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...

Jeff Bridgforth wrote a post called Anti*: those things left undone on the topic of things that we have intention to do but don’t follow through or things started but not finished. For me the post I never wrote was about religion. I went through a period 20-25 years ago of great difficulty. I had...

I made this today. I had fun doing Day 2 of Weird Web October 2025. But like yesterday, spent more time than I intended. I had some other ideas around maps in my head. Vintage, ancient maps of California. Not ancient, but rather 1823. A full 202 years ago. But I wasn’t quite happy with...

I spent a fair amount of time on Weird Web October today. artlung.com/wwo/ I added reels recently. And some great rides. I need to shave though. Kind of beardy right now. But I’ll get to a shave soon. So many good likes lately. And new folks added to my blogroll. That’s all I got for...

Merrill Markoe talking about Colbert & Kimmel is amazing. I actually once shepherded a piece on the Letterman NBC show called “Meet the Censors”, in which we intentionally violated, in front of a live studio audience, every one of NBC Dept. of Standards and Practices censorship rules. We then asked the censors to have their...

You are writing a post about birds. Your mind is now sculpted into a new shape, imagining that you are writing a post in response to Fractal Kitty’s IndieWeb Blog Carnival Prompt, Second Person Birds. You wonder if you remember what “second person” actually is. And you do! You know that you have plenty of...

Originally posted to the WebSanDiego mailing list on January 14, 2005. This is just barely on-topic. So these days of still-not-moved in, waiting for my new abode to start, waiting for a new gig to happen, turns out I’ve discovered my new mobile office. It’s not Starbucks (t-mobile doesn’t offer reasonable month-to-month plans), but rather,...

This month’s IndieWeb Movie Club is for The Wild Robot. It’s hosted by Zachary Kai. I liked the film. It has a great setting. An innocent and appealingly designed robot. And forest creatures on an island without people on it. The robot is forced to adapt. It takes a role in the ecosystem. It learns...

Here’s a photo of Henry taken in July 2021. And here’s a photo where Henry was the green in the background of a new bot day, from the beginning of COVID, April 2020. I knew Henry was old. I didn’t know how old. So I texted my ex and reported the death. Their response: We...

Tim Synder on Superman: The virtues of Superman: A medieval movie review (2025) Superman, in the film, is an innocent superhero. This character type goes back to Siegfried in the Nibelungslied. The medieval Germanic hero is as strong as twelve men, he can become invisible, and is invulnerable except for a single spot between the...

I’m rather happy with the IndieWeb wiki: it’s at indieweb.org. It’s a great resource and has had great additions and documentation added to it over the years. Folks like gRegor and James and Tantek and many, many, many, others have made and improved terrific living history of independent websites. The topic is so large it...

“The need is absolute.” I’m quoting Peter O’Toole playing T.E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia. Two incredibly interesting and problematic twentieth century people one filling in for the other to tell a story. That line, which O’Toole says in reaction to the question of the need of phones in a recently liberated town taken from...

Trump’s Gleichschaltung: The “Synchronization” of American society with its increasingly omnipresent government The intended conditioning is clear: before you do anything, check with the Dear Leader first because you can never be quite sure whether or not it passes or fails in his omnipotent judgment. And, yeah, that includes your sense of humor. This forced...