Link sharing is a fundamental piece of the IndieWeb. It's a kindness we show to other bloggers and sites. We share things we find good or interesting so that others may enjoy them, and it provides the author a bit more reach. I notice there are two main ways people tend to share links. The first is as link dump...

Sure, you could run a local LLM model on your computer and use it to generate some SQL to help you create a report. Or generate awful art for your D&D campaign with your friends. But who made that model? Who trained it? Where did the data come from? How much did it cost in compute and environmental resources? What...

Like any good IndieWeb nerd, I post my reviews on my website first, then syndicate those to all the places. Justin is someone I follow, and we both use our websites in pretty similar ways, with goals that seem to line up. I noticed that we both reviewed Silo S3 and syndicated both of our posts to Mastodon. Here is...

Anyone inside or outside the US that thinks they're safe relying on American tech providers and financial institutions should consider how quickly and enthusiastically they carried out the diktats of the Trump regime. Just in the last week, Google changed Google Maps' references from Lake Ontario to Lake America,...

Ok, I did it. I wrote and posted a blog post every day for the month of August. At first, it was pretty easy because I had many partial posts just sitting in my drafts folder so I just needed to finish those. As the month continued, it got harder and harder and whew boy, I'm glad Blaugust is over. This was a fun...

On my birthday, I wanted to take a moment and just say all the things I'm grateful for. I'm grateful for Rachelle and our life together. I know that's a big one and kind of cheesy, but it's true. I normally can only recognize good periods in my life when looking back, but I think when I look back, this will probably...

Reading Dave's post, Prepare, has me thinking about my own preps, so I wanted to write down a few things about our own plans and approaches. Threat model # In order to plan properly, I took the time to think about the things I felt could affect us. I see a fair amount of people on the preppers subreddit planning for...

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 less to do with the quality. Shows # A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Season 1 -...

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 it's too dark and go off when it's light. When no one is in the room, the lights...

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 from decades past. What can I automate? Can I improve monitoring and alerting?...

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 have implants in their heads that let them connect directly to The Feed. Many...

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, Nine Inch Nails, and Metallica for the first time. Imagine discovering The...