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This blog is twenty-something years old, and has moved blogging platforms at least three times, and between various WordPress installs at least another three times. Some of the older posts got mess…

Two things have me exploring feelings and ideas about personal blogs and who they're for.

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

Roy Tang's blog. Programmer, engineer, scientist, critic, gamer, dreamer, and kid-at-heart. Randomly amazed.

I’ve taken over the hosting of christopher.org, the main site of our dear departed friend Christopher Schmitt. It is home to seventeen years of blog posts and a good place to be reminded of a…

Oh good. The mowing crews are here for the houses on either side of mine, so I get to spend my day listening to leaf blowers and riding mowers in stereo. I guess maybe it is better that they are both happening at the same time so that it’s over and done with quickly, if somewhat worse while it’s happening than if they were each done at different times. And either way, it is an improvement over the guy who used to live in one of the houses.

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

Time for probably the final housekeeping post of 2023. I doubt I'll make a new one in December but we'll see. This site now runs on Kirby 4! I …

There must be deterrence for those giving AI + SEO a bad name through spam.

Recently, you may recall, Elon Musk amplified some antisemitic conspiracy theories on the social media platform he owns and, notably, is its most popular user, and that caused widespread outrage. Which conspiracy theory? Which backlash? Well, it depends on how far back you want to look — but you need not rewind the clock very […]

So, about my sign-off. I let a friend of mine read a first draft of a post () and she was a little confused by the meaning. she asked me. I though...

Yawn.

I mentioned this last week, but while I’ve been fixing formatting issues on my old blog posts, I’ve made the mistake of reading some of them. Getting a glimpse of me 20 years ago has be…

its seven in the evening and im just getting back home from work. i woke up at five that morning. the last thing i want to do is come back to the tv blasting...

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

Some mistakes feel worse than death.

This sounds like a problem with unquoted attribute values, not polyglot elements.

Hi! I’m Ryan. I’ve been building social network bridges and related tools for over 12 years, including Bridgy, which connects personal web sites and blogs to centralized social networks…

Life is confusing! Isn’t it? We envy what we don’t have, and what we have becomes worth pebbles. I started working remotely in 2017, way before when working from home was a thing. Friends and family were almost sure that I was unemployed and probably ran some scam racket and peddled drugs. They had no other answer on how I was staying at home, chilling and still getting a decent amount of money flowing into my bank account.

There is none really, but setting up a familiar goal can be a good way to write more efficiently.

my mom used to tell me that as long as i tried, she wouldn't get upset at me. that was all a lie. there wasn't a day that i didn't try, mostly ou...

I recently installed Eleventy and I really like it.

Hey. So I went on our first “formal” first date, and it went relatively well. Things were still a little bit awkward, and I definitely fe...

UPDATE: If you have the Jetpack Plugin installed, all you have to do is add ?random (a URL param) and it’ll (contextually) randomize a single post. Wow. I had no idea. Thanks Chuck! All I do …

I do not intentionally block ads. I do, however, intentionally block ad tracking. And I think this distinction is important. This morning I read Manuel Moreale's recent post On Ad Blockers wherein they struggle to

Trying to make the gadgets last.