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Interface stability

The main Artemis interface has remained largely the same since I made the software available for others to use. Here is the interface in December 2024. Here is the interface in 2026 [^1] [^2]: The Artemis web reader showing a list of posts under the heading "Friday, March 27t...

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Gardening

At Front End Study Hall yesterday there was a discussion about what endeavours are similar to web development. There was a particularly rich discussion (documented in the afore-linked notes) related to gardening and web development. My takeaway from the discussion was that bu...

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Single-file web applications

A few weeks ago I made Amie, an application for keeping track of who you meet at conferences. Amie lets you create an event, then add people by name and/or domain, Mastodon, or BlueSky handle. 1 I was inspired to build Amie because I went to a web meetup a few months ago whe...

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31 years.

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For the kids: That’s a dad joke referring to a line from a hip-hop track from 31 years ago.

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I just had to … ¯\_(ツ)_/¯#shimmyshimmyya

I just had to … ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
#shimmyshimmyya

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On Saturday, I’ll be live on stage with Brutal Unrest again.

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@chriscoyier @davatron5000 Thanks for the shout out on my favorite podcast! 🤗 The issue in my case was indeed an incredibly large number of crawler bots from different countries, all brute-force attacking my notes section with tags in the URL params. They also completely ignored nofollow and canonical. The majority were coming from Singapore, later Taiwan. So I still have no idea why my hosting provider decided to block Canada. 😆

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The new YouTube video player allows playing videos in full screen mode when launched from a PWA on iPad. No more opening an extra FeedCity tab in the browser just to watch the videos I bookmarked to watch during lunch break.

Dan’s Polaroids

22.03.2026

Parts of a bike. Mostly focusing on the handlebars, photographed
      from behind the bike. The saddle in the foreground.
Put back the straight handlebars. No more bull horns.

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The artist was here

I love the storytelling work that the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York does. For example, the Frame of Mind podcast highlights short stories of people’s relationships with museums – around fifteen minutes long each. It is a great listen. Last year, I watched a video by...

Dan’s Polaroids

21.03.2026

Me and a friend smiling into the camera, holding DVDs of
Full of mad anticipation for our trashy movie night.

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Release 1.2.0 of Webmention for Craft CMS adds a “Failed Webmentions” view for easier debugging and retrying with one click. 🎉

https://github.com/matthiasott/webmention/releases/tag/v1.2.0

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🎬 PG: Psycho Goreman

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Movie poster for “PG: Psycho Goreman”.

Honestly, this was very entertaining. I was pretty tired, but this kept me awake, no problem. It's just so bizarre and funny. The daughter and her father are absolute comedy gold. And that policeman! The costumes are so good, too. I don't know, I had a great time and would most definitely watch it again.

👍 Recommended!

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🎬 Edge of Honor

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Movie poster for “Edge of Honor”.

Plot is all over the place and there's quite a few scenes that make little sense. But yeah, for a trash-movie night, certainly not the worst flick. "Wait, how did they lift those enormous logs and … ?" "WHO CARES, ACTION, AHHHH…!". The finale is like Home Alone but in the woods and pretty entertaining.

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Webmentions can fail for all kinds of reasons – broken microformats, unreachable sources, flaky CDNs – and debugging ...

Webmentions can fail for all kinds of reasons – broken microformats, unreachable sources, flaky CDNs – and debugging them from log files is cumbersome. So I added a new “Failed Webmentions” section to the Craft CMS plugin’s control panel that shows what went wrong. Already works on my machine™ 😁

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River

The verdant foliage on the steep hillside, the path that you know was made just for this place — the wooden planks delineating where to walk, the stairs up and down following the ebb and flow of the hill, the bridges that wove through the trees and over the edge of the river....

Dan’s Polaroids

20.03.2026

Selfie of me and Zoe, skating.
You don't see it, but we're both skating. :)

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Another HWC Düsseldorf has taken place this week, where we shared what we’ve been up to with our personal sites. Nina continued to write more and more for her homepage as well as work on the code. She started adding music to her blog posts. Jochen continues to make selfhosted tools and recently added a (private) “Archive” site where he adds podcasts episodes to, and transcribes the audio into text. I recently added the latest Polaroid to my homepage.

We also talked about Kagi’s Small Web initiative, AI, how much personal information to share online, and easter eggs. Links mentioned:

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Hello migraine with aura my old friend… 😘

Could be fun to try to visualize that. The patterns are different every time and a mix of blank spots, blurry areas, and rainbow stars or rather twinkling chrystal patterns slowly growing and wandering around my field of vision. ✨