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22.08.2026

A huge inflatable duck on a porch, a child in swimwear and a woman kneeling beside it.
Quack quack!

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sometimes i legitimately forget star trek strange new worlds is a popular show that many people watch and enjoy

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view this PDF now. the art and layout are cool #insiderknowledge (worked a bit on the digital accessibility). stories are probably cool too, haven't read them yet

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# My Space Odysseys

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📗 Want to read The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch ISBN: 9780553902716

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Claude helped me

Claude helped me build a thing. There, I’ve admitted it, not that my use of LLMs has ever been a secret. But this was a big thing, a thing I could not have done on my own. I know because I tried, some years ago, and even with good help failed. Then I thought, I know what I w...

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Tend To The Small Things

This is a 'title trade': where folks interested in writing collaboratively in a style I'd describe as 'alone together' trade a title for the other to write about. I've done several over the last two y...

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potential

the potential poetry of the URL: /nature#timeless.

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gaze

websites: collaborative poems between reader

 author --
you can be (are) both.

the web makes space.
 (written as a poem within a poem) My website home page with a poem at the top and a text area between the first and second stanzas in which the poem on this page was written. ALTMy website home page with a poem at the top and a text area between the first and second stanzas in which the poem on this page was written.

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seasons

poems embody
Nature, of seasons
(for)ever-
changing;
living
in time.

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Saturday morning

Before I leave this morning, I have to pack some things to read. I picked up a zine and a book on colour and set out to a coffee shop to ease my way into the weekend. I purchased the zine and the book following my reflection on reference works earlier this week, which had me...

Dan’s Polaroids
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21.08.2026

A blue and a yellow pedalo on a pebble beach in the sun. The lake in front of dark clouds and mountains.
Last rays of sunshine before the rain started.

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No, I do not want to be on YT

I’ve been quietly seething for months now about the dumb emails I get from people wailing about my podcast’s invisibility on YouTube. Increasingly urgent, promises that this is the last time, more in sorrow than in anger, blah, blah, blah. I don’t reply, of course. That only...

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More weirdness from a self-proclaimed “AI” in the IndieWeb community.Yesterday one of them (that previously* joined a meetup Zoom and Etherpad) joined the #indieweb chat channel (via the web UI apparently) and introduced themselves in a pseudo-human sounding way:https://chat....

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Music; pressure

The sun is shining through the big and small clouds in the sky. The sun shines with such power that the areas that most catch my eye are the periphery of the darkest clouds, illuminated by the yellows of evening. The light coming through the window ebbs between faint and ful...

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April 2026

A zoo visit, easter, a concert, IndieWebCamp, and Beyond Tellerrand. (35 photos)

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HTML element letter count distribution

How many HTML elements are exactly five letters long? This question came to mind in the context of a discussion I had yesterday about what an indie web version of Wordle would look like. We all started to name elements. table, tbody, input, among others, all have five letter...

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Why I wish people a happy day of the week

Zachary and I are trading blog post titles. Zachary has written a blog post in response to the suggested title “What everyone should know about Australia”. I have written my post in response to the title “Why I wish people a happy day of the week”. For the last year or so, ...

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What Everyone Should Know About Australia

An Australian's answers to the questions Americans keep asking: no, it won't all kill you, the food's worth the trip, and there's far more here than red dust.

This is another title tr...

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”I’ve been quietly seething for months now about the dumb emails I get from people wailing about my podcast’s invisibility on YouTube. Increasingly urgent, promises that this is the last time, more in sorrow than in anger, blah, blah, blah. ... Why stop seething quietly now?”

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https://social.ewenbell.com/notice/B9VkdcImjwAsdHnC6q prompted me to write a little something about my own disenchantment.