poems embody
Nature, of seasons
(for)ever-
changing;
living
in time.
Saturday morning
Before I leave this morning, I have to pack some things to read. I picked up a zine and a book on colour and set out to a coffee shop to ease my way into the weekend. I purchased the zine and the book following my reflection on reference works earlier this week, which had me...
21.08.2026
No, I do not want to be on YT
I’ve been quietly seething for months now about the dumb emails I get from people wailing about my podcast’s invisibility on YouTube. Increasingly urgent, promises that this is the last time, more in sorrow than in anger, blah, blah, blah. I don’t reply, of course. That only...
More weirdness from a self-proclaimed “AI” in the IndieWeb community.Yesterday one of them (that previously* joined a meetup Zoom and Etherpad) joined the #indieweb chat channel (via the web UI apparently) and introduced themselves in a pseudo-human sounding way:https://chat....
Music; pressure
The sun is shining through the big and small clouds in the sky. The sun shines with such power that the areas that most catch my eye are the periphery of the darkest clouds, illuminated by the yellows of evening. The light coming through the window ebbs between faint and ful...
April 2026
A zoo visit, easter, a concert, IndieWebCamp, and Beyond Tellerrand. (35 photos)
HTML element letter count distribution
How many HTML elements are exactly five letters long? This question came to mind in the context of a discussion I had yesterday about what an indie web version of Wordle would look like. We all started to name elements. table, tbody, input, among others, all have five letter...
Why I wish people a happy day of the week
Zachary and I are trading blog post titles. Zachary has written a blog post in response to the suggested title “What everyone should know about Australia”. I have written my post in response to the title “Why I wish people a happy day of the week”.
For the last year or so, ...
What Everyone Should Know About Australia
An Australian's answers to the questions Americans keep asking: no, it won't all kill you, the food's worth the trip, and there's far more here than red dust.
This is another title tr...
”I’ve been quietly seething for months now about the dumb emails I get from people wailing about my podcast’s invisibility on YouTube. Increasingly urgent, promises that this is the last time, more in sorrow than in anger, blah, blah, blah. ... Why stop seething quietly now?”
https://jeremycherfas.net/blog/no-i-do-not-want-to-be-on-yt
https://social.ewenbell.com/notice/B9VkdcImjwAsdHnC6q prompted me to write a little something about my own disenchantment.
Brainstorming site name changes in web readers
Recently, one of the websites I follow (not this one!) changed their name. Artemis, the web reader I maintain, was still using the old name for the feed. This makes sense in the case of Artemis because users can choose their own names for an author; if the author name were s...
Re: My perfect laptop
The Macbook Air in Carlos‘ response to Michael’s post “My perfect laptop” caught my eye as soon as I saw it. The Macbook (which I will refer to as a “Mac” going forward) in the blog post looks similar to my first Mac. I originally wanted a Mac because I had been following CS...
Change; anchors
I look out the window. Every time I look I notice change: the ambering of leaves that are still green in my memory, the movement of clouds as they go from one end of the sky to the other, the movement of leaves as they sway to-and-fro with the light morning breeze; some morn...
Towards a Personal Online Third-Space – Ana Rodrigues
Ana Rodrigues has transformed a past talk into a lovely read about how her personal website became her third-space. That place that is neither home nor work, where you gather, wander around and meet people.
She writes about chasing IndieWeb perfection for years, about the pr...
RE: https://mastodon.social/@medieval_illuminations/117126072323898265
I have questions.
📖 read “Holston” in “Wool” by @hughhowey.com https://tantek.com/isbn/0358447844#book #Holston #Wool #Silo#Blaugust #Blaugust2026
19.08.2026
The Tower of Babel by Bruegel the Elder
Thomas and I are doing a collaborative writing challenge where we each choose a painting for the other to write about. Thomas chose The Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder for me to write about. You can read about the painting I chose for Thomas, Meindert Hobbema’s Wo...
Organising my blog categories
My blog categories page has, until today, been designed with a functional mindset: the purpose of the page was to list all of the categories I use on my website. But, this week, I started thinking about how I could improve the page, to make it more of a hub to explore differ...