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Washington, September 2026.

From the video Backpacking into the heart of the North Cascades looking for the perfect photograph .

I go to Northern Washington looking for a very specific image. I thought it was going to take me a while to make it, but I got the right conditions on day one. I felt I had to try to top it, so I decide to backpack into the heart of the North Cascades.

I was a big girl this week and I finally read and closed all the tabs I had open. Here's my picks from that selection. Fresh browser start - here I go.

Bookmarks related to tech and web development

• Native HTML and CSS Features That Replaced JavaScript by Ronalds Vilciņš.
• What happens to our blogs when we die? by Michael Harley.
• favicons to go by Robb Knight.
• My HTML boilerplate in 2026 by Manuel Matuzović.
• StaticHost.
• GoAccess.
• Pixquare.
• What happened to the frontend by David Poblador i Garcia.
• New research: The Core Web Vitals thresholds you trust might be wrong for your site by Tammy Everts.

Other bookmarks

• Ordinary Abundance by Jordan Dworkin.
• The Extremist in the family By Alex Ronan.
• Honey, We Bought an AI Story.

On 10/7/1994, I wrote my first blog post. I've been blogging ever since. In the first years when wifi wasn't in every hotel room and restaurant as it is today, before cell phones or even iPods, there were weekly lapses when I went on vacation or to a massage retreat in the...

I finally heard from OUP, so I have posted an update to the update. Again: I cannot wait until all this is over. 

This exceptionally handsome fella is four years old today! 

The Greatest Monument Builders of All Time - The Atlantic: In place of the heroic proportions and rigidity of royal tradition, statues of Akhenaten emphasized eccentric curves — narrow shoulders, swelling hips, carefully detailed sagging tummy flesh, and a face at once cad...

I continue to believe that Manchester City will suffer no punishment for their cheating. They will appeal and delay, appeal and delay, making every possible use of their nearly endless financial resources, and eventually the whole thing will just fade away. I hope I’m wrong. 

My post on what happened with my DLS biography has gotten more attention than I expected or wanted, so I had to write an update. I’ll be glad when all this is over.

How about a Markdown web browser. No CSS, no frameworks, just Markdown files. That would be how you would restart the web in 2026. When you've had enough of Google, let me know. I start posting my blog in that space, right away.

Google will not be allowed into this web. Buh bye.

We need our own EFF to keep the Old Arthritic Corporate Excuse-makers for the Tech Industry EFF from fucking it up, same with the W3C. There won't be a WordPress there to own 81% of the websites. Just Markdown please, we don't need Gutenberg. The cool thing about it is you could always fork off your own New Web of Whatever. You don't like Markdown, that's cool. Maybe the web of SVG or The Web of Hypercard cards. Just make sure you support inbound and outbound RSS.

Josh Dzieza, in a Verge feature about Kevin O’Leary’s data centre in Utah and the citizens protesting its development, has a small update on how things are going for O’Leary’s proposal in Alberta: For developers, this presents what [Paul] Palandjian, the CEO of O’Leary Digital, calls a “chicken-and-egg problem.” In order to finance construction of […]⌥ Permalink

Google Chrome, nice browser, but it doesn’t support the web.

We just hit a milesone in Atlantis. We have WebSocket support, client and server. We made a client that listens to the FeedLand stream of new and updated posts. Still waiting to see if that works. But when I started to write the code for this test app last year, I realized a...

C. S. Lewis, from That Hideous Strength:

“And so,” said Straik, “the lessons you learned at your mother’s knee return. God will have power to give eternal reward and eternal punishment.”

“God?” said Mark. “How does He come into it? I don’t believe in God.”

“But, my friend,” said Filostrato, “does it follow that because there was no God in the past that there will be no God also in the future?”

“Don’t you see,” said Straik, “that we are offering you the unspeakable glory of being present at the creation of God Almighty? Here, in this house, you shall meet the first sketch of the real God. It is a man — or a being made by man — who will finally ascend the throne of the universe. And rule forever.”

Jeff Johnson (June): This new RSS rate limiting was perhaps foreshadowed by an r/modnews post a couple of weeks ago[…] judy-funnie (September, via Jeff Johnson): Because RSS is now a common surface for large-scale scraping and automated abuse, we'll stop supporting RSS feeds on November 13, 2026 while preserving moderation workflows that depend on it […]

Chance Miller: Apple has confirmed an issue causing a “small number” of iPhone 18 Pro Max devices on AT&T to lose cellular service. Apple released software and carrier updates to prevent the issue from affecting additional users, but the company tells 9to5Mac that devices that have already lost service will require a hardware replacement. John […]

Utah, March 2024.

From the video Arches like I had never seen it.