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When they’re told that this is the future of the industry, they accept that statement as true. They’ve tried it; understand it and think to themselves: “I see your point, but this isn’t fun any more. This isn’t enjoyable. This is bad for me.” And decide to leave.

But I don’t put any pressure on myself. That might be the secret to the longevity of the site. I don’t worry about running out of things to write about. If I go for a while without writing anything, that’s okay.

Z-Profile gets data from a specially-prepared Zotero collection, does of bit of processing, then generates a static website using Zola. The site includes biographical details and a list of your publications. Once your site is built, you can publish it using any web host, or for free through GitHub Pages.

Most of my earliest memories about stickers are related to sports.

(it's so fun to click around an isometric space)

tl;dr: the US Web Design System has been functionally taken over by DOGE or a DOGE-aligned group. Its code and community are now being run by AI, and its current form does not deserve the hard-earned trust USWDS built over its first 10 years.

How to live a Jane Austen lifestyle in a Matrix world

Do you have any memories related to stickers? I would love to read them!

I've been getting into film photography lately. ... Here's my very first selfie taken with the camera. As you can see I am very friendly and not frightening:

Here's an overview of the apps and tools I use to run my daily life. Spoiler, it's a shockingly low amount.

Sometimes these things are offensive, but you’re used to voicing them in a more forgiving environment. So when you switch to social media, you don’t adjust your language and tone. You don’t code-switch. You don’t change your vocabulary and approach to suit a more public audience. You might not even be aware that a more public audience was possible. Most of us only have our few followers and friends and people rarely notice our nonsense. But sometimes people do notice and it’s rarely pleasant.

Ideology, in creating a bridge of excuses between the system and the individual, spans the abyss between the aims of the system and the aims of life. It pretends that the requirements of the system derive from the requirements of life. It is a world of appearances trying to pass for reality.

"Ghost in the Machine" traces the origins of "AI" and excavates the cultural, political, and philosophical drivers behind a worldwide "AI" boom.

It’s technically possible to add a website to your iPhone’s home screen. In practical terms, it’s a convoluted usability nightmare.

Along with seemingly everyone who has published a book, I've gotten a stream of emails from scambots that sum up my work and claim that a book club wants to feature it, or someone wants me on their podcast. Don't fall for this!

Tumblr, in fact, has the most robust, intense, accurate anti-AI system in the world: vigilant users who personally hate AI

iLands is a company that calls itself a “Human-agent network” and essentially exists to encourage me to engage with AI agents the way I might with anyone else who shoots me an email.

my contribution to the (very cool) mixtape pixel club by ChAoTiC gOoDe. (i like cassettes quite a lot, so as soon as i saw this one i knew i had to join...)

Omarchy is a political movement disguised as a Linux distro.

I decided to start with classifying my blog posts in order to organize them in shelves; though I am still thinking on how to apply this to my books and library catalogue.

He’s a biologist by degree, but has worked in different fields. Jeremy has a great blog, and also a great podcast about food.

Who wouldn’t want to find a drawing of a goat-snail in the margins of their book?

Keeping lists of things can be fairly meditative... blogging is also a kind of list-keeping, in a way.

The Chicano Moratorium serves as a painful reminder of how far we have come, and how far we still have to go.

Feel free to write anything that comes to mind under this topic. The beautiful thing about these blog carnivals is the fantastic range of submissions they always create.

I could not think of a single well-known consumer-facing site with a persistent dark mode toggle.

Sections for Games being played, games planned, games paused, games completed, games dropped

“Data Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census” tells the story of what it takes to produce democracy’s data

The important thing as far as I'm concerned is the reference to "the characters you created," something that no one in any position of power at Marvel Comics was willing to say while Jack was alive or even as Stan Lee outlived him.

A (very) short history of trying things on for size and giving them up

Carbon Monoxide Is Deadly!

We’ve been saying “ye olde” incorrectly!

Lovely bunch of personal website enthusiasts.

I am capturing the movement of all that is around me (or the lack of movement).

The cornerstones were really helpful 20 to almost 30 years ago for a quick reality check for early early-stage planning and building something to ship. Building something and shipping it is the start, not the end.

You don’t need a record deal. You don’t need a platform’s blessing. You need a guitar you barely know how to play, or a text editor and a hosting bill. That’s it. That’s the whole scene.

Can I — should I — give new authors the benefit of the doubt at this point?

Goodbye, sweet girl.

I quite like the look and have used p5.Riso.js to make a webcam effect before.

a webpage, even a 404 page, is an opportunity to give something good to the visitor, to share some bit of hope and grace, an uplifting message, a blessing.

I don’t believe Zuckerberg and Musk—or Sam Altman and Dario Amodei, for that matter—will be the forever-rulers of our social and information spheres.

on setting iPhone to grayscale

Currently, I’m a contra. GenAI is being pushed by terrible people who are trafficking in lies and abusing the planet, and should their far-fetched dreams come true the consequences would be terrible for most people.

those who control digital platforms and means of communication have a considerable ability to affect the collective imagination and to present a particular vision of reality as desirable. Such power should be constantly guided by the pursuit of truth and respect for human dignity, so that the culture fostered on the internet does not become an instrument of excessive distraction, homogenization or dominance, but rather a setting in which inner freedom and critical thought can mature.

In each episode, I (James) have a conversation with someone who loves to make websites.

we can't take for granted that our most beloved stories will always support any egalitarian, pro-human point of view. We have to use all the power of fandom and cultural criticism to encourage the better reading of these stories and to call for versions of them that embody it.

I don't want to contribute to the accumulation of started things and the dusty shelves of interrupted selves.

How long into each film before Jason Statham throws his first punch in anger? Fist bumps and friendly taps don't count.

How long is too long to write back?

Kill Yr Substack sees any of those and the page automagically redirects to archive.is. But it doesn’t end there. The extension makes sure that the domain also gets cached and every future visit from your browser is blocked at the network level, same as *.substack.com. No second chances.

This is a directory of those directories.

This isn’t a technology problem and it can’t be solved by better tech. It’s a people problem that can be solved by better citizens of the web.

We’re all just trying to communicate the uncanny feelings that come with being alive.

A tiny, decentralised tool you can host with just two files to explore the small web

You can't build "Place People Go" as a feature.

If it makes your life easier, and you can afford it, make a small donation.

It is a crude, a symbolical fist shaking yelling at clouds kind-of thing

I'm hosting the IndieWeb Book Club for [April 2026]. I've picked the first fiction book so far: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams.

I participated in Front End Study Hall on Thursday. I enjoyed meeting with this group of front-end folks and discussing some different topics.

Tl;dr: having one place to host all my content is simplest, but means being ok with uniting all aspects of my identity.

The famous lesbian comic strip satirizes politically-conscious eating with dishes that were never meant to exist--until now

Like many works created by World War II veterans, in fact, Trek is intensely anti-fascist.

Blogging feels like the opposite of doomscrolling. You're making something, thinking through your own ideas, instead of scrolling through a feed designed to keep you hooked. You are the one in control.

can someone please help me test #webmentions on my site?

I automatically think differently of the creator and then have a different perception of everything else they've created. This isn't fair nor useful.

ROOTS: Return Old Online Things to your own Site

The practical consequences of an unexamined inner life at scale are not theoretical. The social media platforms built by people who believed behavioral data was a reliable substitute for understanding human psychology produced a decade of engagement metrics while user wellbeing declined and our entire social order decayed.

It’s never been a strict routine or a strategy. It’s just been a part of daily life, like going to the gym. And just like working out, writing blog posts gets a lot easier if you do it regularly.

If the characters don't care, then it's much harder to make the audience care.

I love finding out how an artist created something and then trying to make my own version, always inevitably different but that’s the point. See something, think about it a lot, test it out, figure out how to make it my own.

Am I back posting weeknotes regularly? I love reading other people’s weeknotes and have a handful of favorites. I also miss getting things of interest shared out somewhat regularly.

Chicken Hat!

I’ve made some recent changes to the site and have a few ideas for what comes next.

But I have to keep reminding myself that despite the monetisation, it remains a gift, and mine to give or not.

As surfers, we’re likely to be first responders at some point. Being prepared could save a life.

Today I turn forty-two.

Maybe that's why I'm being drawn to this handwriting mood with my blog.

California still has 2,203 working payphones. Can you find 'em all?

And this isn't the only AI Artist residency program.

I would probably do all sorts of stuff different but whatever. ... I think I'd feel kinda weird about my family visiting my website but at the end of the day, people don't really care about your website.

Where you get excited when something breaks differently than it was breaking before.

boost your posts across the Fediverse

I've illustrated tear-downs and break-downs of everyday products that you may have taken for granted. Let's take a look inside and understand how they work.

It’s okay to not feel okay

You should download Firefox 148 (released today!) and explicitly set the new "AI Controls" to your preferred choice.

…a running list of all carnival editions, organized by month and year. Each entry links to the host's roundup post where you can explore all the wonderful submissions.

Palette cycling is an interesting technique borne out of limitations of old graphic cards.

AI produces a result, and results are what matter, and if you’re waiting for quality to factor significantly into that equation, I’ve got some bad news about the last 40 years of professional software development for you.

Nothing pushes you to improve something quite like experiencing its flaws every single day.

I am trading blog post titles with Joe

Current is available on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

I realize I bring my politics with me wherever I go, and one of my strongest political values is this: big tent!

Journalism and the open web need each other

Mahler and Shostakovich wrote some real bangers.

It’s a great day to send a note of appreciation to your fave open source developers and projects.

(Those photos! Wow! - Joe)

He mentions there are a few terms used like the small web, or the old web. I also know of smolweb the Good Internet and cozyweb (which is actually very different and a rabbit hole unto itself for another time).

we should move away from email-like user handles on the fediverse

Regular readers will know that I have a generally negative view of what I would describe as inhumane content on the web, referring to those monstrosities that are created first and foremost for bots and algorithms (regardless of whether they are created by human beings or bots)

But had I been measured on my contribution by lines of code, or commits, or features finished, it would have been seen as a very unproductive day by my manager.

These arguments over web standards can look dry and pendantic when read many years later, but what they demonstrate is a real desire for the Web to be more than a system for sharing documents. It was becoming clear that users of the Web in 1994 increasingly saw it as a new publishing medium, which meant a need for design tools.

The problem is what we optimise for without noticing. When exposure becomes the primary goal, longevity barely enters the conversation.

Tooling should be highly consistent and this has a “works on my machine” vibe to it.

Come join this hour-long meeting to talk all things personal websites- what’s inspiring you, what are you working on, what do you need help with? Hope to see you there!!

The web, and the internet as a whole, depends on the independence of content and addressing (i.e. domain names) and devices. You must be able to serve and access any kind of content across any domain name on any web device.

It only "is what it is" because we have collectively, in aggregate, decided that it is.

Millions (!) of requests over a couple of days from things with User-Agent strings reading GPTBot, OAI-Searchbot, Claude-SearchBot, or Meta-ExternalAgent, plus a whole bunch of IP addresses...

with good internet magazine's autumn/winter issue in the printers' hands, i thought this would be a great time for me to spend a moment doing a bit of a post-mortem after completing this volume of two issues

A few things stood out to me about the sound design of the film.

I first started soliciting Internet strangers to send me postcards three months ago and I’m still loving it.

An interface that shows you an unread count is making an argument: that reading is something to be counted, that progress is something to be measured, that your relationship to this content is one of obligation.

So here I am, talking about my little arts and crafts and my little mindfulness practice, trying to change the world.

The indie web’s values — autonomy, ownership, open standards, creative agency — give us a perfectly adequate framework for evaluating any technology, including LLMs. The questions worth asking are not “is this made by a corporation?” but rather: does this tool serve or undermine individual ownership of content? Does it strengthen or erode the link culture that makes the indie web navigable? Does it give people more agency or less?

What excites me most is finding people naturally gravitating toward these ideas without necessarily knowing the terminology.

You can still talk about these books without driving people away. You just can’t pretend they exist without context. Everybody today knows about Rowling or Woody Allen. Pretending that context doesn’t exist is insulting.

If you’re running a Ghost blog and want to own your content while still participating in the social web (Mastodon, Bluesky), give it a spin.

I’m sharing this letter I just sent to the 7 House Democrats that voted to fund the Department of Homeland Security.

“Suck on the one with low sound”

What Are The Best Moral Arguments Against It?

My blog is a testament to the statement "you can just build things".

...so I revitalized the IndieWeb Book Club. And I'm so glad I did.

The indie web means the return of gifs, funky cursors, and personal websites

encouraging developers to form groups that help people host sites using existing tools ... appeals to me a lot more, as I am more interested in hosting an existing tool rather than building a blogging platform from scratch in addition to figuring out hosting. The Fediverse does this well with Mastodon, and I think there is scope for a Mastodon equivalent for long-form blogging.

This is why the practices of linking and subscribing are so important: there’s no other way to expand our indieweb horizons beyond a few popular authors that everyone shares — the indieweb influencers, if you like.

What work do I want to skip?

My pick for this month’s Indieweb Movie Club is Alien, the original 1979 film directed by Ridley Scott. The movie follows a commercial starship crew who investigate a derelict space vessel and are hunted by a deadly extraterrestrial creature.

But the undeniable energy of the Mamdani campaign has been joy — an effusive, exuberant, contagious joy. Even when times are hard, maybe especially when times are hard, people are drawn to that joy.

It's interesting how, over time, whether you intend it or not, your site will kind of grow to reflect who you are. There's been quite a number of times I've had a conversation with someone online and realized I've already written about the exact topic we're talking about. By reading all of the posts on here you won't know me as a person, but... You'll get an idea of who I am. Honestly, I wish more people had websites for that reason.

When someone starts openly doubting The Holocaust or saying things that most people would find racist or sexist, my first thought is usually to wonder if or why they thought that it was a good idea to say those things out loud. Some of them seem to think it's an assault on their Free Speech for anyone deciding not to listen to them.

This page is ranked according to the following algorithm: Score = log10(U) + (S / (B * 86,400)); Where, U = Upvotes of a post; S = Seconds since Jan 1st, 2020; B = Buoyancy modifier (currently at 14); B values is used to modify the effect of time on the score. A lower B causes posts to sink faster with time.

As the number of pages grew, I naturally wanted some consistency. I wanted a common layout for my pages, navigation links, a footer that did not need to be edited in twenty places. An early version of this website used HTML frames to accomplish these goals. Later, I rewrote the website in PHP. Now this website is generated using Common Lisp.

Inputting data. Watching videos. Playing games. In general, just doing shit with no stuttering or delays. Desktops kick ass in every category.

What if the web, and most websites besides the few obvious exceptions, were instead more like book publishing? A few thousand dedicated readers out there, at best.

A couple of weeks ago I blogged about setting up a PO Box and adding postal mail to the ways you can contact me.

People keep claiming blogging is dead. To that I say, “You know nothing, Jon Snow.” Inside the Seven Kingdoms you are blind to the world Beyond the Wall. Out here we are living and blogging. Every day my feed reader is full of new interesting blog posts. Some times it is harder to blog than others, but we keep at it.

Developer & Team Lead located in Wiesbaden, Germany

It’s a great business to be in, if you think about it. You sell a tool for security exploits and you sell the self-same tool for protection against said exploits. Everybody wins!

Minimal incremental markup added to an existing human readable HTML page.

Use Case: Network/cluster analysis to investigate the construction and influence of information trustworthiness within social movements on Twitter

Use Case – Exploring Algorithmic Mediation and Recommendation Systems on YouTube

Use Case – Study on the trustworthiness of social media visual content among young adults (TRAVIS project)

I still get some value out of YouTube. I can do it without sacrificing my privacy, though. I use FreeTube, which scrapes YouTube content through a variety of methods

This backlash has caught executives with their pants down, because for months and years they were told that AI was the future and everyone was going to love it.

But formality serves a purpose between parties with asymmetric power. It establishes that both sides are taking the interaction seriously. When your banking app talks to you like a toddler, what they're really communicating is that they don't consider your problems worth addressing as an adult.

A /top4 page is a personal webpage where you can share your definitive ranked list of your top 3 favorites and an honorable mention.

If someone else got there first, too bad. And that username only works on that one app anyway. This is silly. The internet has already solved this problem.

We are pleased to share an important milestone for our field. Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library will be made open access.

BUT it’s on Cartrivision.

I did it! I wrote a weeknote every week of this year.

If you want to see how meaningless the term “AI” is, just replace it with “recipe” when you see it.

Search Engine Optimization is not a legitimate form of marketing. It should not be undertaken by people with brains or souls. If someone charges you for SEO, you have been conned.

In retrospect, the peak years of Flash as a web design technology were 2002 to 2003. When Macromedia released Flash MX (Flash 6) in March 2002, its goal was to enable "a new generation of rich Internet content and applications." Unlike many tech prognostications, this actually became a reality over the next year or two.

The hardest part of web standards isn’t even the technology — it’s the queues. And that’s the real problem I keep coming back to.

Revisiting a 90's classic for the IndieWeb book club

Cutting and pasting blocks of HTML into MySpace came more naturally to teenagers than it did to digital immigrants. Indeed, a big reason why the web itself became popular is the ability to copy existing web designs and reuse for your own purposes — it was as simple as clicking “View Source” in your browser and copying and pasting the code you needed.

a website that lets you type in a URL and creates links to various helpful validators

Portland, Oregon, December 20th 2025

Map of Dead.Gardern

This is a log of my skateboarding journey. In my early 20s, I would skate for multiple hours every day. In my late 30's I'm a beginner again. This page was created to track my progress and keep myself accountable.

These are some technical tips for publishing a blog. These have nothing to do with good content, just how to share that content. The recommendations are roughly in order of importance and have rationale for why they are that important.

Blogging is a feedback loop on one’s sense of wonder.

I came across this striking conundrum of aura in, ironically, a photograph of Walter Benjamin, who developed the concept of aura in art.

Turning the invention of agriculture on its head

If you ever get a chance to stand with a group of veterans of the Civil Rights movement and sing this song, take advantage of that time machine my friend. It will put you in touch with an America that's a lot closer and lot more real than ye old bombs bursting in air.

under the Life category.

Writing has always been a lonely endeavour and there is no changing that

To me, it feels safer to be sad outside.

Shopify has a duty to prevent some of the basic errors these automated checks found. Some very quick ideas, based on my own experience running a CMS and also an ecommerce platform…

You ask them to evaluate your idea - they’ll spit out that it’s the best idea ever conceived. You ask for criticism, you’ll get told that it’s a terrible idea.

I am aware that the kids today like to pull in an endless tree of dependencies, but I am an Unfrozen Caveman. Your single points of failure and supply-chain attacks confuse and frighten me. But there's one thing I do know: the thing I wrote is less than 700 lines of code, including self-tests, easily auditable, and has zero dependencies.

These days, client-side JavaScript frameworks don’t abstract away the underlying platform, they instead try to be an alternative. In fact, if you attempt to use web platform features, your JavaScript framework will often get in the way.

US–Soviet agricultural exchanges after the Volga famine