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Popular IndieWeb bloggers have been talking about "Hardcore IndieWeb" recently (Neatnik, Brennan). The idea of "hardcore" in this context is doing everything yourself: building a site with pure HTML and CSS using a text editor on your...
SCOUT TROOPER — IMPERIAL PATROL STAR WARS: POWER OF THE JEDI/SAGA (HASBRO) “Although lightly armored, Imperial scout troopers are essentially highly mobile stormtroopers. They patrol perimeters, perform reconnaissance missions, and scout...
This is my 12th blog post for the Blaugust 2026 community blogging project. Join me all this month for more blogging. I love the Mastodon social messaging service. I’m a big fan of the open-source, non-corporate, federated design. Design...
I've had the Steam Machine for about a month at this point, and I think that's long enough for me to give my own opinions.Despite the cost, despite the supposed lack of power, despite the hole burnt through my wallet, despite everything...
by Gideon Marcus Everyone knows it's Windy Everyone is familiar with weather balloons, those high altitude drifters that have been returning meteorological information (and provoking UFO sightings) for nearly 30 years. Now, thanks to the...
That's what Tony Fadell advises. We are used to seeing constraints as problems but they can also be opportunities — to think different and act different.
Seven Seas Entertainment debuted the first collected volume of manga-ka Oshioshio's My Deer Friend Nokotan in 2020. Despite the series running for eight volumes and leading to an anime adaptation, I had not heard of it until comics...
tag(s): #link-post #random-thoughts A couple days ago I was reading a post by Javier, Transferring Knowledge. I agree with most of points made. The last paragraph stuck with me, because I think what it says can be generalized beyond only...
Today. Today is a day to be quiet. To hold my own. To put the soap box away. To not let something I read online get the better of me. Today is a day for calm reflecting. For contemplation the quiet moments between doing and not doing....
Sometimes it's hard to let go of the good stuff, like a beautiful summer...and the old web.I don’t think we talk enough about how much online publishing has shifted over the years. At a very high level, the biggest shifts I’ve seen went...
Some instrumental music you might have fun listening to while you read this; the music is produced by Suno AI but from my extremely long and complex prompt, just to see how much control over the composition I can exert; if the link above...
Germain Lussier / Gizmodo: Your favorite pop culture characters already feel like family, so why not display them as such? That always felt like the inspiration behind Mike Mitchell’s portrait series, which kicked off years ago with...
I was going to post here about how our power was back on and so it’s time to stow the battery-powered lantern that was our chief source of light these last few days. However, a new system looks like it’s forming in the central Pacific...
We played the sixteenth session of our Dungeon Module B1: In Search of Unknown AD&D 2e game last night. You can read past play reports here.The roster for this session was as follows:Llombaerth, CG elf thief 4 (Adam)Mirkle, N human...
We recently read The MANIAC, by Benjamin Labatut in my AI Book Club. This was our first work of fiction, though much of the text is imagined biography, so not really traditional fiction. It reads more like a collection of short...