.: Blogroll Planet

In June of 2024, a gaggle of front-end developers descended on Seattle’s Town Hall for two days of talks and workshops. I took the stage Day One to talk about…

Liatris acidota in the Hickory Creek Savannah Unit of the Big Thicket NP Hello friends! As you can tell, I have not written here much in the last few months.…

Recently, I had a birthday! The birthday was quiet, filled with all kinds of introverted heaven such as good podcasts to listen to, quiet phone calls of love and bliss…

This summer, a new video game came out that changed the way we think about comedy in games, becoming an instant smash hit in the process. That’s right, I’m talking…

Lately, I have been working on a series of small archiving projects. I have been gathering 35 years of digital data, and organizing it locally, [...]

In my precedent article, I’ve proposed a way to subscribe to your favorite Youtube videos with the RSS feed and download them to a Plex media server. But, a possible…

Back in June I wrote about an exciting confluence of digital auth tech: Social sign-in for indies The focal point of Weird Netizens was the convergence of OIDC, Rauthy and…

I happened to look at a slide deck from Sandia National Laboratories from 2007 that someone had posted on Reddit late last night (you know, as one does, instead of…

Tree Style Tab is a Firefox extension which shows you tabs in a tree like fashion. Hopefully obvious, but I don’t know what you thought of first. I personally like…

Well, the decision has been made.  It’s the lightning bolt cover. I had a say in the matter, and I leaned in that direction myself.  In the end, it was…

<img src="https://linuximpact.com/media/posts/97/oregon_trail.jpg" alt="Two wagons around a campfire against a purple sky" /> We were sad when Nora died. We'd enjoyed spending time with her for over a month, across a…

I’ve been thinking about all the generative AI slop that’s appearing, especially with tools like “Reimagine”, and I think it’s going to be a great thing for the open web.…

I have had some work trips lately. Each time I have tried to hit the local Hard Off. It has been very fruitful, if a little bit expensive. My vinyl…

Having dispatched punctuation and book news, we’re on to pocket calculators! Incredibly, half a century or more after their appearance, there is still news to be had on the subject.…

  A book called ‘The Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song’ edited by R.H. Cromek and published 1810, contains this “Account of Billy Blin'" with some entertaining stories.  "This is…

A return to active discovery.

A quarter century after ‘don't be evil’ a judge has found that Google is abusing its monopoly in search. But no-one knows what happens next, and whether this ruling will…

This system is a mini tickler file system. But rather than tracking things through a year, this one is based on a weekly rhythm. I use it to track my…

Here are the finished three Lego boats. Top speed The motorboat is the fastest (5.3 km/h) but the airboat is almost as fast (5.0 km/h). The paddlewheel boat is a…

  Cycling Central Vietnam We spent three weeks cycling Central Vietnam before flying to South Korea from Da Nang. We visited the historic cities of Hue and Hoi An as…