Paulina Borsook's 2000 masterpiece, "Cyberselfish," will be re-published in September with introduction by Gil Duran of The Nerd Reich

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Nate Anderson: I’ve recently developed a daily habit—perhaps one I should cut back on—of visiting several subreddits to keep up on things like audio production and the Russian…

Ask.com: As IAC continues to sharpen its focus, we have made the decision to discontinue our search business, which includes Ask.com. After 30 years of answering the world's questions, Ask.com…

whoops! no idea how long the requests page was down for but it should work again. sorry!

In this permissioned data diary, we dive deep into the URI structure for permissioned data on atproto and use it to motivate a bunch of the larger design.

I was listening to the Ezra Klein podcast the other day and I think he read out one of the credits as "Executive Producer of Opinion Shows". That's a thing, I thought, maybe I'll…

Lanky Kong wallpaper available for download from Nintendo’s official Mexican website in 2002.Main Blog | Patreon | Twitter | Bluesky | Small Findings | Source

Every so often a project lodges itself in your brain and refuses to leave quietly. This began as a late‑night thought experiment, the kind that keeps circling until you either build it or write it…

Related Blog posts: Mac screenshots for the nth time - All this; also introduced me to Keyboard Maestro. Blog posts and pages.

FSRC: annual report : I left out Mark Lilla. You’re reading a post from Michael Leddy’s blog Orange Crate Art . Your reader may not display this post as its writer intended. This work is licensed…

Today I am launching a new service for my fellow indieweb webmasters. I wanted to make a all-in-one stop for all the dynamic features that you might need if you are are running a static web site. You…

v3.0.0 of Pure Blog has brought with it a tonne of changes. While there aren't any new features, it's a huge maintenance release that warranted a major version bump. However, one of the things that…

As I've said earlier , I'm not looking to move off GitHub any time soon, but I am curious about evaluating the options . So far, while trying out Codeberg , I am finding it to be very unstable. A…

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There is a small genre of data-visualization writing whose whole purpose is to give readers vocabulary for the moves bad-faith presenters make. Nathan Yau's "Defense Against Dishonest…

Well… I took another website trip again. I ended up reading declassified CIA files for a while and somehow drifted into learning about hemi-syncing. I still have more to read later. It feels like one…

Plastic Bags for Paperbacks Update: May 2026 It's nearly been six years since I last posted on plastic bags for storing paperbacks . I thought I would revisit the topic and update on where you can…

i had previously cluttered my digital environment. i used to have multiple instagram accounts, a website i kept trying to optimize to fit my needs but never really could, countless photos and files,…

Mix LTR and RTL scripts with correct intrinsic ordering.

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On owning the relationship to my readers and students.

I posted my first video to YouTube in 2006 (20 years ago?!). The channel (doesn’t feel like the right word for how I use YouTube) has 624 videos and 1.13K “subscribers.” Claude says “the subscriber…

5/8/2026, 11:16:00 AM I know this is one of those things like A.I. where everyone's like, yeah but what can you do, but at least do not forget that Substack is not responsible and not even neutral.…

The terminal's return as a serious surface for new tools (Claude Code, Codex, Omarchy) has mostly been read as a developer aesthetic story. Alcides Fonseca reads it as the receipt for thirty…

Pearls and Irritations is digging deeper into issues and, thanks to new partnerships, bringing you perspectives from leading thinkers both in our daily feed and in curated series about important…

Building a civic information economy, not cultures of extraction.

I don’t like people adding tracking stuff to URLs. Still less do I like people adding tracking stuff to my URLs. https://chrismorgan.info /no-query-strings ?ref=example.com ? Did I ask? If I wanted…

History In 2013, I started my website, using Hyde . In 2016–2018, I reimplemented the site on Lektor and redesigned it twice (including migrating all content, which was actually fairly involved in at…

I had a wonderful chat about design systems and AI with Donnie D’Amato on his wireframe show. We talked about all sorts of spicy topics, and I feel like this conversation captures a lot of…

This reading list is courtesy of Vivaldi browser, who pay me decent money to fight for a better web and don’t moan at me for reading all this stuff. We’ve just released Vivaldi 7.9, with even more…

Via Open Culture comes this YouTube video showing how librarians can save a wet book. The main secret seems to be unlimited supplies of paper towels. See also Reading habits

On April Fools in 2021, the popular xkcd comic ran Checkbox , which was a Morse code puzzle in disguise. (It’s interesting to see the community trying to figure out what it actually does .) Engineer…

Stuck in the middle. With you?

Understanding and navigating federal data can be tricky– for both novices and experts! But there is now a resource to help you understand this complex ecosystem. Through support from the UC…

A response to gb's post, "radio is cool, actually".

Back in 2018, the American Sign Museum saved the old Cincinnati Gardens sign and installed it on their exterior wall facing the street. Over time they put up scaffolding and have been filling it up…

I once worked on a project to bring inclusive-themed bench installations to a small municipality. The benches had an inscription on them and were painted bright colours. It was fun! The committee I…

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People talk about the "Father of the Internet" or the "Grandfather of the Internet", but no-one mentions the strange uncle of the Internet, or the fairy godmother of the Internet. Nor do they speak…

Recent federal court decisions have apparently helped the VOA and Radio Free Asia Chinese language websites make a slow, gradual comeback. Albeit not all the way back yet. How far they come back will…

Before we get into this issue, I thought I'd just let you know that Scott has launched a free Mindful Design Toolkit , packed with good stuff for you. Polypane snippets store Polypane is already the…

Hyperlink Havoc is basically the classic link dump you’ve probably seen on other people’s pages — only this one is curated by me, filled with things I’ve read and found interesting or resonant in…

I still have no idea what I want this site to be, but at the minute, I don't overly care.

Creating and maintaining the I Heart SapphFic website and BookFinder (which now has more than 10,990 books!) takes a massive investment of time and monetary resources. Put simply, we wouldn’t…

in 1995 knowing someone’s IP address was indeed exploitable, you could very easily find out their ISP, call them, and allege anything you want and they would disconnect you while they…

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The Register asked for my opinion on the Mozilla blog post that pumps up Mythos. I gave them a short answer. Here’s the long form. As a disinformation historian, I see tell-tale signs in the…

One of the first things skeptics learn is to never assume that paranormal belief implies stupidity. Smart people believe questionable things all the time; intelligence is different from the ability…