Unsung heroes: Flickr’s URLs scheme, by Marcin Wichary, via Nicolas Hoizey. Will They Inherit Our Blogs?, by Kev Quirk, via Karl. larsi’s released a little collection of SVG tricks for Emacs: svg-aux.el. ASCII art is an art born from limitations, by Turboblack, via Eric Bailey. The Internet Isn’t Facebook: How...

Psalm 109:8–19 (NAB) May his days be few; may another take his office. May his children be fatherless, his wife, a widow. May his children wander and beg, driven from their hovels. May the usurer snare all he owns, strangers plunder all he earns. May no one treat him with mercy or pity his fatherless children. May...

Laurel, Andy, Eryn, and I took the girls up to Lake Tahoe for a very long weekend away from school—SFUSD had both Monday and Tuesday off, for Presidents’ Day and Chinese New Year, respectively. We stayed in a lovely AirBnB in Homewood, on the western shore of the lake. With Eryn and EJ out in the snow Eryn went...

祝您新年快樂，身體健康！

I added limited support for Webmention to this site’s static site generator using remy/wm this weekend. (By limited support, I mean that I can now send outbound webmentions when I’d like. I have no webmention endpoint, however, so I can’t receive them. I’m okay with that, at least for now.) #indieweb #web

I started working on Safari & WebKit at Apple 15 years ago today. 

Many congrats—and the very best of luck—to Brian and Heather on their appointments (1, 2) to the TAG! I’m sure you’ll both have a blast, and make both the W3C and the web better while you’re at it. The Power of ‘No’ in Internet Standards, by Mark. See also Jeremy’s The Web Is Agreement (2018). Via Matt: Taper is an...

May you find yourself surrounded by love this Valentine’s Day. I’ll be spending mine with my sweetie and our kiddo. #ejisnine #eryn #family #holiday #love 💞

Annie Rauwerda, the extremely funny woman behind depthsofwikipedia, is on a live tour! Eryn and I went in San Francisco tonight, and had a great time. Annie put me on the guest list! I don’t think I’ve ever been put on the guest list for a thing before. (A couple of years ago I shared a bunch of stories with her...

I’d be hard pressed to imagine a more perfect concept for a vendor at a market. #leebrotherspotatomerchants #BoroughMarket #london #potatomerchants #potatoes

In reply to a post, I said:“Valencia & 20th” (e.g.) instead of “20th & Valencia.” The numbered street comes first.