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What’s going on, Internet? Just got back from seeing Hilary Duff at the Spark Arena (on a Tuesday night, whooo). Great show. I wish I knew her music more as I would have loved to be belting out the lyrics with the rest of the crowd. Definite millenial energy in the crowd. Loved it. Hey, thanks for reading this post in your feed reader! Want to chat? Reply by email or add me on XMPP, or send a webmention. Check out the posts archive on the website.

What’s going on, Internet? Saturday was a pretty good day. Sun was shining, but damn it was freezing cold (literal shivering) when out of the sun. So after we had dinner down at Ralph’s on our way to Western Springs to see Olivia Dean we decided to make a quick detour home to grab our jackets. Lucky we did, because damn, it was cold. Western Springs is an outdoor stadium. We were amongst 45,000 people who turned up to see Olivia Dean. She kicked off on time at 9pm, but three songs in disaster…

What’s going on, Internet? If you don’t follow my Bookmarks through the feed, then here’s the bookmarks from September. Enjoy. MVNDY — THE POWER OF VISION Spend more time on the idea than the tooling. Craft on its own doesn’t change much. I don’t like passkeys I’m not a big fan of passkeys either. I’ve tried them and don’t particularly care for them. Rubenerd: Ban infinite scrolling I’ve never liked infinite scroll. I prefer pagination. I always lose my place in infinite scroll websites. This…

What’s going on, Internet? Today just seems like one of those days. It’s Friday evening and I’m standing here at my desk with a beer, messing with the blog. Placeholding some later posts that I meant to write but time got away on me. Listening to new music, playing new computer games, and watching new favourite old TV shows. Kids are in bed, and asleep. New golf clubs arrived. I got to have a swing at the range. New Miley Cyrus album. I was onto something, wasn’t I? Check out Bass Persuades,…

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What’s going on, Internet? If you don’t folllow my Bookmarks through the feed, then here’s the bookmarks from August. Enjoy. MOUSELING.net - Hyper Text Muck-up Language Solid tips for budding webmasters Welcome to the web we lost Sacha Judd tracing the good internet through X-Files fandom and webrings, and it’s still out there in the corners. How to Fix the Internet Not everything is fine on the Internet, but there’s an opportunity, and it starts with choosing what you pay attention to…

What’s going on, Internet? Later post. Write me. Hey, thanks for reading this post in your feed reader! Want to chat? Reply by email or add me on XMPP, or send a webmention. Check out the posts archive on the website.

What’s going on, Internet? This is a later post. It’s been a minute since I’ve been skiing. We left the kids at home with their aunty and headed south to Ohakune. Was made aware before the trip that Ohakune’s main water pipe was recently damaged during an earthquake. Repairs were being made but this weekend the township was without water. Restaurants had to close, hotels and motels had to close and cancel reservations. We wanted to stay at the Powderhorn this trip for two nights, but the Monday…

What’s going on, Internet? Last Saturday was HTML Day, a yearly celebration of hand-writing HTML started by Elliott Cost and Laurel Schwulst. Meetups happen in cities all over the world, and Zachary Kai ran an online session for those of us nowhere near one. Ten minutes of introductions, forty minutes of writing HTML, ten minutes sharing what we made. Zachary has a recap of the session up on his site. I went in with a plan. At the recent Homebrew Website Club I talked about a question we hear…

What’s going on, Internet? Last night I joined the first Asia Pacific Homebrew Website Club, which was also my first HWC. These meetups have been running for years, just never at an hour that worked for me. Naty has started one in this timezone. Even though it was past my usual bed time, I made myself available. Eleven of us on Zoom. Some familiar faces, James, Chris Burnell, and Zachary Kai, plus a bunch of people I hadn’t met before. The group was a diverse bunch of webmasters, some of us…

What’s going on, Internet? Winter is here, properly here, and July was mostly about staying warm and keeping the kids entertained through the school holidays. From the last update we got back from Waiheke in the middle of the kids school holidays. The next holiday outing was Dinosaur Discovery at Auckland Zoo, back again this year with a batch of new dinosaurs on the loose. We did the track after dark, all the dinosaurs lit up against the night sky. The kids loved it. I had the kids out with me…

What’s going on, Internet? Love Story is my favourite Taylor Swift song, I’m defintely a sucker for her earlier stuff. I’m an Offspring fan too, so this cover they performed at the recent Hellfest (never heard of it tbh) is pretty much made for me. The Offspring - Love Story (Taylor Swift Cover) live at Hellfest 2026 I know James is a big Swift fan, I wonder if he’d also appreciate this? Hey, thanks for reading this post in your feed reader! Want to chat? Reply by email or add me on XMPP, or…

What’s going on, Internet? I jumped on YouTube and found six new Miley Cyrus videos sitting there waiting for me. Six of them. Was this the rollout of a new album? Why hadn’t I heard about this already? It wasn’t. They’re just videos for Something Beautiful, last year’s record, and they’re the last pieces of the pop opera film that went with it. I caught the film when it came out last year in the theatre but never came back to the album. These were all released 17 hours ago, when were they…

What’s going on, Internet? If you don’t folllow my Bookmarks through the feed, then here’s the bookmarks from July. Enjoy. Rant about blogs and the IndieWeb - Dom Corriveau Okay, this one had me in tears. Such a good read. Your Metablogging is Lame as Hell – Absurd Pirate’s Internet Blog Lol, kinda nodding my head here. Blogging about Bear Blog blogs is becoming a bit of a thing, isn’t it? don’t let Web nostalgia obscure a positive Web future This has always been something I’m an advocate for.…

What’s going on, Internet? Olly wants a physical-digital music experience: browse the racks at your local record store, chat to the staff, listen to stuff, but instead of bagging the vinyl, pay them for a FLAC download and have the store clip the ticket. I think I’m into it… While I still buy records physically, I often don’t have the time to get into the local record store weekly to dig through the crates. I purchase my records through a few stores online, often lining up with sales as vinyl…

BLAOW! BLAOW! What’s going on, Internet? This banger of a track, Rowdy (BLAOW!), was introduced to me as part of Les Mills SPRINT release 43. We’re only up to release 44 but have been enjoying this track every other SPRINT class. I’ve been playing it a bit for the kids, and I love in the mornings when we get ready for a ROWDY drop off. Hedex ft. Eksman - Rowdy (BLAOW!) Hey, thanks for reading this post in your feed reader! Want to chat? Reply by email or add me on XMPP, or send a webmention.…

What’s going on, Internet? Last year we discovered the dinosaurs at Auckland Zoo, and this year we went back for round two. They’ve added some new dinosaurs to the track this year, so it was well worth the revisit. We made the trip with my brother and his kids again, and this year my parents were up for the week so it was a great family night out. The kids are all a year older, we stayed out later and they had a great time. My youngest who is two years old now was a bit scared, but was able to…

What’s going on, Internet? Mānawatia a Matariki, Happy Māori New Year! Today is a time for remembrance, celebrating the present, and looking to the future. In Māori culture, Matariki is the Pleiades star cluster and a celebration of its first rising in late June or early July. The rising marks the beginning of the new year in the Māori lunar calendar. See Matariki. I’ve spent the day on Waiheke, down on Onetangi with my amazing wife and family. We spent the morning on the beach. The early…

What’s going on, Internet? A few good links about blogging from this month. Enjoy. People and Blogs - fLaMEd 🔥 My People and Blogs chat on web ownership, 25 years of fLaMEd fury, and why I’m still here. Wander Console Network Wander is a small, decentralised, self-hosted web console that lets visitors explore websites and pages recommended by a community of independent personal site owners. Like webrings reborn, self-hosted consoles recommending each other instead of letting an algorithm decide…

What’s going on, Internet? I just finished up the first season of Outer Banks (2020) and damn did I enjoy it. A teen drama, but not your typical teen drama. A group of friends (Pogues - you’re either a Pogue or a Kook in this show) from the wrong side of town are on the trail of a long-buried mystery. We see as they uncover the mystery how this spirals from one disaster to another. Watching through the pilot episode, we’re introduced to the main characters, John B, JJ, Pope, and Kiara. We learn…

What’s going on, Internet? Way back in 2022 I wrote a guide on building a static site with 11ty and deploying it to Neocities. It’s been one of my most-read posts, but it’s also aged: Eleventy has moved to v3 with a brand new module system, the dev server changed, and my whole workflow has shifted away from GitHub toward Forgejo and Codeberg. So here’s the refresh. I haven’t hosted my own site on Neocities for years now, but it’s still home to a huge community of personal sites and homepages,…

What’s going on, Internet? Last night I headed out by myself to catch the Home Brew Crew perform their first project Last Week at the Auckland Town Hall. I was supposed to go with my wife, but last minute plans saw her and the kids head to Waiheke for the long weekend. Solo gig? No problem! I started my night solo by hitting up Low Brow on K Road for a burger and beer before making my way down Queen Street to the venue. Sitting at the bar with my beer waiting for my burger, it wasn’t long until…

What’s going on, Internet? In true fLaMEd style, I missed the April update, so here are all the bookmarks from April and May 2026. Prepping for the endgame of the open web - The History of the Web Jay’s been thinking about this longer than most. The open web has survived worse, but it still needs us to show up. Attenuating the Web - The Darth Mall An interesting pushback — RSS readers strip so much of what makes a website actually worth visiting. The conditionally open web Cory puts into words…

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What’s going on, Internet? Last night, me, my sister-n-law and our friend went into town to see the MGK gig as he brought his Lost Americana tour to Auckland for his only New Zealand show. MGK, aka Machine Gun Kelly, aka Colson Baker is one of those artists where it’s probably good to separate the art from the artist as he seems to be a ball bag in real life. I never paid any attention to him while he did hip hop records, but as soon as I saw the Bloody Valentine I was hooked. The album,…

What’s going on, Internet? I’ve been eating hot cross buns since January. Can you believe it? Growing up I remember that seasonal treats would come out a week or two before the associated holiday. As you might have noticed yourself, these days the bakeries, and supermarkets are pushing them out months before the event. For hot cross buns though, I’m not complaining. I’m not a big fan of raisins, or orange spice, and whatever else they use to make hot cross buns. But when they’re combined and…

Reading ebooks, collecting vinyl, Linkding and dumb movies.

Good stuff I read from around the web this March.

Dinner and a concert. Going into new music blind.

A five-part podcast tracing MF DOOM from Long Island to Leeds. I reckon it's worth a listen, even if you're not a hip hop head.