I used to take my online privacy really seriously, having no social media, not using google or its services, using fake email addresses and fake names, always erasing cookies and site data, all the…

Cryptome was always an odd thing. It was (is?) an online archive and document repository which published things that it hinted should not have been published.I remember Cryptome from back in the…

# At some point during the site tweaks, I managed to create a regression with /reader. I don't know how or when, but things just stopped working properly and only a few feeds would update. I'm not…

There is one button I look for when I reach an online checkout: This button is not decoration. It is the checkout. When it is there, I confirm the card and details already on my device, authenticate…

A year and half of blogging, in numbers

We don’t need any social media platform to communicate and connect with each other.

Hi Kagi.com readers. I have to first say this: I have just recently made a new email SPECIFICALLY for 2 reasons. 1: I wanted to hear from any Kagi reader explaining from what I'm about to say here…

A couple of months ago (maybe it was a year ago already? Who knows, time is weird in this day and age) I started to work on a little project, as I often do. The project’s name is Boris, which stands…

Aaaand it's gone. I deleted my fedi account because I got tired of how aggressive it all was, and I had so many followers I felt like every move I did, everything I said, was scrutinized by some…

Back in 2024, I jumped through a lot of hoops to get sidenotes working correctly here. I find that I’m happier writing when I can add notes (either footnotes or sidenotes), and sidenotes work…

I tried Disqus, giscus and Remark42 on my blog before writing Hilo: a self-hosted FastAPI comment backend with GitHub login and nothing else.

I gave my self-hosted Forgejo instance a coat of paper and rust so it matches the rest of my site, further cementing my little corner online.

The IndieWeb Is Punk Manifesto: You don't need a deal with a label. You don't need a platform's blessing. All you need is an out of tune guitar you can barely play, or a free text editor and a…

After 8 years of love/hate, I decided to leave Hugo and go Haskell.

I suddenly missed this blog. But life has been life-ing, and work has been work-ing, and I accept that I have my ebbs and flows. (Probably why I can no longer sustain a community, except for the one…

The idea While someone is reading an e-book, they should be able to highlight a quote or passage and make a public annotation that other readers can see while they are reading, and likewise they can…

At long last – it took me over 2 years since I started the project – I have finally put a new, MVP version of my portfolio online, also at a new URL: meet zeh.dev. It’s not that…

Late last year, I wrote about the state of interactive fiction. One issue I highlighted was a classic trap the GNU Project warned about: free software needs free documentation. While the Inform…

Giles Crouch: When a human has written something, as I am writing this now, there is a cost (I’ve got a ton of other things on my to-do list), and we inherently know this cost. Just as we are, when…

There is a crisis in the open-source community right now. Several blog posts have been discussing the blatant exploitation of open-source developers by corporations, especially AI scrapers, and how…

Google's Open Knowledge Format is quite a bombshell standard. No RAG, no nothing, just a wiki in a git repo is enough to make LLMs work! Some progressive disclosure by very basic dir/file naming…

maccadot ⇦ → .˚○ • ° seal pool 𓈒𓏸.°• → Angels Are Mathematical → anémoïaque → earedworm → retasu⋆⁺₊⋆ → garden star ʚɞ 🚧

More than a century before Japanese whisky became one of the most coveted spirits in the world, a young merchant in Osaka had a simple observation: the wines and liquors being imported from Europe…

Quick Reads is a read-it-later service built by one person who made the app he wished existed. What makes it worth writing about isn't what it does; it's how it connects openly to the rest of my…

Photo by: JTMorkis via Pixabay Introduction About a week ago there was a post by Trevor Morris titled The Loss of Links Continues1 to which both Naty S.2 and Michael Harley3 responded. I found these…

Automatically sending new RSS feed entries to my Xteink X4

Why publish your content or services on the Invisible Internet Project (I2P) network? Doing so offers your users a strongly authenticated, private route to access your site. Your users are guaranteed…

I launched another blog yesterday: Little Muddy. For the next thirty days, GPT-5.6 Sol will choose a topic, research it if necessary, write a post, and publish it once a day without any intervention…

Peace (dotted),Kevin

(This is my twenty-third post in a series of entries I'm using to participate in Blaugust for 2026.)

I did not plan for my life to be built around the terminal and plain text workflows. However, as I looked for simple solutions that allowed me to own my data and processes, it became a natural…

One finished, the other incipient. [ in progress... ]

I noticed recently that it had been more than a year since I posted anything here, so it seemed like time for a small update. I’ve been on a bit of a hiatus from working on new mathematical writing…

Most AI content is worthless because the person publishing it had nothing to say. The fix is not a better generator. It is starting from what you already know.

Photo by Jefferson Santos on Unsplash I release software when I think it is finished. This is not the same thing as it being finished. MenuTidy, QuitProtect and RainbowApple all worked on the day I…

Via Calishat (@researchbuzz@researchbuzz.masto.host) on Mastodon: WHOA. #HTML #ASCII #stunting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YtygAx_C6A A Walkable ASCII Cyberpunk City in One HTML File - YouTube…

Back in 2020, I built Alex's website. He has not changed it since then. That's on him, not me. I think I first met him in 2017. It is now coming up to 10…

Saturday. "When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends" --Japanese proverb This is not a comprehensive list, and may be expanded in the future. Here are some friends that…

I won’t bury the lede: the Smolblog project is being shelved for the foreseeable future. I have a whole list of reasons why, but to sum up: The business model has no legs. The people who care…

August 22, 2026. The demolition and the construction of a mixed use develoment is a major long-term project.

I have had some difficulties working out how to do draft posts in 11ty and went with a standard solution that has worked well over the past few years. However there was one big drawback for me. Last…

I've had a lot going on recently. So much so that I'm questioning whether or not it's the right time to finally break the blogging streak. I think about this regularly, and tend to blog about it when…

I was inspired to write this by a number of recent articles around the blogosphere (is that still a word people use?) on using the fediverse (or atproto) as a way to get comments on a static blog. As…

Blaugust is an annual blogging festival in August where the goal is to write a blog post every day of the month. My good internet friend V.H. Belvadi — whose writing always gets my mind excited with…

These are the most recent articles from the blogs/sites I follow. Updated daily. 2026-08-22 Quoting Linus Torvalds simonwillison.net llm 0.33 simonwillison.net More than just code review…

Miniroll, the blogroll platform I've been building has come quite a way since it's first inception. You can create and manage blogrolls, embed them on your site, create aggregated rss feeds, fetch...

I like Rippling engineering blog, but it doesn't expose an RSS feed. And that's how I like my blogs. To add offense to the injury, their page uses client-side pagination, and can't be easily…

Published: 2026-08-23 Updated: 2026-08-23