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Water melts ICE, AI slop: images and medical advice, more on Comic Sans, and a couple retro tech stories

This is something. WordPress now supports RSS.chat in an interesting way, and it's surprisingly deep. Once it's crossposted a message to RSS.chat, any comment in response will be cross-posted to the comment thread of the post on RSS.chat. What's great about this is that you never can tell what people will do when you are on the web. Matthias is a friend, I was on his podcast last year. If people use this connection and see how it works. Then we'll get an idea of where to go next.

Of course we have a feed for RSS.chat updates.

one day late edition. again. I spent the last week in my hometown at my grandma’s summerhouse. I didn’t take time off from work since I had a lot of commitments to meet, and couldn’t swim as much as I’d have liked. Anyway, I’m grateful to be able to swim at all! Last week...

It's slowing me down, but in a good way.

How we document APIs. We did a lot of work on API docs this morning. Claude had done a draft, which we published, and turned over to users, and on review realized it was insufficient. That was the word I used, and rolled up my sleeves, told Claude we're going to get this stuff right and set a pattern as we go forward. At the end I asked Claude to summarize what we agreed on, and it's more or less exactly what I was aiming at. If you're working with Claude on docs for APIs, I offer this up as open source, feel free to point your Claude at this doc. I have a vested interest, in my job I read a lot of awful API docs.

There are more good personal blogs now than at any point in the last decade, and finding them is harder than it was. The search engines optimised for something else, the social feeds optimised for something else again, and the thing that used to do this job — one person's bl...

A frequently asked question about RSS.chat. How about adding external feeds to the timeline. Of course we thought of doing this, and even started development, you might even find some traces in the code of that attempt. The thing about bootstraps is you can't anticipate all...

A new utility exports the contents of a Frontier object database into a single large JSON file. I needed this because I'm preparing to move my code editing suite to Drummer running on new Mac hardware. Took a long time to get here, but with Claude's help the project looks possible. In the meantime the list of stuff I want to do with RSS.chat, while much shorter than it was, still has some juicy bits in it.

• Distance: 3.44 km
• Duration: 0:11:10
• Calories: 69
• Avg power: 103 W
• Max power: 297 W
• Avg heart rate: 0 bpm
• Max heart rate: 0 bpm
• Elevation gain: 28 m

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// Written by thechelsuk
// Published 2026-07-27, with 31 words.

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I have more personal projects than I can realistically work on right now. A shoe rack out of plywood, a decorative fence to hide the air conditioner, low voltage landscape lighting, enclosing the patio under the back deck, smart home automation, software tools I've wanted to...

Jekyll considers collections as a type, like posts and pages, by adding the collection to the config.yml it can operate in the same way as posts, making listing, sorting, and counting easy. To add a collection, you need to update several places, these code examples use the r...

Responding to Coyote's critique of Bubbles.town and feed aggregators, I argue that the IndieWeb needs more interlinkers—bloggers who meaningfully synthesize and weave together the writing of others. On the garden/stream/campfire metaphors for the web, the difference between linkdumps and synthesis, Justin Hall's early web work, and how every link out is a stitch that strengthens the fabric of the blogosphere.

This is the “path to mastery,” George Leonard wrote: not one initial period of agitation followed by smooth, steady improvement, but an endless succession of new challenges, each making a clumsy, disjointed, agitated beginner of you again and again. “And this is the essence of mastery,”

Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing… On Monday, 27 July 2026 The average temperature today is 16.5˚C, With highs of 16.5˚C and lows of 16.08˚C, It may feel like 16.06˚C with clear sky The wind speed is 0.45m/s and visibility is 10000m The pressure is 101...

I destroyed all of your letters. Not because of what you did. I did it as soon as I read them, with the little shredder you bought me for my confidential papers. That way, I couldn't spend all my days rereading them. That way, I would never read

My week notes for week 30 of 2026

Another f* “CEO says a thing!” Journalism here

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Comic Sans is punk, it's ok to be queer whether you're a terrible person or not, some notes on AI, and Facebook is still terrible

My weekly blog post. Links this week include disappearing Tokyo train station melodies, a thorough detailing of all the computers and software used in the original Jurassic Park movie and Egyptian princesses weren't just pretty, they were BAMFs. I talk about my cool thrift store find, this week's foray in wearing perfume and cherries - eating them and making them into a delicious libation. Plus, as usual, I listened to, read and watched things.