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Every now and again, a post I read on Mastodon weeks ago pops back into my head. It said:

We should keep the bigots out and let all the good normal folks in.

It does sound simple, doesn’t it? Everything is such a shitshow. Why don’t we simply keep the…

In 2030, my greatest hope for the indie web is that it is a place where people feel free to create, to experiment, and to always be able to ask – and act on the answers to – the question “what do I want this place to be?”

To enable…

Artemis, the calm web reader I maintain, is relatively computationally intensive in that every hour, Artemis checks web feeds to which users are subscribed to see if there are new posts to save and show in a user’s feed.

I have made several optimisations to make this process as…

My daughter has been sending me adorable AI-generated images of her and my grandson in various Christmas get-ups. They’re so fun and cute and she’s having a blast.

It makes me wonder, though, what happens 20 years from now when she’s scrolling back through her photos and sees these. Will…

I was listening to a recent Vergecast episode the other day, and in there, there was a whole segment about MCP servers and AI-powered shopping. I’ll be honest, I’ve never been more confused about something tech-related. The more I read and listen about this whole topic, the more I think…

I have a page on my site, /post, which lists all of my blog posts. For at least the last year, the HTML document title used on the page has been Posts in the Post Category. This is because the page uses the same template as my other…

This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Kathleen Fisher, whose blog can be found at aspeckledtrout.com.

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We just finished our last Homebrew Website Club Europe event of the year. We spent the time chatting about the last year on our websites – what we made, what we are proud of, what we learned – and looked ahead to what we may be interested in doing next…

I read The Frugal Gamer’s post “If you were going to open up a shop, what would you sell?” with great joy. Like The Frugal Gamer, I too am bundled up inside bracing the weather. I was hoping to go for a walk but the rain and wind…

Lou wrote a blog post asking the question “What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you?” I read his blog post and then spent some time thinking about how I would answer. One moment comes to mind.

When I was in my late teens, I had…