages lately that people are starting to ask whether it makes sense to look elsewhere. Ever since Github got acquired by Microsoft it started getting bloated and…