Bloglog

How a quote from Mike Patton (my favourite musician and special interest) saved my life.

This post by Damon Krukowski really gets at the conundrum created by platforms like Substack: Substack itself might eventually fold, or be sold to a bigger corporation like Bandcamp was, or make itself irrelevant like Twitter by following a sophomoric idea of “free speech” into troll oblivion. But our micro-community will continue if you want it to. I may eventually have to move Dada Drummer Almanach elsewhere online; but it’s only if you subscribe that I would be able to contact you about that move, or include you in a mailing from a different platform.

I spend a lot of time online. One could argue it’s too much time. And in that time, I consume content. Mountains of content. Huge mountains of …

On July 21st 2023, the Busan-based Lotte Giants were playing against Seoul’s Kiwoom Heroes at Sajik Baseball Stadium for the KBO League. We knew about this months in advance, and even tried t…

By Ruben Schade in Australia. 🌻

Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and developer from Stuttgart, Germany. Besides design practice he teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Kiel.

Subscription overload is a problem that is finally being discussed in the open. The mainstream spenders seem to have had enough of it — especially when it comes to streaming services. The Wall Stre…

Photo by James Bold on Unsplash On January 2nd, 1993, Wired burst onto the scene, and let me tell you, it transformed the way many of us looked at technology and its impact on our future. It was li…

Creating and using an oh shit banner treatment requires investment in process as much as, if not more than it does a technical implementation.

I dug into the internet archives and imported a shedload of old posts

I’m aware it’s not Saturday but I realised I didn’t need to collect a full week worth of data to get an answer to my question and so I decided that …

Chris McLeod is a software developer with over 20 years of experience. Sometimes he writes about it.

I just learned about BeMyEyes from a Léonie Watson post she wrote last year: BeMyEyes is one of the most remarkable apps to have emerged in recent years. You sign up either as a sighted volunt…

There's a bit of controversy among the users of Bear Blog concerning whether visitors should be able to comment or not on blog posts. I don't think we should...

I've been thinking about a writing goal for this year (and beyond). As I mentioned in my recent looking back on 2023, I want to write more. But two popular ...

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

I tried OpenBSD. It’s nice. I don’t need it right now. (Or do I?)

Here’s an uncomfortable question: when do I stop blogging? I’ve been doing this site since October 2010, which is over 1/3 of my life, and I don’t foresee anything that would make me stop anytime soon, but like…I have to stop one day, right? I

Good Vibrations

Photo by Fikret tozak on Unsplash Matt Mullenweg’s 40th birthday is coming up — and as a gift, I was going to buy him 40 types of cables. However, for a gift, he wants everyone …