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Adding an edit button to my static site on mobile

In my My static site editing bookmarklet blog post, I outlined the bookmarklet I made that, when clicked, automatically takes me to the GitHub page associated with a URL on my website. I use this link daily to edit the wiki-like pages on this website. Today, I thought to mys...

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Flowers and trees

“There is a joy to walking on a familiar path but in a new direction,” I thought as I walked to the botanic gardens. I enjoyed walking on the sunny side of the street as I ventured to a part of the city I don’t visit as often. With every step, I found delight in my surroundi...

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The bookshop

The well-kept antique books in the window caught my eye, all carefully bound in the way that only old books are. I stopped and looked around. Through the tall window through which the natural light of the sun was beaming – the bookshop was on the sunny side of the street – I...

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🎥 Forkalyst Live Cut

Forkalyst Live Cut

I cut a little 2 minute video from a handful of phone recordings from our gig last saturday.

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Quotes

I collect quotes on a quotes page on my website. I add to it every few months. Since I think the quotes page is only linked on one page — my pages page (#meta) — I wanted to publish a post to say it exists.

I hope you enjoy the quotes! If you have a collection of quotes on your website, send me an email and let me know.

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Tales of Debugging: The missing character

I received an interesting bug report this week. A new user of Artemis reported that the letter “n” was missing from all of their post titles. For example, one post title ended in “Oe Moth I” instead, as it should read, “One Month In”. What was causing the bug? I had a hunch....

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Website reflections

Guided by wondering “what would I say to my younger self starting a website?”, I started taking notes. Here they are: Don’t worry about writing on one topic. You’ll find great joy in exploring new ones. Write what you love — the observations of your life, the things that ma...

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Something I wrote in the W3C Authentic Web Mini Workshop’s Zoom chat:Another implicit assumption (flaw) that is often a part of "purely technical solutions" is the neglect or ignorance (innocent naïveté) of existing technical solutions. A technical proposal should not be prai...

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I just participated in the first W3C Authentic Web Mini Workshop¹ hosted by the Credible Web Community Group² (of which I’m a longtime member) and up front I noted that our very discussion itself needed to be careful about its own credibility, extra critical of any technologi...

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I have no complaints about playing in the rain today.

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maxhaesslein-hab-noch-zwei-andere-quellen

@maxhaesslein Hab noch zwei andere Quellen für Custom Minis gefunden: https://creator.eldritch-foundry.com/ und https://titancraft.com/. Bieten beide (wie auch Hero Forge) die Möglichkeit an, die Minis von denen drucken zu lassen oder auch die STLs zum Selberdrucken herunterzuladen.

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Designing code snippets in technical content

When I was re-designing my website, I thought a lot about the presentation of prose, guided by the intention to build a more focused theme for reading my words. Over the last few months, I have also thought about the design of multimedia content: images and videos. Designing...

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Pattern: Filtering over content firehoses

Every week, BBC Scotland publishes a collection of photos as part of a Your pictures of Scotland series. Readers are invited to submit photos of anywhere in Scotland. The series has opened my eyes to all of the landscapes across the country. From morning frost over the hills...

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Matcha

I am excited by the arrival of spring; a time of flowering and growth and, hopefully sunshine. As it gets (a little bit) warmer, I have been in the mood for my go-to, non-coffee iced drink 1: a matcha latte. Last week, after drinking one, I thought maybe I could try making i...

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Played a very good sounding and good looking gig with Forkalyst at the Sojus7 in Monheim last Saturday.

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🎬 Vampires

Movie poster for “Vampires”.

This is certainly not my favourite Carpenter movie, but I think it was totally fine. Although I prefer those wine-sipping romantic European vampire films that this one mocks. I have criticism regarding the reduction of pace in the middle, that strange love story, James Woods’ annoying character, and general more leaning towards an action zombie movie. But I generally liked the acting and characters, Sheryl Lee slowly turning into a vampire, and the whole splattery action at the party in the beginning is pretty damn good.

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Ten years ago today I coined the shorthand “js;dr” for “JavaScript required; Didn’t Read”* https://tantek.com/2015/069/t1/js-dr-javascript-required-deadin reference to (primarily content) pages that were empty (or nearly so) without scripts.Since then js;dr found its way into...

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Mistrust, LLMs, and DOGE

These are bits and pieces. Not fully formed thoughts. But I want to quote two smart people. Steve Yegge 2 years ago. And Dan Hon a few days ago. From Steve Yegge, 2023: Cheating is all you need: All you crazy MFs are completely overlooking the fact that software engineering exists as a discipline because...

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For there’s no blue Monday in your Sunday clothes

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vision and curiosity

"The only boundary to learning is the scope of your vision and curiosity."