To state the obvious: when reading text on the Internet in 2026, there's really no guarantee that it was written by a human....

Language is constantly evolving, particularly in some communities. Not everybody is ready for it at all times. I, for instance, cannot stand that my community is now constantly “cooking” or “cooked”,…

Maybe I'm wrong, but at least on the internet, it feels like we're trying to minimize cognitive friction at all costs. I suspect that's because most major platforms incentivize attention and…

Webrings are alliances of websites. They are clubs of a sort where each member links to two other members to either side of them and so a long chain of websites is formed, each linking to the next…

I was pleased to deliver the following presentation at Write The Docs Portland , a fantastic conference for technical writers and anyone who cares about documentation. I’ve included links inline and…

I ran joost.blog through Cloudflare's isitagentready.com and got a 25. Here's what I built to close the gaps: markdown content negotiation, Content Signals, Link headers, an API catalog, an agent…

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It is not uncommon to meet people in real life who know this blog. Just the other day I got to talking to someone who had overheard me discussing some compiler thing with a colleague and asked if…

How agents drive a browser in 2026: autonomous loops, hybrid primitives, computer-use, code mode. Frameworks, cloud infra, benchmarks, prompt injection.

Happenings Doesn’t feel like much has happened this week. Took the kids for a walk in the woods yesterday, a bit of cooking today. A new pizza place opened in my small town doing proper…

This post relies on subresources (styles and scripts) that your feed reader will not load. You may want to click through for this one. While chatting with Anne the other day I casually asserted that…

Just found out about IndieWeb Fiction Carnival and I'm screaming inside as I have to go sleep. I'll work on this. And if I get into it, I might host one myself! #blogging #writing #IndieWebThank you…

We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to move away from big tech!

If you have been following this website for a while, you might have noticed that a newsletter has been quietly running in the background. Ten issues in, I realized I never actually sat down and wrote…

I've been told not to, but I read every one. I treat them as data, not conversation.

I wrote about building websites with LLMs — (L)ots of (L)ittle ht(M)l page(s) — and I think it’s time for a post-mortem on that approach: I like it. I’ve tweaked a few things from that original post…

I switched my domains from GoDaddy to Porkbun and cut my yearly bill in half. Here's how the transfer works and what to watch out for with DNS records.

Is there a meme that's the opposite of that Onion “Worst person you know makes a valid point” headline? When someone you respect makes repulsive assertions. Patrick McKenzie is sharp, and I like his…

Brian: I’m Brian Hall. And today, I can’t wait, we’re talking about writing tools, talking about your writing stack. And we’ll actually spread this out over two episodes.…

Scribbled Line This is my scribbled line, its a collection of things I find interesting or want to remember. Here you can find a good summary of my world views in the writings I find important and…

I always enjoyed making paper air planes since I was a kid, and checking out books from the library on folding different models. I was never that good compared to some of my friends, but I still…

Maladaptive frugality hit the front page of Hacker News. The ensuing discussion resonated with me a lot, and these two comments were the most relatable: Amarant wrote, “Whenever I have something a…

Utah’s stupid new law “prohibits covered websites from sharing instructions on how to use a VPN to bypass age checks.” It’s probably illegal for minors to access this site…

Google updated its Search Console documentation TWICE after the post I wrote exactly one month ago (on April 3, 2026). I documented how Google’s initial… The post Google updated its GSC…

Voor de oplettende lezer van de afgelopen posts: Ja, die link naar Elmine is gemaakt met mijn nieuwe blogpost-extensie-mac-app-deluxe waar ik het in een eerdere post al over had. Op mijn Mac draait…

We sell lots in the UK (services and goods), and handle UK VAT, obviously. Some of you may be surprised that A&A sell all over the world as well - development circuit boards. I have mentioned it, I…

Print your own Join the Fediverse mini-zine!

In the current debate regarding EU’s independence of US software providers, I asked myself: how far is Germany? Germany is not only my country of birth. It also has the largest GDP in Europe…

One must keep the feeds in order.

I decided to start a new blog and write about various topics from what I read online and my interests. Recently I've been getting back into reading and spending time in my thoughts and less online.…

Yesterday, I mentioned I stumbled upon Bubbles, a Hacker News (if you’re familiar) like site aimed specifically at blogs, with an attempt to capture less-techy content. I’ve been enjoying…

Let's say we have two Pinterest accounts, Profile A and Profile B. Profile A has Board A. We want to move this board to Profile B. Here is a way that I follow.

# Failed Transmission *2026-04-10*

I forgot to update my RSS feed. I added some blogs and a looks page.

Over the past 24 hours I've read three blog posts that I've been weaving together in my head. Sometimes that weaving is most successfully done while writing, and I suppose it makes sense to blog…

Whenever I'm traveling or photographing airplanes (or both), I use snapshots taken with my smartphone camera as a visual diary of my adventures. Normally, I'd dump them into my photo library and…

Back in the early 2000s when I worked at a publishing company, we used to have this conversation all the time. That people actually care about their hobbies - so if you make something good for them,…

If you open my rss feed url in your browser, you’ll won’t see raw XML content anymore, but a styled HTML page with the same header and footer as the main site, and a list of recent posts…

I have done what I can to prevent increased traffic from creepy crawly scraping bots, but it seems mostly useless unless I make things more complicated for humans. When I tried to find answers on how…

I have a couple of big D-days approaching next week, one professional and one personal. By Saturday (Thursday and Friday are well and truly written off) I should have an idea of what I (that “I”!)…

tl;dr: ArgotWhatsapp, Messenger, Signal, Discord, Teams, SlackSome better than others, some truly encrypted and some not. What they all have in common is that they're controlled by one single entity…

2026/05/03: new weekly akira + new log entry

If you’re the sun, I’m a black hole – The Stephen Hawking, Say Anything

From my travels on the small web to Steven Pressfield's theory of creative Resistance, this month's Field Notes is about people who create things because they care – not to chase clout, acclaim, or…

Due to health reasons I did not have the energy to write individual status updates for February & March, so I’ll just combine them with the April update: In February I cleaned out my GitHub…

been meaning to redo my about page code so its cleaner and less sloppy with tons of inline styling. actual grid layout now! hopefully it looks better on mobile too.

Hello wonderful people inside of the internet and welcome to the end of another week on planet earth! This week i have been making some updates to my Fours page, with some fancy new graphics. I still…

The rain that fell most of the night has stopped. It’s a dull, quiet, much more typical May temperature day, which makes a change from the 27℃ and 25℃ of the last two. I’ve been on leave all week. It…

My dear reader, and one day, I hope, to call each other friends—welcome to the little corner I call my home. It’s not much; it’s not grandiose; it may not even be comfortable... [ Continue reading...…

recently decided to get a project space set up in an anytype channel for when the game will need collaboration on art and stuff down the line. i'd had a poke around anytype a year or two ago and…