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 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 .....
