A short hike near Lost Lake
On Saturday, I went on a short hike near Lost Lake on the Assessor’s trail . It was quite short, but it was lovely.
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Unintentionally hilarious User Agent strings
AI-enabled (or incentivized?) web scraping and crawling is a scourge on the web. That said, some bot traffic did give me a chuckle today. At Reclaim, we use Anubis to protect some sites targeted by bot traffic, providing an extra layer of DoS protection when needed. Anubis is an amazing
A 2026 personal tech and blog to-do list
Here's a list of projects I'd like to do this year. Or maybe it’s more of an aspirational list of things I’d really like to get to. This was going to be a short post with a bulleted list but wow, it
A Backwoods CMS Adventure
Tired of your same old CMS? Maybe take a small vacation from it and try this out. I'll be your trail guide for this rustic web authoring adventure. While this is a vacation and it will have its charms, we will be roughing it, so be prepared to
AT Protocol, Identity, and Self-hosting
I spotted this on Hacker News, and it's a fantastic overview of how the AT Protocol is supposed to work and what problems it's trying to solve: Open Social — overreacted The protocol is the API. I do like some things about the AT Protocol, but
Raspberry Pi 500+
The Raspberry Pi folks have a new retro-inspired-the-keyboard-is-the-computer-thingy, the Raspberry Pi 500+ . I have never bought one of these, but I've always wanted to, as I think they are so adorable. This one in particular, with a nice keyboard and running a Raspberry Pi 5, really appeals to
Tad Stoermer on Institutional Collapse
Mostly I like to write and publish notes on technical things I’m trying out or stuff I find interesting, but my irregular blogging has never really had a theme other than “this is stuff I’m thinking about.” This TikTok is not a fun watch
This blog is now federated
Publishing this right as this month's Community of Practice is starting: Blogging in the Fediverse with Special Guest Alan Levine ! Hey hey ActivityPub on my self-hosted Ghost blog! That means you can put @taylor@jadin.me into fediverse things like Mastodon and follow and interact with this site.
Ghost 6.0!
Ghost 6.0 Networked publishing, native analytics, and $100M earned by indie publishers Changelog John O’Nolan Activitypub support comes to Ghost! I’m very excited and will be playing with it soon. It’s cool to see they are moving to an official Docker Compose stack
John Gruber on blogging
This is a pretty interesting listen I think, especially in its similarities to the On Writing series on Reclaim TV right now. 169: John Gruber – State of the Workflow — Cortex — Overcast Overcast Its an interview with John Gruber on the Daring Fireball blog and focuses a lot
A Wireless Stream Deck
This is definitely going on my project list: I even already have some of the parts. The big discovery for me in this video was the VirtualHere software that enables USB over IP and can run on the Pi. I had no idea that was possible, and I’m
"On Writing" Favorites
Obviously, I'm biased, but I am really enjoying Jim's "On Writing" series on Reclaim TV. It could be a bit of recency bias, but if I had to pick my two favorites so far are the one that premiered yesterday with Kate Bowles and
Phillips Fixables
So this is only one model/part but it’s really cool to see a big company do this at all. Hopefully they add to it: Phillips | Printables.com 3D printable parts for fresh starts. Welcome to Philips Fixables — a collaboration with Prusa Research to help Philips products
linkbag.net
Just registered a new domain! I have 5% of an idea of what I want to do with it, plus I've always loved .net domains. At the moment it just redirects to this very post. I'd like to say "stay tuned" to see what
My favorite reason to have a 3D printer in the house is to solve tiny problems
Abby bought some new knobs for an old dresser that came with screws that were just a little too long. I looked to see if I had screws with the correct threading that were shorter, but I couldn't find any that were a good fit, and I needed