A promise you adjust when circumstances change isn’t exactly a promise, right? 🤔
25.02.2026
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And some important additional context – thanks for the reminder, Heather 🙏 (and the pointer, @bastianallgeier): https://bsky.app/profile/heather-buchel.com/post/3mfoofq3w722y
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 m...
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...
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 m...
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
“Our main story tonight concerns Twitter, or as it’s being called since Elon Misk purchased it a few years ago: Twitter.”
John Oliver is a treasure.
(And I hope you’re not active on that shit site anymore. 😉😉)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7ZG_xWYLzI
Matthias Ott
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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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… and of course, the background of the OG image is AI-generated – I just had to make an exception for this post. 😉
✍️ New post: Continvoucly Morged Value
Couldn't get out of my head what happened to @nvie’s diagram – and so I wrote down a few premature thoughts about what happens when we mistake the (AI) artifact for the work …
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 blo...
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 ...
Artemis “via”
Recently, a feed a few users – including myself – were following with Artemis published a “bookmark”-like post. The markup in the corresponding feed was a bit different than expected, so Artemis ended up linking directly to the bookmarked post rather than to the author’s pos...
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 blo...
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 ...