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I kind of miss having something like a LiveJournal. If you missed its heyday about twenty years ago, LiveJournal was a private blogging community that led

I keep putting off writing about my trip to Puerto Rico last week. I've been dreading it since before I even landed on the island, because I knew just how mu...

Discovering my genuine interests allowed me to cultivate a lifelong love of learning.

I grew up in Mississippi, mostly, where we have a lot of thick red clay. One summer we decided to dig a swimming pool. In our yard. Because why not? It was hot, it was humid, we had time and shovels and a water hose. We also had a freshly turned up section of yard, […]

Yesterday I wrote about a lazy way to implement a manual dark mode chooser. Today I'll show you a slightly more sensible way to do it. It just uses CSS, no need for JavaScript. Here's a scrap of HTML which present a dropdown for a user to choose their colour scheme: HTML

I've finally completed something I've put off for a long while because it just seemed too much work – migrated this website off digitalocean to opalstack. Before digitalocean I was at webfaction...

i listened to car seat headrest alot as a late teenager. twin fantasy was always my comfort album and ive talked about the album a bit in a previous . howeve...

Writing, blogging, life, tech and mental health with a philosophical/psychological slant

Hey, I’m gonna have to be a bit careful to not turn this into a pity party for myself. In about a month it’s going to be my 22nd birthday...

I was visiting family this past weekend, and my uncle was wearing this . It had a simple design, with a patch that said “Mustafar”, and in smaller text below...

Being an introvert means you recharge your social batteries by being alone and doing your own thing. That's it. ✌🏼 Lik...

Idea of No Scroll November came to my mind as easy way to motivate myself to cut down last few sites that take up my time (and instead each of them gives me...

Having all the facts is a rare luxury, and new questions are constantly emerging.

Exploring the reasons why we no longer have web designers.

One of the big missing parts when iOS 17 launched, at least for me, was Apple’s new journalling app. It’s something that I have been doing for the past few months, and it has proved a real benefit in numerous areas. Although I’m a happy Day One subscriber, having a free stock option is an excellent edition. It was conspicuous by its absence, and although Apple eventually announced it was coming “later this year” that didn’t really help.

This is the 9th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Ray …

Posted on Friday 27 Oct 2023. 942 words, 7 links. By Matt Webb.

Kate Knibbs, Wired: As artists are quick to point out, Meta’s insistence that people provide evidence that its models have trained on their work or other personal data puts them in a bind. Meta has not disclosed the specifics about which data it has trained its models on, so this set-up requires people who want […]

Browsers are hugely load-bearing in the Web's architecture, and yet they haven't changed very much in quite a while. If the Web is indeed for user agency, we should take a hard look at our user agents to see if they might not need improvement.

Uniqueness takes courage. But its rewards far outweigh fleeting "value."

Hey me. I sat here for a couple of minutes not even knowing what to write, even though I turned my computer on for this reason. I guess I...

I wanted to make a small change to the CSS on this site, but wasn't sure how to do it, so I asked ChatGPT to write some code for me.

In a world where artificially generated content is gonna be more and more present, our analog self will grow more and more important. The more you …

Today, we’re talking about workplace toxicity. You know, the degradation, the burn out from overwork, the infantilization. I was going to start this out with “here’s one for my fellow office warrio…

I love sandwiches. Below are some of my favorites and why. First, a few constraints I will impose to keep it to a reasonable number of sandwiches: these are limited to New York (not that I haven’t had amazing sandwiches elsewhere), sandwiches I’ve had at least 3 times, excluding burgers (are burgers sandwiches?), excluding falafel sandwiches (not that I don’t love them but I can’t pick a favorite spot and also then we get into wrap territory which is going to introduce too much scope creep), and excluding chain restaurants (not that I won’t crush a Subway or Potbelly sandwich if the mood strikes me).