Articles

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

A rant about Apple not playing nice with RCS interoperability

• technology
• rant

Reviewing pull requests on GitHub can be awkward. When a software developer is finally ready to share their code they have to wait for the dreaded review comments. If the reviewer has a question about some aspect of the code, they have a choice. They can either raise their concern,...

• technology

Earlier this year, we took Denver, our Golden Retriever, to a puppy kinder class. While my wife is very experienced with dogs and Denver was making good progress, a significant reason we enrolled him was to expose him to working around other dogs. I joke that a puppy class is...

• dog
• Denver