I asked Claude.ai to "write me a nice little spreadsheet program that runs in the browser." Here it is. It looks like a spreadsheet app but it's missing most of the really good commands, like defining the value in one cell with the sum of two other cells using point and click. If you go down this path, ask it to keep a user's guide current, and then ask it to put in features, and just describe them in standard spreadsheet terminology. The trouble starts when you want to make something that doesn't have a standard terminology yet because it's new.
People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
The Church at Varengeville by Monet
I am writing about a few paintings to help me build my description skills. My analyses are not formal or comprehensive. If nothing else, I hope that you enjoy the painting that I feature!
The warm colours in Monet’s The Church at Varengeville (1882) stood out to me the momen...
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Can we build the dog?
What resource-constrained teams need to ask before writing a line of code
State of the Browser 2026
State of the Browser was electric. This is how I summarised my experience at the annual State of the Browser event in London in my notes. I like to capture moments as they happen, then write about them later. The note is the essence of a blog post; the starting point. The not...
Chris Aldrich
• Chris Aldrich
Olympia SG1 Standard Typewriter Clean, Oil, and Adjust
Matt Mullenweg
• Matt
Emacs
People are doing pretty interesting things with Emacs (now on version 30.2!) these days, if you haven’t checked in recently. The bleeding edge has always been people into Org Mode. Sacha Chua has hooked up Whisper to Emacs to talk to it. Emacs is probably one of the first and best examples of self-modifying software … Continue reading Emacs →
Girl on a Divan by Berthe Morisot
Berthe Morisot’s Girl on a Divan, displayed in the National Gallery, London, caught my eye as soon as I saw it. The painting was the last one I saw in the Impressionist room in the Gallery, but despite having been on my feet for hours before I stood for several minutes lookin...
How to change the Duolingo app icon
I am using Duolingo to learn a bit of German. I have been using the app for a while and enjoy the exercises. With that said, I am not a fan of Duolingo’s changing application icons on iOS.
I don’t like that an application can set its own home screen icon without my permissio...
I wish there was a (simpler) way to highlight text in inputs
When I was building the search engine for my blog, one feature I wanted to implement was syntax highlighting within the search input field. I wanted special operators (i.e. has:noalt, which shows posts that contain one or more images without alt text) to have a different back...
Will There Ever Be Another You by Patricia Lockwood
Patricia Lockwood’s No One Is Talking About This knocked me for six when I read it back in 2022:
It’s like a slow-building sucker punch.
Like my other favourite book of that year—A Ghost In The Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa—it’s hard to classify. I think it’s autoficti...
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
a giant woman…
All I wanna do, is see you turn into, a giant woman… A page I made last year. Giant Women
The Church at Varengeville by Monet
I am writing about a few paintings to help me build my description skills. My analyses are not formal or comprehensive. If nothing else, I hope that you enjoy the painting that I feature!
The warm colours in Monet’s The Church at Varengeville (1882) stood out to me the momen...
State of the Browser 2026
State of the Browser was electric. This is how I summarised my experience at the annual State of the Browser event in London in my notes. I like to capture moments as they happen, then write about them later. The note is the essence of a blog post; the starting point. The not...
How to change the Duolingo app icon
I am using Duolingo to learn a bit of German. I have been using the app for a while and enjoy the exercises. With that said, I am not a fan of Duolingo’s changing application icons on iOS.
I don’t like that an application can set its own home screen icon without my permissio...
I wish there was a (simpler) way to highlight text in inputs
When I was building the search engine for my blog, one feature I wanted to implement was syntax highlighting within the search input field. I wanted special operators (i.e. has:noalt, which shows posts that contain one or more images without alt text) to have a different back...
Girl on a Divan by Berthe Morisot
Berthe Morisot’s Girl on a Divan, displayed in the National Gallery, London, caught my eye as soon as I saw it. The painting was the last one I saw in the Impressionist room in the Gallery, but despite having been on my feet for hours before I stood for several minutes lookin...
Monday session
Monday session
Philly Homebrew Website Club 7 Recap
I'm tuned into the Fediforum
11:35AM
I wrote some stuff in the comment section thinking I'd paste them in here, but that didn't work. But if you've been reading my blog you've heard it all before.
11:14AM
They have a new format which includes "tables" for up to six different participants.
It's a go...
Ben Thompson’s article about Anthropic and the Pentagon is worth a read, although not everyone is going to be satisfied with it. Anthropic is an interesting company because it feels like they don’t fully believe in their own product. Like Dario Amodei kind of wishes he was working on something else.