Recently, my attention has been focused on building web apps to suit my very specific needs.

"One of the big appeals of interactive TV was adoption, the average household had a TV long before the average household had a computer. So, it seems like interactive TV services should have proliferated before personal computers, at least following the logic that many in the industry did at the time."

GeoCities, known throughout most of 1995 as Beverly Hills Internet, is one of the first commercial internet services to make it easy for people to publish a home page on the World Wide Web.

There’s never been a shortage of posts about quitting blogging in the blogging community. I’ve contributed a few myself over the years.

It’s been a while ...

One of my favourite things to do in my free time is to tinker with this website. Indeed, this website is the culmination of years of tinkering. I have added features like coffee shop maps that I can share with friends, a way for me to share my bio in two languages, a sitemap.xml file to help search engines find pages on my website, and more.

Jason Snell has published the results from his annual survey of a panel of Apple observers and, as I expected, there seems to be wide agreement that the company’s software quality is not up to scratch thanks primarily to Liquid Glass. This year’s average score of 2.7 for operating system quality and 3.1 for first-party […]

The year is 2026, and RSS is still, by far, the best way to keep up with sites on the web. If you already know what RSS is but you’re not currently …

It is useful, after all.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/16/keep-it-really-simple-stupid/#read-receipts-are-you-kidding-me-seriously-fuck-that-noise [Cory Doctorow]Cory Doctorow discusses how he reads writers like Molly White:

"This conduit is anti-lock-in, it works for nearly the whole internet. It is surveillance-resistant,

I don't like letting go of stuff because I might just need it one day.

I like it when you write about what you watched and read and listened to this week. I want to know.

I love when you share a funny moment or...

I always think of myself as a big proponent of Mac apps that are as Mac-like as possible, but what does “Mac-like” really mean?

Just a little bash script to add notes to my notes file

A $69 e-ink reader changed my reading habit by sitting in my pocket ahead of my phone. On single-use devices, free epub sources, and actually reading more.

Maybe it's just nostalgia, but I have a strong feeling that a series of interconnected bad decisions are responsible for something that has turned almost everything to a worse version of itself.

Here are some ideas for productive and enjoyable things you can do with your laptop while you are hanging out during the holidays.

A very good website by visual & verbal artist, Keenan.

An interactive journey through 30 years of the web

The breadcrumbs were terrible for Hansel and Gretel, yet we still use the term