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Affordances of a screenless writing interface

This post was written first with my screenless writing interface, and then edited in Ghost, which I use to publish blog posts to this website. The extent of my edits were fixing typos and reworking the introduction and conclusion a little bit. My original concern when brain...

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Writing a blog post without a screen

This text below post is presented verbatim, as it was typed with only a keyboard: without a display or any assistive technology. Typos are left in. The "Notes after writing" and "My writing setup" sections were typed on my Mac as I prepared to publish the post. This is my f...

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Ideas for web readers

Every so often I have an idea for a feature that might be interesting in a web reader. I write down my ideas in my notes. Sometimes, an idea makes its way into Artemis, the calm web reader I maintain. Other times, the idea stays in my notes where it can breathe, mature, and ...

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A computer that's just a keyboard, no screen

Oh you mean like with audio output instead

Nope. No output at all. Just input. With the keyboard.

Why

Short answer: why not?

Long answer: James floated this idea at IWC/BTconf of a PC that's just a keyboard for taking notes; and I said that's totally doable and probably not hard at all to do, since computers that are inside a keyboard already exist. So here's me putting my money where my mouth is.

Relevant note: Since taking the video I've realized the Raspberry Pi is completely fine with a standard 5V, 2.5A phone charger. It's a bit below the specs but it's not exactly doing much here. So a standard powerbank is completely enough and it doesn't need the fancy charger that came with the PC to make loud noises :^)


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Artemis changelog #9

I have been working on a few new features for Artemis, the calm web reader I maintain. You can read a summary of what’s new below. See, sort, rename, and delete folders You can now view a list of the folders you have created, specify in what order folders should appear in yo...

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How I use my phone

In my last two blog posts, I discussed how I use greyscale mode on my phone and night shift on my computer. These blog posts were inspired by discussions happening in the IndieWeb community about greyscale, and now, more generally, how we use our phones. My phone, an iPhone...

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Rome doing its best to prepare me for Ireland and #HearSay26

Rome doing its best to prepare me for Ireland and #HearSay26

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Citrus Club on Haight Street has closed for good. :(I walked by earlier this evening to order some takeout and all the signage was gone and a large metal gate was lowered.A notice of application for ownership change was posted including a license for “On sale beer & wine ...

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May the Focus Be With You!

Last weekend at IndieWebCamp I noticed James had setup his iPhone in grayscale. I think I first saw that on Jeremy’s phone years ago. I remember trying it on my iPod Touch for a while, eventually switching back to see color photos. This morning while chatting with Jam...

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was out in my denim jacket w the patches and my debian/lesbian pun tshirt and a lady upon seeing me aggressively took her daughters hand and shielded her from me. forgot homophobia existed for a minute so i was like what's that about

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Night shift

Writing my post on how I use my phone in grayscale yesterday got me thinking about other customisations I make to the computing devices I use. The first one that came to mind is that I keep my laptop, and by extension my external display when I am using it, in night shift mo...

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03.05.2026

A b&w photo of highrise building in front of a cloudless sky.
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Using greyscale

Back in 2023 I challenged myself to use my phone in greyscale mode for a week. The experiment was successful: a week later, I was still using my phone in greyscale mode. At some point afterwards, I did disable greyscale mode. But last year, or early this year (I can't rememb...

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Quotes from Tufte’s course

I took Edward Tufte’s online course on analysing and presenting data. It lasted four hours and was a mixture of reading from his books and listening to lecture material. The course was terrific and I learned so much. As I was taking the course, I took down a few quotes that ...

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New episode: Mysterious Collards in MoroccoCollard greens are strongly associated with Black foodways in the US South...

New episode: Mysterious Collards in Morocco

Collard greens are strongly associated with Black foodways in the US South, though they are also eaten in parts of Europe and in East Africa.

And, as it happens, in Morocco on the edge of the Sahara, although the outside world has only just found out about that.

Where did those collards come from? Who brought them? When? And what do they tell us about collards in the US?

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Cover artwork. Green collard leaves arranged around the stem, seen from above

Collard greens are strongly associated with Black foodways in the US South. They are also valued in Morocco on the edge of the Sahara, although the outside world has only just found out about that.

That raises so many questions.

https://eatthispodcast.com/collards

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"web joy" — the joy you experience when visiting a website with joyful content and/or have a joyful experience (as a user) on a website, or the joy of creating such a website.During the beyond tellerand conference this past week, someone mentioned “responsive web design” and ...

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4 conferences across 3 cities in 10 days:* 4/20 W3C AC Meeting (Huangzhou) “Challenging how we see the web” future of web browsers panel participant (remotely from San Francisco, on the evening of 2026-04-19)* 4/21-23 Mozilla Leadership Summit (Boston)* 4/25-26 IndieWebCamp D...

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📕 Finished reading Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders ISBN: 9781250867322

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Top Albums from last.fm on 03/05/26 1, Linda ...

Top Albums from last.fm on 03/05/26
1, Linda Ronstadt, Canciones de mi Padre, (13);
2, Le Trio Joubran, Majâz, (11);