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David has put together an excellent list of web development tools. I've known about a few of these but never bookmarked them, now I can just bookmark David's website instead.

The 90's internet aesthetic never died, it transcended itself to an art form, and maybe Melonland is the single greatest collective example I've ever seen of such art. So much instant nostalgia, my heart has been aching for this. What a wonderful website. I'd love to link every page but that'd be nonsense, so just go click around and be delighted.

The easiest path to a presence online is without a doubt social media. And some platforms, like Facebook, have done a passing job in supporting small businesses on their platform. But interacting with a restaurant or other brick and mortar business that's ONLY on social media, especially a social media that gates their content behind an account login like Instagram, is a surefire way to dissuade me from giving them my business. A bit crass, but small business owners need to hear this message.

I'm attempting to integrate ActivityPub with my website. If this makes it to the fediverse, hello!

When I read A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius I was gobsmacked by Eggers' use of footnotes, drawing, and other literary accoutrement; it felt like he used every feature of the printed book form to tell a story. HTML Review delights the same senses for online works. Even if you don't like the words, what the works here accomplish in form and ambition is, well, staggering.

Katsushika Hokusai drew tentacled sea creatures in the 1800s. H.P. Lovecraft built a mythology around them in the 1920s. Japanese illustrator Goki Yamada has now put them together in Thirty-six Views of Evil Gods (邪神三十六景), a 128-page art book that inserts Cthulhu, Nyarlathotep, and other Great Old Ones into every plate of Hokusai's famous ukiyo-e series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji" — the woodblock prints that gave us "The Great Wave off Kanagawa."

We're down to sub ~250ms load times now that I've moved the site behind the Bunny.net CDN! Additionally, I've added swipe support to photos. Web Mentions may or may not be fully functional at this point as well. I'll update last week's post with more of the changes for those interested.

I proposed this addition to the Schema Bib Extend Community Group in 2015, and then fell off following the discussion. I probably wasn't the first, but I wrote the proposed schema itself. Turns out, it was accepted some years later. This my first real contribution to the web of any substance. Now that AI is using Schema to help ingest data, I'm hoping more folks find it and find it useful.

Just a note: I made the move from Nuxt to Astro, and in the process dusted off a few things around here. I’ll do a more detailed writeup soon. If things are breaking, do a hard refresh.

I get lots of other people's email, but this time was different. This is the first non-fiction I've published, about scams, relationships, and private communication on the public internet.

I sat down with KellyAnn Fitzpatrick of RedMonk to discuss documentation and the alternative cloud. At Linode, we are a very public documentation team: we work in the open on GitHub using Docs as Code, and we document use cases and learning paths in addition to our own products. It helps that we are on the Marketing team; that gives us a different perspective on documentation's reach, and the leaway to take advantage of that perspective.