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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.

It has been the greatest pleasure to not have terrific conversations with thoughtful web weavers, and to bring those to you every week.

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.

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.

I am rebuilding my music newsletter. A new song: “The Muse (The Work Is The Wage)”

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.

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.

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.

(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!

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?

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.

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.

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.

on setting iPhone to grayscale

Currently, I’m a contra. GenAI is being pushed by terrible people who are trafficking in lies and abusing the planet, and should their far-fetched dreams come true the consequences would be terrible for most people.

those who control digital platforms and means of communication have a considerable ability to affect the collective imagination and to present a particular vision of reality as desirable. Such power should be constantly guided by the pursuit of truth and respect for human dignity, so that the culture fostered on the internet does not become an instrument of excessive distraction, homogenization or dominance, but rather a setting in which inner freedom and critical thought can mature.

In each episode, I (James) have a conversation with someone who loves to make websites.

we can't take for granted that our most beloved stories will always support any egalitarian, pro-human point of view. We have to use all the power of fandom and cultural criticism to encourage the better reading of these stories and to call for versions of them that embody it.

I don't want to contribute to the accumulation of started things and the dusty shelves of interrupted selves.