John’s internet house
John Whiles is a person from England. This website contains their blog, music, and other things. Hopefully it will one day be the sort of website that people will look at and say, “They used to make good websites back in the day. What happened?”
- Posts
- 64 from 20 Nov 2019 to 18 Oct 2026
- Posting
- monthly (9 in the last year)
- Kind
- personal blog
- Feed
- https://johnwhiles.com/atom.xml
2026 8
2025 8
- Why and how I rewrote these Obsidian plugins
- All blog posts
- AI slows down open source developers. Peter Naur can teach us why.
- This site is in the internet phonebook!
- How can you save anything?
- Quote Bag January 2024
- I can’t believe how bad the Substack UX is
- Adding data to a request object is totally an anti-pattern
2024 9
- Most browsers can natively lazy load images
- I’m making Claude write Anki cards for me
- (Don’t) Use Computer
- Features I'd like to add to this website
- John Recommends: B.P.R.D. Humble Bundle
- My mum couldn't use WhatsApp because her font size is too large
- How to make Cloudflare properly cache a Remix site
- Please add an RSS feed to your website
- Johncom now supports webmentions
2023 20
- The Loneliness of the Mid Level Vimmer
- The undisputed best songs of 2023
- I have added comments to this website
- Suddenly, I Understand Software
- What I talk about when I talk about Balenciaga's Trainers
- On Doing Maintenance / Cataloguing the Work
- I made a SaaS product
- I made a bunch of 'retro' App Icons for MacOS
- I made a Quotebacks plugin for Marked
- Golden Age of Consumer Software
- I wish Chat GPT was more like chatting
- Check out uBlock origins element picker
- John Reviews: Rosalía‘s coca cola
- Rust Nation UK
- Fixing a Memory Leak in a Ruby SideKiq Job
- Rating the Ramen I ate in Japan
- GUEST POST: Japan's hottest tunes right now
- Suggestions and Observations, Japan
- Fear and Loathing of The Terminal
- I've rebuilt this website too many times. I just did it again.
2022 8
- Setting up my new computer, vim, and listening to Spotify in the terminal
- What I Read On Holiday
- Shaving Is Too Expensive. Also the world is out to get you
- Six things I sort of believe about making music/art
- Arnie films I’ve watched recently
- Against moderation
- Maybe you should do less “work”
- Linking in to LinkedIn