inessential: NetNewsWire Status
I was very late coming to NetNewsWire, only discovering it in the last year; it's been one of my goto RSS tools on macOS and iOS ever since. Here the author talks about the progress made in the last year.
humiliating iis servers for fun and jail time
A funny, and kind of informative, post about how you can be mean to IIS servers. Not that I'd ever do that (no, really, I wouldn't, that's not my sort of thing), but it's fun to know that some folk do do that.
Social media to be banned for under-16s in landmark government move to give kids their childhood back
The press release from the UK government, covering the intended ban on social media for under-16s. Even if we were to assume this is a good thing (and I'm far from convinced it is), the proposal as it looks right now is as hilariously bad and appears to be as ill-informed as any attempt to control the Internet.
Gemini hypertext format, aka "gemtext", specification
The specification for the hypertext format used by the Gemini protocol, also know as "gemtext". Currently I'm developing my own terminal-based Gemini client so this comes in very handy.
flounder
Free hosting for Gemini-protocol sites.
Gemcities — Free Gemini Capsule Hosting
Free hosting for Gemini-protocol sites.
Project Gemini
A now well-established protocol for a simple web of documents. I'm very tempted to have a play with this. I'm ever so slightly tempted to see if I can do something with BlogMore, such that I could target this approach in some way too.
Vintage Macworld Magazine Library
Never read it myself, I'm a late arrival to the world of the Mac (I've been a user for about a decade now). Should be fun reading some of the older copies.
LisaOS Emulator
A Lisa. In the browser. While I never used a Lisa, and while I've never even seen one in person, it's still wild to me that a computer from my younger days can now just be emulated in a browser.
Modus Themes
Some really great themes for Emacs; the dark versions really fit my taste.
Finalist
This app falls under the heading of "apps I really want to like because it seems to solve a problem I want solved but I don't like how it solves it". Mostly I do like how it solves it, but something is off about it; also it's laggy as hell on my iPhone 16 Pro, for some reason.
PyPI "Something went wrong" message links to empty Twitter profile · Issue #20145 · pypi/warehouse
Issue I've raised about the Python site's error page linking to Twitter.
The Jqwik Anti-AI Affair
The Jqwik author's perspective on their Markdown-based "malware".
Tutti Space Program
One of those things to mess with in the browser when you're either waiting for a boring meeting, or in a boring meeting.
The Smart TV in Your LivingRoom Is a Node in the AIScraping Economy - Include Security Research Blog
I want a dumb TV. Let's bring back dumb TVs!
Ratty — A GPU-rendered terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics 🐀🧀
Everyone needs a 3D terminal emulator that has a rat as a cursor.
Andrew Warkentin
A honking great collection of reto operating systems to play with.
AI Agents Enable Adaptive Computer Worms
Paper about agents enabling worms.
AI enthusiasts are in a race against time, AI skeptics are in a race against entropy
Interesting take on the two "sides" of the debate about AI.
Hyper7 R4 Keyboard
I do like small mechanical keyboards, but the Emacs fan and wish-I-had-a-Lisp-Machine side of me looks at this keyboard and things that I reall need one.
One day. Perhaps.
https://dragonsandfairydust.co.uk/regional-recipes-stottie-cake/
Simple receipe for making a stottie.
Entanglement - by Gopherwood Studios
A perfect game for a quick dip in, to kill 10 minutes.
Do you need a CMS?
Through my day job I hear about Yoast a lot, often in ways that bother me. This often comes from people who seem to think all the web is WordPress. So it's kind of amusing that a creator of the tool in question ha swapped their blog over to using a SSG.
It's even more amusing given this happens around the same time I build my own SSG and, just for the LOLs more than anything, go for it on the SEO front and seem to get fine scores. No third party tools. No plugin ecosystem at all.
blog.cpjobling.net is now a static site
Another blog that has existed a long time has migrated to being built with BlogMore.
Blog More Fresh and Crispy with blogmore?
Someone's mention of BlogMore as a possible candidate tool for building and hosting their pre-existing blog.
Fresh and Crispy - More (or less) original insights from an old blogger
Another blog that (as of the time of saving) is using BlogMore.
Potentially Useful | Hating AI in 2026
Kind of hard to argue with the content of this.
Continue? Y/N
I sense this is less of a game and more of a caution/simulator.
Sound Memory Game — How Good Is Your Ear?
What a great idea for a gme!
Hallucinate - Massively Multiplayer Online Rave
While the music isn't my thing, really, I can't not dig the idea. This is why the Internet was invented.