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162 from 23 Sep 2010 to 26 Oct 2026
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2026 28

  1. Just put some HTML on the web
  2. Max Miller’s Tasting History: The Board Game
  3. What the heck is /pkg?
  4. John Gruber on X
  5. I guess I’m using WebP now?
  6. Walking distance weirdness in watchOS 27.0
  7. Tabs and menus in Apple’s 27.0 OSs
  8. Liquid Glass in Apple’s 27.0 OSs
  9. Apple Watch: privacy promises won’t fix how it feels
  10. The Talk Show Timeline
  11. Notes on notebooks: my journal preferences
  12. Golden Gate beta 6: more unflattening, please
  13. Bubbles.town
  14. An infuriating goodbye to Photoshop
  15. WWDC 2026: weird but better than I feared
  16. Thoughts ahead of WWDC 2026
  17. On curl and Mythos
  18. AI and software security: the slop is now signal
  19. Uptime golf
  20. Beware software brain
  21. LLM pricing has never made sense
  22. Tim's Time
  23. Scritchy Raccone and the Pylon Wars
  24. The Atkinson Polaroids
  25. Apple at 50: My journey to the Mac
  26. Two more Liquid Glass fixes in macOS 26.4
  27. Liquid Glass updates in 26.4
  28. Reckoning with Liquid Glass

2025 29

  1. Bye Bye Alan Dye
  2. The Canon Cat
  3. Nielsen Norman Group on iOS 26 usability
  4. Wikimedia 2024 Picture of the Year finalists
  5. Quick thoughts on Apple's September 2025 event
  6. YouTube is a mysterious monopoly
  7. My take on blog analytics
  8. Tadpole Person vs. Turtle Chips
  9. "New" TLDs are weird
  10. Mystery of the missing Bluesky posts
  11. Weird SEGA facts
  12. The history of Windows XP
  13. Louie Mantia on The Talk Show
  14. Why is the Online Safety Act causing Bluesky user growth?
  15. Update on Liquid Glass grumbles
  16. Grumbling about Liquid Glass
  17. I know basically nothing about birds
  18. Insomnia, fractals, and typography
  19. Playing Snake with water
  20. Ron Howard's "Apollo 13" turns 30
  21. Exploring the new Bluesky verification system
  22. Skylight and the AT Protocol
  23. Some spoiler free thoughts about the first episode of "Jet Lag: The Game" season 13
  24. Maze Mice
  25. Sequoia's "Macintosh" screen saver and old Control Panels
  26. Algorithms are breaking how we think
  27. Two flavours of open social media
  28. WordPress is in trouble
  29. Apple and the AI divide

2024 79

  1. A look back at 2024, and what's next for 2025
  2. An update on Mastodon and referer headers
  3. Halls of Torment: a thematically questionable downtime game
  4. Trying out GoodLinks
  5. More details on Bluesky's subscription plan
  6. The "Home Alone" / "NiGHTS into Dreams" connection
  7. My 2024 Upgradies Picks
  8. The trouble with openness
  9. Playing with the Bluesky firehose
  10. How decentralized is Bluesky really?
  11. Jet Lag: The Game: The Game
  12. Anzu Castle Gracula
  13. Maybe Bluesky has "won"
  14. Using WordPress is risky
  15. Two years out from Twitter
  16. Ten years of Too Many Cooks
  17. Thoughts on the recent migration from X to Bluesky
  18. WordPress, drama, leadership, and the web
  19. Using GitHub as a CMS
  20. ACF has been hijacked
  21. HTML for People
  22. The loyalty test checkbox
  23. Fighting for our web
  24. WordPress vs. ACF
  25. The hidden WordPress license
  26. WordPress vs. WP Engine
  27. The Games Behind Your Government's Next War
  28. The Power House and The Lair
  29. Cursor Museum
  30. BBC Sound Effects Archive
  31. Follow-up on templating structured data
  32. A Look Into Cara — Maybe Host Your Own Art
  33. Recall: What the Heck, Microsoft?
  34. c90adventures - Willy is Back!
  35. WeblogPoMo 2024 Wrap-Up
  36. Python for Data Analysis — An Open Access Data Science Book
  37. Paper Dungeon Mazes
  38. Nope to Sidebar
  39. Trying Out the Sidebar Nav Lifestyle
  40. Congratulations, Charles Leclerc!
  41. The Pen Addict: Beta Type-R Review
  42. On Template-Based Feed Generation
  43. Digging into Bluesky DMs
  44. Jekyll Might Have Failed Me?
  45. Travelling for the Enjoyment of Others
  46. Happy May Two-Four!
  47. What's Up with Mastodon and "Referer" Headers?
  48. Michael Geist on Bill S-210
  49. Get Yourself a /dev/lunch
  50. WeblogPoMo — Halfway Point
  51. AtogaCreative and the Algorithm
  52. A Fix for the Amazon S3 Issue and Some More Website Thoughts
  53. How I Write for the Web — Jekyll and GitHub Pages
  54. Katie Mack and John Green Discuss the Universe
  55. Waffling About iPads
  56. Another Look at Bluesky
  57. Little Kitty, Big City
  58. Naming Things is Hard (Game Genre Edition)
  59. Apple's May 2024 iPad Event
  60. Graphing Calculator and Grapher
  61. Brains, Fingers, and Crabs — Modes of Software Developer Operation
  62. Rebinding Dune
  63. Bloomsday Halifax 2024
  64. Weblog Posting Month 2024
  65. Moving Away From S3 (for a Bit)
  66. Trying to Understand the “TikTok Ban”
  67. It’s Never a Bad Time To Remember Katamari Damacy
  68. What Does It Mean to “Own Your Content”?
  69. Poking at Threads in the Fediverse
  70. LEGO's Upcoming D&D Set Looks Amazing
  71. A NASA RPG Adventure?
  72. Bluesky Frustrations — Part 2
  73. Some Thoughts on Jekyll
  74. Why Isn't the <html> Element 100% Supported on CanIUse.com?
  75. Some Feelings About Apple Vision Pro
  76. The Library is a Superpower
  77. ooh.directory Adds Blog Stats
  78. Learning About Noodler's Inks
  79. Just Write, You Dolt

2023 14

  1. Building a Better Web in 2024
  2. Adding a Projects Section
  3. Thoughts on Threads and ActivityPub
  4. Switching from Plausible to Tinylytics
  5. Theming Wikipedia
  6. TIL: Wikimedia Stats
  7. Twenty Megabytes of Floating Ducks
  8. Bluesky Frustrations
  9. Typeface Tournament
  10. Hacker News Sent Some Traffic
  11. A Novel PayPal Scam
  12. Automating the Addition of New Jekyll Post Files
  13. Blogging, Analytics, and GDPR
  14. The End for Third-Party Twitter Clients

2022 3

  1. Setting up WebFinger
  2. 2022 Upgradies
  3. Twitter is Going Great!

2021 1

  1. How to find the YouTube link for an ad

2020 2

  1. What file types does Apple’s Archive Utility open?
  2. Big Sur and the Temptation of the App Store

2019 1

  1. The Case for iTunes

2016 1

  1. An open letter to Pebble

2011 1

  1. Glitch

2010 3

  1. My personal browser war
  2. World of Warcraft: Cataclysm UI tweaks
  3. git commit