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This page contains both my posts that deal primarily with discussing some particular linked page and my more independently written stuff.
Until this gets Tolstoy-long, I stand by my belief that pagination is for cowards.
a newfound discomfort with hypertext
mr. openai I don't feel so good
no more startups. programming skills only to be used for projects based on surreal dreams
I realize now that everything I have ever seen called a hedge was an embarrassment to the name
poison the (data) well! poison it I say
winnie lim keeps a personal changelog
choosing algorithms: we live in a society
the rebirth of the infinite jukebox and autocanonizer
update: fonts and vampires
this is a seventeen-second video advertisement from a chicken supply company
voting on voting: colm maccárthaigh on seattle's choice choices
a rainy WA view on amending soil with wood chips
learned helplessness and necessary help
servers, sewers, alienation
catholicism as trend? come again?
a grid of 100px icons from ye olden days
does anyone know any asshole beekeepers?
you can run from zuckerberg's vision of a real name identity, but you can't hide from his adtech
lady midday (the demon)
what can a homepage be?
power, not meanness
the ebike is not a monstrosity, your face is a monstrosity
namespaces are big business
I don't think very highly of this piece, but it features a couple of great historical anecdotes
ton zylstra on hypothes.is and annotation
max read validates my opinions on the internet's impact on culture: thank you max read
brand flavor text taken to a new level: italian glassware
down with green salad
it's a smoky day in the postapocalypse: fiat currency
wisteria syrup?
someone is talking about "no one is talking about this"
this pie heralds death
too many goat: an rpg supplement
expertise doesn't drive trust
romans and authority
meat manifesto: my covenant to our shareholders
the things that signal cool to us change as costs shift
kinda creepy that these handwriting fonts are sold
this website is just an emoji and i love it
plant breeding is so much weirder than I thought
a thirteenth century letter argued for religious life saying marriage was a raw deal for women
japanese pun holidays
regency occultist snail mail rpg idea
personality and those videogame military leaks
why not learn a little about potato technology today
why had I not heard of horse bread?
a comic that is also a poem
if you purchased chicken in washington state in the last 10 years, you were harmed
go ask alice was fake; think about who faked it
I want this historical claim I found on wikipedia to be true
down to the river, a short story
a neat little design detail in a linkblog
three pages of linguistics paper that you've got to read
initial musing on robin sloan's spring '83 protocol idea
maybe I'm just sick of reality, but making lore for a blog seems good
missing concepts in link culture?
three words for you: fantasy console theremin
offbrand mp3 players, in honor of the retirement of the ipod
US immigration is a kafkaesque nightmare: "high-skill" edition
this 1657 still life has raised so many questions for me
dog breed doesn't influence behavior as much as people think
you have like four days to sign up for dracula emails
I take it back, safari CSS is good now
how can newsletter writers figure out with whom to bundle their work?
how do we feel about podcasts as transformative use?
you want to see this 1-bit animation
does china have a culture of hypertext?
buckle up it's time for some game theory pizza (I'm sorry)
wildly jealous of this kind of athens apartment building
vicki boykis on telegram, now more than ever
how the catholic church in germany got so much better on LGBTQ stuff than the church elsewhere
seek opinions from big fans: the haunted mansion
that painting of the cossacks writing a letter is based on a hoax, but still matters
update: mac and cheese and user styles
sneaking in under the wire for international women's day
decline can imply hope: stucco
maybe it's a period of grace
forbidden maps
digital conditions don't mandate scale
they've traced down the invention of the granny square
should you shift your celebration of a holiday?
you already know whether you're the target audience for a satire of lieder
in the middle ages they thought about kissing very, very differently
people are naming sons kylo
found poetry from researching what in astrology signifies the software industry
website visitors are still the visitors
gatorade bread is... what you'd think it is
no, the facebook feed algorithm is still bad
learn about the bread lab (and the approachable loaf!)
orange site iamverysmart commenters: they're worse than that, even
links vs. likes: how do they make you feel?
james g on programming being like cooking
can you feel the weight of the clipboard?
david jonathan ross runs a font of the month club
in this 1410s illuminated book of hours, december is for hunting wild boar
3x speed ain't bad: maya digs way too deep into a blog post from hacker news
listen to the 333 covers of 'last christmas' released since last christmas
make charts just by typing in your data with this font
horrible pest poisons openly sold on internet
my refine and play tarot deck arrived
painting of the day: fauns fleeing before an automobile
private chats aren't private if one of your interlocutors has legal issues
a blogger deciphers a code in the adventure time comic
sunflower seed butter and chemical leaveners will turn a baked good green
space travel still doesn't return on its staggering opportunity cost
if you have an image of a repeating pattern, but the image isn't aligned on the tile...
there is a distinct dialect of german endemic to texas
3D molded cardboard at home!
a brief defense of vibes
wesley's notebook is a beautiful personal site
twitter threads and chesterton's fence
paddy maloney, founder of the chieftains, has died
jonathan wojcik examines the wibbly forms of bruegel's fallen angels
update: neocities, the moon, a gramophone, and altsearch
laurent gerdil's carvings of opinel's carvable knives
this tiny custom search engine has given us a flavorful portal into neocities
what might an anti-meme be?
jay hulme writing about his poem jesus at the gay bar
the goat is an enemy of the vine
this video on The Bell Curve is over two and a half hours long and I'd still recommend it
how many people still hear this song in their heads whenever they read WYSIWYG?
an HTML webcomic site template suitable for static hosting
the music video for followers by AREA21
I don't buy that The Kids are missing fundamental file directory skills
this picture of a fox might be illegal
a found poem about climate change
a lovely video about celebrating the autumn equinox
women who know how to do contour makeup are gonna save us from surveillance dystopia?
an attempt to create a squabble between some chunk of the altweb and indieweb folks.... was made
an imagemagick script that can produce fractalesque kaleidoscope-like image deformations
horrisonous, horrisonant
papercraft low-poly-esque mask patterns for sale
tech is bad because it'd rather use evopsych to blame teenage girls than admit social media might be hurting them
a tarot kickstarter that seems to have spared no expense in print quality
heat related mortality in over-65s has 1.5xed in past two decades
cool series of posts on premodern agriculture
a history of deviantart and similar
some great halloweeny songs on a great personal website
open transclude: quote yourself, use an iframe
the guy who did final fantasy is making an rpg by photographing crafted sets to make them 3d
femicom: femme aesthetic electronics museum
joy of joys, PFAs are apparently also in the air...
emma goldman actually never said that thing about dancing and revolution
you may not like it, but this is what peak web design looks like
this cube cured my mortality
you can't just slap a bunch of bell towers and colonnades wherever (in your memory palace)
a GIF collage of bubbles
BitMidi is a modern MIDI site
vampirewebsite.net: a website for real vampires
the tech-facilitated gig economy sucks, and it's all more gendered than you might think
ngmi.works: art, mostly black and white, mostly pixel
I don't agree that browser tabs killed the web, but I respect the chutzpah of the hypothesis
wonderful south african backyard bird webcam
a supposedly fun writing analysis tool I'll never run again
update: a year of maya.land and The Independent Web or whatever
review: paper penguin co.'s onion skin paper notebook
an artist's site featuring contemporary tarot decks
jacob hall is continuing kicks condor's work on whostyles!
my matrix bot that transcribes speech in audio messages
stop everything, they brought back confetti text from ms word 97
this piece about pigeons is factual and touching
my super-hot take on gawker coming back
did we all know they were using giant styrofoam blocks instead of filler dirt, or...
the background for this japan-inspired typeface exploded my font brain
thinking about the metaverse courtesy of ryan broderick's garbage day
slapheart is a new lil' web directory
cool map visualizing distance to cities
nyanseong is a cool personal site with an even cooler zines page
the self-hostable community software that powers dev.to
fundamental attribution error is the cognitive bias you don't think enough about
update: heloise
admit it, you thought diamonds were expensive because of DeBeers
kicks condor's hypertexting and the syntopicon
a covid confession
how to make an image into a 88x31 banner with CSS
inter: a very sleek open source sans-serif font
josh lee might have the funniest about me section
maggie andersen's diagram
nuclear explosions for the national economy
even amazon is getting in on fanfic-style publishing
a blackberry basket made of blackberry vines: stuff and gratitude
actually some of us had heard of shein, thanks
j. kenji lópez-alt is seattle’s now and you can't have him back
overgrown: a hypercomic you gotta scroll through
fast food and crow cholesterol
wikijousting
archaic names for diseases
coffee deserves cardamom, not mushrooms
if you cut a perfectly human-shaped hole in an unlocked door...
this clicker game will make you think and also maybe cry?
on noah smith on depression
literally the first thing I've ever read about palestinian refugee return
it turns out chipotle sucks (no, for other reasons)
space exploration is more like antarctica than the frontier
on: internet study culture
the atlantic: just how bad is america’s drinking problem?
check your sunscreen for cancer juice
global population decline
know thyself
I would read a whole book about the history of this virtual pet game
those pavé eternity rings were created because they needed to sell smaller diamonds from the Soviet Union
hana berggren made a wholesome zine about mashrums
best grandson makes machine to pair up telegram messaging with a grandmother-friendly physical interface
I switched my daily news consumption to start with KUOW's morning news podcast and it's good
this package tracking site can grab details of Chinese shipping companies too
houses carved into the stone in langenstein
update: federated notes, likes, and zines
kate dunn's zines are a tumblresque delight
my jeans plea to gen z
content moderation and human nature
the (us) state birds are garbage
tilde.town's bulletin board software is open source and great
the tiger lillies released a covid-19 album last year
social media's painful relationship with memory
using homoglyphs to make bilingual (bi-orthographic?) crosswords
jacob hall's links
gorgeous suite of utilities for developing for the command line (MIT licensed)
the british walking sickness
should home cooks use modified wheat dextrin in fried breading?
most card games that say they're good for two people aren't, but this one is
what chinook jargon orthographies should a learner concern herself with?
cute line of stuffed animals, looks new?
make a zine PDF out of images
four musicians, one cello, ravel's bolero
anti-professionalism by stanley fish
this is a personal pandemic experience cliche, not a zine about zines cliche
the story of hank the cowdog and his author
NY and WA governors compared on COVID
what we've missed about communes
wick editor is stepping up to the plate to try to reproduce the beginner-friendliness that made the flash internet magical
an argument to make your website work without javascript
a real o. g.
a helpful write-up on the death card
drawing.garden
facebook is worse than even us antis thought
a pnw artist's lovely online gallery
warning: capitalism encroaches on magical thinking
pictures for sad children demolishes my morning
dr. janega writes on medieval life expectancy (and there are sweet skeletons)
a merriam-webster.com editor had some fun writing about the words supposably and supposedly
novena: a poem that is a game that is a poem
anybody have a line on what I should be doing to oppose surveillance here?
bryan lee o'malley's seconds: ok
under no circumstances do you gotta hand it to nixon, but...
interesting rebuttal to said's orientalism
those check-out donations are not actually scams that generate tax benefits for the corp
la vague by henri privat-livemont
terre thaemlitz's writing on content removal (annotation)
dr. mcmillan cottom has written a really good really long essay about dolly parton
digital washi tape: sozai?
80% of the COVID dead in TX county jails were in pretrial detention
an older dictionary has different kinds of entries
a pseudo-webring of sites whose design is really....something
an online chord progression tool that doesn't suck
are you the right person to take on UK hyacinth preservation?
should I care about internet things?
annotation of american idle
A program teaches Seattle teenagers to make websites, providing them to Black-owned businesses
earthquake satire should have us all feeling chastened
tiny enclosed electric vehicles have found their niche in China
ngl I was bodied by this
dithering, part deux: ordered dithering
dither in the browser with the power of CSS
remember macpaint?
they keep giving superhero costumes wedge heels and you're never going to be able to unsee it
an incisive observation about furries and the internet
this dithering tool has presets from Computer History
what speech-adjacent stuff is a necessary part of freedom of speech?
should you subscribe to high-volume RSS feeds?
this plant-based chicken patty has the best food packaging I've ever seen in my life
dior's ss 2021 collection is tarot inspired
the peacock room
an inspirational letter from peggy ramsay to david hare
skull paintings inspired by gideon the ninth
the NYT is both-sides-ing the internet terribly in innovative ways
medieval images of death
medieval pilgrims: to protect against disease, wear a pin of a winged penis
digital spaces aren't
xe iaso asks if social media was a mistake
an invented tradition of witchcraft, returned to
most of the time when you think someone is lying on the internet, you have to live with the uncertainty of never really being able to know
bridges are painted green because a guy won an award based on an inaccurately tinted illustration
a 2013 piece about trailer parks and retirement
benedict evans is importantly wrong about publishers and governance
a syllabus of tech history to go along with halt and catch fire
guy who might know suggests to run screaming from bitcoin
the evil of postcards: prisons prohibit envelopes, sometimes even stamps, and it's bad for everyone
an argument about when you should handle problems and in what batch size seems really relevant to my own brain problems
errors, freaks, and oddities - wikipedia
a piece on elder goths
side business magical girl: a labor revolution takes place within only 25 pages!
this person claims to use chickens to uncover potatoes for harvest
if semi-charmed life had been written by blink 182
an alternative to twitter for those who plan to work with traitors, courtesy of ancient greece
a chrome extension that marks names of the seditionist members of congress with an asterisk
recyclable plastic isn't
an updated comic sans
i may not harm jeff bezos by rusty foster
congresswoman pramila jayapal on the capitol siege
the tragedy of gemini
gwern's december newsletter links the coolest pop-up preview tech I've ever seen
science is a process defined by odd limits placed upon the social motivations that fuel us all
update: whostyle, notes
the part of my brain that allows me to comprehend this needs to be repossessed
re: pianists' hands
an excellent jekyll cheatsheet
a different perspective on cool URIs
a small objection to this criticism of silicon valley
smartphones and data have reached even the illiterate in india
today we had a coup and here are some pictures
has anyone played airborne kingdom?
what vibes do I give off? generator
1-bit image dithering
james tomasino on comments
a poem / artpiece about a swamp
basic html as punk folk
the dead christ (camillo procaccini)
read unsent letters
an invented tradition of witchcraft
a pretty intense art-site for which I recommend turning your speakers on
make a beaded bracelet online and send it to a friend through the power of url parameters
writing as metadata: a yale course
sand physics game except it's an aquarium you have to keep in balance
I just found out my domain registrar sells themed stickers of their mascot for different TLDs
china is pressuring the catholic church in hong kong in ways reminiscent of medieval europe
staff locked up on cruise ships are committing suicide and the cruise corps might be making it worse
a beautiful traditional tarot deck with some non-traditional additions
an intrepid investigation into the bucatini shortage of 2020
gpt-2 will regurgitate personal info, code diffs, copyrighted text
klaus (2019)
krampus (2015)
through one lineage, modern occultism inherited its attitude to blending science and religion from pre-Marxist socialism
russian love and american love
psychologist creates soothing narrative for estranged parents, blames their children cutting ties on desire for soothing narratives
a new study indicates crows have consciousness more complicated than stimulus-response
grammatical gender is weak. give me that noun class based on fruit
synthy and sampledy version of the nutcracker
generate a bird avatar based on your name
web design museum - 1991-2006
tilde.town is inspiring
a virtual pub in static html
every tv show helena fitzgerald has binge-watched since march: part one
blood of napolitan saint fails to liquefy; bad omen
air inside planes can be full of toxic fumes
adam savage explains who makers are
tape filter to fan, measure air particulates, it helps
the death of the newsfeed (and its afterlife)
yubikey necklace
update: pictures, pages, and pixelly games
classism and classical music in america
My Boo by Brasstracks
wolfwalkers: there is another glorious tomm moore film and I am ready
digital fusion: a genre definition with spotify playlist
tarotwave
why didn't the atlantic mention spinster?
adorable cultural relic
handheld emulators have screens that aren't scaled right for GB games
architecture rejects ornament to its detriment
let a webmention and websub enabled site interact with activitypub
free vector designs that make COVID cute somehow
eleanor janega tears a bad COVID take apart via the medieval view of advent
mixed and mashed music aggregated by kickscondor
i am dismayed at myself for how much i want this marketing stunt sweater
EPA air monitors miss a lot
why do they even have sports that aren't this
I think this blog post might have been written with machine learning and I'm fascinated
how to buy gifts people want
make blackout poems from tweets
making a logo with PlantUML
however bad you think people are with computers, they're worse
adventures in de-googling
blogging vs. blog setup
papercraft templates generated in custom dimensions
this sparrow is evolving four sexes
how Obama still fails to reckon with his history with the banks
tom stoppard ghostwrote on indiana jones and the last crusade
how an informational map can further anti-migrant sentiment
whether trump can pardon himself may depend on finicky parsing of a word's reflexivity
find sites and feeds of the twitterers you follow
refresh for another awful affirmation
update: pens, embeds, and the changing of the seasons
ievan polka by hatsune miku but in the original finnish
cute lil personality test
legend of the christmas spider
tinder for streaming video
best explanation of different voting systems I've ever read
tlingit artist designs raven postage stamp, out 2021
evening on the north shore
kicks condor's interview with uses this
frog
list of sites that weigh in at less than 1MB
a 1928 method of creating plots for (zany) stories, now online
americans are moving to the cities that climate change is going to make uninhabitable
indieweb for wordpress? still needs work.
growing up in nature predicts better mental health in adulthood
excellent poultry webcams
google should be rotating and publishing DKIM secret keys
one method of cleaning, bleaching, and gilding bone
should we stop making software?
how to add an external link icon with CSS
smart person decluttering by shipping packages of random stuff to whoever'll pay postage
22120 is an archival project that lets you rebrowse your browser history as you saw it
rich people fighting with rich people: the magna carta and covid-19
update: yarn, russian, commentpara.de
website lets you attend a random recorded classical performance
e-ink display of what a radio station is currently playing
what language is spoken in the balkans?
how to fold handkerchiefs so they'll dispense like tissues
'Amelia' necklace made with Irish lace crochet techniques
douglas adams's 'hyperland': the web that never was
mind mapping but cute
gas stoves are bad
london built a railway to take urban mourners and dead to a cemetery outside the city
edinburgh has a hotel that is clearly shooting for medieval gothic and 1800s gothic and alt culture gothic all at once
richard teschner's work is jim henson decades before jim henson would be born
ceiling crocodiles: religious symbolism and rad decoration
persimmons are very weird as fruit trees go
chromeos's sandboxed linux VMs can do graphical desktops and applications
play instruments as bongo cat
seattle ranks no. 1 for percentage of residents working in STEM
marty mcguire on the state of webmentions
skeletons enrobed in jewels
an argument that the jamstack can't do comments
white-collar crime has already seen its police defunded
update: now listening
what to do if your tiddlywiki is saving .tid files instead of markdown
a covid song parody that's actually somehow good
zero indexing doesn't come from c and it has nothing to do with runtime execution
how to take your reviews from goodreads and put them into a wordpress install
books and the indieweb
re: ruminations on divination
holly black's the cruel prince: eh
webGL 3d sculpting app, somehow
make a bread mold of your face
click on the brick building and it will change shape
there are many color palette generators out there but this one is good
handy explainer on how to create a jekyll command plugin
update: tarot, astrology, perfume
vampires vs. the bronx
help i'm trapped making grooves in this online synth/drum machine simulator
promnesia: browser extensions to enrich browsing history and provide you your data
hanford nuclear site still in bad shape
update: words, spaced repetition
the fog this weekend that they kept predicting would clear up may have owed its persistence to wildfire smoke
a cute little tool to make patterned pixel borders for CSS
how many words to say something's not worth it?
publishers restrict libraries' ability to rely on ebooks even during pandemic
former 90s tech-worker temp points out that even wage comparisons understate how much worse it is for the young now
re: where did my webmentions go
nice lil' tool for checking color contrast ratios visually and mathematically
analysis of Vancouver housing proposal
what do you think about 'epistemic status' headers?
trendy mending for the upper thighs of jeans
tamsyn muir's gideon the ninth: necromancy in SPAAAACE
update: OPML blogroll
outliner as snazzy as Roam, but stored locally!
I made a little guide for adding webmentions to a Neocities site
don't miss aphyr's latest 'the technical interview' post
great post on webmentions on neocities
anyone tried using photo upscaling APIs on their old pictures?
trans people and cancel culture: judith butler tells it like it is
romans gave little metal skeletons out as party favors
how hard do you think it would be to combine this UV camera with a digital display for a magic mirror?
anti-Dalit discrimination within US tech companies
facebook might leave europe if it can't send data to US
avoiding caching others' PII with runtime javascript
project setup
analytics and webmentions
its been a terrible year so i think we should extend Halloween season to November 30th to boost morale (EOM)
richest 1% emit more than 2x the carbon of bottom 50%
samantha shannon's the priory of the orange tree: gender is a f*ck
home ventilation: a love story
man realizes he only befriends other programmers, searches for explanation in census data
chris aldrich on roam's VC round
re: webmentiond
the 1998 bill gates deposition video revisited
update: webmentions and technical notes
unstaffed markets in rural Sweden
a certain alexander
iframe-based quotation UX pattern
animal crossing music played at matching times
the worms play pinochle on your snout
update: footer 🕸💍, manifesto
leo babauta on minimal websites
mike elias on how the concept of 'facts' can be bad
'I Thought I Would Have Accomplished a Lot More Today and Also by the Time I Was Thirty-Five'
prescribed burns are dangerously underused in california
content, bloat, privacy, archives
the real 90s font look in a modern browser
BREAD, not CRUD
proposal for a web made of markdown documents
bmj: honey may be effective in symptom relief for coughs and such
suggestion: nice medical supplies as stock photo article headers are too calming, so all COVID articles should start with this
plague doctors didn't wear that cool outfit
update: alcohol and a thing to do with it
steve yegge on google cloud and deprecation
jack skellington ricotta olive tarts
update: twenty-something ukulele tab
inspiring slides from a talk on css for generative art
environmental impact of air conditioning
The Sixth Stage of Grief is Retro-Computing
A Big Little Idea Called Legibility
facts man
apartment decor I'd kill for
EFF's legislative proposals for internet interoperability
australia increases fees for humanities degrees
pure CSS halftone portrait from jpg
Not an Amazon Problem: Tim Bray
elaborate Russian window settings
RUSSIAN SOUL, 2005 - Frank Herfort
Update: books and some skeletons
masks, social distancing, and moving activities outdoors: not surface transmission
afghani women campaign for right to use own names
best tarot card meanings resource I've found
constructive criticism and bullying
ein jeder Ego ist alter
from spyplanes to facebook
New study documents systemic racism in Seattle restaurants
infinite jest and house of leaves: what is the footnote of the web?
create a spotify playlist that blends from one artist to another
Maine man saws neighbor’s garage in half amid boundary dispute
cat steals the milk
List of Germanic and Latinate equivalents in English - Wikipedia
The Independent Variable is headed to Seattle
Snazzy personal wiki with column layout
on Anil Dash on the american death cult
The 88x31 GIF Collection
now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party jams
re: read disney
The Dirty Work of Killing
Black Death, COVID, and Why We Keep Telling the Myth of a Renaissance Golden Age and Bad Middle Ages
I cannot emphasize enough how much you should check this out, **thoroughly**
Jorin - Antifascist Magick Runes
Pixel art tutorials from studiominiboss
Using Roam in homeschooling
leaving after 8 years and 100gb of Google Drive