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I wrote this in my blog drafts well over a decade ago (exact date unclear). I thought I'd publish it as-is as an aside. I'm sure it was going to be an excellent full post, but clearly this is just the intro. I still agree though: knowing when to go…

[Winnie Lim]

I’ve never been a successful notetaker. Winnie Lim enumerates the many reasons why not, which seem to be very close to her thinking too:

“Because of my personality I tend to solve for the whole before wanting to do something. For years I wanted to figure…

There are many things I like about the WordPress blogging software, and many things I find irritating. The most annoying aspect is that WordPress insists that its way is the best and there shall be no deviance. That means a lot of forced cruft being injected into my site. Headers…

[Molly Graham]

This feels emotionally honest and an idea I can get behind, as an alternative to the popular “disagree and commit”:

““Disagree and let’s see” allows you to stay aligned with the team without forcing you to pretend you had conviction you didn’t have. It lets you…

[Michael W. Green]

Simplify Asset Management’s Chief Strategist and Portfolio Manager Michael W Green examined how the US poverty line is calculated, and discovered that it has been wildly miscalculated for years. In fact:

“[…] if you measured income inadequacy today the way Orshansky measured it in 1963,…

Last week I ran a meetup for writers on the web. During the session, I brought up the topic of distance in writing. [1] We explored the topic in various ways – the distance between writing and publishing, the distance between reader and writer, how distance varies. As I…

I was thinking about a design for a web page yesterday that I wanted to build with a few illustrations. I remembered that there was a site with old-timey illustrations that were available in the public domain. I thought I have no idea how to find this website!

Today,, I…

Every so often I open developer tools in the web browser and start tinkering with my website. I love experimenting with different design directions, not necessarily in pursuit of a complete design so much as fuelled by a sense of curiosity. What would it look like if I made my…

Today the IndieWeb community hosted a Create Day event in which participants were invited to make something on the web. The theme of the event was “Build Don't Buy”, an invitation to make something this Black Friday.

While I wasn’t sure what I wanted to make, I knew I…

All of my projects are now stored on my Forgejo instance rather than GitHub as the latter continues to speed run the enshittification curve. I've implemented a manual deploy button in my site's admin but for other, lighter-weight projects, I prefer to deploy changes whenever I push them up.

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