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• IndieWeb

This May I set some big goals for my birthday month. Coming off of a fun experience at the 2026 San Diego Bird Festival, I decided to share my hobby with my friends and family. Most people know that I’m into birds to an almost comical level. But many people...

• birds
• birding
• birdathon

2026 Preface Back in 2022 I imported my photos from Instagram to my site. I started with Instagram’s official export file and converted to markdown files which is the format my site uses. While I worked on the import I started documenting my process. But my draft post lagged and...

• site changes
• IndieWeb
• technology

While I’ve been birdwatching for a long time, this year I’ve also enjoyed sharing birding with others. So for my birthday, I’m inviting my friends and family to join me outside throughout the month. In May I’ll be hosting several birding walks people can join, and doing a Birdathon fundraiser!...

• birds
• birding
• birdathon
• personal

This February, I attended my first San Diego Bird Festival. This was only the second bird festival I’ve attended after Wings Over Water 2025. Partially to reduce the cost, but also to contribute, I decided to be a festival volunteer. I started Wednesday evening with the opening keynote from Jason...

• birds
• birding
• SDBF2026
• SDBirdFest

Yes, this is a year-in-review post about 2023 posted in 2026. I considered skipping straight to 2025, but the completionist in me wants to capture the years I’ve missed. Plus I already had written some interesting tidbits during the year with little updates during the year. So this update is...

• birds
• birding
• BirdingYearInReview

As previously announced, this coming month I’m hosting the IndieWeb Hackathon. The project for this month is Omnibear, a browser extension for posting to your site via Micropub. As a Micropub client, the extension works with the same APIs as other clients like Quill and Sparkles to create posts on...

• technology
• IndieWeb
• Omnibear

Following the IndieWebCamp San Diego Open Source development session, I’m proposing the start of a new monthly event tentatively called the IndieWeb Hackathon. This event is inspired by the IndieWeb Blog Carnival and hopes to encourage development of open source IndieWeb community software. The IndieWeb community has spawned lots of...

• technology
• IndieWeb

TL;DR: I’ve decided to participate in thoughtful political discussion on my site. I’ve been afraid to post anything political on my site. This is a very personal space, and politics is divisive. Sharing my political views could alienate readers or lead to bad-faith arguments. I’ve also personally been turned off...

• personal
• politics

Just over a week ago, we lost the sweetest dog. Bailey was always happy to meet people from the day we got her from a shelter in Ohio, to the morning before she passed. She had the softest fur and warmest heart. She loved anyone who came to our house...

• personal
• dog
• Denver

This month I attended the Wings Over Water Birding Festival in Blaine, Washington. This was the first birding festival I’ve attended but I had been wanting to do more social birding events. We got the idea when a family member recently moved there and my wife and I stayed at...

• birds
• birding
• travel
• Washington

IndieWeb Carnival: Multilingualism in a global Web

• IndieWeb
• carnival
• site changes
• Spanish

IndieWeb Carnival: Accessibility in the Small Web

• IndieWeb
• carnival
• accessibility

IndieWeb Carnival: Digital Relationships

• IndieWeb
• carnival
• technology

I really like the feedback TypeScript provides. I think those type hints are essential for using libraries and working on large teams. Even for small projects, TypeScript has saved me a lot of time. What hasn’t saved me a lot of time is dealing with build tools. Any time I...

• technology
• JavaScript