My problem with dates on the web
You might have noticed that there are absolutely no dates on this website. And that is because I have a real problem with them. I think this started with Youtube, I've always felt that since there is…
Fixing Firefox's Face Flaws
I fixed the annoyance of Firefox's homepage reverting to the Fedora project's start page.
Indie developer spotlight: Martin Höller
Apps for the neurodivergent — and everyone else Martin Höller builds apps for people with busy minds. The most popular one works by refusing to let you ignore it. Höller is originally from Graz,…
a thank you note to bear
when i started this blog almost four years ago i never imagined itd reach so many people !! back then i was excited to get a few hits on my page or a kudos in my inbox ... now theres over a hundred…
What Next?
I invite people to help figure out how to solve this one.
Rechost: I Found Evidence Of My House Spinning
https://suricrasia.online/unfiction/spinning/ This is the latest piece of "unfiction" from Blacke Mori. I reviewed its previous work Brid...
Luna Trapani Archive
Luna Trapani Archive Luna Trapani is a chef who runs a vegan italian restauraunt in Belgium. She makes AMAZING recipes and used to post them on a personal blog. This blog recently went down, here is…
reason #98417 not to go on reddit ever again
required listening FIRST LP! by Autobahns I went on reddit's front page this morning to try and monitor the impending collapse of civilization and what do I see? AskReddit: Cancer survivors of…
TEMPORARY CONTENT
I am going to leave this letter up here for about an hour, or maybe a day. Not much longer than that. It’s for someone I know who used to work at Gizmodo. He is a very talented writer. He can…
Hyperlink Havoc: Edition 0x04
This edition took a while: partly because life happens, but mostly because I got dragged into a spectacularly messy rabbit hole that started with a Neovim issue tracker and spiraled into platform…
Lazy Sunday Bear Blog Meta
I’ve been writing here for a few months now. There’s really no rhyme or reason to anything I’m doing. I don’t care about improving my writing or building an audience. I just write for the hell of it.…
Writing Manually (In Times of AI-generated Content)
In times of AI Writing, writing manually is more important than ever. As with many AI Generated texts, I’d rather see the prompts, it would have more soul and character than the output. I…
I'm not happier offline.
A lot of my posts have been about reducing my use of technology and leading a more analog life. It's something I've been trying since Trump won the 2024 presidential election, and it's something I've…
nikitonsky is being grumpy
nikitonsky: ChatGPT innovating in UI again. Why is one account displayed as two elements in a dropdown menu? #Dropdown #Account #Menu #ChatGPT #OpenAI
Google was my friend
“Google is your friend” is a phrase that any older millennial like me will recognise. When Google was the cool new thing that it felt like only you knew about, it was a common refrain when a topic…
Zoo advertises tickets for 'child predator tour'
BBC News wins our Headline of the Day Award for this tale from Chester. I am reminded of the glory days of Lord Bonkers' safari park at the Hall.
OpenWiki, and webrings you can browse, make and score
A wiki that is a folder of Markdown files, webrings with a viewer, your own rings and a leaderboard, and both specs saying who made what in the W3C's own AI disclosure words.
Sunday
Very fun weekend in Taichung and Lukang. Will do a dedicated post about it soon. Feeling excited by this weekend's travel, I gave my blog's travel page an update, inspired by Peige's awesome travel…
Host Quartz Static Site on Bunny.net with Middleware Script
Learn how I use Bunny CDN Middleware Edge script to workaround the way Quartz SSG outputs its public HTML site files, fixing the limit of Edge rules.
“A dire warning”
“On Thursday, in The New Republic , conservative judge J. Michael Luttig published a dire warning to the Republican Party ... and to all Americans”: that’s the subject of the most recent installment…
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Journal 6- Mark Zuckerberg Stole My Parents
I go in detail to talk about why Mark Zuckerberg and facebook is bad for the world
bromidegrave
(boy i sure do love references literally nobody will get (also rip to the DUMB forum) -candycane)
The Spinning Wheel Has a Line Manager
The Spinning Wheel Has a Line Manager Lecture theatre B4 was built to make everybody look at one thing. Twelve raked rows descend like a quarry towards a lectern, a whiteboard nobody has cleaned…
2026-W37: Tedium
Oh boy, running your own website(s) is tedious, isn’t it? I’m in the middle of moving stuff away from Digital Ocean. (We all know why.) I wanted to do that anyway but well,…
Pricing Northline and Azimuth as a new Ghost studio
How I priced Northline and Azimuth for Aftertype’s launch as an unknown Ghost theme studio, and why copying established makers’ prices felt wrong.
BREAK
If you're one of the Sunday faithful logging on here wondering where today's update is, please accept my apologies. I'm taking a couple of weeks break from this blog to rejuvenate myself and rest my…
Lucy loves unsexy, boring, functional, government information
Lucy just spent two days going through a long list of small-business-related online resources that she's collected over the last few months.
VeriSign Set to Terminate Third Level .name Domain Name Registration Service
Third Level .name Termination by VeriSign → Neil Fraser, writing on his blog: On 15 April 2026 Verisign proposed the destruction of the entire 3rd level of the ‘.name’ hierarchy in order…
06 - 13 September 2026
Tech Industry & Culture Link to heading A/I Shuts Down Stay Human · Keep the Internet free Autistici/Inventati shuts down after 25 years, unable to protect users once designated a global…
Site Update 5
A summary of updates to the site over the last 5 years.
Reading List
This page is auto-generated from Github Actions workflow that runs every day at night and fetches the 5 latest articles from each of my favorite blogs.
#Sonderbooks25 – Stand-outs 2008 and Working as a Librarian!
Happy 25th Birthday to Sonderbooks! Yes, as of last month, I’ve been writing Sonderbooks for 25 years! So I probably should step it up with my #Sonderbooks25 project of revisiting the…
CP Rail Stats
There's a new web site in town - cprailstats.ca - that would be very useful for railway researchers.
Too Soon Old, Too Late Schmart
I’m sitting in a Zoom meeting, and the topic is the organization’s newsletter. I know a thing or two about newsletters. I’ve sent one out regularly to thousands of readers for about…
1926-2026: Happy Birthday NBC!
A century ago today, Radio Corporation of America (RCA) took out full-page advertisements in newspapers across the country, including this one in the September 13, 1926, issue of the Washington Star,…
20 Years of Tinkering Online
From Banana Hands on YouTube to RSStoKindle, working on digital projects has melted into my daily routine. Now I build for myself and share with others.
Links, hints and selectable text
Labels answer the pointer: [url] spans call a script, [hint] spans say something on hover, a drag selects and copies, and numbers get arrows and units.
Nobody's fault, everyone's problem?
This was originally meant as a talk for Fediday 2026 but I got ill and had to cancel my participation. Since everything was prepared, I figured I’d change the talk in to a blog article. Hello,…
Host migration
Host migration
The Markdown Link no. 48
Margin is a markdown editor that puts control over the look of your notes firmly in your own hands. You won’t be wasting your time giving the app a try An occasional post1 from The Markdown Handbook.…
Sunday scenes
I had my way with the frontmatter of the blogpost so while it really is Saturday night, I pretty much know this will see the tender mercies of GitHub and netlify on Sunday. For whatever reason lately…
Nova’s menu wayfinding
From its earliest days , Macs established an interesting convention – whenever you press a keyboard shortcut to an action that’s somewhere in the app menu, the matching top menu label blinks quickly.…
/reader
These are the most recent articles from the blogs/sites I follow. Updated daily. 2026-09-12 Generating running routes with GPT-6 Astra and ChatGPT Work simonwillison.net California Brown Pelican…
Nerdy nitpick: exit signs
Intermission – it’s time for a nerdy, niche, and pointless nitpick again !
Tony Seale’s Knowledge Graph and Complexity Posts
This week I fell into two (mostly) enjoyable rabbit holes. One was digging into the writings of Tony Seale (one of The Knowledge Graph Guys) after a few friends had shared his posts in LinkedIn. The…
Suede 0.4: Advancing Design Intelligence
Suede 0.4 introduces DESIGN.md, expressive variable typography, and a clearer approach to design intelligence inside WordPress.
The Omarchy Problem
Over the last two weeks, two companies I rely on every day have made major financial contributions to a project run by an individual whose views I increasingly disagree with.