eyes closed, sights
of day — memories —
appear vivid
as trees and paths
paint the skyline
with colour.
Impressionism
with colour, motion.
Bear Blog Carnival September 2026: Music memories
Do you remember the moment when you first heard your favourite song performed live? Or a moment when a friend told you that a song you love was a cover and that there were many more versions to hear? Do you remember a particular street performer – a guitarist, a pianist, or ...
Hiding elements on mobile and desktop with CSS
My website navigation bar varies on desktop and mobile devices. On desktop devices, the navigation bar appears to the left of the page with a list of links to pages on my website. My website tagline, from ;; james, appears in the sidebar, too. On mobile devices, the navigati...
Wednesday session
Wednesday session
From an article about George W. Bush in The New Yorker:
For Bush, painting is a way to say what he can’t say, to express feelings that include rejection, frustration, and anger, even as he abides by his official discipline of silence.
I couldn’t have been more against George W. Bush in the late 1990s and 2000s. In the Trump world, I’ve become more sympathetic to him — as a human being, at least, if not on policy. He has also become quite a good painter.
We got agents running in Atlantis today. Screen shot.
Released a new Mac update, version 4.0.8. Really happy with the changes in this one. Lots of little improvements.
DOC • We used to log off
Mark Weiser, the person who framed ubiquitous computing, never said the goal was seamless. He warned that making everything seamless is the same as making everything uniform, and he argued for seamful systems, ones that let each part remain itself. Chalmers and MacColl turned this into a full design position: questioning the assumption that seamlessness is a requirement, and arguing that visible seams can be useful, even appropriated by people for their own ends.
One of my favorite things about blogging is when I have to learn something entirely new just to write the post.
Astra
Fable 5.1 was released this week. Astra might be coming as soon as tomorrow. Sam Altman, in a long post on X that should really be a blog post:
We have been living with the tension between being excited and anxious about progress for some time, and it is still discordant fo...
The downside of running a tiny business is the “CEO” sometimes doesn’t have enough time for the big picture. I was thinking about this yesterday as I focused for hours on Mac development. With AI, code feels free but it’s not really free. Everything takes time away from something else.
Michelle Barker | Little Websites Everywhere
Amid the dying embers, a resilient cohort of indie web bloggers, artists and creators will keep going, keep on talking to each other through their blogs, without tracking, pop-ups or invasive ads. Making fun websites, helpful websites, pointless websites (the best kind) that serve no purpose other than to manifest someone’s spark of creativity. Ignored by the lumbering giants that have gorged themselves into a stupor, keeping low under the radar of the hungry LLM crawlers eager to voraciously gobble up the last remaining crumbs of the free web.
Salter Cane this Saturday
Looking for something to do in Brighton this weekend? I’ve got ya covered.
Come to the excellent Prince Albert pub on Trafalger Street at 8pm on Saturday, September 5th. Head upstairs with your ticket. There you will be treated to an excellent triple bill.
First up is Figu...
Deploying a range of optimizations today, across the Micro.blog servers and Mac app. A couple things are dramatically faster. A couple things a tiny bit faster.
this is me trying (to make a zine)
After the IndieWeb Zine Pop Up in May, I decided that I wanted to make a zine. I had already made a zine before, Quiet Edinburgh, but the zine was more of a booklet. After the meetup, I started feeling inspired. I wanted to make a tiny paper zine, one that I could fit in my ...
One audio stream, many RSS articles: keeping narration going behind a locked screen
Inspirations
I remember the moment I was standing before four or five of Monet’s Haystack paintings, each depicting a different season. I was in awe of the colour. I could move between each of them and see the same scene from a new perspective, from the warm sunsets of summer to the fros...
Time
Flowers fade into fall. Every day brings us closer to autumn. I walk around for a while, admiring details I have seen a hundred times and yet, each time, find something new to see, and then stand for a moment and watch as people wander in the park, or sit and spend the momen...