Bloglog

To me there is no difference between the people I meet online and the traditional IRL kind.

"But I don't know what to blog about." I often hear that. Friends and acquaintances who know that I blog, and who are eager to start themselves, but don't...

Feelings about yards, gardening, and nature

"If you log into Dave Winer’s blog, Scripting News, you’ll find a constantly updated note telling you how many years, months,

Evan Sheehan, writing at The Darth Mall: I think Jeremy Keith is right, that all that really matters is having your own website. However big or small, however you make it, whatever you choose to put on it. I just don’t think that this is what the IndieWeb is actually focused on. The IndieWeb feels […]

The IndieWeb is essentially by developers for developers, and I think that’s fine because I’m unconvinced that its technologies are all that important

For some, it's about growth. For others, it's a movement. They must work together.

Quick PSA for the very kind people who decided to support what I do over on Ko-Fi. I recently noticed that some memberships were getting stuck with a …

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

Well, it looks like Matt Mullenweg of Automattic / Wordpress fame has finally achieved the illustrious title of lunatic CEO, joining the ranks of such infamous ding dongs such as Elon...

I loved this essay from Thea Lim, as published in the Walrus, about our quantified digital lives subsuming our reality, but I have a quibble with this otherwise excellent paragraph: […] What we hardly talk about is how we’ve reorganized not just industrial activity but any activity to be capturable by computer, a radical expansion […]

Someone I went to high school with passed away last week. He was only twenty-four. Mom saw the news on Facebook and texted me asking if I knew him. We ne...

Well, this might throw a glitch in our national petition for improved senior housing!  What might happen is that the Feds might say it’s a state responsibility, but we all know that few state…

From using Prodigy on an IBM 286 to having the Internet in my pocket, there have been lots of memorable moments.

It’s a gloomy afternoon and I’m taking a quick break from client work to drink a cup of tea and write down a few thoughts on something I’ve found …

A couple months ago I was hanging out with my aunt, and she mentioned her cable+internet bill was around $250 per month. I thought that was insane and that I should do something about it. She's a 75 year old retiree that watches baseball and the hallmark channel, and

Inspired by Lou’s recent post: Memorable Internet Moments We had a computer in our basement which my parents used rarely and my older sister and I used all the time....

This is my entry for October’s IndieWeb Carnival, hosted by ZinRicky. I was born and raised in Italy. I grew up speaking Italian. I still live in …

Xanga. The gateway blogging drug for me. College years, so 1999-2003. What did I blog about? I have no idea. My memories are…. very sparse. I remember using Xanga, having...

Louis Menand, writing for The New Yorker. How familiar does this sound: Between 1998 and 2020, more than half of the independent bookstores in the United States went out of business. It was a similar story for personal websites and blogs, though definitely across different timeframes. Maybe from 2010 — later even — as social […]

Winston Churchill said, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” Since I last blogged here, WP Engine filed a meritless lawsuit and Automattic responded, and there’s been a hurrica…

Suppose you have lots of links on a page. You want to highlight the ones which point to example.com - is that possible in CSS without using JavaScript? Yes! This scrap of code will turn all those links red: CSSa[href^="https://example.com"] {    color: red; } Now, there are a few gotchas with this code. It […]

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

i may be smiling in this photo but i had barely slept with unexplained elevated heart rate in the middle of the night (thanks to covid 1.5 years ago still affecting me in unseen ways) - she was...

I love participating in the topics suggested by the IndieWeb Carnival for my blog, and October's theme, hosted by Riccardo, is particularly dear to me. It's …

This Halifax Examiner article, by Philip Moscovitch, which features a number of quotes by Matt Pearce, a Los Angeles Times journalist, recorded on a recent episode of the Tech Won’t Save Us podcast, has been doing the rounds. The upshot being hyperlinks, links from one webpage to another, are in danger of becoming obsolete. Extinct. […]

Sarah Perez, TechCrunch: iOS apps that build their own social networks on the back of users’ address books may soon become a thing of the past. In iOS 18, Apple is cracking down on the social apps that ask users’ permission to access their contacts — something social apps often do to connect users with […]

By Ruben Schade in Sydney, Australia. 🌻