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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

For three years now, I've dutifully filled out my gorgeous Hobonichi Weeks planner every single day. As someone who hates blank pages, I really believed I had achieved the elusive planner peace that…

TL;DR: A frustrated dive into Zola’s jump to Tera 2 — where macros vanish, shortcodes die, components misbehave, and a “20‑minute migration” turns into hours of template chaos. Spoiler: I rolled back…

Inside ILLUMINATION, one of Medium's biggest publication empires "We introduced many editors and left his introduction towards the end, as he is extremely busy with a full-time job and orchestrating…

The Ask LukeW feature on my Web site has been answering people's product design questions using my writings, talks, images, and videos for over three years. During that time, I've seen people ask…

after a 4 month hiatus I'm back to updating my website (despite still being super busy at work)! I changed up the art page to only display my original character artwork, removed iframes, and uploaded…

Wow, it's the site's 54 millionth hit. These "hits" aren't a measure of humans visiting pages; that count would be much lower. It's just requests to the website: every time a robot visits some page,…

New business models emerge in which your shopping experience gets recorded and cut for social media money.

Now that I have moved my blog from Blogspot to my own server (see Blog moved to https://blog.apdu.fr/) I am now able to analyse the web server logs for https://ccid.apdu.fr/. I used the logs from…

As many parts of the Internet continue to get worse, I figured it was time to improve my own little plot. I mean, I’m always tinkering, making small tweaks regularly. Did you know I keep /now…

This week my guest is James Sweeting. He’s a lecturer/researcher in Game Studies with a focus on nostalgia, hauntology, and media form. He manages a blog and also Relative Nostalgia. You can…

Aug/17/2026 ☘ Hi hi I wrote something for my blog for the first time this year yay! ☘ Also published a post that was hidden away in my files

Updated the DVD and CD yet again. I also did some categorisation and CSS tweaks on both of the pages respectfully.

I can't believe this is still a thing but I feel like it has to be said. I browse a lot of communities online on various topics that have no geographical significance and, for some reason, a lot of…

A personal update on what’s kept me away from Note Apps, including a new coffee-roaster project, the surprising rise of AI-assisted “vibe coding,” and Microsoft’s new Markdown support in OneDrive and…

Hindi matatagpuan sa Bear Blog Discovery feed ang pinagsasabi ko dito, ngunit puwede mo itong makita gamit ng RSS at ibang pampublikong feed. Kadalasan itong sinasabi kung nagsasawa na ako sa ulam sa…

Three practical automation tools that compound together. Schedule multi-platform social posts via Buffer's GraphQL API, generate Techybara comics in a font cloned from my own handwriting, and add…

The browser picks black or white against a color so you stop pairing text and background by hand.

One of my more popular open source projects is Shell Bling Ubuntu, which, contrary to its name, actually supports many different operating systems these days: modern macOS, Alpine, Fedora 40 and up,…

Every element I use for the basic structure of a HTML document, with explanations why. Five years ago, I shared the HTML boilerplate I use for most of my projects. Since then, a lot has happened in…

Every element I use for the basic structure of a HTML document, with explanations why. Five years ago, I shared the HTML boilerplate I use for most of my projects. Since then, a lot has happened in…