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I swear, this site is alive. If you are reading this site using RSS you don’t get every update. If you follow me on BlueSky or Mastodon, you get some. Pages which have been updated lately: Slashes — I updated the list of standard slash pages I have Colophon — I had a colophon in...

I’ve been reading Doc Searls blogging for decades. He’s a straight shooter and a thoughtful writer. Was. Is. Will be. For however long. Leavings: So I’ll be devoting more of my bloggings to surfacing valuable lessons and stories left in my care by those now gone, and to making clearer what I’m bringing to generations...

From a few weeks ago, after the death of VP Dick Cheney. Dick Cheney Departs The World He Made At its heart, American conservatism is a fantasy. It’s a vision of a world too evil to be saved or cared about, and fearsome enough to justify any and every impulse toward cruelty and violence that...

I have been listening to a podcast interview between Ezra Klein and Brian Eno. In it, Eno referenced the concept of the “premature sheen.” I stopped what I was doing, paused the podcast, and started to think about what those words meant. I wanted to learn more about the con...

Over the last few weeks I have been working on rebuilding my morning routine. I used to be regimented in my morning routine – everything scheduled down to the minute. I then ebbed the opposite way: my routines became unstructured, my mind every morning exerting itself to re...

The snow looks like drops of moonlight I thought to myself as the cool light from the street lamps illuminated the falling snow. It’s beautiful. I have never seen anything like it. Earlier this week I saw light rain fall that looked almost like it was snow – the light refle...

Important #indieweb lesson in #modular website setup this morning:Keep your DNS provider separate from your CDN separate from your webhost, so you can swap out any one of them as necessary, whether for economic or as it were today, reliability reasons. And make sure those ser...

Hiking in Hong Kong at the Wilson Trail (Section 2). Also, Men's table tennis final, EU Digital Omnibus wrecking ball, and Android sideloading update.

Hiking in Hong Kong at the Wilson Trail (Section 2). Also, Men's table tennis final, EU Digital Omnibus wrecking ball, and Android sideloading update.

Hiking in Hong Kong at the Wilson Trail (Section 2). Also, Men's table tennis final, EU Digital Omnibus wrecking ball, and Android sideloading update.

Homebrew Website Club/Eastern at 6pm EST on Wednesday. We talk websites and such over Zoom, if you have questions about personal websites, webdev stuff and suchlike you’re welcome to join, folks tend to get something useful + chitchat. There are a fair number of regulars but I often learn new stuff and when I have...

Hi Joe Crawford, We’ll soon enable automatic dubbing on your channel. This means that YouTube will automatically generate translated audio tracks in different languages, making your content accessible to more viewers. No action is needed — we’ll enable this on your channel in the coming weeks. Once enabled, when you upload a new video, we’ll...

Alex said in their prompt for IndieWeb Blog Carnival: Let’s talk about cycles and fluctuations and give our world just a little more grace. Yes! I said the other day in some melancholy: I feel sad there will be rain as it may keep me out of the ocean as freshwater drains pollutants down to...

The month is half over. Go read Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud and post that fact to yr website and let me know and I’ll add it to the #IndieWeb Book Club page. It’s in libraries! It’s online! Go! Read! Post!

Holding on tight, so tight it's cracking into jagged pieces.

At the end of the 20th century a kid who demanded to watch Disney’s The Little Mermaid could watch it. On VHS cassettes and later on DVD, eventually in the back of a car or on a tablet. Kids watched, and re-watched those films. And they still do. I have watched the sitcom 30 Rock...

angry skies, glassy conditions the view from the water and this is me I went to Ocean Beach Today. A storm, and rain, coming to San Diego. I am more adept at riding a breaking wave with my body than ever. The waves were good today. And I had fun. I feel sad there will...

Fix timezone display issues with websites by bypassing Firefox fingerprinting protection, either globally or for specific sites like Tuta Calendar.