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Playing the hits

How I omg.lol

American fantasy

Hex codes of my life

Volley

IndieWeb is Metal

Desktop Totems

Springfield, U.S.A.

Just a tool

Take Two: Roundup

IndieWeb Carnival: Take Two

The Hudson Square Wonder

Slow renewal

Ye Olde Blogging Questions Challenge

Version Six

Creative corners

Choose inclusion

Self Made Man

The last web designer on earth

Friction and resistance

Intention economy

Books finished in 2024

Winter Writing Workshop

Notes from a week off

A song that made me cry

The Mets are a good team

The future of this website

Rubber stamped

The origin of “nsmsn”

The promise of social interoperability

Comfort watch ⚾

My current Webmention setup

Fifteen books

Tool U Want

The most powerful design tool for the Web

Short ramble on blog names, identity, and professionalism (whatever that means)

Burberry and brass knuckles

Pueblo League baseball teams

We’re an American band

Gifted at losing

Words matter

Revisiting my accessibility statement

“Enhanced Distribution”

The friends we made along the way

Short ramble on book typography

A font is a personal thing

Z is for Zapf Dingbats

Y is for Yrsa (and Rasa)

X is for x-height

W is for Wood Type

V is for Vocal Type

U is for Upright Italics

T is for Transitional

S is for Script

R is for Recursive

Q is for Questa

P is for Pairs

O is for Old Style

N is for Neo-Grotesque

M is for Monospaced

L is for Licensing

K is for Karla

J is for Journal

I is for Ink traps

H is for Halyard

G is for Geometric

F is for Franklin

E is for Epilogue

D is for Drop Caps

Call me a Luddite

C is for Chaparral

B is for Besley*

A is for Atkinson Hyperlegible

My ActivityPub settings

I broke ActivityPub on my site.

Short ramble on categories and tags

A MLK Day memory

Blogs, replies, and federation

Without arbitrary rules aren’t we just people sitting in chairs?

Books finished in 2023

That happened in 2023

Two nights in DC

December

Aztec Ruins

Plugin Inventory, 2023

Doubles and shadow lands

A Vexillological Moment

Finding the Covid-19 vaccine for someone under 3 is tough right now.

Re: Books I’m reading at the moment

Mapping blog posts

Hello WordPress, my old friend.

Thank you, Knoxville

Simple sites and HTML energy

NewwwYear Itches

Books finished in 2022

Giving Tuesday

Working from gnome

Never

Earth tones

These webfonts do not track you

Adding an accessibility statement

Ditch Twitter. And Instagram. And Goodreads.

Lullabies

Books finished in 2021

Boone

Now with dark mode

What it's like to be the target of a COVID conspiracy

You’re not so terrific and that’s OK

Different realities

The Ordinary Things

Commonplace books, gardens, and streams

My six favorite utility classes

Gridlessness and modern CSS

Learn JavaScript with Morten Rand-Hendriksen

An engine, a building, a garden

Accessibility and Performance

Design Justice Principles

Cedric Johnson on Public Goods and Inequality

Books finished in 2020

Scaffolding

Web fonts and base HTML

Learn HTML with Jen Simmons

Ready for a Newww Year

MMXX

Books finished in 2019

Books finished in 2018

Books finished in 2017

Books finished in 2016

JavaScript is not your interface.

Many best practices

Becoming an everyday developer

Everyday developers

Reading is hazardous

Collaborating on the new Tumbleweeds site

Deploy