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I swear, this site is alive. If you are reading this site using RSS you don’t get every update. If you follow me on BlueSky or Mastodon, you get some. Pages which have been updated lately: Slashes — I updated the list of standard slash pages I have Colophon — I had a colophon in...

I’ve been reading Doc Searls blogging for decades. He’s a straight shooter and a thoughtful writer. Was. Is. Will be. For however long. Leavings: So I’ll be devoting more of my bloggings to surfacing valuable lessons and stories left in my care by those now gone, and to making clearer what I’m bringing to generations...

From a few weeks ago, after the death of VP Dick Cheney. Dick Cheney Departs The World He Made At its heart, American conservatism is a fantasy. It’s a vision of a world too evil to be saved or cared about, and fearsome enough to justify any and every impulse toward cruelty and violence that...

Homebrew Website Club/Eastern at 6pm EST on Wednesday. We talk websites and such over Zoom, if you have questions about personal websites, webdev stuff and suchlike you’re welcome to join, folks tend to get something useful + chitchat. There are a fair number of regulars but I often learn new stuff and when I have...

Hi Joe Crawford, We’ll soon enable automatic dubbing on your channel. This means that YouTube will automatically generate translated audio tracks in different languages, making your content accessible to more viewers. No action is needed — we’ll enable this on your channel in the coming weeks. Once enabled, when you upload a new video, we’ll...

Alex said in their prompt for IndieWeb Blog Carnival: Let’s talk about cycles and fluctuations and give our world just a little more grace. Yes! I said the other day in some melancholy: I feel sad there will be rain as it may keep me out of the ocean as freshwater drains pollutants down to...

The month is half over. Go read Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud and post that fact to yr website and let me know and I’ll add it to the #IndieWeb Book Club page. It’s in libraries! It’s online! Go! Read! Post!

At the end of the 20th century a kid who demanded to watch Disney’s The Little Mermaid could watch it. On VHS cassettes and later on DVD, eventually in the back of a car or on a tablet. Kids watched, and re-watched those films. And they still do. I have watched the sitcom 30 Rock...

angry skies, glassy conditions the view from the water and this is me I went to Ocean Beach Today. A storm, and rain, coming to San Diego. I am more adept at riding a breaking wave with my body than ever. The waves were good today. And I had fun. I feel sad there will...

Subject: Image Complaint Notification Date: October 28th, 2025 Good day Joe Crawford, Please be advised that a report has been submitted to us concerning a DMCA takedown notice pertaining to one of the images posted on your Flickr account. This notice claims that the image displays the unlicensed use of a registered trademark , which...

A response, at the last minute, to IndieWeb Carnival: On Ego The first time I really remember my ego screwing me was when in high school. My response to Colors in August 2025 included that story. A teenager who was told for years he was good at drawing was confronted by a criticism. That teen–me–shut...

Zachary Kai restarted the IndieWeb Book Club in October 2025. The book in question was The Creative Act by Rick Rubin. I am in strong alignment with the ideas in this book. Creativity is the birthright of absolutely every human being. It is not the exclusive tool of Beyoncé and grade-schoolers and Itzhak Perlman. I...

A surfer said to me on Friday: “Finally!” I asked… “Finally?” “Winter’s Here” he said. Big waves, closeouts. Fun.

It was big. Surfers could not get out. Waves too big and crashy. Windy. Not appealing to surfers because there’s no wave lip to ride, the waves just crash over into whitewater. I saw another bodysurfer out. I love being out in big chaotic surf. Keeps me on my toes.

I’ve made a web page each day this month for #WeirdWebOctober. Some are pretty special to me. Each day I give myself permission to pause or stop. So far: 11 days, 11 pages. Each one a bit different. Each with different but straightforward HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. And the tools built into browsers. O what...

1 week until Front End Study Hall 38 – we meet and talk and hash out code and try to solve and understand whatever folks bring with them: HTML-wise, CSS-wise, UX-wise, code-wise, web-wise. Come on down and spread the word. More: FrESH

I have done 4 more entries for Weird Web October since the one with the hearts. Scramble: it’s clicky and it was fun to write clip-paths Filters: an instance of “a few html elements do quirky things;” rather like many of the toys I’ve made Remix:a bookmarklet to modify pages like a Slinky. It’s over...