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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

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

I’ve been part of the IndieWeb community for a while, mostly via online meetups and a community chat group but I was excited to finally meet people in person when San Diego was chosen as a location for an IndieWebCamp at the end of 2023. The IndieWeb is a community...

• IndieWeb
• technology

Why metaformats I first became interested in the metaformats spec when I wanted to generate link previews on my site when bookmarking or replying to pages. Metaformats is an extension to the microformats2 parsing algorithm that provides a fallback for sites that don’t support microformats. It works by translating the...

• IndieWeb
• technology

IndieWeb Carnival: Self-Care and Routine

• IndieWeb
• carnival
• personal

For about 2 years now, I have pulled back from the major social media platforms. While I still have accounts on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter, I’ve made the choice to avoid them as much as possible. Initially, I was afraid this would disconnect me from important relationships. I do miss...

• IndieWeb
• culture

IndieWeb Carnival: My Kind Of Weather

• IndieWeb
• carnival