Recently, a friend sent me a link to an article that they thought I might mind useful. It was one of those articles, the kind that purpor...

I needed to write some Bash scripts on Linux that read the input from stdin or a file passed as an optional argument, but couldn't figure...

After taking a bit of a sabbatical in 2022, I’m back into Write.as and WriteFreely development. My views on the product naturally change ...

ust head to your blog's Customize page, and enter the URL you want to verify. If you’re on Mastodon, simply add a link back to your Write.as blog and it’ll show up as verified! It works by adding a rel="me" link in the `` section of your blog. (Thanks to @rmasoni@m...

by Darius Kazemi, Dec 31 2018 April 7th, 2019 is going to be the 50 year anniversary of the first ever Request for Comments, known as an...

For many years now, I’ve talked about why so many of the problems that face the current internet could be understood by looking at how we moved from an internet dominated by open protocols to…

It’s February 2nd, the day we first launched Write.as in 2015! A lot has happened this past year, both on the web and with the small team...

It feels good to type words for this blog again. Not doing so for months left me uneasy in a way I didn't expect. I'd like to interrogate...

Published links to the original sources of the media, quoted text, or other content shared online are increasingly less common. Not that ...

(Note: This post was first published at Opensource.com and appears here via a CC-BY-SA 4.0 International License.) Correct spelling does...

Disclaimer: I'm not an expert in Git. This post is me trying to understand how it works, by trying to explain it to someone else. If I've...

It's been awhile since I updated the contents of the Archive page on my journal. I stopped updating when my Blazor apps stopped working. ...

One reason I chose Write.as as my blogging platform is great support for technical writing with Markdown and MathJax. I use Markdown all...

As we settle into the summer, we’re taking an easier pace here at Write.as. Here’s what’s been happening lately, and what you can expect ...

earliest thoughts today were about my digital work environment, and how it’s basically just the browser, and how distracting that is as someone who always has 50-plus tabs open at any given moment. I think it’d be much nicer to, in the morning, click an icon on my desktop that opens my digital “office.” It’d only show me exactly what I need to work. And at the end of...

Have you heard of TiddlyWiki? It's a portable wiki that you can use on your desktop or put on to a flash drive or mobile device and carry...

That was a very spiritual year for him. Turned 33 years old. That's how old Jesus was when he quit showing off and died and grew up and got a real job. He definitely ha...

I learned the technical term "Code-switching" in a diversity and inclusion session at work. Code-switching is divided into two types: ...

Twelve years ago these days, in early July 2010, I put aside print books and began reading only ebooks. The transition to digital allowed...

So this past Saturday, June. 4, 2022, there was the Remark.as Meetup, and it was a lot of fun to chat with the folks there, so we think it should be done again! This Saturday, June 11, 2022 at 1:00 PM CST is the next time we wanted to get together there, in the Remark.as Cafe in the chat box above the comments area. Nothing else needs be done, just show up and enter the chat and start meeting people! Fun to discuss things with other bloggers/writers. Hope to see/meet any/all of you there ...

I've continued to have a writing bug (an urge to write) as of late, and I am A-OK with that. But, I do not want to flood out the R.w.a feed. And I also couldn't access Midnight.pub nor Smol.pub today, either (as I assume they are

To get started, go to your blog’s Customize page, and click the image under “Favicon.” This is available to all Write.as Pro users, and we’d love to hear your feedback! Comment on the forum or Remark.as: Discuss......

I have been a blogger for a long time. Even before I started LearnDash, I wrote a blog while in college as I first became familiar with...

The Importance of Ukraine Russia cannot occupy Ukraine for long, nor would it want to. Occupation takes time, eventual destabilizes its...

There are many services under the WriteFreely/Write.as umbrella: Write.as Snap.as Remark.as Discuss.write.as Here's how I see it workin...

Publish a thought in seconds

erything is powered by our Discourse forum. Write.as users get a certain email address to send to, based on their support level. Those emails show up in different Discourse group inboxes. The high-priority group also pings my personal email, just so I don’t forget it’s there. But the low-priority group won’t ever disturb me — I have to visit that inbox to see messages there. When my email hour starts, first I v...

made more progress on the app. I’m trying not to get too bogged down by a checklist of “blog commenting” functionality, and focus more on the experience of “hanging out around blogs.” That means things will be a little funky when you arrive, and maybe a little disorienting — but that’s kind of the point. I don’t want to build a sterile, Facebook-ish environment. As of last night, instead of landing in a network-wide space (the “Café”), I hav...