06.02.2026
Reducing Artemis’ deployment downtime with blue-green deployments
Artemis, the calm web reader I maintain, runs as a systemd process. When I want to update the software, I deploy the new code to the server and then restart the systemd process. This has a significant downside: while the Artemis process is restarting, the software is unavaila...
Does your website run on green energy?
A few weeks ago I did a day-long training Carbon Literacy Project training course through my university. When I was taking the course and considering ways I can reduce my carbon footprint, I started thinking about technology. I don’t know much about calculating emissions from...
Background technology
A while ago, I purchased an Aranet 4 indoor CO2 monitor. The device has sat on my desk ever since. I started thinking about the Aranet monitor this week because I noticed that, for the first time, the battery was low and needed to be changed.
The Aranet is a useful device. W...
Calendars and web readers
For the last few weeks I have been thinking about the intersection of calendars and web readers.
Author's note: You can skip the next paragraph if you're not interested in the technical aside.
What started this thinking was a technical interest. With h-feed, you can publish...
The expanse of web weaving
Last year, one of my goals was to learn more about design. I wanted to apply what I learned to making web pages. The Non-Designer’s Design Book was an influential resource toward the end of the year. While not specifically about web design, the principles within the book – co...
Build the web you want to see
The Autumn/Winter 2025 edition of the good internet magazine is out! I contributed a piece, Build the web you want to see, in which I reflect on the last five years of James' Coffee Blog and some of what I have learned in that time. I have been thinking about the question "how do we make the web better?" for the last few months, and perhaps the best answer I have right now is for us all to keep building the web we want to see. It is perhaps because of this that, when I asked Joe yesterday "How can we achieve a web renaissance?", he replied "I think we're already in it." Thank you to Xandra for all of the work that she puts into making the good internet magazine happen. I am delighted that this project exists and, especially after reading StartingAMagazine.psd, am more aware than ever that projects like this don't just happen: we make them happen.
05.02.2026
04.02.2026
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Software Design Meetup [Feb. 11th]
On Wednesday, February 11th at 7pm - 8:30pm UK time I am hosting an event I’m calling the “Software Design Meetup” online.
This meetup is for anyone interested in the design of software and technology. In particular, if you are fascinated by the question "How do we design be...
A (very) few highlights
Lots of people are far more diligent than I am about recording, critiquing, and sharing the various things they read, watched, litened to etc. over the previous year. I thank them for their service and enjoy reading their posts and, sometimes, following some of their recomme...
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Introducing Cornerstone: A WordPress Theme for the IndieWeb
This IndieWeb-first WordPress theme is an interesting development from Khürt Williams. Might have to give it a spin to see how well it does with ClassicPress. I don't actually need to convert another site, but I also could, I think, without losing much. Depends on how it does images.
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Liberty as Resistance — Matt Gemmell
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The Indie Web Is Not Defined by Its Enemies - Island in the Net
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Checked into Leporello
03.02.2026
Images Have Reappeared
A demonstration in Florence, 1970
The story so far: WithKnown lost my images, and my previous experience was not as helpful as I hoped. Back to the blow-by-blow troubleshooting.
OK, so this
`filesystem = 'local'
uploadpath = 'stream/Uploads/stream.jeremycherfas.net'
resu...
going through some books I read / am reading and putting in sticky notes for a potential future blog post or similar and man. I sure love marking and annotating books while I'm reading them. Example:
society if making a video essay was easy