Yesterday was the last HWC of 2025. It’s been good discussions - as always - but we also collectively worked on each others websites. Mainly in regards to CSS.
The first HWC DUS in 2026 will be on Jan. 22nd.
A small fix
I have a page on my site, /post, which lists all of my blog posts. For at least the last year, the HTML document title used on the page has been Posts in the Post Category. This is because the page uses the same template as my other category pages. Posts in the Coffee Catego...
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• Joe Crawford
A new kind of scam spam: let me use your US Upwork account and take a cut
I hope this message finds you well. I’m a senior full-stack freelance developer with 10+ years of experience building and scaling production-grade software for businesses. I specialize in LAMP, MEAN, MERN, Python-based frameworks, and AI-first solutions. I have successfully delivered many projects across different industries, focusing on performance, clean architecture, and user experience. I’m currently...
Grateful for the indie web
We just finished our last Homebrew Website Club Europe event of the year. We spent the time chatting about the last year on our websites – what we made, what we are proud of, what we learned – and looked ahead to what we may be interested in doing next year. One question cam...
2025 in review
The best way to introduce this post might be to reflect on my post from January, where I begrudingly declared some new years resolutions, and see how good I was at keeping them:
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• Joe Crawford
Memories of Blogger Getting Bought
Richard MacManus mentions Ev Williams posting about when Google bought Pyra/Blogger in The Blogosphere Blossoms in 2003 As RSS Readers Catch On. I mentioned it in my post/page Blogosphere Part 2: Musings/Blogosphere: 22 years ago: …so I’ve not had a net connection in about 16 hours. The HUGE news from last night announced was that...
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• Joe Crawford
Feckless and Useless and Totalitarian and Liars
“What a terrible thing it is,” said Donald Trump, “And all we can do right now is pray for the victims, and for those that were very badly hurt.” Such was the president’s reaction to the mass shooting at Brown University. We are inured to these clichéd formulations. But they are an essential element of...
Coffee shop
I read The Frugal Gamer’s post “If you were going to open up a shop, what would you sell?” with great joy. Like The Frugal Gamer, I too am bundled up inside bracing the weather. I was hoping to go for a walk but the rain and wind has convinced me to stay inside and instead h...
The nicest thing a stranger has done for me
Lou wrote a blog post asking the question “What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you?” I read his blog post and then spent some time thinking about how I would answer. One moment comes to mind.
When I was in my late teens, I had gone on a journey to the city...
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• Joe Crawford
This year it’s been all about OB. Home sweet home.
2025-12-14
BurgeonLab: Weeknotes
• Naty S
Weeknote 2025-W50: New Link-In-Bio & WordPress Performance
Improving website performance on my secondary WordPress blog. Made a new link-in-bio page gathering content from multiple blogs onto one central dashboard.
BurgeonLab: Weeknotes
• Naty S
Weeknote 2025-W50: New Link-In-Bio & WordPress Performance
Improving website performance on my secondary WordPress blog. Made a new link-in-bio page gathering content from multiple blogs onto one central dashboard.
BurgeonLab: Weeknotes
• Naty S
Weeknote 2025-W50: New Link-In-Bio & WordPress Performance
Improving website performance on my secondary WordPress blog. Made a new link-in-bio page gathering content from multiple blogs onto one central dashboard.
🎬 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Believe it or not, I have not seen this previously. It's relentless. It's uncomfortable. It's horrifying. That was quite the trip, seeing it at the cinema.
🎬 Bad Taste
Well, this was just the right desert after TCM that evening. Bad Taste was one of my earliest splatter/underground movies I've seen. It was great seeing this again after all these years. Splendid splattertainment!
🎬 Berberian Sound Studio
…or The Italian Vegetable Massacre.
Toby Jones - which I really didn't know before - is absolutely fantastic. He truly transports how one might feel in such a menacing environment. And the film leaves no doubt it criticises these types of people, and hence the production of ...
Brainstorming visual search for the web
When I am chatting about a website with friends, sometimes I forget the name of the website. I remember what the site is about, and often remember visual details about the site, too. A few months ago, I described a website that aggregated blogs and also mentioned it had a ye...
Walking
The sun sets early at this time of year. Now that I think about it, the shortest day of the year is coming soon, after which point, each following day will be longer. Anyway, I went for a walk before the sun set. If I don’t go out now, I’ll have to wait until tomorrow. That ...
A Lady in Grey
I love thinking about the use of colour in painting. Impressionist paintings never cease to make me smile; their colour illuminates me as it does the places they depict (oh! how wonderful art can be!). I also love paintings that use grey and white, both sparingly and as part...