“Choice. The solution is choice.”*You should download Firefox 148 (released today!) and explicitly set the new "AI Controls" to your preferred choice.* https://www.firefox.com/Disclosure: I work for Mozilla, but this post, like all on this site, represents my personal thought...
Feeds from people participating in the IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf, April 2026.
Happy Twin Peaks day to those who celebrate!In Agent Cooper’s first appearance in the show, he’s driving a car, right hand on the steering wheel, left hand holding a small black box (a microcassette recorder), that, if you don’t look too closely, could easily be mistaken for ...
Jeremy Cherfas
• Jeremy Cherfas
One reason I love RSS is that ...
One reason I love RSS is that the cost of keeping a feed in a reader is essentially zero. So when someone pops up after a gap of -- checks notes -- 5 years, 10 months, 8 days I know about it and can respond appropriately.
Happy Blog Birthday, Rebsie, and welcome back.
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23.02.2026
True for crochet too
Someone linked to Bob Nystrom’s post about knitting, and it really struck a chord for me. My own experience, having started to crochet a little more than a year ago, exactly mirrors his, with one crucial difference. I decided to make something for someone who was dear to me...
Jeremy Cherfas
• Jeremy Cherfas
Adactio: Links—Webspace Invaders · Matthias Ott
Pens, sleeves, and whiteboards
When I was in high school, I used to keep a pencil or pen up my sleeve. I don’t remember anyone else doing it, or why I started. But if I had a pen up my sleeve, I would at least know I had one nearby for when I’d need one. (I may be mis-remembering whether having a pen up my...
I Made an Ansible Role for Caddy
paultibbetts/ansible-role-caddy is an Ansible role for Caddy web server that lets you install Caddy with plugins. I use it for my personal site and in my homelab. This is what it does and how to use it.
Dopplr colours
Last year I was introduced to the idea of “Dopplr colours” in the IndieWeb community. This refers to an accent colour assigned to cities on the now-defunct travel website Dopplr. You can see examples by clicking through different Dopplr city pages in the Internet Archive and ...
Wondered why our latest podcast episode didn’t show up on https://workingdraft.de this morning. In our headless WP we preschedule releases and @11ty builds the front facing site daily. Turns out an AI bot broke the build: our log-parsing stats step choked on its UA string:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Thinkbot/0.5.8; +In_the_test_phase,_if_the_Thinkbot_brings_you_trouble,_please_block_its_IP_address._Thank_you.)
"if_the_Thinkbot_brings_you_trouble" 🖕
Jeremy Cherfas
• Jeremy Cherfas
2026-02-24
Some people will tell you the food system is broken. Not so, say Jan Dutkiewicz and Gabriel Rosenberg. Their new book is subtitled Why Industrial Food Is Good and How To Make It Even Better.
We had a long and interesting chat, everything from cellular agriculture to labour in the food industry.
Pens, sleeves, and whiteboards
When I was in high school, I used to keep a pencil or pen up my sleeve. I don’t remember anyone else doing it, or why I started. But if I had a pen up my sleeve, I would at least know I had one nearby for when I’d need one. (I may be mis-remembering whether having a pen up my...
Dopplr colours
Last year I was introduced to the idea of “Dopplr colours” in the IndieWeb community. This refers to an accent colour assigned to cities on the now-defunct travel website Dopplr. You can see examples by clicking through different Dopplr city pages in the Internet Archive and ...
22.02.2026
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
Continvoucly Morged Value
You might have seen the diagram before. The one Vincent Driessen put up on his website a few years ago to explain the concept of a Git branching model.
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BurgeonLab: Weeknotes
• Naty S
Weeknote 2026-W08: A11y, WCAG & KeepAndroidOpen
Happy Chinese New Year! I'm improving WCAG compliance and A11y as I learned how to use Git branches. Also, IndieWeb wiki, Nordic walking, and PGP experience.
Brainstorming search engine ranking introspection
Search is one of my favourite disciplines in computing. In 2024 I spent a lot of time working on a NoSQL engine that I called JameSQL. This tool now powers the search engine on my website.
Designing search engine ranking systems is tricky to say the least. When I use my blog...
Preserving calm in software over time
When I announced Artemis in 2024, I titled the announcement “Artemis, a calm web reader, is available (in beta)”. So central to the philosophy of how I build the software is the principle “calm” that, when I write about Artemis, I still use the phrase “a calm web reader” to d...