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I was thinking about a design for a web page yesterday that I wanted to build with a few illustrations. I remembered that there was a site with old-timey illustrations that were available in the public domain. I thought I have no idea how to find this website! Today,, I was both surprised and delighted that the search query “old timey illustrations” allowed me to find the site, which I now know is called Old Book Illustrations. It is amazing that I can type in a query like “old timey illustrations” into a web search engine and find the page for which I am looking. The speed with which I found the website for which I was looking – and how a search engine found the page with my description "old timey" – brought a smile to my face. Addendum: It looks like not all illustrations are public domain according to the Terms of Use, but this doesn't detract from the story :)

Safari, Chrome, and Edge all allow you to install websites as though they’re apps. On mobile Safari, this is done with the “Add to home screen” option that’s buried deep in the “share” menu, making it all but useless. On the desktop, this is “Add to dock” in Safari, or “In...

Every so often I open developer tools in the web browser and start tinkering with my website. I love experimenting with different design directions, not necessarily in pursuit of a complete design so much as fuelled by a sense of curiosity. What would it look like if I made m...

This is a spot-on analysis of how CSS-in-JS failed to deliver on any of its promises:

CSS-in-JS was born out of good intentions — modularity, predictability and componentization. But what we got was complexity disguised as progress.

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A short piece of speculative fiction.

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Amazing win by the Longhorns. I hope they end up making the playoffs. 🏈

We’ve secured an amazing secret venue for State of the Word on Monday, but it has limited capacity in terms of people and has a lot of security hurdles to jump through to get in. So to open things up to the community more, we’re going to activate my hacker/maker art warehouse, TinkerTendo, in the … Continue reading SF WordPress Party →

Mickey Mouse holding horseshoe ornament. 🎄

November 21-28, 2025 Recent Events From events.indieweb.org/archive: Homebrew Website Club Europe/London Wednesday, November 26 at 7:00pm Homebrew Website Club Edinburgh Tuesday, November 25 at 6:00pm EDINBURGH, Scotland: Costa Coffee (Upstairs) Front End Study Ha...

This week's New Yorker Politics podcast is an interview with Jeopardy champion and host Ken Jennings. Great stuff if you, like me, are a longtime Jeopardy fan. We used to watch it in our Flushing kitchen in the 1960s when Art Fleming was host.

Today the IndieWeb community hosted a Create Day event in which participants were invited to make something on the web. The theme of the event was “Build Don't Buy”, an invitation to make something this Black Friday. While I wasn’t sure what I wanted to make, I knew I wanted...

Micro.blog’s CDN bill is up about 25% from last month, no surprise with the launch of better video hosting. I’m taking the opportunity to dig into CloudFront stats that I’ve never actually looked at. Seeing a few things that could be easy wins to optimize.

Manu Moreale:

…there is so much interesting content out there ready to be discovered. And discovering new content also means connecting with new people, getting exposed to new ideas, different cultures. That’s by far the best quality of the web if you ask me.

ChatGPT aggregates people the same way polls aggregate voters. Ignore individuality, unable to hear new ideas, allowing journalists to write the same horse race stories every year. It would be better if they found a way to report originality, they can set an example for AIs.

Federico Viticci blogging about AI results, matching my recent thoughts about the products and design mattering:

…since the baseline is now good enough, the app experience and how LLMs are woven into a people’s daily lives and workflows will be the differentiators going forward.

There are a bunch of useful demo apps in the reallysimple package, which also is itself fairly useful. I used all these tools in implementing FeedLand and WordLand, so I'm pretty sure they'd be useful to other users and developers. The feeder app, one of the demos, is used to generate the Links page on scripting.com, and provides utilities to the scripting language in Drummer.

You’re sitting at a table. In front of you, a series of plates. They’re full of shit (like some people). Not the same shit, mind you. It’s different types, produced by different animals, in different quantities. The unfortunate reality of the situation is that you have to ea...

Happy belated Thanksgiving. I was so busy yesterday, didn't have the time to do my usual Thanksgiving gratitude post. And I do have a few things to be thankful for this year. First I want to thank all the non-technical peoople who read this blog every day. This has been one...

This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Karen, whose blog can be found at chronosaur.us. Tired of RSS? Read this in your browser or sign up for the newsletter. The People and Blogs series is supported by Cai Wingfield and the other ...