From sharing his food to communication: Five curious habits of my poodle
🌐 https://blog.gridranger.dev/five-curious-habits-of-my-poodle/
The Old Tech Revival: Ownership vs. The infinite Subscription Model
I’ve been REALLY getting into older tech lately and I thought it’d be fun to do a nerdy little show-and-tell in blog post format on my latest obsession; the classic iPod!
This blog post is a reflection of the past vs. the future of tech.
Read the full post here: https://thecozy.cat/uncategorized/2026/08/the-old-tech-revival-ownership-vs-the-infinite-subscription-model/
#retro #nostalgia #oldtech #analog #analogue #ipod #sovereignweb #indieweb #smallweb #blog #blogging #blogpost #throwbackthursday
See you tomorrow San Diego! https://htmlday.joespartydepot.com/ #HTMLDay #IndieWeb https://2026.html.energy
My current rule for deep work blocks:
90 minutes.
Phone in another room.
One tab that is the task.
AI allowed only inside that tab’s job.
No “quick Slack check.”
No second agent running “in the background for later.”
Focus is a system, not a mood.
New page on #BurgeonLab!
➡️ https://burgeonlab.com/html-day/
It's about how to get started and some resources. I'm excited to attend for the first time.
My RSVP: https://burgeonlab.com/rsvps/2026/0806-1203/
This is post 5 of #blaugust2026 and post 79 of #100DaysToOffload.
Looking forward to the remote/online event!
How can creative practitioners publish on the web today? Options, pitfalls, and trade-offs
I just published a long essay on a question that nagged me for years. I always felt that more creatives should run their own self-hosted websites — but I was never sure I was right. So I examined every option as objectively as I could, with its real advantages and pitfalls, so readers can reach their own conclusions!
Read here: https://tilman.me/garden/How+can+creative+practitioners+publish+on+the+web+today%3F #indieweb #web
Tomorrow is HTML Day!
"On Saturday, August 8th, 2026, we'll be gathering in places around the world to write and celebrate HTML."
Lots of events, including online. Should be fun!
Two brightness problems. One tiny Mac app.
Outside, macOS max is often not enough.
At night, the minimum is still too bright.
LUMEL pushes supported displays further in both directions — brighter outdoors, darker after dark.
No account. No subscription. No tracking.
Built because my screen should match the room I am in.
I got tired of ugly battery apps that feel like system utilities from 2012.
Mac 4 Breakfast is the charging screen I actually want to look at — clear energy read, calm UI, a little delight when you plug in.
Small Mac app. Daily thing. Built for how I use the laptop, not a settings dump.
My blogging workflow 2026
I see that people are talking about phoneblogging but I don't do that. Here is my blogging workflow instead. 😎
https://michaelharley.net/posts/2026/08/07/my-blogging-workflow-2026/
It's Friday night and I seem to be rebuilding my website in some sort of new experiment with #indieweb PESOS ideas. Not sure this is sensible.
My current rule for deep work blocks:
90 minutes.
Phone in another room.
One tab that is the task.
AI allowed only inside that tab’s job.
No “quick Slack check.”
No second agent running “in the background for later.”
Focus is a system, not a mood.
Switched completely to night theme, replaced the meadows particles with falling stars effect, new background, and loading screen (WIP).
#blog #status #personalweb #personalwebsite #indieweb #web #webdev #webdesign #WencesByte
I got tired of ugly battery apps that feel like system utilities from 2012.
Mac 4 Breakfast is the charging screen I actually want to look at — clear energy read, calm UI, a little delight when you plug in.
Small Mac app. Daily thing. Built for how I use the laptop, not a settings dump.
(Reading through the explanations on why Echofeed is being shut down, I feel the painful technical part of it more and more and I'm kind of sad there wasn't a chance to provide more help to still sort of keep that running. But I am also left wondering whether this is sort of a watershed moment of learning that this POSSE approach often proposed by the IndieWeb crowd actually just works in a very limited DYIish content for people who are able to handle that on their very own within their very own small scale with handcrafted solutions - which excludes everyone not really able of doing so at all. And it makes me wonder whether, ultimately, the idea proposed by ATProto - keep all your data in one single repository and available, visible to multiple different applications catering to different needs - might generally be smarter than having to copy data all around the 'net dozens and dozens of times.) #digital_technologies #indieweb #atproto #sustainability
I built a quiet, algorithm-free digital sanctuary for asynchronous reflection and heavy thoughts.
No accounts, no trackers, no ads. Just a slow space to write.
#minimalism #indieweb #mentalhealth #privacy #writing #webdev #slowweb
