I’ve been slowly working on taking more control over my own data, extracting it from corporate silos and keeping my own copies of it. One piece of this effort is making myself less dependent on Goodreads, which I’ve used for some years to track my reading and get inspiration from …
Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of criticism about the IndieWeb movement based on the notion that everything that comes out of it is biased towards people with technology privilege; that it’s all well and good for people who know how to run a website to build their own thing, but …
I saw a post on Twitter that lightly inspired this post. I haven't written anything non-technical on this site in some time. I think the closest was the post about me shipping my laptop off for repairs. I'm working on some upcoming client work and I'm still hacking away on my …
We're in the mist of what may be the largest civil rights movement in US history. In Belarus, inspiring protests are bringing down the authoritarian Aleksandr Lukashenko. Around the world, authoritarians and nationalists are being met with a rise in democratic political …
Look around your city or town. Who lives closest to the airports, highways, chemical plants, or factories? What does living near these things mean for an individual’s health? When we speak about racism, we must understand that it affects almost every aspect of our lives. A great …
When I first started in the IndieWeb community, IndieAuth confused me. It confused me up until I built an IndieAuth endpoint for WordPress. It may confuse you as well. And that has been a problem in its adoption.
As another step in bringing indieweb ideas into my site, I have added support for webmentions. If you want to mention a post on this site, you can send me a webmention via this endpoint.
Progressive enhancement is at the heart of everything I do on the web. It’s the bedrock of my speaking and writing too. Whether I’m writing about JavaScript, Ajax, HTML, or service workers, it’s always through the lens of progressive enhancement. Sometimes I explicitly bang the …
This is my entry for the quiet hour during the homebrew website club meetup this week. I’ve come across some interesting posts and wrote some thoughts I’d like to share with people.