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Autumn

What if I don’t have to go anywhere to feel the world? What if the place of my dreams is already in front of me? Herein, a dispatch from Scotland in September. ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ As I look into the distance, I see a tree with a green core at the ends of whose branches the leaves are s...

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The feeling of writing

Sometimes you wipe away words and their imprint – the place where you left them – remains inked in your mind. The feeling of writing. ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ After I wrote “The sound of writing”, I started to think about how writing feels. What does it feel like to write a piece of work? I...

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Sticker memories

I love how a conversation can flow from dishes to Ted Lasso 1 to stickers. This makes me think that even if I am not wandering outside – exploring the world – my mind can wander inside, or with others as part of a conversation. I digress. Of all these discussion points -- di...

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Wonders of Web Weaving, Episode 20

The twentieth episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out:

In Episode 20, I chat with Sara, the author of sarajoy.dev and whimsica11y.net, among other things, the importance of web accessibility, screen readers, and the joy of exploring and making things on the web.

I hope you enjoy the episode!

Wonders of Web Weaving also has an RSS feed you can use to follow along from wherever you get your podcasts.

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Ooohh. 🔥😁

“You bore a tunnel through the trouble, that's informative stuff
It's moving forward instead of assuming forward is up.”

https://youtu.be/wFtK8qsGRaA?is=cbaItsVUdZvcPHyp

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Moments of joy

Frances post Highlights of my week has inspired me to write a list of things I love and that bring me joy. I have done this before but I thought it would be fun to write another list. I encourage you to write one, as well. You can keep it private if you want – it’s the writi...

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🎬 From Dusk Till Dawn

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Movie poster for “From Dusk Till Dawn”.

Ahhh, yes. Haven’t seen this in a long time. That’s a mistake. So good from start to finish.

👍 Recommended!

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Of Day

I stand at the bookshelves — art and Nature and biography and memoir — and ask myself what story I want to tell. What do I want to write? What I do know is I want to write something. And so I begin. ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ My adventure began with zines. I packed four zines to read: three p...

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If any of your communities use Slack, especially the “free” version, once in a while Slack seems to temporarily upgrade your “Slack team” to their “PRO” version (for 30 days).In the Slack mobile app, you may see a dismissible banner like:“PRO: Your team is on a free trial”Thi...

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Less than a week until I get to meet the @getkirby community at the very first #KirbyKonf! Can’t wait! 🤗🖤 Sneak peek ...

Less than a week until I get to meet the @getkirby community at the very first #KirbyKonf! Can’t wait! 🤗🖤

Sneak peek (🤫):

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Screw the narrative. Don’t believe the scare. The Web will never die. Love seeing you all sharing and publishing content on here – and on your personal sites and newsletters! 💚✊

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@jimmac/117290856883202034

This has been on my mind as well. Wouldn’t it be great if the AI Wild West – especially the open-weight models – got regulated, and there were only a few very responsible, very trustworthy companies allowed to proceed working with this incredibly dangerous technology? Wouldn’t that be great for their future stock prices, too?

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Couldn’t agree more to @kevinpowell here. And I’m really sorry for @geoff who is doing such great work at @csstricks. 🧡 What DigitalOcean does here not only sucks – it is also massively damaging their brand reputation in the community. Not cool! 😕👎

https://youtu.be/9_upvxCAUzM

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I’d still suggest a light EQ dip around 500 Hz and a high shelf boost around 8-10 kHz to help compensate for the Royal Albert Hall’s challenging acoustics and bring the solo violin forward a bit more. 😉

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Flora Willson calls it “flawless musical beauty” in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/sep/04/berlin-philharmonic-kirill-petrenko-augustin-hadelich-prom-review-beethoven-scriabin

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🎻 People of the UK! (And people who know about get_iplayer!) You still have the chance to hear an extraordinary performance of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto by Augustin Hadelich and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, recorded at the Royal Albert Hall and available on BBC Sounds: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0030jmq

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Beauty

The feeling of fresh air after having been in an art gallery — the feeling of the natural light after being in a room without windows and also a room with many windows, windows through time and to the feeling of home and to impressions of Nature — to the sea and the sky, the...

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On (disabling) suggested filenames on macOS 27

This week I was writing a story and noticed something strange: I didn’t give the document a title, but, after saving it, the document had a title that I did not expect. If I don’t have a name for a story yet, or if I am doing free writing, I will often not give a document a ...

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17.09.2026

Me. With a moustache.
Ok. Look update. :)

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My website has now moved to its new home in Virginia. Time for a lot of quality of life upgrades, as I migrate every 4 years or so.