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In The joy of incremental website improvements, I reflected on the idea of building personal websites incrementally: Making incremental improvements to one's personal website is a joy. Your site can evolve at your own pace, and as you learn. You don't need to set out with a ...

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More examples of graduating between mediums of communication

In “Graduating between mediums of communication”, I explored how we can move between mediums of communication to access different affordances. For example, you might “graduate” from a text chat – for example, a Slack thread – to a video conference in a professional context. ...

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Using my edit button shortcut

In 2025 I built a browser extension that adds an edit button to your browser. The edit button pages if a page either has: A rel=edit link;A custom edit link set in the extension preferences, or;A link with an anchor like “edit page” (only available if you enable the setting,...

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Checked into Ristorante Scarpone

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How software feels

I am interested in how software feels to use. Back in 2024, I wrote: I want to learn about design, I thought to myself, excitedly. I was interested in why some things feel better to use than others – why do some tools feel like a delight, while others feel rough around the e...

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Daring Fireball: Deal With It

I’m annoyed every single time I enter a date in iCal; I actually enjoy entering them in Backpack. It’s as palpable as the difference between going uphill and downhill.

Yes, I first noted this 19 years ago. Yes, it is still true. No, I will not vibe code a solution.

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This game was pretty fun. Looks nice and music is nice Ynglet

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Monthly report: March 2026

It was a toss-up between working on something a little more substantive or documenting February, and the more mechanical option won. Highlights of the month: Warm, cold, warm, cold. What's a poor seedling to do? Tweaked my backup strategy to let Hetzner take care of more S...

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Why We Need to Be in the Same Room – aka Reasons to Attend Events

Something has been is on my mind lately all the time – or rather, it’s been confirmed by the words of others I respect. People are writing about conferences again. Not about which ones to attend, or how to get a speaking slot, but about why they matter at all. And I think th...

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Ride: Lunch Ride in the Fields

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Seven hills

This post is my contribution to the April 2026 IndieWeb Carnival on the topic of “Adventure”. Thank you for hosting, Pablo! The Seven Hills of Edinburgh challenge invites participants to hike up seven designated hills in Edinburgh within a day. There are official events to ...

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My favourite (unconventional) animal

This is my entry to the April 2026 Grizzly Gazette Carnival on the topic “Your favourite unconventional animal". My favourite animals are cats, undoubtedly [1] [2]. This month’s Grizzly Gazette Carnival invites participants to think beyond cats, however, to “unconventional”...

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⇾ A “Speaker Rider” – Good Help for Event Organisers

This is a good page for any event organiser. No question left after reading the speaker rider of Matthias Ott, right?

I directly added it to my collection of useful things for public speaking.

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Nesting social posts under blog posts in Artemis

In Grouping link posts in a web reader, I described a feature in Artemis to show when someone whose website you are following has bookmarked a post by an author you also follow. The motivation for this feature was to reduce clutter in a user’s reader by grouping shares of a ...

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Museum Memories: Roundup

This month I had the pleasure of hosting the March 2026 IndieWeb Carnival on the topic of “Museum memories”, in which I invited participants to write about a memory of a museum. To everyone who participated – we had over 30 participants this month! – thank you. It was a deli...

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📕 Finished reading The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle ISBN: 9780765387868

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Time Is Not a Thief

The clocks sprang forward Sunday last, putting an end to the delicious three weeks or so in which we here are an hour closer to our friends in the United States. My only reaction, as I wake up nominally later on Sunday morning, is to cheer loudly for the extra hour of light ...

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A man playing a King V with tribals.
Back in the day, when Laurenz was still in Slayer.

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IndieWeb Book Club: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

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I'm hosting the IndieWeb Book Club for next month. I've picked the first fiction book so far: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams.

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Eat This Newsletter 299: No DoomSupply lines are imperilled, but the linking must continue.1) Cool as a cucumber, wit...

Eat This Newsletter 299: No Doom

Supply lines are imperilled, but the linking must continue.

1) Cool as a cucumber, with added nomenclature
2) Meat and mushrooms, apostasy in Texas and Iowa.
3) Anchovies, the best on the internet?
4) Olive Oil Tourism, the deets

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