The Paperwork Distance
I help run records sites — public records made findable, a row in a table with a port number and a traffic stat. Then a removals queue stopped being a noun. What's in the queue is people, and for…
Garbage for Humans
Few months ago Cloudflare introduced Markdown for machines… This blog post on Unstory is short, but really impactful. 5 paragraphs, and will never rank for anything, but it’s hit me more…
The End of Immunity for Internet Service Providers? C-188/24 WebGroup Czech Republic and NKL Associates and C-190/24 Coyote System, judgment 16 June 2026
Lorna Woods , Professor Emerita, University of Essex Photo credit : TodayTesting.com , via Wikimedia Commons This recent CJEU judgment has been flagged in some quarters as upholding the French rules…
Rosieland Roundup 320
17 links to help you grow your community career
Commented on "Improving the SolidOS Frontend"
Commented on Improving the SolidOS Frontend
zomboid.pro 4.0 is live!
a lot of stuff has been removed, hopefully temporarily, but most of the site has been rebuilt to simplify my ease of coding, and finally with semantic html! epic cool!
Keeping secrets from The Man
My Boy, The Engineer, who has worked in transport all his life, has internalised the NATO alphabet [ whc prev ] to ensure better comms over crackly, lossy, phone-line. That prevlink also hat-tips…
Test post from phone
This is from iA Writer and Working Copy and a bunch of Apple Shortcut glue. Goodnight!
Tech - Blogs
https://daringfireball.net/ https://stratechery.com/ https://paulgraham.com/
/ དོན་
...hiding the thing in plain sight, and also because I love the mystery AND aesthetic as rendered in these Tibetan glyphs.…
did i forget to pub this oh well let me know if this is a repeat i dont care actually nevermind
/////////////////// le bonne (ident)idee /////////////////// idk man maybe it was just me but like, the naughty stuff the older kids new, or grown up things or whatever, it's not like they were…
warp point: a gaming blog webring for the modern age
warp point is a site that curates blogs that write primarily about games (making it a little fraught if i should submit mine, as i write about game stuff maybe once a year lmao). the creators wes…
Radio Dublin broadcasts non-stop for 36 hours
Here we share recordings of vintage Radio Dublin from the days when full-time broadcasting was still a dream. These extracts are from the station’s 36-hour marathon over Saturday and Sunday 17th and…
Rabbit Reading R Cool update
I've really run out of steam with only reading particular kinds of authors, although it has been great to expand a bit. For the next while I'm just going to read and write about whatever I feel like…
There's a plague of Googlebot impersonation going on (in June 2026)
A while back I wrote about how claiming to be Googlebot is now a bad idea , where I noted that there were (reports of) malicious crawlers out there impersonating Googlebot and other legitimate big…
Google Tag Manager UI Updates
In preparation for the upcoming major integration between Google Tag and Google Tag Manager, Google has rolled out some user interface changes to your GTM containers. The changes simplify the UI…
Your Eyes Do Not Work The Way They Appear To
Alex Hsu is hosting June 2026 indie web carnival. The theme is No Way. My entry is not about something that happened to me specifically, but something that blew my mind when I first learned about it.…
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.
/reader
These are the most recent articles from the blogs/sites I follow. Updated daily. 2026-06-29 Hire Me (Taylor) via API taylor.town 2026-06-28 Quoting Jon Udell simonwillison.net Hack Your Summer…
Map of Ideas
The nine main domains of the garden and their key articles.
Google translate is a better writer than me
My mom reads my notes (Hi mom 👋), and we could say that her English is rusted to the bone. So I guess that in order to understand what I write, she probably uses the "Website translation"…
journal POSTING two point 0
now i can just write markdown ! yippie more work for me
All that Sizzles…
On the blog this week, we’re having a think about getting back on the horse–or not. Add your wisdom to the discussion here. Speaking of the blog… I will not be posting during the…
The many ways to explore blog posts from personal sites
I have a new page in the main navigation, but it took me three tries to give it a name that seemed right. It’s basically a list of links to feeds that allow you to explore and discover blog posts…
De nouveaux bogues pour le français
Le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (TLFi) est en principe disponible sur atilf.atilf.fr, mais la consultation est beaucoup plus facile sur le portail lexical du site du Centre national…
Luddite Dispatch 01 - The Tyranny of the Short Form
Weekly events, and an essay 'The Tyranny of the Short Form', in celebration of our new (Longer-Form) Emails.
Two posts about writing
Ideas that spoke to me
Infinite Thread XXXX
What? You need new thread? Previous Thread
The vibes are off.
Earlier this week I read Kyle Chayka’s latest for The New Yorker , called “ The A.I.-Design Aesthetic That’s Taking Over the Internet .” It’s about Anthropic’s Claude Design and some of the visual…
300baud modem or first broadband?
At what stage of AI model evolution are we at?
linkylove.webpath 06-28-26
cyberstheb ⇦ prismatic pink → berbardo’s webpage → 𝓇𝒾𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝓃𝓎𝓂𝓅𝒽 → ୨୧ maplebear ♡₊ → write the dreams down! → 🛑 yard
posts are projects
It looks like Fendogg is going through the struggle . However, before diving into that, let's welcome them to this space. It's cool how new names and voices keep popping up here, whether on the…
Natural Born Bloggers
Rest in peace, Om Malik.
início
início "Vocês vêem? Vêem a história? Vêem alguma coisa? Me parece que estou tentando lhes contar um sonho -- fazendo uma tentativa inútil, porque nenhum relato de sonho pode transmitir a sensação de…
Yamuna's Incense Garden of Eden
Yamuna's Incense in Kaunas , Lithuania's second largest city, is a marriage of Indian and Lithuanian cultures. Yamuna tells me that "Yamuna’s Incense is conceptualized in Lithuania, most of the…
low maintenance = happy brain
In my previous posts I have always alluded to sharing my rss list, and the places I particularly enjoy reading for a variety of things, from criticism to news. This page got finished a few months…
“Icons that are iconic”
Apple might have undone the macOS Tahoe menu icons decision , but this wasn’t the only contentious iconography issue in their ecosystem. On his blog, Jim Nielsen writes how Apple filed away so much…
Redecoration and un-Sassing my site
Over two months ago, I launched an update to my site. I would feel uncomfortable using the word redesign. Most of the work was behind the scenes. The post Redecoration and un-Sassing my site appeared…
Introducing the Grumpystack Analogue Public Licence
Introducing The Grumpystack Analogue Public Licence. It's like the creative commons Attribution-Sharealike, but: You are not permitted to process, store, or transmit the licensed material using a…
Memo-1
I n the series "other distracting activities during the heatwave," I looked into the very simple development by a "local guy"—that is, a Frenchman—who created a small computer based on the 6502…
28.jun.26 - doqmeat.com is being reworked + new journal log
i am currently reworking doqmeat.com, there are some pages currently available which i will be linking on the index page but it will take me a while to finish the whole thing. fun fact: this site has…
Re: Trailing Dots Are The Worst
Daniel recently published an article about why trailing dots are his worst enemies and the issues curl had to wrestle with while handling them. The technical challenges he lays out make perfect…
🚀 Mitchipedia 6.28.2026
The Strange, Explicable Appeal of Train Dog. By Megan Garber The initial joy of the thing is visual: dog head, train body, the proportions of both wildly, delightfully amiss. Art critics might see,…
Digression: On unninstalling Pinterest
(The only reason you're reading this is my need to rant and the lack of people to rant to about it) Look, I'm from 1998. That means I was there for the beggining of social media: Orkut (you are SO…
working out what to post
So, I'm the kind of person where I'm either all in, I have an idea to write and I write it immediately, or I'm staring at the page for a long time because my brain is completely blank. It's the same…
World Without You
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Listen!
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Update
So I'm going to migrate my account to a new server for the first time and I feel weirdly nervous about it.