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winter's gemlog

2025

=> 2025-01-30 In Response to Alex Schroeder's "Why Blog?" | 2025-01-25 Software Development and the Bullshit of Big Ideas | 2025-01-20 Visits | 2025-01-15 Meta Has a Pixelfed Problem (But Really, a Growth Problem) | 2025-01-10 The Militia and the Mole | 2025-01-06 Back At It | 2025-01-03 "A Colossal Wreck, Boundless and Bare": A Living Eulogy for Literary Twitter

2024

=> 2024-12-27 Little Notes: Small Web and Post-Christmas Edition | 2024-12-22 A Brief History of My IDEs | 2024-12-21 The Slow and Sudden End of the Web | 2024-12-15 Everything Sent | 2024-12-08 Happy Two Years | 2024-12-02 A Millennial Bides Farewell to their Old Internet | 2024-11-26 Grief Notes: 2024-11-26 | 2024-11-24 I Regret to Inform You the Poets are Elsewhere: Purity and Cory Doctorow's Ulysses Pact | 2024-11-20 Death Notes: 2024-11-20 | 2024-11-17 The Exodus at Twitter and the Influx at Bluesky | 2024-11-11 Death Notes: 2024-11-11 | 2024-11-05 The End of Block | 2024-11-01 Hallowe'en Night | 2024-10-29 Death Notes: 2024-10-29 | 2024-10-27 Zadie Smith on Life-Writing | 2024-10-20 Another Death | 2024-10-19 Low Background Steel | 2024-10-12 XOXO: Molly White | 2024-10-07 Web Presence | 2024-10-02 Tastes Like Tea | 2024-09-26 Run Results | 2024-09-20 Ready as I'll Ever Be | 2024-09-16 Small Improvements in Carbon Capture | 2024-09-10 Well, That Was Unfortunately Prescient | 2024-09-06 Done with Cohost | 2024-09-03 Back | 2024-08-27 Retrospring Shutting Down | 2024-08-21 The Worst People You Know Have to Go Somewhere: On the Zynternet | 2024-08-13 Terminals are Good, Full Screen is Better | 2024-08-07 Slack and Grace | 2024-08-02 Why Do We Have Licenses If Everything's Available For Free? | 2024-07-27 Delete Your Twitter (And Almost Everything Else) | 2024-07-20 Cold Tea | 2024-07-15 Done with Duolingo | 2024-07-11 Goodbye, Kiermaier | 2024-07-06 Licenses, Free/Open Source, and Maintenance Woes | 2024-07-01 Dark Clouds | 2024-06-28 Summer Plans | 2024-06-24 Cafecito | 2024-06-17 The Glue's Coming Apart | 2024-06-11 Make Things and Leave Traces: On Choices and Inevitability | 2024-06-06 Friction and Elsewhere: Rubbing up Against Mastodon's Rough Edges | 2024-06-01 Even Here, Huh | 2024-05-25 Wet Weekend | 2024-05-20 Dumb, or Weird, or Cringe, or Whatever | 2024-05-15 Day Off | 2024-05-14 Mid-May Break | 2024-05-14 New Home | 2024-05-01 On Endings | 2024-04-29 Duoling Progress | 2024-04-24 Languages are a Funny Thing | 2024-04-17 Any Given Person | 2024-04-15 Make Things and Leave Traces: On Choices And Inevitability | 2024-04-14 First Car | 2024-04-10 Seeking Autumn: Activity and Motivation in Geminispace | 2024-04-08 Callouts and Privacy in the Social Media Age | 2024-04-07 Tea Prep | 2024-04-05 Done with Wordle | 2024-04-02 Feeding the Machine | 2024-03-31 xz and liblzma: Exhausted by the Destruction of Trust | 2024-03-26 Don't Forget to Share | 2024-03-21 That Threads Federation is Going About How You'd Expect | 2024-03-16 Winter Can't Hurt Us Anymore | 2024-03-13 Google to Update Search to Fight Spam | 2024-03-08 Yuzu Folding/Capital Protecting | 2024-03-02 A Stolen Milk Crate is Surprisingly Versatile | 2024-02-29 Inheriting a Large C++ Codebase: A Pragmatic Approach | 2024-02-26 Facebook as Containment Field: Rebuilding the Partition | 2024-02-23 Am I Going to Need to Delete My Reddit Account, Too? | 2024-02-20 Mid-February Break | 2024-02-19 Notes on Coffee | 2024-02-17 Playing Around With Go | 2024-02-14 At Least Someone's Ethically Making Bank With This AI Madness | 2024-02-10 What a BBS Is | 2024-02-09 Winter With a Reminder It's Not Done | 2024-02-06 Just a Little Sad and Jealous That The World I Came From Was Gone: Nikkiana's vintage throwback secret internet journal, and the Reverberations of What Came Before | 2024-02-03 Steve Steffler and Noah Morgan | 2024-02-02 A Belated Farewell to Steve Steffler | 2024-02-01 Is There a Term for the Small Sadnesses for What Will Never Be? | 2024-01-28 One Year Later: Surveying the Options Post-Twitter | 2024-01-23 What Isn't Indexed | 2024-01-21 Never Been Happier to Drop a Grand | 2024-01-17 Email, Mastodon, Text-Based Websites, and Gemini | 2024-01-13 Things I Miss About The Old Internet (Incomplete) | 2024-01-11 Be Careful What You Wish For | 2024-01-10 Sleepwalking Through the First Two Weeks | 2024-01-08 You Get Sick on Your Vacation, You Should Get a Do-Over | 2024-01-02 Happy 2024!

2023

=> 2023-12-22 Short Gemlog: Etymology | 2023-12-19 Oh, That's Nice | 2023-12-15 Shortbread | 2023-12-14 I'm Tired of These Stochastic Invocations | 2023-12-13 Small Roundup on the Web and Journalism | 2023-12-12 One Year in Geminispace | 2023-12-09 Ohtani to the Dodgers | 2023-12-09 A Day For Staying In | 2023-12-07 A Very Different Sort of Life: On Marlowe Granados' "Happy Hour" | 2023-12-03 Prepping | 2023-11-29 Fusspot | 2023-11-28 20 Cheese and No Beef | 2023-11-25 What Would I Wish On Them, Anyway? | 2023-11-18 I Don't Even Want To See You At All: SEO and Amanda Chicago Lewis' "The people who ruined the internet" | 2023-11-13 Okay, I Lied | 2023-11-13 Return of the Rabbit | 2023-11-11 Thankful, Given Today | 2023-11-04 Up Early on a Saturday | 2023-11-01 Another Halloween Done | 2023-10-27 Where Has Everybody Gone? | 2023-10-26 Winter Porter | 2023-10-21 WordPress Now Supports the ActivityPub Protocol | 2023-10-19 Agile is Fine, Until You Look Back | 2023-10-16 Writing in the Face of Quiet | 2023-10-14 Online Dating Before the Turn of the Millennium | 2023-10-12 Leaking Personal Details in Geminispace | 2023-10-10 The First Casualty of Microblogging Was Nuance | 2023-10-09 Would Twitter Please Hurry Up and Die, Already | 2023-10-05 Burying the Blue Jays' 2023 Season | 2023-10-02 Here For a Long Time, Not a Good Time | 2023-10-01 Just Call Me Babe | 2023-09-28 Slowing Down | 2023-09-24 Slow Healing | 2023-09-20 One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer | 2023-09-17 In Which I Finally Meet Spaghetti Pete | 2023-09-15 Unity and Runtime Fees: Reflecting on a Decade Making Games | 2023-09-11 The Opaque Corpus | 2023-09-07 Twitter and the ADL and Dogwhistles | 2023-09-03 We Need to Fix the Core Experience: Living in the Die-Off of Social Media | 2023-09-01 Depth and Surface | 2023-08-30 Hot Dogs and Découpé | 2023-08-27 Sunday, Complicated | 2023-08-25 Slash and Burn in the Twitter Jungle | 2023-08-22 Nobody Told Us Tripod and Angelfire Would Be the Last Bastions of the Old Web | 2023-08-21 A Farewell to Leaderboards | 2023-08-18 The Garage, Take 3 | 2023-08-16 Garage Decluttering, Take 2 | 2023-08-14 Emergency Notifications, Mastodon, the Climate Crisis | 2023-08-10 Effluent and Pennies: The Amazon AI Flood | 2023-08-08 makew0rld's "Bye, Gemini" | 2023-08-07 Dialling Back Duolingo | 2023-08-04 My Stupid Brain Won't Shutup: Duolingo/Unrivaled | 2023-08-02 At This Point We’d Be Lucky to See the Best Minds of Our Generation Starving Hysterical Naked | 2023-07-30 Slow Time | 2023-07-28 Capacitor | 2023-07-27 Voi Se Chapete | 2023-07-27 Sometimes the Decision Gets Made for You | 2023-07-25 Twitter's Getting Worse and I'm Saying My Goodbyes, Again | 2023-07-23 Rain Check | 2023-07-23 The Summer-So-Far in Review | 2023-07-21 The Birth and Death of the Yesterweb | 2023-07-16 Inside You There Are Two Wolves | 2023-07-11 We Can't Go Back to What We Had: Olia Lialina's "From My to Me" and the Loss of the Personal Web | 2023-07-06 The Extent of the Metaverse Scam | 2023-07-01 Making Games | 2023-06-27 On the Cusp of Summer | 2023-06-23 Pancakes | 2023-06-19 Weekend Update | 2023-06-18 Tomorrow & tomorrow & tomorrow | 2023-06-14 How Do You Use Mobile? | 2023-06-10 Meeting/Making | 2023-06-06 Duolingo Progress | 2023-06-03 Hidden Communities | 2023-06-01 Oof | 2023-05-29 Bubble | 2023-05-27 Wordle Doesn't Need an Editor! | 2023-05-25 In the Land of Invented Names | 2023-05-23 Pixel, Audio Clipping, etc | 2023-05-22 Duolingo, Long Weekend | 2023-05-20 Long Weekend | 2023-05-18 Strange Weather | 2023-05-17 Notes on the Last Two Days | 2023-05-16 Poem Instead of a Post | 2023-05-14 Meetup, 2 | 2023-05-13 IDE Discourse | 2023-05-12 Meetup | 2023-05-09 Small Steps | 2023-05-07 Discord Discourse | 2023-05-05 Mortal Taste | 2023-05-03 Metaverses | 2023-05-02 Dream | 2023-04-29 Periodic Check-in: Off the Bird Site | 2023-04-26 Poet Voice and Membership | 2023-04-24 Online Gambling | 2023-04-20 April 20 (Poem) | 2023-04-19 Bye, Bye Raspberry Pi | 2023-04-15 Link Gardens in the Online Wilds | 2023-04-12 First Run of 2023 | 2023-04-07 The Practiced Art of Idling | 2023-04-05 Daniel Janus, Ted Nelson, and the Web of Documents | 2023-03-31 Opening Day | 2023-03-27 Yahtzee | 2023-03-26 An Admission | 2023-03-25 Hachette, HarperCollins, Wiley, and Penguin Random House vs the Fabric of our Online Lives | 2023-03-21 Intensity (XKCD 420, "Jealousy") | 2023-03-17 thecommabandit (cohost): on preservation | 2023-03-16 Prestige is Mandatory (The Griffin Shakes Its Wings) | 2023-03-15 Scope | 2023-03-12 The winter's Ale | 2023-03-11 Waiting for Weather | 2023-03-10 andi/@mcc on Geocities' HTML chat | 2023-03-09 Festival | 2023-03-08 Subscriptions/Small Press | 2023-03-05 midnight.pub | 2023-03-04 The Counterbalancing Argument | 2023-03-03 Poems, Good Ones | 2023-03-02 On the Death of Lit Mags | 2023-02-26 Two Paragraphs on Complacency | 2023-02-23 Can You Put a ChatGPT in It | 2023-02-22 Ghost Towns | 2023-02-18 What Does a Fish Think of Water | 2023-02-14 Happy Valentine's Day, Losers. You're All Fired. | 2023-02-12 Small Thoughts: 41 | 2023-02-09 Streamlined and Pretty and Hostile and Shitty: Alan Kay on the iPhone and iPad | 2023-02-07 Writing Retreat | 2023-02-04 Out-Migration | 2023-02-02 Flurry | 2023-01-30 Workshop: Vibe City: Poetics of the Crush | 2023-01-29 On the Rise and Fall of Online Communities | 2023-01-25 Wandering Through the NeoCities | 2023-01-24 Reverberations | 2023-01-23 Back at It | 2023-01-21 Increments | 2023-01-17 Coffee Rituals and Burgers (What I Miss About the Office) | 2023-01-16 Unintended Creativity | 2023-01-13 Amy Hoy: How the Blog Broke the Web | 2023-01-12 Overtime is Approved | 2023-01-10 Best Gifts Ever: Stratocaster | 2023-01-09 Travel in the Plague Times | 2023-01-06 It's Journals All The Way Down | 2023-01-04 Rime Ice | 2023-01-02 Touch, Tap, Swipe

2022

=> 2022-12-31 New Year's Eve | 2022-12-26 Christmas Day | 2022-12-24 Christmas Eve | 2022-12-21 Transmissions | 2022-12-19 Creativity, a Restart | 2022-12-15 Poem Instead of a Post | 2022-12-13 The Poets are Posting Their Ws on Twitter (CW: Sexual Assault and Violence) | 2022-12-12 Anxiety, Light, Engagement

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