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In 2024 I wrote about loathing and fearing web video (Unfrozen Caveman Web Video). And while video does often cause me unhappiness, I do enjoy playing with it. I’ve got videos of bodysurfing and my reels. It’s got me using stuff like ffmpeg and Procreate Dreams to do fun stuff. This short animated AVIF file...

I've been watching Jake do the Headless Frontier work with two different AI bots -- ChatGPT and Claude.ai. And as he's doing that, I'm slogging away the same way I've always done it, working on the top level user interface of WordLand. I don't see a way around it, because I h...

And the end of this video of the band Blusher coverings Kesha’s “Your Love is my Drug” they start to cover ABBA’s “S.O.S.” and I find myself really wanting to hear more of that. I’ll be seeking out other work by Blusher. Triple J is Australian public radio of a sort and does fine work....

Artemis, the calm web reader I maintain, runs as a systemd process. When I want to update the software, I deploy the new code to the server and then restart the systemd process. This has a significant downside: while the Artemis process is restarting, the software is unavaila...

A beta is starting for Terry Godier’s feed reader Current. I love his thinking behind this, but I’m going to resist trying the beta so I don’t get distracted or influenced on building my own RSS thing.

If you look at the news blog, we have shipped new features or bug fixes nearly every day until the last couple of weeks. It’s been unusually quiet because so much is going on in separate branches that aren’t quite ready. Two big things coming: the RSS reader and a redesigned full-screen web editor.

A few weeks ago I did a day-long training Carbon Literacy Project training course through my university. When I was taking the course and considering ways I can reduce my carbon footprint, I started thinking about technology. I don’t know much about calculating emissions from...

A while ago, I purchased an Aranet 4 indoor CO2 monitor. The device has sat on my desk ever since. I started thinking about the Aranet monitor this week because I noticed that, for the first time, the battery was low and needed to be changed. The Aranet is a useful device. W...

Another example of ChatGPT utility. Asked this question: "I have a function named viewFeedItem. Inside it has an icon that when you click it, it calls viewFeedItem to view the parent of the item. But I don't want it to call viewFeedItem directly because that leaves the previous instance of viewFeedItem around. In javascript what's the best way to defer the call to divFeedItem so that the two instances are unrelated, and the first instance goes away." I was pretty sure as I wrote this that setTimeout was the answer, but ChatGPT offered it as the first choice, and explained why it was the best. It's like having a code consulant, you're the surgeon and it's ready to help. And it really does help to know it parsed it the same way I did.

For the last few weeks I have been thinking about the intersection of calendars and web readers. Author's note: You can skip the next paragraph if you're not interested in the technical aside. What started this thinking was a technical interest. With h-feed, you can publish...

Good morning sports fans! Boy are we getting some fancy sports action. The Olympics have already started, with Milan as the host city. The opening ceremony is tonight. My longtime friend the brilliant and beautiful Anna Masera will be attending. I don't know if I can boast ...

This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Frances, whose blog can be found at francescrossley.com. Tired of RSS? Read this in your browser or sign up for the newsletter. The People and Blogs series is supported by Travis Schmeisser an...

Last year, one of my goals was to learn more about design. I wanted to apply what I learned to making web pages. The Non-Designer’s Design Book was an influential resource toward the end of the year. While not specifically about web design, the principles within the book – co...

The Autumn/Winter 2025 edition of the good internet magazine is out! I contributed a piece, Build the web you want to see, in which I reflect on the last five years of James' Coffee Blog and some of what I have learned in that time. I have been thinking about the question "how do we make the web better?" for the last few months, and perhaps the best answer I have right now is for us all to keep building the web we want to see. It is perhaps because of this that, when I asked Joe yesterday "How can we achieve a web renaissance?", he replied "I think we're already in it." Thank you to Xandra for all of the work that she puts into making the good internet magazine happen. I am delighted that this project exists and, especially after reading StartingAMagazine.psd, am more aware than ever that projects like this don't just happen: we make them happen.

This has been one of the most intense weeks of my life, both physically challenging and mentally exhausting. And it’s only Tuesday.

Spurs in Dallas. 🏀

Here is how I test microformats markup on my website. First I install mf2py: sudo dnf install python3-mf2py Then I define this one-liner Bash function: mf2test() { python -c 'import sys; import mf2py; import json; print(json.dumps(mf2py.parse(url=sys.argv[1])))' $1 | jq; } And then I can test a website like this: $ mf2test https://blog.rickardlindberg.me/2026/02/05/075110.html { "items": [ { "type": [ "h-entry" ...