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Artemis “via”

Recently, a feed a few users – including myself – were following with Artemis published a “bookmark”-like post. The markup in the corresponding feed was a bit different than expected, so Artemis ended up linking directly to the bookmarked post rather than to the author’s pos...

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Brainstorming search engine ranking introspection

Search is one of my favourite disciplines in computing. In 2024 I spent a lot of time working on a NoSQL engine that I called JameSQL. This tool now powers the search engine on my website. Designing search engine ranking systems is tricky to say the least. When I use my blo...

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Preserving calm in software over time

When I announced Artemis in 2024, I titled the announcement “Artemis, a calm web reader, is available (in beta)”. So central to the philosophy of how I build the software is the principle “calm” that, when I write about Artemis, I still use the phrase “a calm web reader” to ...

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Artemis “via”

Recently, a feed a few users – including myself – were following with Artemis published a “bookmark”-like post. The markup in the corresponding feed was a bit different than expected, so Artemis ended up linking directly to the bookmarked post rather than to the author’s pos...

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21.02.2026

A girl playing a wooden piano photographed from behing.
Piano in the morning

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20.02.2026

A leafless tree in front of a white background.

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Artemis dense layout

This evening I added an idea I have had for a while to Artemis: a "dense" layout. By default, the Artemis interface appears in a single-column layout. The dense layout creates several columns. Each column from left-to-right shows posts for a given day. You can scroll down t...

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Very impressive.

Very impressive.

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Grouping threaded posts in Artemis

Artemis lets you subscribe to ActivityPub feeds (i.e. accounts on Mastodon). To do this, you can type in an ActivityPub handle like @jamesg.blog@jamesg.blog [1] on the “Add a website” page. When you subscribe to a feed using an ActivityPub handle, Artemis can use the inform...

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Hi! Candle expert here, this is not funny. Candles only do this when they’re...

Hi! Candle expert here, this is not funny. Candles only do this when they’re in extreme distress.

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Graduating between mediums of communication

The IndieWeb community chat has a feature that lets you create a wiki page from a chat interaction. You can say “what is {term}?” in the chat and, if there is a definition on the community wiki, the definition will be returned by a bot. Otherwise, the bot, Loqi, will say tha...

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Top Albums from last.fm on 22/02/26 1, Spiro, ...

Top Albums from last.fm on 22/02/26
1, Spiro, Lightbox, (17);
2, Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny, Beyond The Missouri Sky (Short Stories), (13);
3, Ludovico Einaudi, Divenire, (12);
4, Pat Metheny w/ Christian McBride & Antonio Sánchez, Day Trip, (11);
5, Kabza De Small, Ziwangale, (10);

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Currently patiently channelling @CommonMugwort Aunt Mairi.

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A Tawny Owl, maybe

It is definitely exciting to open the browser to my BirdNET-Pi as I rise to see what the past dawn has brought. The problem is, I’m not sure I can trust it absolutely. There’s the mystery of the Spotted Crake, which might just be migrating overhead to breed elsewhere. I’m doubtful. And then there are some that could just possibly be true.

We live near a large park with lots of old trees and open expanses of grass where I suppose a Tawny Owl might make a living, so it might not be unreasonable that one was detected. But listening to the recording, through headphones, I couldn’t hear a darned thing above the low hum of noise. Still, I wasn’t there at 03:39 this morning, so it might be correct and I’m going to let it stand, along with everything else.

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Apologies for Top Albums spam; gonna wait and hope for the automated version to roll around.

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Top Albums from last.fm on 22/02/26

Top Albums from last.fm on 22/02/26

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Top Albums from last.fm on 22/02/26\n1, Spiro, ...

Top Albums from last.fm on 22/02/26\n1, Spiro, Lightbox, (17);
2, Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny, Beyond The Missouri Sky (Short Stories), (13);
3, Ludovico Einaudi, Divenire, (12);
4, Pat Metheny w/ Christian McBride & Antonio Sánchez, Day Trip, (11);
5, Kabza De Small, Ziwangale, (10);

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Top Albums from last.fm on 22/02/26. 1. Spiro, ...

Top Albums from last.fm on 22/02/26.
1. Spiro, Lightbox, (17);
2, Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny, Beyond The Missouri Sky (Short Stories), (13);
3, Ludovico Einaudi, Divenire, (12);
4, Pat Metheny w/ Christian McBride & Antonio Sánchez, Day Trip, (11);
5, Kabza De Small, Ziwangale, (10);

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1, Spiro, Lightbox, (17); 2, Charlie Haden & ...

1, Spiro, Lightbox, (17);
2, Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny, Beyond The Missouri Sky (Short Stories), (13);
3, Ludovico Einaudi, Divenire, (12);
4, Pat Metheny w/ Christian McBride & Antonio Sánchez, Day Trip, (11);
5, Kabza De Small, Ziwangale, (10);