Weekly Thing 307 sent while drinking a good coffee at the community table of Getaway Motor Cafe in Carver, MN. Good morning! ☕️ Hope all is well with you! The highlight of this week was taking family pickleball lessons at Lucky Shots. It...

Thank you Ethan and Gosha for kindly tagging me in this! ^_^v Why did you start blogging in the first place? I’ve always been posting on the internet. I started this specific blog (“anhvn.com”) because I wanted to write stuff that would...

February 2, 2025 Unplatform Unplatform is an interactive guidebook, online library, and recommendations database intended to help you escape social media and join the indie web. I’m not on social media, but I’m a big fan of having your...

Be overprepared. As the phrase goes, don’t let your mouth write checks your ass can’t cash. Send along curated information that is a good summary of what you are doing, but be able to support it with research, opinion, or buy-in when...

Random photographs from my phone's camera roll in January.

The ever-so-great-and-interesting Katherine answered some questions about blogging and tagged me to do the same. Why did you start blogging in the first place? # In my late teens the web wouldn’t let me go. My favorite hobby was staying...

This page comes about because of two things: an assignment for my computer graphics course, and a bit of inspiration from a computer graphics YouTuber, acerola, who recently did some work with fractal motion. Though the page was actually...

Watching your team score a winning goal in the last minute of a match is great. But try leaving Facebook, Instagram, X, WhatsApp, and Amazon all in one day. That's what I did recently. That feels really good. Actually, I became inactive...

In an article for Contraption comparing Ruby on Rails and Next.js, Philip I. Thomas writes: The truth is that the new wave of Javascript web frameworks like Next.js has made it harder, not easier, to build web apps. These tools give...