Bloglog

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

Casey Newton, Platformer: Substack is removing some publications that express support for Nazis, the company said today. The company said this did not represent a reversal of its previous stance, but rather the result of reconsidering how it interprets its existing policies. As part of the move, the company is also terminating the accounts of […]

It's Monday, the first day of the first full workweek of the year. Since the holidays finally feel over, I've been thinking about how to structure my days. I...

With the news in December that Threads was starting to test an ActivityPub integration, there has been a steady flow of articles about what Meta’s support for this W3C Protocol means for the future...

Your Twitter thread is great! But it is also ephemeral, temporal and easily forgotten. This is why you should start a damn Blog

It feels like all the cool websites from the late 2000s are gone. But maybe we are looking at this the wrong way. Maybe it is us who vanished.

Following a recent offhand reference to my car being plugged in, an acquaintance started IRL-reply-guying me about how he questions EVs because some percentage of the electric grid is still powered by fossil fuels. “And what percentage of internal combustion engines are powered fossil fuels?” I asked. He then switched gears and began lecturing me about battery fires and mineral mining and mass transit, eventually getting to the “EVs aren’t a panacea!

There’s no shame in doing things a little differently when you don’t have the energy to do them like you usually do. Here are some things I do when I’m low on spoons.

Hello, hello! It’s been about a month since my last post! To be honest, I had time last week to write, but I still felt the burnout from the holidays, so...

A brief, perhaps unoriginal, plea to have fun sharing and building on the web.

This is how my dumb brain works most of the time. You know how you’re supposed to drink a bunch of water, right? Three liters or something, more than most of us do. But you obviously don&#821…

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

A stepping stone in my life

I stayed up late last night (past midnight). I didn't have trouble sleeping, but my writing brain started to buzz around half past eleven. I wish it wouldn't...

Oh man am I happy! People that hadn't written on their blog in a long time are blogging again. Websites that hadn't been updated in many years, some over a decade, are being spruced up

Christmas must have come early this year, because , , and all posted yesterday. Mei's post in particular touched a chord. Like her, the last time I aspi...

The web needs to be easier for everyone, not just developers.

After my last post regarding clones of my site, I’m having second thoughts about having a “usage guidelines” page. To be honest, I’m feeling bad about the whole thing. I selfishly felt bad about the lack of credit, and now I feel bad about requiring approval to create things inspired by my site. A few have written in already asking for permission, and that’s not the sort of interaction I want to have on the regular.

Say you were getting into web design and development right now. What’s the best way to get going? Dave and I talked about that on the last ShopTalk Show. My best advice: give yourself some st…

In a post a couple of weeks ago, I mentioned that I was going to take over Minimalissimo—aka Mimo—starting January 1st and that I was planning to …

Matt Birchler: Substack is not open source, they are proprietary software. Substack is not infrastructure, they are a brand that is directly tied to the people using them to publish. Go to any Substack blog and you’ll see the Substack logo and terms and conditions. Subscribe to a writer’s newsletter, and boom, you’ve got a […]

Are we the baddies? Perhaps a certain group ought to ask …

Yesterday it that I was reading stuff from other people and got demotivated. But then I reminded myself that while I enjoy writing for others, and enjoy the...