A recipe to make a zoom loupe that follows the pointer, using nested SVGs, `viewBox`, and ``

GitHub’s down again today, so I think I’ll spend the time moving to a self-hosted Forge. I’ve long been an advocate for decentralizing software development, but over the years it…

With GitHub down once again, I decided to write this long-overdue blog post. This was the top comment on Hacker News when I started writing this: For a variety of reasons, we had a centralized place…

Here’s a meta post for you, if there ever was one: if someone shared this post with you and a preview image showed up, that image was generated by the thing this post describes. The post is its…

This site is a long-running collection of notes, essays, and small software projects. These articles are good introductions to some recurring concerns: clear thought, making things in the real world,…

The pale is growing

Thoughts on how the open source world is changing in the AI era, not always for the better.

Wednesday's front page. The masthead is set in Chomsky , which is a free blackletter face inspired by the New York Times, and the photo is NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day . Two weeks ago I bought…

I was embarrassed by how bloated the app had gotten, so I spent two weeks rebuilding it from scratch around simplifying and explaining.

The last post was only the decisions where something got measured and the measurement changed the drawing. This one is about the decision underneath all of them, the one taken before any of that…

A longstanding grievance with several social media platforms has been how they promote the use of AI in content creation, but for all the…

My writing now lives at furkanbayraktar.com. Subscribe to the new feed at furkanbayraktar.com/atom.xml.

A bug comes in, or someone shows me a page doing something surprising, and the question is always the same one. Is that what the spec says? Not what we all assume it says, and not what Gecko happens…

Possibly the longest blog post title evvvveeeer! One of the main things I do for work is manage the Green Web Dataset , a public dataset of website hosting and infrastructure providers who have…

gtucker.io https://gtucker.io/talks/ -Conferences can be a powerful source of inspiration. It’s definitely the case when hundreds, sometimes thousands of people get together around common…

Rift by Brian J. N. Davis I fed some of my songs through Google's AI chatbot, Gemini, to see what would happen. That may sound like the precursor to a joke --a joke that will allow me to spend…

It's been about 5 years since I was working heavily on documentation and metadata at Mozilla. I wrote a bunch about this at the time: A principled reorganization of docs.telemetry.mozilla.org (May…

I’m trying to finish those stupid DK Bananza Challenges that Nintendo added to the Switch 2 and I’d like to write up my feelings about them. I’m torn between just adding an update…

Guten Tag! Guten Tag! 👋 Have you heard of the new Git history commands? Are you overwhelmed by Chrome's performance profiler? And do you use the inert attribute in your sites? Turn on the Web Weekly…

I've really been digging Shelv as a way to play music from my home server. Works great on the phone and the desktop, streams right from my Navidrome. Quite nice.

I’m resurrecting an old tag after almost 4 years (!!!) because I wanted to note (to myself mostly) that I’ve added webmentions to my site, as well as proper Bridgy support. I think that means that my…

nikitonsky: The only option I understand is Weekly. #LinkedIn #Notifications #Writing #Radiobuttons

There’s a couple of different ways to use social media. There’s obviously a big dichotomy between posting and scrolling. Some people only care about posting and don’t care as much about the…

another epic experiment from a social media company that went nowhere

I don’t know why, but when I start a new blog, there’s a tendency for posts to get longer and more complicated over time. It could be a confidence thing, it could be that I just don’t know when to…

One new blog and theres probably more to this update too that I cant be assed to write here. Because whether or not I do it is a maybe. and I'm writing this before I do it lol....

Brennan Brown recently blogged about a checklist he went through to make sure his website had everything it needed to thrive. The checklist he used is here and it’s maintained by Joost de Valk,…

NOTE-(The short version is at the end of this article/post)- “The End of Reading Is Here” is a great title for a magazine like The Atlantic. I can see why a writer or editor would use a phrase like…

Wanted to respond to one of the top blog posts in the Bear Blog Discover feed recently. The author says it would be nice to be able to limit a phone's ability to access only one app and to hide…

I haven't seen an AD on YouTube in at least a decade with various forms of ad-block, most recently Adguard on my router and uBlock Origin on all of my devices.So why do people pay for YouTube…

Back in January, I started an experiment⁠ by turning this website into a social media timeline-like experience. But now, we’re back to the roots⁠. I like how each iteration of my personal website…

Recording here the JavaScript implementation for replacing the number-based title display like “No.123” that is automatically generated on Tegalog individual pages (URLs with postid…

Going viral was never the goal. The organising has to happen somewhere else.

In 2024 “Owncasts” for iOS was released as a side project to give a native interface on the iPhone and AppleTV. I highly recommend you read the first post in this series: Owncasts for iOS…

Not a screenshot of despair. But only because it’s not a screenshot.

Another one of these graph t-SNE plots but this time for reddit

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Here is what I know about popovers. Most of popovers are avoidable Or, to put it strongly, popover is the most stupid thing you can do (in Russian, use browser translation). Really, putting content…

This Month on Table 46 I went to Gen Con this month and wrote up what I did there! A late addition! IsaacIsAfraid has put out a call for Indonesia-related blog posts for Indonesia's indepencdence…

I partook in Skep's potluck last year, and so I will again!! Eggs count as yellow, right...? ... honestly I did NOT keep in mind the exact quantities I used, but this was a udon + shrimp recipe I did…

Why I keep coming back to Flickr—and a few of the photographers there who have taught me new ways of seeing.

I am, much to my chagrin, on Twitter. I first joined Twitter in 2011. I deleted my account in 2020 and started posting again in about May of this year, to "develop my writing career."

tl;dr I made a website you can upload a photo of the night sky (optimized for photos taken with a phonecam) and get an annotated version showing the identified stars, planets, and other solar system…

TLDR: There is no clean way to fix this. But there is a hacky workaround.

If you've ever tried editing Wikipedia, you might have been instantly reverted. My impression is that this is what happens to most people's first edits, and it's incredibly discouraging. The reasons…

Back in 2018, I was writing articles and speaking to tech crowds about an Internet of Natural Things, trying to convince them that there was an increasing desire to use our devices to connect with…

There’s a growing trend of de-Googling, de-Appling, and other de-words these days. That includes de-Spotifying — because of the CEO’s actions, low payouts to artists, and AI taking over…

Stole the best idea I’ve seen on someone else’s site: a 64x64 board anyone can paint, one pixel every thirty seconds. It’s four kilobytes of text on my server, and it’ll be…