- 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
- posts are collected into a digest once a day.
- posts from yesterday are deleted, forever, every day.
- posts are a draft and can be edited until the moment that yesterday is deleted and tomorrow becomes today.
- posts are only visible between people who “add” one another (“mutual follows”).
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.
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. 😋
Hi there, sun, I’ve missed you.
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:
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.
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.
Ayla’s new album, Ayla Ondamoon, has become my nightly soundtrack. Playful, distorted, synthy, and packed with deep bass—it slaps! Start with When u sleep and Noll, or get an overview of the album in ~2 minutes. 🎵
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. 👻
A quick update on my #DecemberAdventure… It went really, really well for ten days—then not so well. But I still had a great month. Here’s my log. 👀
Thanks for organizing, @eli_oat@tenforward.social, and see y’all again in eleven months.
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. 🛷
From my copy of Sarah Andersen’s Oddball, printed in 2021. Happy new year, everyone! 😅
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. 🍿
🚨 New blog post alert! Look at Me, Giving Away Money is the one where I might come off as a virtue-signaling asshat, but hey, give it a read and see for yourself. 👀
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!
Perfekt start på dagen med en gofrulle och nyhetsbrevsskrivande–det handlar om kvinnorna. 📚
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!
Jansson’s temptation in the making. 🤤
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!
My #DecemberAdventure continues! Here’s a log from yesterday—maybe even non-coders will find it interesting. I’m working on a little thing for Micro.blog. 👀
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:
Psst. I haven’t told anyone yet, but I’m quietly doing a low key #DecemberAdventure. My goal is to write a little bit of code every day this December. You can follow my log here and Eli does an amazing job collecting other adventurers. 👀
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!