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I love this definition of a personal website from ravon:

a website is a link to a page in an infinite book bound within one domain name. it’s where the architecture of the internet becomes apparent to many of us. it’s a landing — like a stoop, porch, or front door. peering through the window, what do you want us to learn about you? who else are you connected to?

In that piece, she also quotes Laurel’s classic My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge—another poetic way to describe our nests in cyberspace.

New drop from Trisha. 🖤

real men know how to dream
real men know how to clean
real men make cuisine
real men know how to steam
Real men stay hydrated
Real men don’t need a face lift
Real men celebrate other men’s success
Real men know having fun is best

What a lovely pledge this is. 🥰

there are eight billion people in the world, 67% of whom are on the internet (in case you don't have a calculator handy, that's 5,360,000,000 people). this little corner of the internet represents .000000130597015% of the world's internet users. and I am so excited about it.

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to my seven subscribers, i pledge to never be exciting. i pledge to be a reflection of your own humanity. i pledge to be full of faults and make lots of mistakes. thank you for seeing me.

Here’s a summary of some drama that unfolded while I slept.

Adam:

Today I received a cease and desist notice related to my recent comments about the attitudes and behaviors of some people within the IndieWeb space.

Folks assumes this is about Manton and Micro.blog. Pitchforks on the timeline.

James:

Confirm a negative for us. If this ISN’T about Manton and/or Micro.blog, say so. Many people on MB deserve to know if this is about their platform.

Adam:

Confirmed.

Don’t assume, get mad, and immediately post about it. Take a breath. Give it 5 minutes. Don’t be a hothead.

❤️

Switching things up at home—new sofa, coffee table, and rug in the living room. Sanna and I have been together for 22 years, and this is the third sofa we’ve bought. It cost an arm and a leg, so hopefully, it’s also the last one we buy before we die. 😋

Close-up of a living room setup with a round oak coffee table, a textured green rug, and a cozy ochre sofa.

Sanna feels like there are more and more books piling up at home. 📚 And, well, she’s not wrong. That’s on me.

Here are my three favorite reads from January:

  • Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
  • The Walking Man by Jiro Taniguchi
  • The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t a Guy at All by Sumiko Arai

A stack of twelve books on a side table.

I’ve had a Nirvana song playing in my head* for the last couple of days (not constantly), and I kept meaning to look up the exact lyrics because—well, my memory is okay, but short. When I finally sat down at my computer to actually look it up, I saw that Anamanaguchi released a cover… three days ago?!1 Weird! What are the odds? 🎵

Never met a wise man
If so, it’s a woman

Anyway, here’s the original Territorial Pissings (Live At The Paramount/1991) and the recent cover (⚠️ Warning for flashing lights).

* Do all humans do that? Play music in their head, I mean.

Damn, it sucks that Read.cv (and Posts) is winding down. I’ve lost count of all the cool websites, projects, and humans I’ve found over there. Like Karlie’s Text-iles, Robert’s music player, and Connie’s site – and those finds are just from the last couple of days!

If you’ve never heard of Read.cv before, do yourself a favor and scroll through their explore page before it disappears. Don’t wait too long, though.

May 16th, 2025 Read.cv and Posts and all corresponding data will be fully wound down.

Welcome to my homepage–my little corner of the internet. It’s here, on the world wide web, thanks to me and my machine. The glorious machine.

Tired of scrolling through endless AI slop? Fed up with the never-ending churn of algorithmic anxiety?

Yeah, me too. That’s not what the web is about.

The goal of the Web is to serve humanity.

Tim said so.

It’s time to escape the algorithm! Making space for a handmade web. The free web.

Or, you know, leave the machine for a bit. But first, let it find your next read. Because AI isn’t entirely evil, just mostly–see TRISHASODE 1.

Marginalia Search recently moved to a new domain and got a bit of a facelift. If you haven’t checked out this indie web search engine yet, now’s a great time to give it a try. Not sure what you’re looking for? Head over to the explore page and see what catches your eye. 👀

I’m redesigning my homepage, and I think it’ll feature Aqua-style buttons and looping videos. Also, I felt a little sorry for my mouse pointer—it’s always so lonely. So, I gave it a little friend to chase around. 👻

We have a hill right below our kitchen window that’s perfect for sledding. As long as there’s some amount of snow on the ground, there’s never not a bunch of kids out there. 🛷

View from our kitchen window, looking out at a snowy hill with kids playing and colorful pulks scattered around.

From my copy of Sarah Andersen’s Oddball, printed in 2021. Happy new year, everyone! 😅

A comic strip titled Time Traveling. In the first panel, Sarah looks surprised, standing in front of a post-apocalyptic scene with crumbling buildings and fire, saying, Whoa! In the second panel, a sciencey looking character with glasses appears, and Sarah continues, This sure is grim. In the third panel, she smiles nervously and says, Glad I don’t live thousands of years in the future. In the final panel, the other character bluntly responds, This is 2025.

Perfect Days is a very good film about cleaning toilets. Hirayama and I share a few quirks—like lying flat on the floor while listening to music. 🍿

The film’s protagonist lies on a tatami mat floor in a modest, sunlit room with a vintage cassette player, a collection of cassette tapes, and a simple bedding arrangement near a window overlooking a quiet street.

Want to connect an old digital video camera—like the Sony DCR-PC5E—to a modern Mac? You’ll need: a 4-pin to 9-pin FireWire (i.LINK) cable, a FireWire to Thunderbolt adapter, and a Thunderbolt 2 to 3 adapter. I call it the MiniDV camcorder cable cascade. 😅 It’s not pretty, but it works!

Here’s my new Micro.blog plug-in: 💅 Faviconique! Add a personal touch to your blog with a custom emoji favicon—or keep it minimal with a solid color square. Favicons are the little icons in browser tabs, and now you can make yours stand out. Let me know what you think!

A browser window with three tabs open: Sven's blog with an avocado emoji as the favicon, Cool Person's Blog with a sunglasses emoji, and Your Blog? with a nail polish emoji.

Curious about diving into the demoscene and/or coding for fantasy computers like the TIC-80? Tiny Code Christmas sure looks like a blast! 👾

Join us for 12 days of tiny challenges to gradually introduce you to size coding [writing very tiny programs] and effects! … A little bit of programming knowledge will help but you don’t need a lot. The challenges will introduce demoscene concepts without jargon so it is friendly for newcomers to the scene!

izzzzi sounds cozy af. (via maya.land)

izzzzi is an experiment which might be called “slow social media” where we are exploring a multitude of constraints imposed on the standard mechanism of people making posts:

  1. posts are collected into a digest once a day.
  2. posts from yesterday are deleted, forever, every day.
  3. posts are a draft and can be edited until the moment that yesterday is deleted and tomorrow becomes today.
  4. posts are only visible between people who “add” one another (“mutual follows”).

I just released version 1.2.0 of Surprise me!, my Micro.blog plug-in for amusing your visitors by taking them to a random post on your blog. This is a small update focusing on performance and fixing an annoying blinking issue that occurred in some browsers. 🚀 Thanks to @kottkrig for helping out!

I shed a tear or two watching the documentary The Remarkable Life of Ibelin. Do yourself a favor and watch it.

To clarify: there are so many things I want to do, but my chains always pull me back. Luckily, I have found my escape, and it’s not too uncommon today. My great escape is gaming. I boot up the computer, get into position and then I leave this world. It’s not a screen, it’s a gateway to wherever your heart desires.

Technology can be so damn empowering.

It’s so cozy following along with the Poetry Camera team and seeing their prototype iterations. If you haven’t heard of it before, imagine a Polaroid camera—but instead of an instant photo, you get an instant poem describing the scene. Makes me want to build one for myself.

But, I do wish they’d designed it with smaller, locally run models. Feels like that could have worked for a project like this.

Three people are posing for a group shot with a prototype camera. The camera is white and red, with a clearly 3D-printed shell, and a small piece of paper sticking out from the front.

Ryan, Kelin, and Evan with the new camera.

Don Hertzfeldt:

The point was to get out and to feel like you’re hunting, to feel like you’re living your life. I’m going to the movies, I’m going to this show. What streaming has done—it’s very convenient, but it’s taken the feeling of going hunting and turned it into we’re all just being fed.

Jason Kottke:

See also surfing the web vs. *waves hands around at whatever it is we’re soaking in here*.

Oh, yes! Let’s relearn how to surf the web. Start here, here, or here. Och om du förstår svenska, lyssna på Sanna och mig surra kring ämnet.

New look for my phone! I’d rather not have to explain Joyce Lee’s more… explicit pieces to my nieces. But Omnipresence is innocent enough to grace the back of my phone – complete with a matching wallpaper. If you’re not squeamish about skin and body fluids, check out joyceartworks. 🍑

Three exposures merged into one, showing off Lee’s artwork as both wallpaper and a skin on the back of my phone. Omnipresence features a close-up of a nun’s face, staring directly at us. She has a tiny cross piercing in her right eyebrow, and smoke is blowing out of her mouth, forming another cross.

Had an amazing night in Gothenburg last week, catching MASTER BOOT RECORD live for the first time. 🎵

In the video above, guitarist Edoardo Taddei plays the outro for BAYAREA.BMP while crowd-surfing. Huge thanks to my childhood friend, domidus, for tagging along and filming this moment!

Over the past few weeks, I’ve sent some of my old gadgets off to new homes. Ranging from 1 to 49 years old, they all still have plenty of life and value left in them. Gotta love the circular economy!

Collage of six gadgets: a vintage Canon film camera, a Longines wristwatch, Apple earbuds, a MacBook Pro, an Instax camera, and AirPods.

Ragù bolognese in the making—now it just needs to simmer for a couple of hours. This is my go-to when Sanna is away and I’m cooking for myself. 🤤

A spatula rests on a floral plate, beside a black pot on a stovetop.

We're in a weird limbo shift without the right cultural infrastructure to encourage, support, distribute, and curate good quality personal writing and research.

If people are writing thoughtful, quality things on personal sites or gardens, I don't know how we'd ever find them.

RSS isn't dead. Following single sites still works.

But community distribution and curation are the missing pieces.

I really enjoyed Red Rooms. It’s super creepy without relying on any gore, and it’s one of those films that keeps you intrigued as you try to figure out what the characters are thinking and what their true motives are. 🍿

Kelly-Anne is in profile with a contemplative expression, while Clementine gazes downward at Kelly-Anne’s hands. The dim lighting in the room creates a moody atmosphere.

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