After migrating to Nextcloud, I’ve been thinking about switching back to Linux as my daily driver operating system. I used Linux for years before eventually returning to Windows. My current Windows 11 setup works flawlessly. Development ...

The book for this month’s IndieWeb Book Club, hosted by Nick, is Christopher Alexander’s book The Timeless Way of Building. The book is about architecture, but its principles have broader application to any discipline involved with build...

Two years ago, I visited Greenwich in London. I had been to London before, but Greenwich was that bit further out so I hadn’t made the trip. What drew me to Greenwich was the Royal Observatory and the Prime Meridian line. The day I visit...

One of the ideas Frances shared when we exchanged blog post titles was to write about a memory from a library. While the prompt “Sparking joy” is the one I ended up writing about, as soon as I started to think about library memories a fe...

Whenever I visit an art gallery, there is inevitably a painting that sparks joy, or otherwise leaves me with an impression that sticks with me. Peter Paul Rubens’ Landscape by Moonlight was one such painting. The painting depicts a lands...

There's a repository on Codeberg called open-slopware keeping a running list of Free and Open Source Software projects that are permitting, encouraging, or quietly integrating generative AI into their codebases, along with listing AI-fre...

Another email offering would-be free money got through my spam filters. Previously: EOTD: “This is a legitimate arrangement—no risk to you.” Hi Joe Crawford, I’ve put a lot of thought into this email, and I hope that comes through. I’m %...

On March 12th, 1989, Tim Berners-Lee submitted Information Management: A Proposal. This would form the basis of what became the World Wide Web. On March 12th, 2026, Web Day Out happened in Brighton. Coincidence? Yes. Yes, it is a coincid...

It’s weird how there’s a subgenre of time-dilation folklore in Japan and Ireland… Urashima Tarō: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urashima_Tar%C5%8D Oisín in Tir na nÓg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ois%C3%ADn

Best birthday present I've received so far is a council tax bill (I joke, I've had some lovely presents so far)