The first chapter contains some factual errors which, while superficial, hurt the credibility of the text. Later, we see Paul Allen’s name mangled. The author was a New Yorker writer, but the…

Kate Davies did something that, for all its hype, I bet AI boosters do very little of. She actually listened to a bunch of AI podcast slop generated by some company with huge ambition, promises about…

i meant to qt this one https://t.co/LZyhI03mJ9

FLOSS communities depend on donations. Even a small donation of five euros a month can help a FLOSS contributor. If you use free software, support it with a small donation. Show that you care.…

If all goes according to plan, Coefficiencies should now be sporting a slightly new look, with Space Grotesk (the font I used for the site’s logo) as the default header and title font…

I posted this on X yesterday: That is not a controversial statement if you understand performance. It is simply how performance analysis works. A slow site is not slow because a label sits on top of…

I am moving to Substack. When blogs were a thing, I blogged. Now that Substack is a thing, I shall stack my subs. Those who wish to read my writing, whether motivated by pity, morbid fascination or…

English version based on an automatic translation with Deepl. My (almost certainly) final post on the issue of FOSSGIS membership dues. As expected, yesterday’s virtual general meeting of the…

never-obsolete:Windows XP websiteFebruary 2003

this post merely marks the beginning of my blog. i don't have a whole lot to say right now. there are two leftover posts from when this was seras, but those are too embarrassing to keep public. thank…

On Saturday 27th June 2026 there will be CUAK 2026 - a “Creativity Unconference At King’s”, organised by Mike Cook and supported by the Centre for Digital Culture that I codirect with Zeena. Further…

nikitonsky: Don’t put checkmark on a button. Checkmark means “Saved, done”, not “Press to save” (in the screenshot, settings are NOT saved) #Luma #Button #ActionOrState #Checkmark

To XPUB Dear Daring Adventurer, by receiving this Fediverse challenge coin, you hereby join the Fediverse Rebel Alliance. As you may notice, this coin has identical sides, unlike military-inspired…

Some notes and backstage news about Open Source Musings

I’m excited to invite you to help test CMRSS, a clean, fast, and modern RSS reader...

Six thousand tweets. Ten months. One taxonomy. Last week? Not my favorite week. My dog injured her leg while playing with other dogs in the park. My basement needed some emergency masonry work. My…

New art and video up!

A manifesto and repo policy hook which rejects commit messages with `Co-authored-by:` trailers whose entry matches common AI model names or AI-bot email identities.

I polled you, my social media peers, on what irked and irritated you when it came to paying for things on the web. This is what you said...

tag(s): #books #pic #link-post Remember when I mentioned I was behind on my RSS feeds? Well, almost a month ago, Nathan posted about his (mis)adventures getting libraries cards in different counties.…

Flatpak website deserved a better backend.

A few days ago, I was thinking about the different file extensions of programming languages and realized that they look like symbols of chemical elements. Then I thought: "we could make a periodic…

June 23, 2026 I think it's become clear to a lot of people that the internet is in a state of decay. Platforms keep us locked in as they slowly make the experience worse and worse. And yet we find we…

Standardization is the art of getting a room full of people (with competing interests) to agree. Everyone has different viewpoints, of course. Some people also have different motivations. Perhaps…

This is a short post for the blog because I didn't want the whole month of June 2026 to pass by wit...

layout tweaks and micropub

streaming "services" will always find a way to screw you

the andy griffith show theme falls naturally on the trombone -- he was a music major... the theme isn't credited to him but I wonder if he brought a little tune to the session...?

Townsquare made it to the Hacker News front page, chaos followed, and the best part was seeing how much people genuinely enjoyed being together there.

Lab Notes 030: Kicking off a hot hot summer of Atmospheric blogging with a special offer, good through July!

If you’re still on social media, you might’ve seen that going analog and using single purpose devices is the new trendy thing. Using old tech, collecting physical media, writing journals,…

I realized a few days ago, that over the last few weeks my youtube usage on the phone and PC got a bit out of hand again. So I looked into how I can reduce my youtube time and with that my screentime…

Crew updates: Moved Opia the Furby from Catz Hexies Page 2 to Wildz . It just feels tidier. Nearly Made a 2nd page for Link ( Catz Hexies page 1) So He ended up with another picture 🙃 Bonus: New Link…

In early June, DRP Director Dr. Lynda Kellam delivered a moving keynote presentation at the annual IASSIST conference. In her presentation, Lynda made the connection between data stewardship roles…

In part two of today's big change, I brought a whole subtree of the interactive directory out into its own page. With this, the linklog and static bookmarks are perfectly balanced in size, and much…

Exactly a month ago I took the first step into a new era for my bookmark collection. Today it goes further with another sub-page, that combines parts of the interactive directory and linklog,…

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Discover why Second Life's focus on profit is killing its community spirit.

Answers to questions on web mastery

I got some spam, sorry… a “promotional email”, in my Gmail account telling me that Apple’s Safari browser is “Blazing fast. Incredibly private.” O RLY?!?! More power,…

Yesterday marked the official start of summer. With that, I decided to refresh the look around here a bit. Went very clean this time. Especially considering my previous wacky pomo design. I love…

I first remember meeting Gareth Ford Williams on a plane over the atlantic circa 2015, he was travelling, like me to CSUN. I initially viewed him to be mad as a cut snake. Likeable, bit of a wanker.…

Big Tech bad. We probably agree that much since we are here in Bear. Big Tech US-based (at least mostly). US not privacy friendly. US ran by absolutely insane unit of a person. Need to run from US.…

Intro Way back when AltaVista Babel Fish first appeared online, it became a fun game on IRC to take a phrase, translate it through a chain of languages, and then back into English. We all also…

“Community comes at the cost of convienence” is a great line. Got that quote from an interview with Brennan Lee Mulligan. People want convienence and without knowing it, they gave up what…

A collection of links found around the web. This time we have three sections, inspiration to do things – things that have inspired me to do something, visual niceness – things that I…

TermSurf 1.0: The Terminal That Surfs