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I probably will revise this post in the next 24-36 hours. But hopefully not too much. After a good sleep I suspect I’ll have some edits. Ten years ago I articulated my understanding of “indie web.” I’m cutting and pasting those 2016 words verbatim because they are still what I believe. And it’s still why I consider myself indie web. And I still participate in IndieWeb events. A repost I’m still a believer in the web. The “indie web” some call it now. I’ve had a personal website in one form or…
Ironically, via Twitter/X: This is what billionaire ownership of the media means: Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta shut down the No Kings account for hours during the height of their protests. Meta suppressed accounts supporting Brazil President Lula da Silva in the recent election. Larry Ellison’s TikTok blocked advertising for a documentary criticizing Elon Musk. Fight back. Defeat oligarchy. Preserve democracy. This is why I remain a believer in indieweb principles. I quibble, and often, with my…
Subject line: Using AI? Here’s how to protect your information AI tools can be helpful, but it’s important to protect your personal and financial information when using them. Avoid entering sensitive information into AI tools. Anything you share may be stored or retained outside of [Financial Company]’s secure environment. Here are a few ways to stay secure: Never share your [Financial Company] username, password, or verification codes. Never enter account numbers, credit card information, or…
This morning I got a GitHub notification. It was on an issue about Brushes app drawing files. It’s this comment: I realise this is a very old thread, but thought this might be of interest to some of you. Someone asked us recently about recovering paintings from the original Brushes app. We’d worked with Brushes files before, so decided to see if we could build something from scratch to get the older files opening and exporting again. We’ve had some success so far, including exporting…
I sometimes find myself amused at the errors of recommendation systems. I worked for a streaming music company for several years, and music services are NOTHING but recommendation systems. Heck, walk into a record store or turn on an FM radio and those entities are recommending you listen to music or pick up music. And it’s easy to get wrong. So when I got an email about “New deals from an author you follow” with a subsection entitled “Top William Gibson books for you” I am more than willing to…
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I’ve got a bit of a backlog of things to say about San Diego Comic-Con 2026. Time flies, but these photos deserve to be posted and I do enjoy them. Click through to the photographers! They’re pretty great and jade many many other great photos! Group Photoshoot: Star Trek: The Next Generation (photo by Danny D Photography) Star Trek: SDCC Group Photoshoot (photo by Justin Cosplay) See also: Cosplay Sign my Guestbook | Contact Me
As a newsletter hawker who uses Buttondown, I appreciate that Buttondown has controls to manage how newsletter archives get crawled – by search engines, LLM tools, etc: Crawling settings. And I was chatting with James the other day and he had a clever page which uses checkboxes to create some interesting, game-like effects. I went deep on it: it was so fun to experiment with Pug and Sass: I am working on some Weird Web October submissions too: The other day
They could take out a city. Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay. Trump suggests he would let Iran ‘take out’ Los Angeles or San Diego (As a person who resides in San Diego, I disagree) Sign my Guestbook | Contact Me
I got an email from Dawn Patrol (dawnpatrol.cloud) HERE IS YOUR MONTHLY SURF SUMMARY SEPTEMBER 14 sessions That makes 3.3 sessions per week 363 waves That is an average of 25.9 waves per session 378 feet was the length of your longest wave this month. On Fri Sep 11 2026 at Ocean Beach. Your total distance surfed this month was 5.5 mi I like knowing I’m in the water 3.3 times per week. Even though that average doesn’t really mean 3.3 times. On any given day I can go or not go. 1 or 0. But when…
In 2004, I married Leah and instantly had 7 brothers and sisters-in-law. And spouses. And I became an uncle. And Leah and I had been dating for several years before that and visited them and been visited by them in California. For 15 years to do I was in the family. Christmases and Thanksgivings and Easters and mental health struggles, and the struggles of kids and nieces and nephews, and graduations, and marriages and travel. I was family. In 2019 we filed for divorce. When the divorce was…
I got angry in the water today. Not at any person. (Man vs Man) Not at the water. (Man vs. Nature) Not at myself. (Man vs. Self) And maybe it wasn’t anger. The surf is big right now. And the tide was high this morning. Big waves; large crashing wipeouts. I did a lot of paddling. And I got a few good rides. On one good ride, it ended–as they often do–with me underwater. I was under for rather longer than I wished to be under. That didn’t make me angry. I mostly felt puzzled. The currents weren’t…
Looking south from Crystal Pier this morning. Life and death at the shore. Today in some big surf I made a miscalculation. I was moving to a different spot in the surf lineup–the informal order of surfers in the water–and I accidentally got in the way of a surfer taking off on a wave. We didn’t collide, but I did ruin his experience of the wave. I hate that. That was a strike. One strike. The way it works in my head is that three strikes, and I must leave the water. Strikes can be: feeling…
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There’s some surf coming in because of some storms offshore. Felt like making a reel, so I did. I also put it on Instagram and TikTok. It’s fun to look back and see fun rides. Why not slap them together. And click those links below the video! artlung.com/videos/reels/rideawave2026/ Sign my Guestbook | Contact Me | Book office hours | Share
I’ve attempted to log in to, or change my password for, LiveJournal several times in the last 15 years or so. It’s never worked right. My account url: artlung.livejournal.com Mostly all I used that site for was as a POSSE and PESOS target. I reposted my blog posts, and reposted summaries of my tweets there too. My understanding is that this site remains owned by an entity domiciled in the Russian Federation, and I suspect the things I’d want to say and write about would be unwanted by such an…
I had so much fun in August on HTML Day. (htmlday.joespartydepot.com) I think it’s time to do something similar but maybe not the same, again. December will be the 4th San Diego IndieWebCamp. (indieweb.org/San_Diego) It’s fun to get get together and write HTML. Websites are so great. Where should we hold it? When should we hold it? Get in touch. Leave a comment. Send a webmention. Subscribe to the calendar on events.indieweb.org. Sign my Guestbook | Contact Me | Book office hours | Share
Panorama from today. I enjoy riding waves quite a lot. I went to Ocean Beach. Kelly went to San Diego Design Week. I updated my avatar on lots of services. It was a bit easier to do on my Elsewhere page. I also added it (still out of order and with duplicates) to my “PFP” page. I used to make sure I didn’t have any profile photo older than a year on the primary silos I use. It’s good to have something fresh. Ended the day walking Gwen home from daycare. And then dinner. Kelly made great Thai…
