Believe it or not, I have not seen this previously. It's relentless. It's uncomfortable. It's horrifying. That was quite the trip, seeing it at the cinema.
🎬 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Feeds from people participating at the IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf, May 2025.
🎬 Bad Taste
Well, this was just the right desert after TCM that evening. Bad Taste was one of my earliest splatter/underground movies I've seen. It was great seeing this again after all these years. Splendid splattertainment!
🎬 Berberian Sound Studio
…or The Italian Vegetable Massacre.
Toby Jones - which I really didn't know before - is absolutely fantastic. He truly transports how one might feel in such a menacing environment. And the film leaves no doubt it criticises these types of people, and hence the production of ...
Brainstorming visual search for the web
When I am chatting about a website with friends, sometimes I forget the name of the website. I remember what the site is about, and often remember visual details about the site, too. A few months ago, I described a website that aggregated blogs and also mentioned it had a yel...
Walking
The sun sets early at this time of year. Now that I think about it, the shortest day of the year is coming soon, after which point, each following day will be longer. Anyway, I went for a walk before the sun set. If I don’t go out now, I’ll have to wait until tomorrow. That m...
A Lady in Grey
I love thinking about the use of colour in painting. Impressionist paintings never cease to make me smile; their colour illuminates me as it does the places they depict (oh! how wonderful art can be!). I also love paintings that use grey and white, both sparingly and as part ...
IndieWeb Book Club: Understanding Comics
The IndieWeb Book Club choice for November 2025 was Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics. I wanted to write a post about this book, but I have lately found myself spending a lot of time reading books rather than writing. My time recently has reminded me of how much I love rea...
Words and making coffee
Sometimes, I feel pressure to write about more serious topics on my website. Surely I have something I can say! While I do love writing the occasional technical blog post here, thoughts on the future of the web, or ideas on another topic, I sometimes feel a bit stuck when I f...
IndieWeb Book Club: Non-Designer’s Design Book
This month’s IndieWeb Book Club book, the Non-Designer’s Design Book by Robin Williams, felt like it was written for me. One of my goals this year was to learn more about design, so I was delighted to see this book on the list.
Through the book, Williams introduces and detai...
Music this year
For the last two years, I have posted my Spotify Wrapped updates to my website. I think they serve as much as a reminder to me about what music I was listening to as being potentially interesting to you (I hope, maybe?). This year I moved to Apple Music part-way through the y...
Cleaning the Artemis database
If you are a user of Artemis, the calm web reader I maintain, you may have noticed that there has been more downtime than usual lately. This is largely because of a difficult database task on which I have been working.
If you are not interested in the technical details but a...
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First Night of Chanukah
A340 Lavatories
Have not been on an aircraft where the lavatories are in the cargo hold, below the passenger cabin before. Lufthansa opted to do this on their A340-600s in order to make more room for economy seats. It reminds me of the lower level on an Amtrak train.
Morning
I am sitting on a train, looking — or at least aspirationally looking — in equal measures downward at my phone as well as to the horizon. The sun is rising above the hills; yellow peeks through the light, low clouds.
Rain briefly fell. Standing, waiting for the train, I thou...
More background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A-eeJP0J7c
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Lufthansa A319
@webrocker Badumms! 😁👏
What I have been reading lately
For a while I have wanted to make a bookshelf page on my website but such a page comes with the feeling that I should keep it up to date, a continuing obligation. I don’t want to keep a list of all the books I have read on my website right now, but I do want to share a few ti...
A concept for a two-panel web reader settings page
For a while, I have had an idea for Artemis – the calm web reader I maintain – to have a page that shows your feed and feed settings on the same page.
I am interested in this idea because there is presently a distance between the settings to customise your reader and the rea...