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Inspired by Gwern Branwen’s design outline, this page documents the design philosophy behind not only this website, but also every other project I work on.

In August of this year, I deleted Twitter off of my phone, after what I found to be the final straw after months of garbage policy changes enforced by the rich egg who now owns the site.

I’d like to take you on a journey through the world of scams, laundry, and search engines.

Walked down a street in an opposite direction then I normally do and discovered a grand new mural on the opposite wall.

In the early days of Google and Yahoo the best hack for getting your website to the top of rankings was Keyword Stuffing.

I find reading letters to the editor enjoyable.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/48441/48441-h/48441-h.htm

Wrote a webmention library for Deno, it was good practice getting it to pass the test suite at webmention.rocks. https://deno.land/x/webmention@v1.1 The next step is writing out a CLI tool that can completely replace (the now defunct) webmention.app.

All that Javascript to render this single static image.

This list has been curated together after a half dozen or so years looking for the “perfect solution” for a number of problems I regularly face.

The trick of puzzle design is not so much coming up with decent clues as it is coming up with a cohesive theme.

Published in English 21.04.13 under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 DE license on superlevel.de, this article has been republished - without edits - here, for posterity.

Inspired by evy’s ever-changing manifesto, this evolving document helps guide me towards the life I want to live.

British or “quick” crosswords are significantly easier to construct than American or “full” ones - I tried orienting this in a 15x15 grid, but reduced it down to the puzzle you see here.

This is very interesting.

🖨️Download a printable Version 🧩Download the .puz file

This is my first attempt at designing my own crossword.

Tenuta di Carleone Chianti Classico - 2019 🇮🇹 Italy // Chianti Classico 4/5 "Very light nose of bubblegum and black fruit.

Glad as I am that the personal website is having a renaissance – you know how much I love personal websites – for me that fulfils a different function from sites like Twitter.

The fundamental issue I see repeatedly is that Interoperability (what Mastodon and Fedi truly offers) is a no-brainer for tech-types but completely uninteresting and in some-cases a turn off for laypeople.

I’ve been drawn to the idea of having many tiny sensors around my home intermittently collecting data points about all sorts of things - the Lumen measurement of our bedroom at night, the noise of the street below us, the AQI of our kitchen.

As with most anything I’ve tried to start as a habit, these update posts have become far less then routine.

I still don’t use any streaming services, so here’s my yearly list of albums I listened to the most in the past year.

Have you ever really sat down and thought about Batman?

This is a great little whodunit caper, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

This article is an excellent, in-depth guide for how to take photographs with your phone camera (and beyond!)

Warning: This Article Is Poorly Written With the ongoing collapse of Twitter, there has been a lot of talk about the Fediverse, and primarily Mastodon, which in spite of it probably not wanting to be, is the flagship in the ActivityPub fleet.

As some of you are probably aware, I have the habit of going on two cyclical “kicks”, every year.