FeedCity

When I announced that I was open-sourcing a quiz maker earlier this week, I noted that there were several limitations to what I had built. Most importantly, my quiz maker was a Python script, which substantially limits how many people can use it. After writing the blog post...

Content warning: This poem is about the ongoing heat in Europe. I strike an optimistic tone toward the end, but if you would prefer not to read about the heat, I offer you one of the Scottish poems I have written in stead.

Nature’s weary tears fill the air;
invisible, warming.
Relentlessly, days proceed.

Hours pass; Celsius rises.
Midnights: warm like day.
We stay inside.
Blinds closed, water glasses full, cookers off.

Flowers bloom early.
Eyelids weigh; we yearn
for rest that does not come.

Heat ravages the continent.
London is Rome.

Roads reduce to liquid, power lines sag:
infrastructure is under stress.
Headlines depress.

Hope: We come together, reaching
with open eyes.
Her resiliency:
Our future?

I am off to Espelkamp, where mittwald run their Event Head in the Cloud. After sending in a Call for Papers, I found out that they’d wanted me to open this years summit with my talk “Weniger Slides. Mehr Austausch.” (translates to something like “Fewer Slides. More Exchange.)

Looking forward to it. See you there!

Reply via Email

Nothing I like better than to be woken from a deep nap by the very loud clatter of hailstones on the terrace. A blessed relief.

There is a strand of thought out there that believes any and all legislation to do with seeds is evil and unnecesary. It is wrong. Here’s why.

https://jeremycherfas.net/blog/why-we-need-seed-legislation

#seeds

Rabbit Quest 20260623-W-AY68OD

On foot
41.8842, 12.4624
23 June 2026
428.16 ppm CO2
OpenStreetMap https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=41.88415&mlon=12.46243#map=14/41.88415/12.46243&layers=H

It has been a while.

#rabbitquest #geohashing

RE: https://colearn.social/@ChristianWKaiser/116802128839467597

Had a lot of fun yesterday at #loscon26, wearing the #CoderDojo hat. I had the chance to present @coderdojonbg and support the participants in taking their first steps into hardware programming — which was also slightly outside my comfort zone. The community was really cool and pleasant — thanks @simondueckert for the opportunity. Wishing all participants much more fun for the second day today!

Yesterday was the hottest Broken Arrow Skyrace 23k of the four I have run. And the hardest. Sometimes you give it your all and your all is not quite enough. Made it much farther than last year, under worse (hotter, dryer, dustier) conditions.It was already in the mid-70s Fahr...

RE: https://mstdn.social/@samueljohnson/116799249805283300

Where do I cast my vote for you?

I am continuing to experiment with writing some fiction on this blog. Here is a story I wrote today. Where were words when you needed them the most? Lena had been searching for the answer to that question for her whole life. For Lena, telling a story to light coming from a...

The seventh episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out:
In Episode 7, I chat with Ana, the author of ohhelloana.blog. We talk about, among other things, the growth we see in our websites over time, finding an in-person indie web community, and connecting with people using personal websites.
I hope you enjoy the episode!

Wonders of Web Weaving has an RSS feed you can use to follow along from wherever you get your podcasts.

Looking idly out the window of my favourite coffee shop, sipping on a cool iced latte that I needed after a long walk on a warm summer’s afternoon, a thought came to mind: Why am I so fascinated by the outside world when I just sat down inside? Even now, back at my desk, I ...

Another welcome surprise from a feed that had long lain dormant, rather like Rebsie's seeds

http://daughterofthesoil.blogspot.com/2026/06/red-podded-peas-roma-mangetout.html

#plants #breeding

Have you ever wondered which microformat best suits your personality? If so, this quiz is for you! Answer the following questions to find out which microformats2 classes best embody your personality. Also: happy belated 21st dt-bday to microformats! (Celebrated on 20 June,...

A few weeks ago, I learned about the removeprefix method in Python. It lets you remove a specific prefix from the beginning of a string. For example, I can use the following code to remove www. from the beginning of a domain name: "www.jamesg.blog".removeprefix("www.") If t...

Tomorrow morningonce more into the woodsup the rocks, onto the ridges@brokenarrowskyrace.comGoal: finish 23kLive stream: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeYQprW-4u4#BrokenArrowSkyrace #skyRace #trailRace #mountainRunning

No finer way to spend a sweltering 36C Sunday morning than in the cool of a cinema watching the gorgeous restoration of Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times. So that’s what we did.