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 BEEW The Death of Listening Somewhere in the past decade or two—pick your own cultural ruin-marker— it stopped being a side quirk that people don't listen and became a full-blown civic emergency, an extinction-level collapse ...
Feb 10, 2026 from BEEW The Most Important Questions Are the Ones You're Avoiding If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing. –W. Edwards Deming We're taught early that progress comes from having good answers. That smart people solve problems. That th...
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...
Feb 09, 2026 from BIX dot BLOG Sunday Stroll Readers here know that I’m a huge fan of Kevin Lawver’s idea that blogs are the empathy engine of the web, and that I semi-religiously link my post about this idea whenever I get the chance. As suc...
Feb 09, 2026 from Ploum.net Offpunk 3.0 "A Community is Born" Release Offpunk 3.0 "A Community is Born" Release For the last four years, I’ve been developing Offpunk, a command-line Web, Gemini, and Gopher browser that allows you to work offline. And I’ve just releas...
Feb 08, 2026 from BIX dot BLOG Blogging As Self-Care It’s a timeworn and tired tradition that bloggers love to blog about blogging. So much so that if any particular blogger has done an especially large amount of it, there’s probably some degree of r...
Feb 07, 2026 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXVI 〜 Little White Lies Leafy Introduction Welcome to the 266th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal ("NLJ") and its short-...
Feb 07, 2026 from BIX dot BLOG ‘You Must Choose A Mighty Theme’ After days of noodling locally and around the same number of days angsting over whether or not I even really wanted to do it, for hours yesterday and into the post-midnight hours today, I finished ...
Feb 06, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal January 2026 at The New Leaf Journal Join me in reviewing the month that was at The New Leaf Journal, Emu Café Social, and Newsletter Leaf Journal in January 2026 (perhaps with the pictured hot chocolate).
Feb 06, 2026 from BEEW The Rose in the Cesspool I Can't Seem to Let The Graystones (and a Few Others) Go. And Why They Matter More Than Ever The internet used to be... (name your sunshine) ...✨ ...💜 ...fun ...useful ...inspiring ...liberating .....
Feb 06, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy The Virgin Missing Adventures: Plotting a Well-Mannered Exit And so at last we come to the end of Rebecca Levene’s stewardship of the Doctor Who novel line. Even as the New Adventures closed out with a plot arc which (ignoring certain infamous publishing del...
Feb 06, 2026 from BIX dot BLOG A Cryo In The Dark Due to having imported a couple of hundred posts from the second iteration of furiousnads.com from the 2010s, my “on this day” widget today surfaced one of my many posts about DarkCryo and it’s fab...
Feb 04, 2026 from Improve Something Today Podcast episode No. 0036: Anecdote of Carlina 0036: Anecdote of Carlina0:00/265.813333333333331×Episode details: A reading of two short passages, one from The Art of Public Speaking, by John Rippingham (1814), and the other from Ralph Waldo Em...
Feb 04, 2026 from The Public Domain Review Sekka Zusetsu: A Book of Snowflakes (1832) Observations of “snow flowers” made by microscope in Edo-era Japan.
Feb 04, 2026 from The Public Domain Review Typing for Love or Money: The Hidden Women’s Labor behind Modern Literary Masterpieces Taking dictation, revising manuscripts, typing copies, literary amanuenses often labour for little compensation and even less recognition. Christine Jacobson explores the neglected efforts of women...
Feb 04, 2026 from Improve Something Today My beefs: notes for February 2026 Given so many big things to be angry about, let’s indulge in some petty beefs instead. I offer four.
Feb 03, 2026 from The Public Domain Review Sara Weiss’ Journeys to the Planet Mars (1903) A forgotten bridge between Spiritualism and UFO encounters.
Feb 03, 2026 from BEEW Make Memories First, Ask Questions Later This post is excerpted from a letter to my daughter on her 18th birthday. What does a dad say to his beloved daughter on her 18th birthday? He probably starts with the obvious by wishing her a Happ...
