Feb 15, 2026 from BIX dot BLOG Of Autistic Service The guy who owns my regular coffeeshop today told me that he looks forward to making my drink because it means his working day is almost over. “My autistic routines doing good in the world,” I said...
Feb 15, 2026 from BIX dot BLOG Sunday Stroll Two Last weekend, I took you on a brief tour of the last fifteen blog posts by other people that I’d read, inspired as I always am by Kevin Lawver’s idea, that I repeat endlessly, of blogs as the web’s...
Feb 15, 2026 from BIX dot BLOG Will This Mixtape Save The World Last month, when discussing some of my go-to comfort movies that might strike other people as peculiar, counter-intuitive picks, I said a couple of things about the 2019 sci-fi film, Starfish. I ca...
Feb 15, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Christmas Tina – Visual Novel Review Reviewing Christmas Tina, an interesting visual novel set in Tokyo in the late 1980s with Chinese and Japanese voice acting written by Tomo Kataoka and produced by a Chinese studio.
Feb 14, 2026 from BIX dot BLOG The Wet-Sounding Sigh In My Apartment So, I did my part. When the every-several-weeks problem with the red rubber ring on the drain from the toilet tank to the bowl became instead an every-other-day problem, and then the housing for th...
Feb 14, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal The Positive Case for Good Tech A blog post against defining the indie web by its enemies prompted me to make the positive case for making the positive case for good and humane tech.
Feb 14, 2026 from BIX dot BLOG ‘Expensive Accident’ Or ‘Superpower’? Sometimes I just want to put two bloggers in conversation with each other without belaboring the issue too much, so here’s Zachary’s latest juxtaposed with Alex’s latest. Zachary: It's the same-old...
Feb 13, 2026 from riz#000000me zettelkasten, flac, and reading reviewing things i said out loud earlier
Feb 13, 2026 from BIX dot BLOG Three Minutes Of Hate There’s a semi-accidental “silly things I hate” blog challenge making the rounds lately. So far I’ve seen Andrea, Sara, Kev, Manu, Pete, and David pick up the gauntlet. My problem is that I don’t r...
Feb 12, 2026 from BIX dot BLOG Isn’t This A Pretty Fall Since last March, I’ve several times here referenced Stanford Beers’ heuristic that the purpose of a system is what it does, applying it in some fashion to the system that is me, to the general sys...
Feb 11, 2026 from Improve Something Today Podcast episode No. 0037: The wooden chair 0037: The wooden chair0:00/387.98933333333331×Episode details: Readings of two passages on the subject of wooden chairs, as seen in the Wooden chair as exemplar of emptiness section of the Quote ba...
Feb 11, 2026 from BIX dot BLOG Whence GoDaddy’s Authority To Supersede RFC-1480? For the second time in three years, I’ve been involved in a marathon series of emails with usTLD Locality Support at GoDaddy, trying to work out registering a domain within the portland.or.us zone ...
Feb 11, 2026 from The Public Domain Review Snail Homes, Bog Bodies, and Mechanical Flies: Robert Testard’s Illustrations for Les secretz de l’histoire naturelle (ca. 1485) A wondrous illuminated manuscript, which gathers and illustrates the marvels of the world and beyond.
Feb 11, 2026 from BIX dot BLOG Enthusiasm And Ethics Lou takes us on a brief tour of how large-language models have changed the way he organizes everything from specific nutritional requirements to digital cruft to maintaining notes, and I just wante...
Feb 11, 2026 from BIX dot BLOG Selective Vagueness There’s a style of blogging in which you write something that superficially seems pretty anodyne in a “who could argue with this?” sort of way, but that facial sensibility masks whatever it is you’...
Feb 11, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal AI Game Worlds and Humane Games I learned about Project Genie and similar "world building" AI tools. While I suspect their best use will be generating slop for social media consumption, I take my critique as an opportunity to exa...
Feb 11, 2026 from Ploum.net Do not apologize for replying late to my email Do not apologize for replying late to my email You don’t need to apologize for taking hours, days, or years to reply to one of my emails. If we are not close collaborators, and if I didn’t explicit...
Feb 10, 2026 from BIX dot BLOG On Intersecting Interests: Fandom And Photography Zachary is hosting IndieWeb Carnival this month with the thematic prompt at the start of my title here, and for the past couple of weeks I’ve been pretty sure I was going to have to sit this one ou...
Feb 09, 2026 from BIX dot BLOG Some Technical Updates In the days since switching the blog’s design to something I’ve decided to describe as “aggressively monochrome” (which would make a decent name for the theme, actually), I’ve made a couple of addi...
