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Taylor Swift question challenge

Bringing people together with the web

Wonders of Web Weaving, Episode 5

The story of MJ

Hiding a list with no items in CSS

Is there a power law of category use?

Chat community for web writers?

Digital minimalism

Wonders of Web Weaving, Episode 4

Creative spaces

Flagging suspicious websites in Artemis

Distinguishing user and system content

The caramel log

Waiting; writing

Mitigating floods of posts in Artemis

Wonders of Web Weaving, Episode 3

Writing a regex for adding links to time stamps

Slack preferences I have set

Joining the IndieWeb Zine Pop Up

Iced coffee in Spring

Background; foreground

Wonders of Web Weaving, Episode 2

My favourite typewriter

Growing with my website

Announcing Wonders of Web Weaving

Writing a blog post without a screen

Affordances of a screenless writing interface

How I use my phone

Artemis changelog #9

Ideas for web readers

Quotes from Tufte’s course

Using greyscale

Reorganising the Artemis settings page

Designing software with travel in mind

Sunset, Düsseldorf

Of the night; a note

Log in, sign in

Joyful web design

My words, not my content

IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf 2026

Living the indie web life

Artemis now supports custom domains (in beta)

Waffles and coffee

Newsletters should have web feeds

Music, story(ies)

How I find links

How the Artemis blog works

Saturday morning reading

Using my edit button shortcut

More examples of graduating between mediums of communication

Museum Memories: Roundup

Nesting social posts under blog posts in Artemis

My favourite (unconventional) animal

How software feels

Inventor, dreaming

Single-file web applications

Interface stability

Brainstorming web guides

The artist was here

Library memories

Landscape by Moonlight

The Timeless Way of Building

Starting; playing; maintaining

Ideas for managing post volume in web readers

Artemis changelog #8

Artemis changelog #8

Museum memories

Museum memories

Night time; walking

Night time; walking

The Church at Varengeville by Monet

State of the Browser 2026

Girl on a Divan by Berthe Morisot

How to change the Duolingo app icon

I wish there was a (simpler) way to highlight text in inputs

The Church at Varengeville by Monet

State of the Browser 2026

How to change the Duolingo app icon

I wish there was a (simpler) way to highlight text in inputs

Girl on a Divan by Berthe Morisot

IndieWeb Carnival March 2026: Museum memories

IndieWeb Carnival March 2026: Museum memories

Pens, sleeves, and whiteboards

Pens, sleeves, and whiteboards

Brainstorming search engine ranking introspection

Preserving calm in software over time

Artemis “via”

Brainstorming search engine ranking introspection

Preserving calm in software over time

Artemis “via”

Artemis dense layout

Grouping threaded posts in Artemis

Graduating between mediums of communication

Grouping threaded posts in Artemis

Graduating between mediums of communication

Artemis dense layout

Thinking; walking

Scotland’s brightness levels

IndieWeb wiki pages I really like

A piece of art I would love to see in person

Adding multiple h-feeds to the same web page

What I associate with my name

Proust’s questionnaire

A sandwich questionnaire, part two

The inverted index pattern

Designing for inactive users: Account check-ins and deletion

Redesigning the Artemis account deletion back-end

Notifying users of page updates

Brainstorming source code editing for web applications

Drawing and hand-written fonts

Sandwich Questionnaire

Why I love my favourite words

Design and missing categories

Staging banners

Redirecting YYYY-MM-DD-slug.md to /YYYY/MM/DD/slug with Nginx

Reducing Artemis’ deployment downtime with blue-green deployments

Does your website run on green energy?

Background technology

Calendars and web readers

The expanse of web weaving

Build the web you want to see

Software Design Meetup [Feb. 11th]

IndieWeb Book Club: The Art of Explanation

IndieWeb Carnival: Host Interview

Share your website at events

Designing a service with IndieAuth and email-based login

Subscribing to local news with a web reader

Announcing Artemis Roll-up

Piano, vulnerability, and playing guitar

Getting ready for studying

Documenting design changes with screenshots

Publishing my citation preferences

Software maintenance

Why Artemis is invite-only

Designing an A-Z navigation web component

Morning moonlight

Turn a list into a web feed

Personal and community web search engines

The indie web in 2030

Designing for inactive users

Grateful for the indie web

The nicest thing a stranger has done for me

Brainstorming visual search for the web

IndieWeb Book Club: Understanding Comics

Words and making coffee

Music this year

IndieWeb Book Club: Non-Designer’s Design Book

Cleaning the Artemis database

A concept for a two-panel web reader settings page

What I have been reading lately

A new home page

Little moments of joy

Experimenting with web design

Announcing Validate Everything

What’s in my inventory?

I’m going to study art history

No work is ever wasted

Design, in pink

Ten facts about me

Beginnings (type-written)

Typewriters and labyrinths

When your website makes you smile

Saying thanks on the web

Updating user interfaces

How Artemis polls web feeds

A 255 byte web page

Second person birds

Creating a searchable archive page

Artemis Changelog #7

Designing a new button to visually show and hide alt text

Collaborative web weaving

30 collaborative things you can do on the web

Announcing rainfall.scot

Working on the Artemis demo video (and captions)

Pattern: Search aliases

Three quick CSS tips

Delightful technology experiences

We need to define best practices for Stories and links

Communication and understanding

What I made for HTML Day

A wooden love heart and a pot of flowers

[photo] Edinburgh

The link router pattern

Communicating the indie web

Futures for the web

Brainstorming a tool to follow new album releases with Wikipedia