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I read Joel's post today about how he keeps track of his gaming. I love reading about how other people go about time tracking, and his methods are completely different to mine. It inspired me to think about how I use and visualise the data that I collect every day. I use it ...

New monkey, gold tongue mummies, more on explosive diarrhea, bug-killing drones and William Shatner hXc

This is a test of RSS Club. You should be able to read it in your RSS app, but not on the website.

When my kids were little they used to love bedtime stories. We still have a collection of their books in our little library. One of their favorite series of books was Frog and Toad. I’ve taken several photos of the family of toads that hang out in our driveway every night during the summer. Last […]

While all the new rss.chat business is going on, the WordPress news site that I started in May is growing at a nice clip. Referrers used to pinpoint where flows like this came from, but they stopped doing that at some point. If you have any clues as to who's pointing to it now, please let me know so I can thank them. And if you know of any sites that are not in the feed list, that do a good job of covering WordPress news, please let me know that too.

There's a new Docs menu in rss.chat. Right now it has pointers to the home page of our GitHub repo, and to the worknotes pages for the client and server. There will be lots more stuff in this menu as the project progresses.

A lot more people have tried out rss.chat now that we have a demo site, and they are looking for stuff that isn't there. I wrote a longish post on X this morning explaining. If you want the gist, this is a bootstrap, and rss.chat is primarly a writing surface and a timeline f...

A sequel to my Eleventy build post: this time the bottleneck wasn't the build tool, it was the hosting bill. Notes on caching webmentions and guestbook fetches, killing a dead Discord webhook, nearly breaking my JSON feed, and a git error I still don't have an answer for.

My first post on the new site.

A 2018 comment exchange with Bill Mitchell explaining why the Job Guarantee is a core, non-optional component of MMT.

Two of my nerdiest interests together in one blog post.

I put a little scribble of ink in one corner, like I had needed to get the pen going, and a coffee ring in the corner opposite. Then I thought: doesn't that look too symmetrical? Too deliberate? So I printed another copy, and put the scribble and the

Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing… On Wednesday, 15 July 2026 The average temperature today is 16.78˚C, With highs of 17.05˚C and lows of 16.49˚C, It may feel like 16.73˚C with scattered clouds The wind speed is 1.79m/s and visibility is 10000m The pre...

The biggest issue is being where your connections are. Would love to de-meta but that’s where family, friends, and colleagues all reside.

It’s so ubiquitous in the UK yet people seem so passive to Meta.

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              What an amazing little 35mm film camera, bought for NZ$300 in mint condition Schneider 50mm F2.0 lens, with options for a 35mm and 80mm lens… Considerably heavier construction/more metal than the little Contax…

demo.rss.chat: "This is a writing surface."

rss.chat is meant to be like MacWrite was on early Macs, give developers something to think about and lots of prior art for them to steal. All we want in return is interop. ;-)

If Bernie Sanders or AOC knew what we were doing here they would be turning somersaults. The tech right now is too esoteric. When they can join a community that works like this does, with full text, and the ability to communicate from one pod to another. Pod actually is a good name for what I have in mind, that and karass.

Speaking of AI, someone at Amazon decided I needed the new AI version of Alexa. I hate it. It's slow and it always makes the same mistake when I start breakfast. I say "Alexa WNYC" to which it responds, after a few seconds, I will now play you a mix of your favorite songs From Amazon Music." So first thing in the morning I have to tell this stranger in my freaking kitchen no I meant WNYC, which it then turns me over to. I learned on FB that if you tell it to go away it will, after a short discussion about how much you will be missing. Yeah sure, go away, goodbye, please no more of this.