A year and half of blogging, in numbers

A thorough comparison between the neocities and nekoweb web hosting services. Table of contents (click to expand/contract) Introduction Comparison Breakdown and personal thoughts Premium tiers Online…

I’m trying out Sveltia CMS. Looks like it’s working nicely. Heading Also, a screenshot: Impressive. Very nice.

Liam's Log 2026-10-11 We're participating in FediZineFest this year! I've updated my now page and talked a little about it.

Since starting this blog, I have found it hard to sit down and write. Bear Blog is a place primarily focused on writing, and I have wanted to live up to it. However, at the end of the day, I want to…

What could an internet that didn't start out in libertarian culture look like? What if it did not develop in an isolating direction? How would computers that center community function differently?

Pete Millspaugh has a lovely article over on WIRED that peers into the world of domains. (If you’re as interested in the esoteric details of domains as I am, follow Pete’s writing at Dot Com Press.)…

or, *the reports of my demise have been greatly exaggerated.* Astute readers might have noticed that this site has been living on Cloudflare for the past few months. I've converted the old Wordpres

i tend to write very fast (had originally written vrery, point proven). my posts are born when i am feeling strongly about something, and i need to get my point across. the point i am making could be…

In which the author misquotes Marx, grumbles about his feed reader, and hands out several hundred blogs to anyone who’ll take them.

What counts as "your" data?

In the past 40 days, I grew Productrise's backlink profile from ~300 to 1200+ referring domains. A huge increase. My budget? $0.00 This includes many A-tier backlinks that you cannot pay for (and if…

I wanted to have a news feed of just World of Warcraft: Forever news in my Discord server. Turns out, Blizzard makes it more difficult than it ought to be so I had to use Wireshark.

I haven't been to a mall in yearrsss, sometime back in college. I never really went too much other than with friends to just walk around and hang out for a while. I would probably enjoy going today…

Some dense protocol theorizing about atproto spaces

Testing Jev on HN data

Data wants to be free. I always wanted to look into the news agencies, which fought an uphill battle to monetize it.

Email isn't personal anymore. Inboxes are flooded with automated mail, and real messages from real people are hard to find. We need a government-level verified email standard.

I love the Web platform, and it’s a privilege that we, the web community, get a chance to influence what browser makers work on every year. For the second year in a row, Firefox has created a page…

For the second time, Firefox made a page that lets you rank the Interop 2027 features that you care about. Interop is an effort by multiple companies involved in shaping the web to make the platform…

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After reading about Robert Birming’s photo page, I decided to add one to my own blog, with one change. My own photo page turned out pretty well. Here’s what I did.

I have articles sharing about my digital use, and to reply to my blog (which is provided by Pika) there is a link to my email. (Update: I realized I...

It's nice to enjoy little bits of randomness every now and then

Starting to write is something that’s been in my mind for a while now, one of the reasons comes from when I was doing my A levels, I had two subjects that had a decent amount of writing, Economics…

Verisign is removing third-level .name addresses, and Automattic's registry has applied for .wordpress. The name you use and the name you control are not always the same thing.

I’ve been interested in what happens to your online content after death for a long time. I recently asked some folks what they think about this topic. One conclusion is perhaps the correct one…

A Pragmatic Knowledge Management System (PKMS) is basically a Semantic Knowledge Management System (SKMS) that has been supplemented to add restrictions and capabilities that turn the system from one…

I use the Google Search Console on this blog, because it’s self hosted and I want to make sure it gets indexed correctly. Last night I got an alert (or rather I saw the mail – I don’t log into…

I've been really enjoying finding people's work through https://usesthis.com recently, like this small games website by Isabel Lee. I like how the simulated grass background splits into two when…

The Mastodon instance on which I’m one of very few active user has been offline with a 503 for about 16 hours now. Given that “Opening Ivory” is the first thing I do after unlocking…

I recently read Rick Perlstein's book Reaganland (2020) in my search for more details about the lost atmosphere of the 1970s that can inform the incubation of the Stern era.

Some links about how to ditch Discord: Discordless . A whole website that lists Discord alternatives. Can be filtered. IRC is the Only Viable Chat Protocol . Long winded article about IRC. Keep…

This is a short post to see if Estia is working from my old Intel based MacBook Air. Estia is a new writing place to craft blog posts before sending...

This photograph of our hallway Buddha is about 800x110px, and has been saved in .JPG format from Affinity 3 with a compression ratio of 66%. It is roughly 164 KB. This is my standard web image…

I'm back in geminispace Hey there, just small update that I've been doing a separate tiny blog in geminispace. You can find it in here if you also use gemini protocol: gemini://akselmo.dev/ I also…

The like system on the Status page has been improved. Added a new page: Nowhere. Updated the Pokémon TCG list and added a new albums list on Lists. Added a new drink to Energy Drinks. Added a new…

The Firefox team wants help ranking Interop 2027 proposals . There are some great features in there. For whatever reason, I cut myself off at eight: CSS border-shape so I can design some wild new…

Yesterday, Manton released yet another much-needed tweak to Micro.blog, and I realized something: I don’t really miss the old web. There are plenty of folks around me on the indie web who miss…

Weird Web October 2026 / 9. Spicy

I’m familiar with Gopher from back in the 90s. I think I looked into it at the time but I never actively used it. The Gemini protocol was created around 2020 and is kind of a successor to Gopher. I…

Posting your newsletter link on social media can quietly hurt your email deliverability. Here's what creators should do instead to protect their inbox.

Apple’s WebKit team recently opposed the WebMCP proposal, arguing that it creates a separate semantic layer for agents when we should instead improve the shared layers people, assistive technology,…

new templates on the gvbm

Updated the links page. Added my bsky account, removed others, hid my archival and deleted social media remnants that I kept listed. Even included a short preamble for each section! Put the font Snap…

A lot has been said about how AI killed Stack Overflow’s traffic, but that graph’s been falling since 2016. Here’s the real reason: This is a screenshot of its “newest…

(or badges, whatever you call them) some lovely new people added to my neighbourhood: and here's a cool hitchhiker's themed button by divergent rays: i also added my site to this new pxlarea.com…

ICANN revealed 1,615 applications for new top-level domains in October 2026. That is fewer than in 2012. Who applied, what it costs and what happens next.

well i finally decided to do my note section with zonelets (hmm, i thought i had also sent a webmention but i dunno if it worked)