Tag: blogging
Micro.blog Compared to Pckt.blog
Thinking out loud about apps I use that seem to be the same same but different
Tra Vivaldi e Atmosphere
Schemi per un uso ottimale delle due piattaforme di comunicazione...
How I created a dictation robot that helps me create a first draft of a blog post.
I think a human should always be in control but it's very convenient!
Tending the Garden I Have: A Current State of Affairs
Taking stock of my digital garden before the first frost: an honest audit of everything I'm tending online, from Brennan.day and fanfiction.lol to my 565-day writing streak, plus the projects I've neglected, the intentional prunes I'm happy with, and the dead plants I need to admit aren't growing—including a shelved radio show, a dormant newsletter, and an unstarted school.
Due Articoli e Qualche Contorno
Mi interrogo su euro digitale, crypto carte e identità online...
Take back the web. Make it weird again
Bob Sassone’s website is thirty years old. Thirty years. Older than Google. Older than the word blog. Still there, still being tended, still refusing to accept the repeated announcement that blogs are dead. Congratulations, Bob. Thirty years of keeping a patch of the web alive is no small thing. His anniversary post reads like a...
Nerd-snipe
Oh no. I should not have seen those "day live-blogs in timeline format" posts today. Like this and this. Very nerd-snipy, now I want to play with a format like that as well.(Old-school readers might know that I used to have something like that a few years back, showing the aggregated posts from my blog,...
god forbid a bitch own a weird little website
A personal site can still be a garden, junk drawer, clubhouse, and tiny act of resistance against the feed.
A Few Small Things
Reflecting on the mental fatigue of posting every day during Blaugust, I share a few small things that cheered me up: a new keyword filter on Bubbles.town, Jan Miksovsky's Origami Projector, and the ongoing, hand-made goodness of the independent web.
A Few Small Things
Reflecting on the mental fatigue of posting every day during Blaugust, I share a few small things that cheered me up: a new keyword filter on Bubbles.town, Jan Miksovsky's Origami Projector, and the ongoing, hand-made goodness of the independent web.
Creating an Open-source Blogging Studies Syllabus
Announcing a new open-source, asynchronous Blogging Studies syllabus that blends writing craft and independent web publishing, built on Codeberg. I trace the decline of free MOOCs, outline my curriculum's anti-capitalist and community-driven pedagogy, and invite contributors and learners to help shape it.
Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-25-26
I have been busy today, but the weekday streak of Pook-Emu Bee links continues. 1 | California political candidate facing six years in prison after listing dive bar as home address (Marina Peña for the California Post. August 24, 2026.) This plan was dumb enough to make me wonder whether she lives in a dive...
Presentazione
Non una semplice newsletter, ma una cornucopia di informazioni per entrare a gamba tesa nel mondo della vera rivoluzione tecnologica: decentralizzazione, cryptosfera, DeFi, stablecoin, e ovviamente Bitcoin...
Headlines That Say “I Ran Out Of Ideas”
I came across a New York Post opinion column by Lydia Moynihan titled The Gwyneth Paltrow AI controversy only hurts women. This may be rich coming from someone who, in the last month, has published reports on a free air conditioner and free printer left out for the taking in Brooklyn, New York City, but...
I Can't Help You With The Hardest Part of Blogging
navel scowling
How to Simplify Even Though I Like Shiny New Things
Pckt is so fun. But I have too many places to post already!?
Inkwell 2.0
one shared Kotlin core, two thin apps, and an iOS floor that was wrong for every build I ever shipped
One weird trick to read more blogs
substandard.blog is now available on the Chrome Web Store
substandard v2.0.0
Our first release
ATProto Apps to Check Out
I keep forgetting what they all are so this is my semi-regularly updated list of other apps that integrate with Bluesky that I come across.
Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-13-26
I was working late into the night (unfortunately not on articles), but I am back for another Pook-Emu Bee link (one away from Sunday-Friday perfection before we yield the floor on Saturday for The Newsletter Leaf Journal). [caption id="attachment_6926" align="aligncenter" width="862"] I use SLS-free toothpaste because of canker sores. I also want toothpaste with fluoride....
Processing by Quoting
Need to simmer on this
What Remains? My AuguStory
On the shutdown of EchoFeed and the ephemeral nature of services, why I blog (legacy, existentialism, making a mark), participating in AuguStory, academic studies on blogging benefits, and the paradox of 'nobody cares' as both a source of freedom and as a reminder that we all deserve to be heard, seen, and loved regardless of metrics or response.
The Map Is Not the Adventure: Reading Rebecca Solnit’s A Field Guide to Getting Lost
I took a different street home the other day. There was no great expedition in it. I was walking back through Southam by a route I know too well, heading toward the familiar turn that gets me home with the least fuss. Then I thought: I could go that way instead. I had no errand...
I keep seeing headlines about the new rules …
I keep seeing headlines about the new rules of attention, usually written by somebody who wants to sell a better way of getting hold of it. The old rules were blunt enough. Interrupt people. Startle them. Keep them scrolling. Learn which colours, fears, desires and half-conscious wounds make a thumb hesitate for a second longer....
Moving My Blog to The Atmosphere aka AT Proto
Blogging used to be fun. Then it became energy-consuming. AT Proto brings the best part of the past and, hopefully, will renew my blogging.
Hello World
Testing out the writing experience on Pckt
Knitting the Web: We Need Interlinkers!
Responding to Coyote's critique of Bubbles.town and feed aggregators, I argue that the IndieWeb needs more interlinkers—bloggers who meaningfully synthesize and weave together the writing of others. On the garden/stream/campfire metaphors for the web, the difference between linkdumps and synthesis, Justin Hall's early web work, and how every link out is a stitch that strengthens the fabric of the blogosphere.
Ok, I'll try Leaflet now
A story of wanting to do more than blogging on a site for blogging. While also ranting about what hasn't worked.
One Hollow Current
making blogging slightly less effortful
Were AI Blog Post Images Ever Cool?
I read an interesting blog post by Panagiotis Vryonis titled AI-generated blog post images are not cool any more. My first thought was "they were never cool." But I read on to see his perspective. While I and many others serve as proof that asserting that "everyone does it" is flippant, he does offer a...
Shannon Kay
Testing out leaflet.pub and comparing it to other free options for website and blog hosting.
My history with blogging (what about YOU?)
Also, trying out Leaflet's image display feature
The mistake is to build the gift shop …
The mistake is to build the gift shop first. A lot of independent people do this. We make the course, the membership, the coaching offer, the template pack, and the shop. Then we stand in the doorway wondering why nobody has come in. It's the wrong end of the building. The work itself is the...
To My Readers: What Do You Want To See More Of?
I finally curated my blog posts into collections, revealing what I write about most: the IndieWeb, the craft of writing, community, technical tutorials, politics, culture, and more. A call to my readers to tell me what they want to see more of, and a reflection on how organizing my work helps me understand my own writing patterns and what I want to write more of.
Joining Robert Birming’s JulyReply 2026
Last month, I participated in Robert Birming's "Junited" project, wherein I (and others) shared good blog posts from around the web. I joined late (see my Junited 2026 posts) and failed to share a few that I saved (I was busy in late June), but I nevertheless managed to share 19 blog posts and articles...
Shake Off the Dust!
Completing #100DaysToOffload twice in under two years, and somewhere along the way the wet clay hardened at the edges. Invisible ruts form inside the habits you love, and there's a difference between a window and a mirror in writing. The hermit crab outgrows shells, including the ones that still fit fine.
Blogging on ATProtocol - costs
So, I'm old enough to remember the saying, that if the product is free, then you are the product. And that has instilled in me a healthy scepticism of any product that provides a good service for no charge. This is one of the main reasons that I have held back on Bluesky a bit, as there is no clear way for them to pay the bills. I understand that up until now they have relied on private investors and venture capital, although there are plans to generate some sort of revenue.
A first Leaflet on the Atmos
It's the first...
Blogging on ATProtocol - costs
Blogging on ATProtocol - costs
So, I'm old enough to remember the saying, that if the product is free, then you are the product. And that has instilled in me a healthy scepticism of any product that provides a good service for no charge. This is one of the main reasons that I have held back on Bluesky a bit, as there is no clear way for them to pay the bills. I understand that up until now they have relied on private investors and venture capital, although there are plans to generate some sort of revenue. So on the blogging p...