Not every book and I are right for each other or right for each other at this particular moment. Here are the ones I set aside, organized by genre. Perhaps some will get a second chance.
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Books To Read | Road Less Read
For so long I've tracked books I wish to read via Goodreads alone, despite having a perfectly suitable book blog for the last seven years. I'm remedying that here. This combines my general to-read lis...
Shelf Source: Tom MacWright | Road Less Read
Shelf Source talks to readers who share books they love on their sites. Today I'm joined by Tom MacWright. Hope you enjoy reading, and do visit their site and say hello!
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To Live by Yu Hua
Some books aren't meant to be enjoyed. They're meant to be survived.
Review
Written by a Chinese writer who grew up inside the Cultural Revolution, wh...
04.05.2026
Monthly report: April 2026
On the road, as it were, right now, so this report will be updated with the necessaries when possible.
Highlights of the month:
Published a link to Photographs on the main site
Seedlings still having a hard time of it, but other stuff on the terrace flourishing
Sporadic me...
How To Join The IndieWeb Wiki | Zachary Kai
The IndieWeb wiki is a collaborative space for people who own their slice of the internet.
Joining gives you a profile page, lets you edit articles, and connects you to a community of ...
Affordances of a screenless writing interface
This post was written first with my screenless writing interface, and then edited in Ghost, which I use to publish blog posts to this website. The extent of my edits were fixing typos and reworking the introduction and conclusion a little bit.
My original concern when brain...
Writing a blog post without a screen
This text below post is presented verbatim, as it was typed with only a keyboard: without a display or any assistive technology. Typos are left in. The "Notes after writing" and "My writing setup" sections were typed on my Mac as I prepared to publish the post.
This is my f...
Ideas for web readers
Every so often I have an idea for a feature that might be interesting in a web reader. I write down my ideas in my notes. Sometimes, an idea makes its way into Artemis, the calm web reader I maintain. Other times, the idea stays in my notes where it can breathe, mature, and ...
A computer that's just a keyboard, no screen
Oh you mean like with audio output instead
Nope. No output at all. Just input. With the keyboard.
Why
Short answer: why not?
Long answer: James floated this idea at IWC/BTconf of a PC that's just a keyboard for taking notes; and I said that's totally doable and probably not hard at all to do, since computers that are inside a keyboard already exist. So here's me putting my money where my mouth is.
Relevant note: Since taking the video I've realized the Raspberry Pi is completely fine with a standard 5V, 2.5A phone charger. It's a bit below the specs but it's not exactly doing much here. So a standard powerbank is completely enough and it doesn't need the fancy charger that came with the PC to make loud noises :^)
Read more on the site…
Artemis changelog #9
I have been working on a few new features for Artemis, the calm web reader I maintain. You can read a summary of what’s new below.
See, sort, rename, and delete folders
You can now view a list of the folders you have created, specify in what order folders should appear in yo...
How I use my phone
In my last two blog posts, I discussed how I use greyscale mode on my phone and night shift on my computer. These blog posts were inspired by discussions happening in the IndieWeb community about greyscale, and now, more generally, how we use our phones.
My phone, an iPhone...
Rome doing its best to prepare me for Ireland and #HearSay26
Citrus Club on Haight Street has closed for good. :(I walked by earlier this evening to order some takeout and all the signage was gone and a large metal gate was lowered.A notice of application for ownership change was posted including a license for “On sale beer & wine ...
May the Focus Be With You!
Last weekend at IndieWebCamp I noticed
James
had setup his iPhone in grayscale.
I think I first saw that on
Jeremy’s
phone years ago.
I remember trying it on my iPod Touch for a while, eventually switching back to see color photos.
This morning while chatting with Jam...
was out in my denim jacket w the patches and my debian/lesbian pun tshirt and a lady upon seeing me aggressively took her daughters hand and shielded her from me. forgot homophobia existed for a minute so i was like what's that about
Night shift
Writing my post on how I use my phone in grayscale yesterday got me thinking about other customisations I make to the computing devices I use. The first one that came to mind is that I keep my laptop, and by extension my external display when I am using it, in night shift mo...
03.05.2026
Using greyscale
Back in 2023 I challenged myself to use my phone in greyscale mode for a week. The experiment was successful: a week later, I was still using my phone in greyscale mode. At some point afterwards, I did disable greyscale mode. But last year, or early this year (I can't rememb...