Short posts, thoughts, and interesting things from around the web — it's like Twitter but I own all my posts!
Today is Send a Friend a Webmention Day ! Webmentions are a way to make posting on your own website more social, and I think they're pretty neat. I have a page with a bunch of info about setting them up on your site — the basics are pretty straightforward! Today I'm mentioning Joe , Naty , Ross , and Jo . They all have cool websites you should check out if you haven't already! Reply via email ::…
Robb Knight has a page listing people's descriptions of their default app choices , and he just did an update for this year . I thought it sounded fun, so here are some of mine as of the end of 2025: Adblocker: uBlockOrigin Browser: Firefox; FFUpdater to keep vanilla Firefox for Android updated without the Play Store Calendar: Fossify Calendar, DAVx 5 , macOS Calendar.app Chat: Signal Cloud File…
I'm finally getting into TTRPGs!
Tracy Durnell's recent post resonates with what I've been doing lately to make my computer usage more pleasant. I've been in the habit of compulsively checking notifications (Mastodon, RSS, YouTube subscriptions, etc.), and I figured out that staying away from that, and using my computer for local things is much nicer. A few specific local things I've been enjoying: I've wanted to learn the…
Jo has been using the code I use to get post locations for my /now page statuslog section to add locations to her notes . I realized it would be nice to add it to the script I use to generate note templates as well! While most of my blog posts are written from home and not associated with a place, I have a number of notes from trips with my partner that aren't just in Rochester. I like the “vibe”…
My partner and I took a walk at Powder Mill Park in upstate NY to look at the mushrooms and fish hatchery. While we were there, I came across the transmitter for a United States Geological Survey (USGS) stream gaging station —you can go to the link and see the data from this station. I've been interested in cataloging the stations I see since I saw Sarah from Signals Everywhere's video on the…
I went with my partner to the Natural Stone Bridge & Caves park in the Adirondacks for their birthday. They love rocks and geology, and really wanted to go here. From what they told me, this park was originally gifted to a family as thanks for their efforts in the American Revolutionary War, and after a long time as a sawmill, later members of the family converted it to a park. The cave behind us…
Some photos from a walk through Highland Park today: Reply via email :: Subscribe to my other feeds :: Buy me a coffee
I'm tracking airplanes by listening to their ADS-B transponders over the airwaves! I have dump1090 running on a Raspberry Pi, sending the aircraft data over my local network, and an RTL-SDR receiver (silver dongle in the Pi in the second photo) picking up the signal. I've started some notes on ADS-B transponders as well as on using an RTL-SDR receiver more generally in the new digital garden…
Benji made some IndieWeb stickers that look like a metal band logo, and he sent me one — thanks! He also included some other fun stickers, shown below. The metal one and the goose with a floppy are what I put on my laptop so far, and as the note says, the goose/floppy is from alistairshepherd.uk . Reply via email :: Subscribe to my other feeds :: Buy me a coffee
My partner and I went to the Rochester Museum and Science Center's planetarium for the “ Stars with Carl ” event this past weekend. The “Carl” in question is a 1968 Carl Zeiss Mark VI star projector — a fully analog unit that if I remember right, weighs over 2 tons. The presenter showed us how the skies change with season and latitude, and demonstrated “ star hopping ” between different stars and…
Today we went hiking in Grimes Glen in Naples, NY and stopped by Canandaigua Lake
I added an OPML file of my blogroll, and I talk about some really cool ideas from around the IndieWeb for using blogrolls as social web infrastructure
I went to the ”Devil's Bathtub” with my partner this weekend
State park trip in the Finger Lakes with my partner
I took James' quiz—I like doing these kinds of web games!
My partner and I were coming home from Target and I liked how the snow looked
Thanks for the info! This looks like exactly what I was interested in…
Manually generating RSS feeds so I can have separate ones for different kinds of posts
Short posts, thoughts, and interesting things from around the web — it's like Twitter but I own all my posts!