For those of you who'd rather read the input tokens than the output tokens, here's the prompt behind the last post.

If you’ve visited the site before, you might notice things look a bit different. I did some spring cleaning. New theme, new hosting, and a couple of smaller tweaks under the hood. Here’s…

Draft This draft is a work-in-progress. Technical writers generally agree that accuracy and clarity are primary attributes of good documentation. Occasionally, they ask whether “beauty” is important…

I just shipped jakartaairportcgk.com , a fast and easy-to-access website to browse all CGK airport info. Live arrival/departure schedule, skytrain (Kalayang) schedule, terminal facilities, and…

May 2026 The Only Thing Worse Than Spirit Airlines www.theatlantic.com Why TUIs Are Back wiki.alcidesfonseca.com · comments Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons www.drive.com.au ·…

Thirdleft Sessions by Louisload Sadly, it’s been two or three years since I’ve played music. And two years since my last blog post. It’s only expected because life has been a mess.…

Our homepage was ranking around position 3 for our own brand name. Last week it dropped to 113. Google's ShipClip entity got assigned to our Instagram profile. Fixing it required structured data…

it all began with a brilliant video released by the venerable Dammit Jeff - How to ACTUALLY quit spotify! A fairly engaging introduction into the weird and wonderfully rewarding world of reclaiming…

Books and some pages I read in April 2026 Non-fiction Vintage Didion by Joan Didion (2004) 200 pages 3 stars A collection of previously published essays focussed on US politics. The essays date from…

There is no ethical use of so-called GenAI. It is always extremely disappointing to see it.

Another newcomer on Bearblog. Astonishing. After far too much reflection, punctuated by far too many coffees, I’m still not quite sure what will be written here. It’s unlikely that I’ll write…

At school last week in art, I was learning about creative commons licenses. Because I am making a photography book and I need to license it under something and I dont think all rights should be…

Hello from my home in Helsinki! This is NordLetter #, a weekly newsletter on living and walking in Finland. Each week I share some of the interesting things I found on the web. To follow the series,…

This is fun. I was into the cheese banter with some friends over on Mastodon – as one does – and I came up with a clever phrase that I thought would make a clever joke. At least I thought…

Although my site isn't designed to fit into the academic world, occasionally an academic paper will cite one of my pages. Everyone uses a different format. That got me wondering if there are is a…

404 Media cites a study claiming a third of new websites are IA-Generated. The study measured sites created since 2022. This is one of those findings that strikes me as hard to believe at first, and…

The Solid Convergence, May 2, 2026 (in which yesterday's cathedral grows its first door, the old bridge confesses to losing 2,282 rows it had never been asked about, the auditor learns to audit...

I've been reading some posts on the "Discovery" section and noticed that quite a few of them talk about the negative effects of social media and the internet in general, as well as how people came to…

SPECIMEN #017: Affiliatus kajibius The Platform Prophet: Or How to Earn $148,754 by Teaching Others to Earn $148,754 Using the Same Tool You Are Promoting Classification: Residual Income Evangelist /…

I am a smolweb advocate and, sometimes, I use LLMs. 2026-05-02 19:15 I spend a lot of time thinking about simplicity. Fewer dependencies, lighter pages, tools that do one thing well. So yes, it might…

I was hoping the site revamp would be quicker, but alas; for context, I've been moving my site onto using a static site generator, that namely being 11ty , mostly to make it easier to create/edit…

Quick post here about an online 'zine' that I enjoy reading. It's 'old web' focused. Check it out. https://elpis.ws/cgi-bin/cms/ ⤻ Yours Truly, [Redacted]

May is finally here, one of the best months of the year. The temperature is finally rising, the sun is shining, and life starts to feel just a little bit better. New month also means new links. This…

I Love You Crystal Baby on capybaras in the wild Morning Campground Observations in Southeast Georgia Johnson Rodding You should aim to make Fuck You money Bad Bunny Sucks Tim Has Finished Cooking…

Read on the website: There’s a bunch of guiding principles I follow when blogging to ensure what I do is kind to others. Here are some.

Wikipedia has long been based on one of its most important principles – the neutral point of view (NPOV). In theory, this means that every article should present facts without bias. In…

Clan is built by people who care about independent infrastructure and want it to be easier to run, share, and improve. The wider Clan community is where we coordinate work, help each other, and…

It’s been quite a week for GitHub and not in a good way.

Stuff I Did Another CMS Swap – I remade Korora Solutions on WordPress+Divi and went live with it. I don’t have any sites running on Drupal anymore. I really did enjoy my time there, but I…

A whole lot of news and a very silly business plan.

Completed Attending the 4th Solid Symposium

Commented on Attending the 4th Solid Symposium

After some trial and error, I finally have a working version of a personal plug-in that I created for myself that allows me to post directly to my blog without logging into Micro.blog. This post is…

The platform math that rewards repackaging over judgment, and why practitioners who ship real work win long-term anyway. A breakdown of urgency loops, borrowed authority, and the structural bet…

Auto-posting bookmarks to the Fediverse...

Once upon a time people had ~ blogrolls ~ Well here in 2026, we have wander pages (a la James’ Coffee Blog ). A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry by Bret Devereaux: Do you like reading about the…

Building client-side routing with vanilla JavaScript: What started as a simple experiment revealed the hidden complexity that SPA frameworks solve for you.

David at Forking Mad asked : Question for the audience: Do you tell people you blog? He talks about his adversity towards sharing their blog with offline friends. I was reflecting on this recently,…

This post will be just a complaint with no real solution, but it’s worth keeping as a record of how we perceive our times. Consider yourself warned. In October 2025, the main AWS region went…

Does your blog still render in IE6? I got really curious a short while back, if this very blog would still be somewhat readable in the crown prince of terrible browsers, also known as IE6 . And,…

tag(s): #books #emacs #meta #link-post It's been a while since I did one of those "three links with commentary" posts. So, why not? And why not more than three. During the last couple weeks I…

a love letter to the personal website

Let's go over what I've done this April. Journal Added: 1 new entry. Review Corner Manga: TSUBASA RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE. Movies: The Super Mario Bros. Movie [2023]. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie [2026].…

That's the name of this site . You can talk to an "ai" or be one yourself. It's pretty fun, and I spent about an hour on it yesterday, switching between asking questions and then answering them when…

One of the earliest blog posts I made before I somewhat abandoned writing blog posts in lieu of this "microblogging social media" hype train we all rode for a decade was titled…

Back in the old times, The Internet was pumped directly in to your house through a pipe. It was the same pipe that was used for the analogue telephone and so it came with various caveats that we just…

Blog post about blogging and blogs in which I blog about blogging and the top 5 blogging platforms are not featured here and neither are the 10 greatest AI writing prompts for blogs that guarantee…

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