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James’ Coffee Blog has been on a bit of a break while I went on holiday to Nürnberg, Germany. I set off last Friday and returned the Friday after, during which time I attended an IndieWebCamp, an in-person Homebrew Website Club at Technische Hochschule Nürnberg, and spent man...

All of the participants of IndieWebCamp Nürnberg, lined up in three rows, one row behind the other. I am in the middle of the back row, wearing my green and grey microformats t-shirt. ALTAll of the participants of IndieWebCamp Nürnberg, lined up in three rows, one row behind...

This auspicious 250th Independence Day, I find myself thinking of what Om wrote in iAMerican when he became a US citizen in 2013. On a globe, America is a landmass, a country. In an immigrant’s heart it is a belief that future is almost always better. It may not be perfect and it is certainly … Continue reading USA 250 →

Perfect day to buy a new grill. We haven’t had one since we moved. Also some frustration and hilarity as it wouldn’t fit in the car and we had to go back home to get my Honda Element. 🙂

Artemis, the calm web reader I maintain, supports web feeds marked up with h-feed. h-feed allows you to create a web feed in HTML using microformats. A h-feed may contain zero or more h-entries, each h-entry representing an entry in the feed. For example, my longform feed pag...

Occasionally, sites that publish web feeds change the URL of a post that has just been published. This can be for several reasons. For example, I sometimes change post permalinks immediately after publishing because I notice a typo, or because the CMS I use calculated a defau...

June 21st, 2026 — After my coffee, a thought came to mind: I hope that one day I can see the countryside from a double-decker bus. It’s a small wish. It may never happen but I hold onto the thought any way. I stood at the bus terminal today thinking that it was only a few wee...

I'm old enough to remember the Tall Ships in NY Harbor on this day in 1976, the bicentennial. As a NY kid, I wasn't very impressed. I liked rockets and rock bands, sound systems, had started programming then, was working in BASIC at Rapidata, a time sharing company with its ...

In the case of twitter-like systems the limits of the technology basically lost us the web, something most people are just now coming to grips with.

Good story on NPR about Born in the USA:

The 1984 hit by Bruce Springsteen describes a Vietnam War veteran who returns home to desperate circumstances and few options. Listen only to its surging refrain, though, and you could mistake it for an uncomplicated celebration of patriotism.

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This country has a lot of problems. But think how people in 1776 would view today’s society. Now imagine 2276. What will it take to build the kind of future that everyone can be proud of? 🇺🇸

Also: screenshot of me searching for previous July 4th blog posts in Micro.blog.

Let's keep building.

On Paxos

at my first Homebrew Website Club Nuremberg meetup!Thank you Tilman for hosting!#indieweb #hwc #hwcnue #NUEDIGITAL #Nuremberg

June 26 through July 3, 2026 Recent Events From events.indieweb.org/archive: Homebrew Website Club - Eastern Wednesday, July 1 at 6:00pm Online! Zoom! Homebrew Website Club - Nuremberg/Germany @ NUEDIGITAL Wednesday, July 1 at 6:00pm NÜRNBERG, Bayern: Fakultät Design ...

Simon Willison blogged about letting Fable decide when to use cheaper models:

Jesse Vincent just gave me a related tip to help avoid burning too many of those valuable Fable tokens in the few days we have left before the prices go up. Tell Fable to use other models for smaller tasks, applying its own judgement about which model to use.

Fable pricing is nutty. I’m happy to just run GPT-5.5 with fast and xhigh for everything and not worry about it.

American flag with 28 stars, on display at the Texas State Library. Wasn’t expecting it to be so big! Texas joined in 1845 and it was only another year until the flag needed 29 stars. 🇺🇸

In Europe we use Hetzner, and I’ve always been bewildered about how it’s a fraction of the cost of Linode. But lately we’ve had a number of server crashes over there. Spreading servers across multiple providers is probably still the way to go.

Thanks Bob Wertz for the kind words in this blog post about Micro.blog’s support for Bluesky and every other open API we can get our hands on:

…Micro.Blog is the perfect solution for people who want to experiment with different platforms, but maintain a centralized web presence. Manton’s built something amazing at Micro.Blog and I’m still surprised how few people know about it.