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Did some work on my RSS feed this morning. There was only one source:account element in my RSS feed and it was to a Twitter account I lost control of a few weeks ago, the account I had there since 2006, that at one time was in the top 10 accounts on Twitter. I changed the ...

I am interested in the field of content design, which thinks of information as not only what it represents (i.e. facts) but how that information is represented. The UK Government says: Good content design allows people to find out what they need to know or do quickly. When I ...

The main Artemis interface has remained largely the same since I made the software available for others to use. Here is the interface in December 2024. Here is the interface in 2026 [^1] [^2]: The Artemis web reader showing a list of posts under the heading "Friday, March 27t...

Doing a little tuneup work on my blog's RSS feeds.

At Front End Study Hall yesterday there was a discussion about what endeavours are similar to web development. There was a particularly rich discussion (documented in the afore-linked notes) related to gardening and web development. My takeaway from the discussion was that bu...

Progress on the open social web; not so much in the world.

Newsrooms have been slow to care about the open social web - but one of their most important support organizations is paying attention.

A few weeks ago I made Amie, an application for keeping track of who you meet at conferences. Amie lets you create an event, then add people by name and/or domain, Mastodon, or BlueSky handle. 1 I was inspired to build Amie because I went to a web meetup a few months ago whe...

This looks like a great update to the Post Stats plug-in. Thanks @amit!

This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Nikhil Anand, whose blog can be found at nikhil.io. Tired of RSS? Read this in your browser or sign up for the newsletter. People and Blogs is supported by the "One a Month" club members. ...

Going to Tullamore. brb

If your blog is on Micro.blog and you’ve been blogging for a while, try the new setting on the Design page to upgrade to Hugo 0.158. For my blog — almost 10k posts — the new version makes a huge difference in speed. We’re now using Hugo’s new renderSegments feature to optimize publishing.

It has been six years since the start of Covid, and I still catch myself trying to hold my breath in crowded spaces like an elevator. It doesn’t make any sense! I hope my brain hasn’t been permanently rewired for fear. 😷

Protecting my lips from the sun before the session. The sun slowly lower in the sky, mid session. After the sunset from my car. I’ve been listening to my 2022 mixtape ~ playlist. It’s good. Madonna’s Ray of Light is so beautiful. Impeach the President is on it. And that’s an old song. It’s got...

rss.network sounds nice. What would it be?

When I heard about Matt's product Beeper I thought wow what if that were on the RSS network.

I think RSS should be here. Makes sense doesn't it? Why not one open independent format from nowhere that no objects to you using and will not do anything ever to turn you off. Maybe it's that RSS isn't playing hard to get? :-)

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I’m not sure what it means that the Microsoft Authenticator app is in the top 20 in the App Store, but I don’t think it’s good.

Web development follows a familiar cycle. First we glue together a solution with whatever we have — JavaScript, image hacks, Flash, anything. Then the platform matures, and CSS or HTML eventually makes that same workaround native. Rounded corners, custom fonts, smooth scrolling, sticky positioning: all of these started as JavaScript-heavy hacks before CSS turned them into a single declaration.

We are in another one of those transition moments. A new wave of long-requested CSS features is finally landing, and many of them are explicitly designed to replace patterns that used to require JavaScript. Not as approximations — as first-class platform primitives that handle the edge cases, run in the right thread, and need zero dependencies.

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I’m slapping my forehead—progressive web components is a perfect name for what I’ve been calling HTML web components. Why didn’t I think of that?

A Progressive Web Component is a native Custom Element designed in two layers: a base layer of HTML and CSS that renders immediately, without JavaScript, and an enhancement layer of JavaScript that adds reactivity, event handling, and more advanced templating.

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Sometimes buy a name just because I just like it. ;-)