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My thoughts and tips on completing #100DaysToOffload for the first time and how I created a progress bar HTML element with Hugo template syntax.

I stopped in awe. Looking up, I saw a tall tree whose base was yellow and top was red, with all of its leaves glistening in the golden sun that made its way through the clouds we have seen in recent days. An adjacent tree had a combination of green leaves and barren branche...

#coffeeneuring2026 No. 3 20.1km round-trip I needed some new inner tubes for the Brompton, and although local bicycle shops stock them in the right size, only the LBS seems to stock Schwalbes which, in my experience, are slower to degenerate. And nearby one can get a coffee ...

I now follow three websites or feeds whose authors write in French; in at least two cases, the authors write in both French and English. When I see posts in different languages, I use Firefox’s Translate feature to read them. Firefox Translate is not perfect, but as long as ...

Today is the first anniversary of my mum's death. I don't know how I feel or how I am supposed to feel, I dare say that there are no rules around this. I do know that I think about her every day and I think that I always will.

Every time that I open up my phone's contacts, it shows me photo of my mum and this makes me smile, she's saved as one of my favourites, which is there to make it quicker to call people, I'm never going to remove her from that list because she will always be one of my favourites.

Thank you to all those who are think of me, my mum and my family today, I love you all ❤️

The twenty-fourth episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out:

In Episode 24, I chat with Alex, the author of alexsirac.com about, among other things, collective intelligence in public commons, what the IndieWeb can learn from Wikipedia, community in comments, and more.

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.

After writing autumn (essence, of) today, I worked on another zine: flow (or, thinking through).

When writing flow (or, thinking through) I started with no particular topic in mind other than a vague interest in exploring the concept of flow. To get started, I consulted my notes, bringing in and expanding upon ideas I have written about, and then I let myself explore whatever flowed in the moment.

You can download the zine as a PDF, and follow these instructions to fold the zine. Please enjoy!

Today I made a new zine: autumn (essence, of).

This is my first time including imagery in a zine. The front and back covers feature two photos I have taken outdoors recently: a frosty flower and frosty leaves on a bed of grass.

You can download the zine as a PDF, and follow these instructions to fold the zine. Please enjoy!

A flat sky
Field of fog
Hidden hills
Echoes of snowfall —
Not yet.

Spectra of coherence — ground, sky; all presents. // Deconstruct.
Where do I find the word that embodies a step?
— elevation, propulsion, placing; in cycles, forward, forward.
A mirror of irreducibility.
How can a word reflect my cold nose, dripping with winter air,
Breathing in fast, deeply.
Stories, of moments —
Collapsed colour, stark senses, every expression:
Poem, no contours; possible?
(But in contours definition exists.)

This month, I’ve put out major bugfix updates to my Post Kinds and Simple Location plugin. This was possible due massive tests written automatically, that uncovered a lot of things I never would have noticed, and some assistance. I’m going through all my code to ensure that all discovered bugs are fixed so I can focus on improvements in future.

James, Joel, and I had a discussion about favorite foods, which devolved, as it often does among folks who like writing, into an idea for a ‘blogging challenge.’ If you’re unfamiliar with what s...

Many of my pieces of writing, especially my creative non-fiction and Nature pieces, describe a single moment or the events that happened over the course of a day. With that in mind, one of the skills I want to develop in my writing is to consider longer periods of time in my...

#coffeeneuring2026 No. 2 10.3km round-trip Beautiful autumn Sunday afternoon, bright skies, warm, but not too warm, so out for a little ride to a new park along the Tiber. The Parco Marconi used to be a total tip 20 or so years ago when I sometimes had to walk my dog down he...

After a discussion with Joel and James, the latter had a bright idea. Guess what? Yet another fun blogging questions challenge. This one, as the title suggests, is about food.
If y...

Yesterday I asked three friends a variation of the following question: Is there a website that makes you pause like a piece of architecture? One person provided an answer to the question that was a hypothetical design: a website where, when you scrolled down, you would be ...

The night-given crystalline coating on the red leaf shimmers with the burgeoning light of day. As I take a step forward, the light hits the ice crystals in a different way. We had our first frost last night. I looked up to see an expansive winter-blue sky, with faint lavend...