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As part of migrating my main website and other sites to a new hosting service, I have also been working to create backups of sites hosted elsewhere. One of those sites was a weblog I created using Drummer (created by Dave Winer) and using the oldSchool blogging template/tool. As part of other updates made by […]

Non-detection at traffic lights in the United States

Traffic lights that do not service traffic due to non-detection may not meet the federal legal definition adopted by most states for a traffic control signal, which is any device “by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and permitted to proceed”.

Did not know this was a thing. The abomination of a stoplight that leads to my street does this sometimes. I’m running the fucker the next time it misses my little car.

Dark Matter season 2 episode 5 is really beautiful, unique across the serie, it’s an arc of a men’s healing journey culminating into going back to life. Really Beautiful

The bottom line is that tech companies have rarely understood that developers can be major influencers. We give a platform new meaning. It's a good deal to invest in the people doing the work, who often are doing it for love more than money. That grew into the blogosphere. There was no telling where Frontier would take us, and it would have cost them so little to help insure it had a future, but the did the opposite.

This is exactly what AI CEOs sound to me.

Remember MarsBot? M.G. Siegler (@spyglass.org) asked a question yesterday that got me thinking: "Where is the 'Where I've Been' Service?" He took a trip down the SoLoMo (social, local, mobile) memory lane with apps like Foursquare, Swarm, and Gowalla. His focus was on the lo...

As I go through porting Frontier, there's a sad note. What if Apple had made it a goal that Frontier move along with their OS. That it was a unique advantage of the Mac and should be promoted as such. Don't laugh, because Apple did do that for ThinkTank and MORE. We spent a ...

Sometimes I forget how much fun I have making software tricks that people don't even notice but contribute to the "it thinks like I do" feeling a of crafted UI. I think of it like walking on the Highline in NYC. You're just walking, right? But you're above it, in a city where a lot of what's going on is above you. And it's comfortable. Why? You don't need to know, it just is. But someone made it that way.

When I started this project, I had a goal in mind that has been achieved. It was part of a project I named daveMigrates. The goal was to use new hardware and system software to do the work I was doing in Frontier. At first we got a portion of Frontier working, planning to u...

Cheltenham Open Data has really grown in the last week or so with loads of new pages and I discovered I would need to run some activities from my Raspberry Pi rather than GitHub Actions. As one cannot reliably trust actions on a 5-minute cadence, I also noted an hourly job b...

What I’ve been listening to this month. Snakes In the Bag - Lions of Hazelwood Don’t Forget Me - Mark Lanegan Nothing - Drenge Chicken Bone George - Black Eyed Snakes Turn Around - Phats & Small This Is Who I Am - Joanne Shaw Taylor St. James Infirmary ...

Site release 96d7b9d: Drop the SVGZ post subtitle; list it after Recent Public Speaking (#192). Every build ships a signed manifest; see /mirrors/ for verification.

Milestone. We were able to get the DocServer site for Frontier to build. Here's the page for the file verbs. It worked the first time, but there were errors. Fixed them and while the site looks dated, of course -- it was created in the 90s, I think, we got past this one. We will update the CSS to be more like the DocServer site for Drummer, which was done a couple of years ago. Almost everyone on the team contributed to this site, Wes Felter, Andre Radke and of course Jake Savin and Brent Simmons, and myself. I see that a lot and it makes me happy to see this group effort preserved.

another massive questionnaire (i had loads of fun answering this one) and this time it's not about making web sites!

original questions from Sam's Solar System

Setting up a Flint 3e router at my home was a game changer to be able to cut ads on my network :

I can browse the web with a much better experience on all kinds of sites, Adguard is doing its job perfectly!

I have also sink holed Smart TV’s calling home to China and will have overall a much more secure network since devices that don’t need to talk to other devices are now on their own VLAN, same for Guests connecting to my home Wi-Fi, they’ll be on their VLAN.

I still have to move a few devices to the new Wifi network behind the Flint 3e and then I’m done!

Today’s interview is the first I have yet conducted with a professional blogger. I’m not going to assume anything about what you picture when I say that! But…

After the highs of Amsterdam and the exhibition last Saturday, I naturally feel a little low. While we are on the lowlands, here’s the soundtrack of this week’s update: For the last two weeks, I’ve only posted photologs as updates. I’ll cover minor happenings in this week’s...

Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing… On Sunday, 27 September 2026 The average temperature today is 18.16˚C, With highs of 18.56˚C and lows of 17.69˚C, It may feel like 18.15˚C with broken clouds The wind speed is 6.17m/s and visibility is 10000m The press...

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