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 4 days, 9 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

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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.

As I was building out this blog in its current form I had the "written by a human/ not by ai " badge living in my footer for a while. This seems to be pretty ubiquitous in the indie web community at…

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Websites using tracking parameters on their internal links will encounter serious crawl budget waste and analytics issues. This internal tracking setup is outdated and dangerous. On large…

Though I’m not currently disabled, I spent several years of my childhood chronically ill without a diagnosis (followed by emergency surgery and a full recovery). I’ve suffered shoulder injuries that…

If anyone has tried to access this blog over the last few months, they may have encountered different messages depending on the various breakdowns I’ve been encountering. I have had domain…

Having an App Store is fine. <em>Only</em> having an App Store is not. Or: <strong>the right to install</strong>.

Server-rendered web components require no javascript up front. Declarative Shadow DOM let's you render your components' shadow roots before the page finishes loading. While the Lit framework's…

I don’t recall exactly what led me to ask this question, let alone why I thought about asking ChatGPT about it… but it’s a sentiment I’ve had for a while and it seems to be getting worse. I was…

From 15th February to 17th March , we hosted the first Grizzly Gazette Creation Festival ! People were free to create anything for the platform and its users, like code snippets, themes, buttons,…

This week I’ve been in Berlin for FOSS Backstage 2026. This is perhaps the 6th time I’ve attended, I think? It’s a completely unique event which explores what goes on behind open…

Update time!The highlight of this update is our new blogpost updating you on where we've been this entire time! It's not required reading, but it'd be nice if you gave it a look.Other than that…

Last week I attended FOSSAsia Summit 2026 in Bankok. This already seems a long time ago, as I’ve been in Berlin this week for FOSSBackstage (see other blog post, later today). [Photos]…

Over the past year and a half, the WordPress ecosystem has been consumed by the dispute between Automattic and WP Engine. The legal battles, the public confrontations, the hostile takeover of…

I’ve been running Plausible for my website analytics for over four years. They do a great job as a managed service and I really like their team…but I have a Kubernetes cluster on Hetzner…

For writers who approach a newsletter with intention, it’s one of the most powerful—and genuinely scalable—channels available today.

Gateway To The North - Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan [2020] "It is an endeavour to provide a balanced town in which the motor car has certain privileges, public transport has certain…

This post is the third 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 This post looks at another…

Extensions Get Chrome version Get Firefox version Intro This is a description for a tool to measure HTML and it’s tag “waste”. Main functionality is to measure how much tags (and…

dear readers, welcome to my first post! this is my blog, a place where I'll be sharing my very random thoughts, un-thoroughly planned essays, and opinions that have nowhere to go except the internet.…

Unregulated advertising is killing the web.Published on 2026-03-19

Scientific or Manifest or...?

Science of Human Writing Facilitated Communication And occasional, as other topics arise, back here at OILF.

​Yesterday, according to reporting from Steven Greenstreet of the New York Post, the White House registered the domain names alien.gov and aliens.gov, presumably in conjunction with Pres.…

Just watching the metal birds take-off. Sorry for the grainy photo. Whenever I feel emotionally tired, I decide to go to the airport for some plane spotting. I love planes, for no reason. Watching a…

A few years ago, I was seized by the sudden, irrational, and self-destructive urge to learn more about my family history. The software I've been using since then to construct my family tree is…

I recently wrote a five-part series about rebuilding my personal website — migrating from Jekyll to Hugo, redesigning the layout, translating everything into Spanish, optimizing for mobile, and…

By default, your Pure Blog homepage shows your latest posts. You can also set a regular page as the homepage via Settings, but sometimes you want something more custom — a hand-crafted landing page,…

One thing I've noticed in the last few months of intentionally monitoring it - the headlines on the homepage of Fox News are always focused on specific people and characters. They're obsessed with…

I once bought the domain insulatedplasterboard.com for $10. This was around 2010. I'd figured out that exact-match domains for keywords with decent search volume got practically handed a first-page…

Today's site addition is the Disney Comparamatrix . This is a project I created a long time ago, but had been left rather unmaintained. By incorporating it into my website, I hope to make it easier…

The Ruby community doesn't have a great documentation theme. So I made one. Jekyll VitePress Theme brings VitePress's docs UX to Jekyll.

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I received a kind message from a mutual friend (let's face it, if you're reading this blog, you'll know Peter) and he gently pointed out that my lack of an update had prompted him to wonder if my…

If you have a domain name, you possess (ok, rent) your very own little corner of the internet. Congrats! When you now publish a Go module as github.com/jo-m/mymodule, you hand over part of that…

Feel free to scream into The Void. The Void is listening. The Void is screaming. Hello World… // Version's of Truth there & back again // heck First Post + Site CSS // Emerson Wick Screaming in the…

Meta's metaverse pivot: what's really happening with Horizon Worlds?