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There is a growing trend for new protocols to express themselves in the form of a well-known URI. It’s seen as an easy place to stash something where other interoperable software might want to probe for protocol support, as an improvement to the old ad-hoc behavior of things like robots.txt and favicon.ico and the...

These days I have quite a lot of ambition but not enough energy to execute on it. I’m trying, though. Several months ago I realized I was feeling like I did back when I was off estrogen entirely because of the embolism and got my levels checked for the first time in a while. And they were dangerously low.My doctor...

It’s okay to not feel okay, especially when your hormones have been out of whack for months and healthcare is slow to try to help you with it. My pain and fatigue have been especially bad lately, and that also feeds into my lack of patience and temper, and also is probably due in no small part to the fact that my...

It’s been nearly a week since I removed Cloudflare from my sites. As a quick followup, I did get a slight surge in traffic that lasted for a day or so after a bunch of bots' DNS caches expired, but they seem to have all given up after the Cloudflare “managed challenge” interstitial turned into an HTTP 401 error for...

About a year ago I set up Cloudflare as a fronting CDN for this site and my music site because it was the most expedient way of dealing with an AI bot onslaught. It helped a bit but the bots very quickly figured out how to get around all that and while Cloudflare gave me some slightly-better management tools for...

Ughhhh, this has been a heck of a week.As usual I’ve been full of pain. And my brief surge of enthusiasm for working on music got cut kind of short because of it. But I’m hoping that tomorrow feels better and I can go back to the studio.I’m also not sure where I stand with my fatigue. The last few days I’ve had to...

I worry about where things are and how I’ll be affected by it. I feel like the dominoes are starting to fall. The entire world of “tech” has been broken for ages, and now it’s falling apart. The narrative about Amazon laying off so many people because their jobs can be replaced by AI is just a smokescreen; in...

Wellp, today I got yet another denial from social security, which tells me this ain’t gonna change any time soon.The previous denial came with a whole bunch of transphobia and also a claim that I am able to work, doing jobs which simply aren’t available and not reflective of the reality of my situation.I haven’t...

Wellp, I didn’t get a whole lot done on the TODO list but at least I Tried™. (I did call about the sleep study but they never returned my call and it slipped my mind to try calling again. Oh well, next week.) I did finally take the Corolla to the mechanic and got it inspected and some overdue maintenance. They said...

Back in the day, independent social media enthusiasts were building their own social spaces on RSS/Atom and self-hosted publishing. There was a huge ecosystem of feed readers and publishing software, where anyone could use their own choice of tools to interact with the space, and it was super cool.Then Google got...

Here are the things I need to take care of within the next week: Schedule a sleep study File my quarterly business taxes Edit background video for Saturday talk Set up projection mapping for Sunday show Start working on specification for game dynamic soundtrack engine Take care of the major clutter piles in the...