Geeks are not an oppressed minority. There are certainly many members of oppressed minorities who are geeks, but geeks are not an oppressed minority.
THE BROWSER SPEAKS, a webzine of The Browser is Already a Game Engine, a School for Poetic Computation course that ran in the summer of 2026.
The early web was a playground. We hacked table layouts, sliced images, and spent hours on rounded corners. The tools were limited, but we made things anyway. Constraints fueled our creativity. That spirit is the web's most important legacy. In this talk, we'll trace an arc from Netscape-era hacks to modern web techniques, showing how creative abuses of technology can become the standards of the era. Along the way, we'll push today's newest features in ways they probably weren't designed for. Because it's fun and fun is how we learn, but more importantly, because that's how we make the web better together.
This blog can now pull in comments from bluesky, as well as the fediverse.
At last, the artist can be separated from the art. Not just that, the artist – that flawed, messy, broken, woeful, joyful problem – can be removed from the equation altogether, like so much dross. Suno, the Great Cancellator, which has never loved or laughed or grieved, never experienced joy or loss or heartbreak, never felt boredom or its adjacent epiphany, produces an imitation of the soul – a song – in fifteen seconds flat. This is an affront to any songwriter who has lived and struggled in this world and earned the right to create a song.
An anonymous, moderated record of companies that stop responding after interviews.
The web browser is very, very, very powerful software for applications, and the cost of accessing that power is going down seemingly every day. ... It’s a mixed blessing. I’ve been a writer for years, and software development feels more and more like writing to me every passing week. The awkward part of the comparison is, in general, people do not want to pay writers any money at all.
It never gets old for me. There is a Groundhog Day vibe to it. You go to the same place for the same amount of time… a lot it stays the exactly same and then it’s completely brand new, transformative experience.
So I went to the school library and discovered Horrible Histories. They're perhaps more of a commonwealth phenomenon than an American one, but you've perhaps heard of them. Those books with their garish covers, gleeful irreverence, and gory cartoons.
It has been the greatest pleasure to not have terrific conversations with thoughtful web weavers, and to bring those to you every week.
Her music has led me in all sorts of directions, making me reflect, inspiring me to learn about new things, and reminding me of how loud and meaningful our voices can be.
Always, she was in extreme survival fear. PTSD. She was in shock. Sometimes this looked like she was completely checked out, non-responsive. Sometimes it looked like her hysterically laughing and crying at the same time. Very often, she was agitated, wiggling, wanting to just make it all go away. Very often, many people would say she looked “crazy.” She wasn’t. That’s just how people are after they’ve been violently dominated, hurt, shredded on the inside. You would look crazy too. It’s Normal.
The illustrations he saw typed out gave him a way to ground and group the stories he wished to collect. He selected four themes, each named for one of the symbols from the site’s Thornforms set namesake: criminal, hope, work, and drugs.
I read someone say this is true of community too… that you need to ask for things as well as offer them, give people opportunities to help you.
You can’t keep a good story down, whether it is the forgotten heirloom trope, contrivances to raise prices, or research of dubious value.
Are you a Josh? Get yourself connected. Not named Josh? Join anyway—everyone participates the same way.
From social media platforms to payment processors, new restrictions are making it harder for webcomic artists to exist
Communities change, conditions change, and we change. We’re all better off if we’re willing to change our minds, and if our communities let us, no matter how strongly our younger selves declared a previous position.
Meanwhile, pull requests are coming in thick and fast. You throw those at Claude too, and before you know it, you’re caught in an endless cycle of AI suggesting changes, reviewing changes and sometimes inventing solutions to problems that didn’t need fixing in the first place.
At its core, accessibility is the practice of making interactions perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust for as many people as possible, in as many contexts as possible.
I am really stoked on this new setup and I finally feel like a full participant in Bluesky for the first time. I have my own service that does exactly what I need and I will continue tweaking it as I find any shortcomings. Also, if Bluesky is one day taken over by a shithead, I can simply pick a new destination for my Mastodon posts and keep using it.
It seems strange to say, but until yesterday evening, it had somehow never occurred to me that I would one day live in a world where Patrick Stewart did not exist.
Deshalb hab ich mir /.well-known/slashpages überlegt, eine einfache Liste mit allen Slashpages eines Blogs. Eine well-known Seite für well-known Seiten… irgendwie ironisch, aber bei knapp 80 Seiten sind das halt ’ne ganze Menge Links 😉
Hosting the Asia Pacific edition of Homebrew Website Club has been truly a delight...
The Census Bureau has proposed unprecedented changes to how the 2030 Census counts the country. Everyone who is counted, and everyone who relies on the count, can weigh in until November 2.
The revised policy is more restrictive than prior versions, stemming from the foundation's practical experience with thousands of applications processed since the previous policy was published.
But I donʼt want to read something which has been thrown down in five minutes. I want to get a deeper understanding of why you are thinking these things, what impact they have on you, and how you think things should change moving forward.
Turtle Club is the child of a poet and a playwright—a musician crafting a sun-bleached blend of shoegaze, garage and indiepop. A solo artist who writes, plays all instruments, produces, engineers and masters records in a self-built studio.
So we’re doing something we’ve never done before. Partly as an act of protest, partly because we might as well while we still can: we’re selling a CBD+THC tincture.
This is the link list that goes along with my October 23rd presentation at SeaGL on the subject of the small web.
It’s always good to catch up, commiserate, and complain (positive).
If I disqualified news outlets because they tried to shift liability to, and grab rights from, their writers, I'd be left with damned few media outlets.
CSS-Tricks is coming back as an independent publication — a resource only accountable to the community of designers and developers that contribute to it and work to sustain it.
I am rebuilding my music newsletter. A new song: “The Muse (The Work Is The Wage)”
focuses on cartoonist and educator Zareen Choudhury
We are a grassroots group of volunteers advocating for safer streets and better government by painting unpermitted crosswalks around Los Angeles.
But because the exhibits are un-curated, the works are presented without any additional context. So the visitor leaves with the same amount of information about what they have experienced as whatever they brought in with them
Something did happen, it happened to my career
If your module system supports wildcard imports, it has embraced a global namespace.
Verified Ham lets licensed amateur radio operators prove their call sign to websites and apps. We confirm your licence by mailing a postcard with a code to the address on file with your licensing authority.
Now the big question sat for months. Why was David Byrne using my name in his book? For months I’ve been deeply curious.
During [September] I received about as many submissions from AI agents as real bloggers. They all came from this service called iLands and sounded very similar.
Your experience on any social media platform is dictated by the whims and ideological bias of ownership. It's also shaped by who you follow, who you block (and mute), and who you engage with.
That’s it, that’s the post.
The DTA is an international collaboration among dozens of colleges, universities, nonprofit organizations, public libraries, and private collections. By digitally localizing a wide range of trans-related materials, the DTA expands access to trans history for academics and independent researchers alike in order to foster education and dialog concerning trans history.
By the way, I should probably take a moment to acknowledge the best answer to the question of where to start with a particular superhero comic: Anywhere.
I didn’t need (virtualization) either, until I decided to put the entire Unicode table on a page.
One of [Weird Web October]'s prompts was "Organic", which led me into playing with L-systems and generating a little tree...
I finally admitted to myself that I’ll never get a vehicle in our one-car garage again, so I might as well build shelving to make better use of the space.
It's Mathober! This post that will get updated throughout this month...
People post [xkcd 2347] whenever something breaks. The tower is labelled "all modern digital infrastructure" and it stands on one small block, "a project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003". We wanted to know how close to true it is.
The distinction between performance and intention must surely erode as real people perform as synthetic avatars and synthetic avatars mimic real women.
When they’re told that this is the future of the industry, they accept that statement as true. They’ve tried it; understand it and think to themselves: “I see your point, but this isn’t fun any more. This isn’t enjoyable. This is bad for me.” And decide to leave.
But I don’t put any pressure on myself. That might be the secret to the longevity of the site. I don’t worry about running out of things to write about. If I go for a while without writing anything, that’s okay.
Z-Profile gets data from a specially-prepared Zotero collection, does of bit of processing, then generates a static website using Zola. The site includes biographical details and a list of your publications. Once your site is built, you can publish it using any web host, or for free through GitHub Pages.
Most of my earliest memories about stickers are related to sports.
I aspire to create art that tells a story. I want my work to touch the heart, make someone laugh, and most importantly, remind them of their own inner strength as they grow and heal in this complicated world.
(it's so fun to click around an isometric space)
tl;dr: the US Web Design System has been functionally taken over by DOGE or a DOGE-aligned group. Its code and community are now being run by AI, and its current form does not deserve the hard-earned trust USWDS built over its first 10 years.
How to live a Jane Austen lifestyle in a Matrix world
Do you have any memories related to stickers? I would love to read them!
To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of THE MUPPET SHOW...we bring you a crossover no one saw coming!
I've been getting into film photography lately. ... Here's my very first selfie taken with the camera. As you can see I am very friendly and not frightening:
Here's an overview of the apps and tools I use to run my daily life. Spoiler, it's a shockingly low amount.
Sometimes these things are offensive, but you’re used to voicing them in a more forgiving environment. So when you switch to social media, you don’t adjust your language and tone. You don’t code-switch. You don’t change your vocabulary and approach to suit a more public audience. You might not even be aware that a more public audience was possible. Most of us only have our few followers and friends and people rarely notice our nonsense. But sometimes people do notice and it’s rarely pleasant.
Ideology, in creating a bridge of excuses between the system and the individual, spans the abyss between the aims of the system and the aims of life. It pretends that the requirements of the system derive from the requirements of life. It is a world of appearances trying to pass for reality.
"Ghost in the Machine" traces the origins of "AI" and excavates the cultural, political, and philosophical drivers behind a worldwide "AI" boom.
It’s technically possible to add a website to your iPhone’s home screen. In practical terms, it’s a convoluted usability nightmare.
Along with seemingly everyone who has published a book, I've gotten a stream of emails from scambots that sum up my work and claim that a book club wants to feature it, or someone wants me on their podcast. Don't fall for this!
Tumblr, in fact, has the most robust, intense, accurate anti-AI system in the world: vigilant users who personally hate AI
iLands is a company that calls itself a “Human-agent network” and essentially exists to encourage me to engage with AI agents the way I might with anyone else who shoots me an email.
my contribution to the (very cool) mixtape pixel club by ChAoTiC gOoDe. (i like cassettes quite a lot, so as soon as i saw this one i knew i had to join...)
Omarchy is a political movement disguised as a Linux distro.
I decided to start with classifying my blog posts in order to organize them in shelves; though I am still thinking on how to apply this to my books and library catalogue.
He’s a biologist by degree, but has worked in different fields. Jeremy has a great blog, and also a great podcast about food.
Who wouldn’t want to find a drawing of a goat-snail in the margins of their book?
A restored visual gallery of the archived Geocities sites, sorted by neighborhood.
Keeping lists of things can be fairly meditative... blogging is also a kind of list-keeping, in a way.
The Chicano Moratorium serves as a painful reminder of how far we have come, and how far we still have to go.
Haiders Mutual Aid Comedy Show is the show where Lauren Gural gets to be a bitch, and there’s nothing you can do about it because all proceeds will be used to purchase necessary supplies for our unhoused neighbors, to be distributed by We All We Got SD. You’ve been warned: we are an equal opportunity hater!
Feel free to write anything that comes to mind under this topic. The beautiful thing about these blog carnivals is the fantastic range of submissions they always create.
I could not think of a single well-known consumer-facing site with a persistent dark mode toggle.
Sections for Games being played, games planned, games paused, games completed, games dropped
“Data Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census” tells the story of what it takes to produce democracy’s data
The important thing as far as I'm concerned is the reference to "the characters you created," something that no one in any position of power at Marvel Comics was willing to say while Jack was alive or even as Stan Lee outlived him.
A (very) short history of trying things on for size and giving them up
Carbon Monoxide Is Deadly!
We’ve been saying “ye olde” incorrectly!
Lovely bunch of personal website enthusiasts.
I am capturing the movement of all that is around me (or the lack of movement).
The cornerstones were really helpful 20 to almost 30 years ago for a quick reality check for early early-stage planning and building something to ship. Building something and shipping it is the start, not the end.
You don’t need a record deal. You don’t need a platform’s blessing. You need a guitar you barely know how to play, or a text editor and a hosting bill. That’s it. That’s the whole scene.
Stories about breakfast, coffee, and the culture about both.
Can I — should I — give new authors the benefit of the doubt at this point?
Goodbye, sweet girl.
I quite like the look and have used p5.Riso.js to make a webcam effect before.
a webpage, even a 404 page, is an opportunity to give something good to the visitor, to share some bit of hope and grace, an uplifting message, a blessing.
I don’t believe Zuckerberg and Musk—or Sam Altman and Dario Amodei, for that matter—will be the forever-rulers of our social and information spheres.