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Mentions Bob Hope, Phyllis Diller, George Carlin and Eminem

I guess my conclusion and opinion is that the Indieweb needs even more people willing to lead and model the core values.

Writing a game in Javascript, HTML, and CSS as "vanilla" as I can manage.

for a community that’s been running on passion for two decades, tiring is a very dangerous word

A way to document our perception of reality

I found myself introduced to a new world: one where form is looser than any other community I have seen. Posts can be photographs of quotes, where the typography of the photograph and the background adds dimension to the words. Or can be blog post-esque musings about the world. Or stories. Or re-posts of someone else’s work. All in one place, side-by-side.

I want people on the web to have this freedom. I want this freedom for myself and for ordinary internet users everywhere.

There are always tradeoffs with the web, but hopefully we are moving towards more individual control of the things we create.

Regardless of whether or not it's part of this site's visible structure, I do think the 'seasons' approach to running a website / blog is an interesting twist on the traditional way to order a blog — reverse-chronological. Perhaps the seasons concept has more in common with the digital garden pattern for websites in 2025?

The notes! They can still communicate! Blogs. They’re great!

Blogging isn’t writing, it’s a way of seeing the world with fresh eyes

what if I blend two blog posts together?

This started as a small 88 x 31 badge for my site. Then I went to make an alternate at a different size. But, then I ran across a set of travel stickers for suitcases in a magazine that can be used as intended.

My personal mission is to empower people to make interesting, useful, and inclusive things on the web…and I always love making side projects!

We internalize concepts slowly. Mastery and satisfaction don’t come from the frantic consumption of a hundred different things, but from immersing yourself in one thing, from wrestling with it, from letting it change you. It’s the long email thread with a friend debating a single concept. It’s the quiet hour spent thinking, not just consuming. That is where the real work happens.

And when the primary focus of the business is on the ads, everything else is sort of ancillary — it’s only important insofar as it keeps people around, to look at the ads. It’s jingling keys. It’s… Whatever.

in our collective despair at failing to build one of the myriad of better futures, we’ve resorted to futilely constructing ourselves a better past

Give me the small web in every way.

It happens when we start treating AI as an infallible oracle rather than the powerful, deeply flawed, and sometimes an outright weird tool. The threats aren’t science fiction anymore; they’re the real-world risks of algorithmic biases getting baked into government policies, a complete lack of accountability when things go wrong, and the potential for some truly catastrophic, unexplainable errors.

Using a 1980s camcorder as a webcam in 2023. It works!

I'm very happy how this looks and I have all sorts of ideas for more plugins to write.

And now I don’t particularly care about wide viewership; I am more interested in the discourse, in the community. (((Same. - Joe)))

Promotion is hard, and I really wish I knew why people seem to think YouTube is a good place to put my podcast.

The idea is that drawing can help you write, and writing can help you draw, and you figure out things that you missed the first time around.

as much as i like the idea of being open about everything, i think the reality of it in the context of a personal website is scarier than i thought it would be.

I wish the web was a safe place where this could happen much more often

A real copilot, on a commercial airline? They know the plane. The systems. They’ve done the simulations. They go through recertification. When they speak, it’s to enhance the pilot... Not to shotgun random advice into the cockpit and eject themselves mid-flight.

When we make websites difficult for bots and scrapers to use, we have the unintentional side-effect of making website difficult for assistive technologies to use.

We must all learn a deeper form of strength for these times, I think.

Move to your own little island archipelago on the internet.

when I saw infinity, I immediately thought of a great use case

We need to move beyond a Mastodon vs. Bluesky mindset. As I’ve blogged several times, they are solving slightly different problems. We can draw inspiration from each one to make the web more open. I want both to exist.

But the process of uncovering truth is often a messy and long one.

We will always need voices making sense of the events in our time.

"This is a distributed denial of service attack on the good parts of the World Wide Web."