Sometimes I need to use a Google-style search engine to find something on a reference site. That no longer works in Google. This is a major feature pullback. So far all we've heard in journalism is how it hurts their bottom line, but nothing about the world's information architecture. This is something like every bridge in the world being blown up at the same time, and I don't think that's an exaggeration.
Polytropus
Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey comes at just at the right time for me. I spent the last two years reading the Robert Fagles translation, finishing it just a few months ago.
When I heard that Christopher Nolan was adapting Homer’s poem, I thought it made perfe...
Building NewsDiff: Tracking How News Changes After Publication
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Been quite a while. Not feeling good is the worst. On the mend, I think.
Feels like summer is actually winding down. Moving day for my son, back to school.
Surf by Stanley Cursiter
The National Gallery of Scotland has a temporary exhibition of Stanley Cursiter’s artwork going on at the moment. Cursiter was both an artist and keeper (which I understand to be like a curator), later director, of the National Gallery of Scotland. The exhibition, in one of ...
Morning; walking; music
My first feelings outside this morning were of the chilly, refreshing autumn air; one for which I have been yearning for many days. I feel at home in cooler climates. In the grass, a rabbit hops slowly; other rabbits gather, too. A bird flies in front of me as I walk; many k...
Thinking out loud on a Saturday morning
Tech is very competitive, I learned, even when you give your work away, which I have been doing for a couple of decades. Maybe even especially when you give it away. I want to work with other people, and am always making invitations. When I see a product that fits in with wh...
Transferred a couple more domain names, slowly trying to consolidate all of them in one place. Or even two places would be okay.
Chíne tréile
When I was immersed in the Irish language for a week in Donegal last month, I made plenty of mistakes. But there’s one mistake that I’m actually quite pleased I made.
The emphasis at Oideas Gael is on conversational Irish, so our teacher would often put us into groups of ar...
Anthropic has posted a more technical explanation of watermarking. This analogy with Monopoly made me laugh:
On each turn, each player moves a random number of spaces around the board according to the roll of a die. Suppose that, instead of rolling the die to get this randomness, we decided to use a book of the digits of pi.
This Week in the IndieWeb
August 7-14, 2026
Recent Events
From events.indieweb.org/archive:
Homebrew Website Club - Eastern
Wednesday, August 12 at 6:00pm
Online! Zoom!
Homebrew Website Club Europe/London
Wednesday, August 12 at 7:00pm
Homebrew Website Club - Nuremberg/Germany
Wednesday, ...
Replied to Apple about the latest rejection, including a video of where to find features in the app. I think app review is clearly overwhelmed or has new hires that are confused about obvious things. The whole system needs to be rethought. What sort of worked in 2008 no longer works.
I was looking for a good screen shot of Radio UserLand. Just found this one on Facebook, and hope to preserve it via the search feature here.
HTML Day San Diego 2026
John Voorhees has an initial look at ChatGPT’s Computer History feature. I enabled it this morning, but only for a few select apps like my web browser and text editors. It works well. I think I’ll keep it disabled for chat apps, since that’s a privacy can of worms that I’m not comfortable with yet.
🌋 Kilauea volcano’s currently active eruption in Hawaii https://www.youtube.com/live/mKJ7ZyIdjeQThe bright orange eruptions, orange streaks of lava flow, orange lit clouds of smoke & steam all contrasted against the black sky and land are quite the visual ASMR. Paired with the ASMR wind from the mountain, the effect is quite calming and peaceful.Putting this on a projector is quite the night light to fall asleep to (requires YouTube Premium to avoid noisy ads interruptions that harsh your mellow)#Kilauea #volcano #eruption #Hawaii #orange #lava #lavaFlow #ASMR #wind #video #USGS#Blaugust #Blaugust2026
1982 TRON prescience: “Won't that be grand? Computers and the programs will start thinking and the people will stop.” — Walter2026 students:“How do you know an assignment is AI proof? Because when it is, students cannot do it.”* https://www.reddit.com/r/Professors/comments/1v...
▶️ watching NASA’s “2026 Total Solar Eclipse”, 1h28m44s on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/live/rSvCuSQhC3wHelpful links so far:* https://go.nasa.gov/EclipseSafety* https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses#NASA #eclipse #solarEclipse #totalEclipse #totalSolarEclipse#Blaugust #Blaugust2026