If I weren’t going on sabbatical soon, and if I were so inclined to update my resume, I too would be highlighting the “tech sovereignty” work I’ve done. It’s not resume…

On writing, finding your voice, and making a corner of the internet yours.

I'm currently working on adding #Micropub support to #Lamb . This makes posting to Lamb accessible from phones and laptops/desktops, terminal and other places using any client that supports this open…

There’s a frequent lament of missing the “old” Internet. It’s different for every person that thinks it, but it’s usually a feeling of loss for things like personal websites, blogs, RSS feeds, quirky…

Just a quick note before we get into this issue. We're moving back to a once per week cadence on Fridays after this issue. We've got a lot on in the studio right now, so making time to curate two…

It’s easy to forget, now that so many computer interfaces seem to be getting more inscrutable, that in the early 1990s the shift from the command line to graphical interfaces and the desire to…

The online publication Ixbt.com published "The National Messenger Max Has Opened Up New Business Opportunities: Integration Is Available for More Than 8 Million Companies and Individual…

Good night, Good work. Sleep well. I’ll most likely kill you in the morning.

If we are to take Postman, Adam’s, and the Futurists understanding of technology and movement as generation defining. Then we should do the same for the second “micro generation” following the…

Hi! Yep: Today, I’m asking you to financially support Now I Know For 15 years, I’ve been writing Now I Know — a little story in your inbox most weekdays, sharing surprising, curious, and often weird…

Last week I spoke at the very lovely Web Day Out in Brighton. My talk was about browser support, based on the work I’ve done over the past almost five years on Baseline. I ran through the…

This post is the fourth and last in a series comparing the same sample blog in Web Origami and Eleventy : Eleventy version: Source code and Demo Origami version: Source code and Demo As a very crude…

Should doctors publicly share the knowledge and insights they gain in their practice? Yes. Do doctors need to go through a costly, cumbersome submission-publishing process in a scientific journal…

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…

Overview I’ve always admired people who release web toys for the anonymous public to play with. I’m also interested in bridging the gap between online spaces and real life. In some ways,…

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

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…

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.…

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…

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,…

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

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…

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…

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…

dear vsb12,

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…

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…

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…