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Resourceful

This week has been hell. But I made things work.

Cars & websites

The art of fixing, regardless of it being broke

RE: RE: knitting the web: we need interlinkers

Or: newcomers can read your snarky posts and it's not helpful

RE: read-it-never

I read therefore I might be.

comfort zone

who doesn't wanna feel cosy in these times?

RE: Website superpowers

I could joing the X(HTML)-Men

I made an /ideas/ page

You know what they say about ideas! Wait, do they say something about ideas?

Social media posts as blog drafts

Turning microblogging into macroblogging.

RE: AI as a tool to lower the inertia of getting started

AI isn't the thing. And maybe it shouldn't be the thing that gets you to the thing either.

I made a /heuristics/ page

Remember Occam's razor? It's back—in blog form

5 Albums

Introduce yourself with five albums that have shaped you.

Why is the Bubbles feed so hostile?

The website literally shares a name with Michael Jackson's old chimp. It can't be that serious.

Re: JulyReply 2026, a blog connecting month

I love a reply post

crème brûlée

it's a shit business

Rain in different languages

pluie etc.

A response to “Accidental anonymity”

Maybe I'm braver than I thought

VOTE!

VOTE!

Anything is a collectible if you want it to be

Or: don't let scalpers ruin your fun

am i a crawler or are crawlers like me?

so much for a work/life balance

Morsel #31: Championship Manager 01/02 Fallen Greats Picker

The third version of a JS thing I found years ago

community is a doing word

don't worry about what they're doing, worry about what you're doing

untitled

description

What if SEO wasn't just for the commercial web?

Or: taking non-Google/Bing search engines into account and improving discoverability

I have another silly domain name idea

It will happen again.

Blog category analysis

Dusting off an old script to analyse some blog category data

Junited 2026

‘Junited is a little blog-loving adventure where the blogging community gets together to share posts they enjoy and discover new bloggers along the way.’

Stop using the word "slop" and start critically thinking

Think! Use your head!

The biggest change(s) to my website since I started it

Everything must change. Nothing stays the same.

the middle ground between brief and verbose writing

not all words are superflous and it's balancing act figuring out which ones are

Am I underthinking RSS?

There's a lot of talk about a new RSS reader and I'm wondering what all the fuss is about

Morsel #30: When life gives you lemons, make embeddings!

Only try some of this at home

6 things I learnt in my 7th year as a professional SEO

I've been a SEO for 7 years now. But what more have I learnt? I wrote a list of 6 things I've picked up in that time.

Music and me

A reminder to whomever needs it that you can just make something without overthinking it

LLM evangelism

I had some unfiltered thoughts about LLM evangelists and their practices and now you all have to read to them.

a semblance of you

A poem about digital love

Snow in different languages

Neige etc.

search works best when everyone involved is honest and helpful

if this social contract breaks down, people at the bottom suffer the most

My media of the year: 2025

I forgot that I did this for 2024 so here's my media of the year for 2025!

Mlog #008: January 2026

My media log for January 2026.

blogging is whatever you want it to be

no more definitions, no more guidelines. just write.

the near infinity of pixels

the vastness of the universe is right in front of us in tiny square form

I refactored my website and I hated doing it

Web design is my passion but only when it works the first time.

what if personal sites were like service stations or truck stops?

places to stop off and take a rest from Social Media™

Morsel #29: ROM website name generator

Click R to pay respects

My Last.fm Playback 2025

Now that Spotify is over and cancelled, I decided to check out my Last.fm stats for 2025

My Letterboxd Year In Review for 2025

Clue's in the title: this is my basic Letterboxd year in review for 2025

The 16 games I completed in 2025

The most games I've ever played and completed in a single year and it was a blast

Carl Jung on self love

The title says it all.

AI in SEO makes me anxious

Neither a source of promise nor happiness in those models

Generative AI bores me to tears and that's a privileged stance

I can't know how to hear anymore about chatbots.