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For a while I have wanted to make a bookshelf page on my website but such a page comes with the feeling that I should keep it up to date, a continuing obligation. I don’t want to keep a list of all the books I have read on my website right now, but I do want to share a few ti...

For a while, I have had an idea for Artemis – the calm web reader I maintain – to have a page that shows your feed and feed settings on the same page. I am interested in this idea because there is presently a distance between the settings to customise your reader and the rea...

The future of the web depends on simple, open standards.

I might have a new prayer: God, give me confidence of DHH claiming his proprietary license is Open Source. 37signals/Basecamp has a great new product called Fizzy, whose brilliance and innovative qualities are being distracted from by its co-creator David Heinmeier Hansson’s insistence on calling it open source. “One more thing…  Fizzy is open source and … Continue reading DHH & Open Source →

Blanco County Courthouse.

BTW, a frequently asked question, where can I get your blogroll list to import into my feed reader? Answer -- here.

Monday session

I should have demo'd the blogroll stuff at WordCamp Canada. Next time I will show products people can use right now.

Doc always has a link on my home page. That's because I have the best blogroll ever. It's hooked up to a feed reader via a technology called websockets that came along after the heyday of blogging. If you want to see its heart beating, go to scripting.com, in the browser, open the JavaScript console, and watch the updates flow in (screen shot). While we weren't watching the web got some really badass new features.

A note to Doc. We have WordPress more or less doing what we do on Scripting News. Thanks to Scott Hanson for persevering on this project. He's using the Baseline theme. I don't think it's ready yet for Doc, but it's close. The idea is to support most of the features of WordLand in a WordPress rendering.

Pluribus is not, at least so far, equal to Breaking Bad or Better Call Saul. Some parts are confusing, some are poorly edited. They try to have a shocker or cliff hanger at the end of episodes, but they aren't very shocking and the cliff turns out to be something so obvious ...

Today I added support for Pagefind to Micro.blog. Pagefind is a search library for static sites. Because Micro.blog uses Hugo underneath, Pagefind fits nicely into our architecture. You can see it in action on my own blog’s search page. Along the way to adding this, I realiz...

I like this blog post about not becoming a connoisseur by Joan Westenberg:

Simply: the aspiring coffee connoisseur who spends 200 hours learning to distinguish processing methods could have spent those 200 hours just drinking coffee and enjoying the hell out of it.

I love coffee shops. My blog currently has 150 posts with something about coffee. But maybe surprisingly, I’m not actually picky about coffee! I’m happy with any coffee beans put through any espresso machine with a splash of any kind of milk.

I like this ELECTRIC. It’s not something that most people would even see while walking by and it doesn’t really matter, but someone spent some time making it look cool anyway.

My aunties have told time and again of what my grandfather said in the 70s, visiting Hawaii, pointing at 1 name among the 2,403 at the Pearl Harbor memorial. “That guy still owes me money.” They say they told him to shush. My grandmother was aghast. They relate the story with deep affection. He also...

"History shows us that all progress comes from the meeting of diverse people, with different ideas, and different backgrounds." The web is no different.

I’m sorry for some of the flakiness in Micro.blog-hosted blogs today. Long story short, we seemed to have an influx of random traffic — bots or hackers? who knows — and to ease the pressure I enabled some extra rate limiting, which can sometimes interfere with the automatic HTTPS setup.

Yesterday I had the great honor and privilege of attending a colleague’s 70th birthday party. You may not have heard his name before, but Kinsey Wilson has been at the center of shaping journalism with a movie-worthy career that started at the bottom as a crime reporter in Chicago, and has taken him to the … Continue reading Happy Birthday Kinsey →