.minimalize { background-color: #fcd709; outline: none; border: none; padding: 10px 20px; font-size: 24px; border-radius: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; } Every once in awhile, I see a beautiful, minimalist blog with impeccable typography, like this one from Manuel Moreale, and think I should do something similar with...

Like a lot of people, I’m bummed about Reddit cutting off RSS access. I have a few subreddits that I like to check on regularly in my feed reader, and their feeds will no longer exist after mid-November. The good news is that Lemmy, the fediverse alternative to Reddit, has RSS feeds and likely always will. Lemmy...

This is now officially the third highest yearly output for Newsonaut, having surpassed my 64 posts in 2014. The only years when I did better were 2012 with 135 and 2011 with 169. Yes, this is my 66th post of 2026. There has been a resurgence lately in the indie web, and I’m happy to be a part of it. I was a little...

Firefox 157 has a slick new interface. And the internet is losing its shit. The updated interface has been dismissed as “round” and already you can find instructions on how to roll back to the old look. And that’s a mild insult compared with “needless and ugly.” Such drama! At first the only difference I noticed was...

I’ve said in the past that I find posts written all in lower case to be hard to read, and I stand by that. I need a few capital letters here and there to get my bearings. But that doesn’t mean I don’t have an appreciation for lower case. In fact I downright prefer it. Capital letters have a boring lack of variety....

When the comics character Pogo said, “We have met the enemy and he is us,” he was referring to pollution. He might have said the same thing about the dreaded algorithm. In a recent post at Skuthus, Skyler points out that the Bear Discover “trending list is full of naysayers, warnings, dire laments, and gripes.” For...

You’re driving along the information superhighway when suddenly you hear a siren, so you pull over. It’s the internet police. The officer gets out and comes over to your window. “What seems to be the problem, officer?” “I had to pull you over because I noticed you used the word ‘lay’ incorrectly in one of your blog...

[This post is for RSS Club members only.] There are four sites I occasionally check to catch up on what’s happening in the indieweb world: Bubbles, Bear Discover, Pika Pulse and Pagecord. In two of them you find posts about people’s hobbies, things that interest them, updates on their lives. And that’s about it....

If the main thing that attracts you to Apple’s new iPhone Duo is the larger display, keep in mind that the iPad mini is also available. The iPhone Duo display is 7.6 inches, while the iPad mini display is a bit bigger at 8.3 inches. And then there’s the price. The iPad mini, with cellular, comes to about one third...

Star Trek is now a Canadian enterprise. Here’s what made it so Send me email about this post

Some of my mother’s ashes are in a little cove in a little lake nearby. In the summer, I sometimes take a kayak out for a visit. No matter what is on my mind, no matter what is troubling me, I always get the same answer. “Have faith.” Send me email about this post

WHO – An author you would love to have a ‘one to one’ with? The author who comes to mind is Corey Doctorow. I mostly like his science fiction and I resonate with his essays on modern technology. My main fear is that I would not be able to hold my own, and he would soon be bored. The only well-known author I have...