Michael Harley
Michael Harley
Michael Harley
Hello, I'm Mike. I care about the IndieWeb, digital sovereignty, and the open web. I'm a developer and team lead based in Richmond, VA, and this site is my corner of the internet.
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Rachelle and I are really good at watching TV and we have opinions about what we watch. Here are our favorite TV and movies from 2026 so far. You can see my rating scale here. The ratings are mostly about how much we enjoyed it and have...
The best home automations are the ones that you don't think about. If you're visiting family or staying in a hotel, you notice that the automatic thing didn't happen. Here is our list! Automatic lighting schedule: Lights come on when...
I feel the aquarium hobby is a retro hobby. Sure, the lights and filters have got much more expensive, and now rimless tanks are popular online, but the standard size tanks like the 40 breeder and the 75 gallon are the same footprint...
I love reading science fiction books. I especially love science fiction books that have a friendly and benevolent AI helping the protagonists. I really like it when the friendly and helpful AI is the protagonist. Characters in the books...
I think about this all the time. I'm in my 50s, so Gen X. I grew up with great fucking music, y'all. And now all these Gen Z assholes get to discover all my favorite music, plus all the new shit coming out. God, imagine discovering Tool,...
Gordon's post, I no longer care, resonated as I'm also getting older and of the same age as him. I think the difference between 32-year-old me and 52-year-old me is that I still care about some things. It's just that I no longer feel the...
I love my RSS reader. It's the first thing I reach for when I'm "catching up." As I'm reading through my list of feed items, I often come across blog posts that do not give me any way to interact with the post! Here are some options in...
This is a serious one, folks. Sorry. My dad died when I was 12 years old so I've never had to deal with losing a parent as an adult. Still, reading the accounts from For No One and Absurd Pirate instantly takes me back to how hard it...
I've been watching the NFL since around the mid 80s. I remember the '85 Bears defense and all the media they were doing. I watched Dan Marino, Joe Montana, Steve Young, Jerry Rice, Barry Sanders, Walter Payton, Mike Singletary and many...
Well, not really but almost! It's preseason and I've watched a preseason game! For the past couple years, watching Titans games has been equivalent to self-flagellation. The team has been bad, and there hasn't been much cause for...
I've been thinking about how resilient my site and posts are lately, so I found Naty S's post, Re: The Loss of Links Continues, where she writes about her efforts to mitigate link rot, to be quite relevant and interesting. Do not...
The computer I use the most is my couch laptop. It's a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) running Debian 13 and sits on a little roller table thing that I can pull up to me while I'm sitting or push out of the way and the top of...
I've always felt the need to share links that I find interesting. I think it helps like-minded people find their tribe. I'm unsure if my efforts have helped much, yet I persist. A few days ago I got an email from Antonio Santos asking...
In 2021, I wrote about common pitfalls of low-code solutions and today I'd like to revisit the topic to judge whether or not "AI"[1] has improved the citizen developer experience. To quickly summarize the old post: Nancy from accounting...
I understand the argument that if you don’t like what Big Tech is doing, you should vote with your wallet. It’s a simple equation after all. Stop buying Apple products, de-Google your life, and delete your Meta accounts. And if you can...