The art (and science) of Browser Fingerprinting Have you ever wondered how the internet knows who you are even after you've cleared your cache, delete...

We inform You, that there is a new way to quickly search for a model. At any page on the website, if You hit Ctrl+S combination on your keyboard, the quick search input will instantly pop-up, ready…

I have Captcha set up for comments on this blog but stuff can still get through. While Anchor became defunct in 2020 maybe there's someone else out there still using it who would benefit from this…

I was out for a walk yesterday... ... and took this photo. As you know, I love stained glass, and this was an especially beautiful example. I took the shot and then realized that it might make a…

Claude & I vibecoded an interface for the extropians mailing list. It’s live! Have a look here: extropians.boydkane.com/.

On Friday night, I needed a break from screens, so decided to work on a bathroom mural that our family has been chipping away at for the last 4 years. But a lot was on my mind, so made the […]

i've thought about trying to turn this space into something like a meditation journal, but so many ways of realizing that idea are in tension with my meditation practice in itself. do i write about…

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When the server goes dark, we go dark, too. We’ve built an entire civilisation on an unthinkably brutal and comically unreliable stack while hallucinating it as literally anything else. We condemn AI…

Ready to learn how to fix broken resources? Did you just stumble upon this blog through a post and want to know what else you can find? Or perhaps you just want to know how this site is different…

Every so often you stumble across a little corner of the internet that makes you smile. Not because it’s flashy, or complicated or powered by the latest AI breakthrough… but because it’s simple,…

MarsEdit 5.4 is now available on the MarsEdit site and on the Mac App Store. This update adds support for macOS’s standard “Versions” document history, improves the Share Extension…

I've recently decided to swap out this blog's domain name - nothing serious but I've realized that I would like to keep my identity somewhat anonymous here. Mainly that I would like to keep sharing…

I’m thinking about my name again. I was re-reading Lu’s post about her name and some parts got me thinking about mine: When I met new people, I’d tell them my name is ‘Luke’. But then they’d get…

Every open social protocol generates shared resources, but none has produced a governance framework adequate to those resources. So who fills that vacuum?

I run the library at a public high school (9-12, roughly ages 14-18 for the non-USians). Our school includes a Basic Media class, in which students produce a 10 minute news show for their peers each…

I was browsing Hacker News yesterday and saw a post titled Kagi Small Web ranking high on the front page. Curiosity got the better of me, so I clicked through. I ended up spending some time there…

In yet another attempt to Make the Internet Great Again™, I created a little community […]

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Woohoo, this website is now listed on powRSS! I also made a webgarden for it which you can find on the info page. And I also added more links there. In deities, I added a page for "Hiisi" as he…

First note in the feed. This is what a short observation looks like — no title, just the thought and the date.

SVG favicons that respect theme preference A handy approach here! It'd be useful if browsers had a queryable value for the colour of the UI too so developers could serve an appropriate favicon.…

The question of 'the' history of the Situationist Intergalactical is problematic, not least because of the time and space anomalies prevalent throughout its work on all planes of reality. The…

It's Zine Faire Table Application Season around NSW, which keeps creeping up on me every time! Thanks to s_u_s_a_n_v_k 's wonderful table of NSW zine faires I've been made aware and collected the…

How Balsamiq's recent redesign broke rapid wireframing

Okay, that's a stupidly obscure title. It's meant to represent the combined events: State of the Browser and Web Day Out - two events I attended in the last month. The short version is: if you get…

Molt, aka OpenClaw or aka Clawdbot, wasn’t dramatically technically novel. It didn’t advance any field in a way that’d be worthy of a research paper. When people got excited or gathered in thousands…

FOSS Backstage is one of my favorite conferences, and again this year, I had an amazing experience. I saw interesting talks, caught up with friends, met new people, and still missed talking to a few…

Practical AI, proper communityOn Saturday I was at Bradford Live for the joyous and celebratory Gorillaz gig, my first time in that building in something like thirty years. On Tuesday I was back, for…

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i'M gOiNg To MaKe MoRe PoStS. Also, project updates like the Pixar128 VMT Pack and prerendering!

Every once in a while, i see a blogpost like the one that chunk of coal recently made , treating bear like a social media platform. it's always a reminder that social media has kind of conditioned…

Self-Hosting Mastodon Behind Cloudflare Tunnel I recently migrated my Mastodon server to my homelab. As I'm on a domestic UK internet connection, my IP address changes periodically - which rules out…

This is recording of the weekly Top 30 show on early Cork pirate Radio City. The DJ is Noel Evans (Welch) and the programme was recorded from a new FM frequency of 88.4 MHz. It is partially…

## about sometimes people are like, i'd have a website but i don't know what to even put on it. so here is a site spec, a taxonomy for personal websites, that you can use to make a website, or to…

Spend the time properly immersed in projects and habits before feeling comfortable writing about them.

I've moved this blog to over to blog.fiddery.com - you can also follow my new RSS feed here.

A few days ago I dropped a simple, pseudo-anonymous question into r/fragrance: “Which Fragrance Blog: From Pyrgos or Varanis Ridari?” The post was deliberately short and neutral. I wanted unfiltered…

What is a Static Website? # A static website is like a digital brochure that remains unchanged unless manually updated. Every page of a static website is a fixed HTML file, meaning the content is…

Static sites are a great part of the small web. They are easy to configure, deploy, and maintain. You can use a static site generator or write the HTML yourself. Static Site Generators # To help some…

So you just registered this blog, thought of a cute name, picked a pretty theme, tweaked some styles here and there, and all of a sudden you find yourself staring at this blank page that is supposed…

hey mr. email sorry to bother i know you're busy like,, laying off all your workers but i was wondering could you please like make an actual standard for end to end encryption?? like with forward…

In 2016, I chose the term “self-sovereign identity” to describe what identity systems should protect. But the community I helped to build has been getting captured, as evidenced by EU wallet…

I feel like no one’s sharing their hobbies anymore. Probably because I hardly check on anyone’s blogs. Or perhaps because someone started World War III? Killing manys to preserve peace . How noble.…

I have put together a small tool to explore the small web of personal websites. It is called Wander. Please visit susam.net/wander/ to try out my Wander console. There are only a few pages in it…

时间线还是值得记一下： - 2017 年，PHP - 2018 年，Jekyll - 2019 年，Hexo - 2024 年，Astro - 2026 年，Self-Built 这件事其实也不是突然发生的。最近几个月，如果你能看到这个博客仓库的提交记录，大概能看出来我一直在删东西：删不必要的样式，删不必要的依赖，删不必要的中间层，上周甚至连 Tailwind 也一起剔掉了（支持裁员 🤡）。…

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Ideally an app would be its own justification, but there are so many dang RSS readers out there that there is nothing inherently interesting about making yet another one. I am flattering myself by…