• Finished reading: Dune by Frank Herbert 📚

  • Switched my site’s footer over to the IndieWeb Webring 🕸️💍, check it out on doug.pub!

  • XOXO Roundup

    A quick roundup of a few posts from across my feeds about the last ever (🥺) XOXO Festival. ArtLung | Post-XOXO Ramble on Websites and Freedom: Everybody Comes To Ricks During XOXO, Andy Baio said “Every one of you should have a home on the web not controlled by a billionaire.” Cabel Sasser … read more

  • A train station platform featuring a metallic train with blue, white, and red stripe details. The platform has a yellow “WATCH THE GAP” warning strip along the edge. The station has an arched, ornate roof structure with skylights.

    In Philly for the weekend. I really like how Halide rendered the lighting in this photo.

  • A person walks on a moving walkway beneath a ceiling illuminated with colorful, abstract lighting. Other individuals are visible in the background of the corridor, which has a modern and artistic design.

    My favorite part of the Atlanta airport. Also, an excuse to try out Halide’s Process Zero.

  • A vivid sunset with a bright red sun setting over a distant dark shoreline. Above, the sky is painted with shades of orange, pink, and purple clouds. The reflection of the sun creates a vertical red streak on the calm water below.

    Red Michigan sunset.

  • A brown slug is crawling on top of a white mushroom, which is resting on dry, fallen leaves and debris on the forest floor.

    Slug on a shroom.

  • The New Internet | Tailscale Blog

    You can’t build modern software without networking. But the Internet makes everything hard. Is it because networking has essential complexity?

    Well, maybe. But maybe it’s only complex when you built it on top of the wrong assumptions, that result in the wrong problems, that you then have to paper over. That’s the Old Internet.

    Interesting article describing how Tailscale sees the future of the Internet.

    I’m a Tailscale user for my personal network and I really do like how it provides peer to peer connectivity. But, I don’t think the New Internet should only have one provider.

  • Here’s what the web looked like in 1994 via Kottke

  • Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative

    Ladybird uses a brand new engine based on web standards, without borrowing any code from other browsers. It started as a humble HTML viewer for the SerenityOS hobby project, but since then it’s grown into a full cross-platform browser project supporting Linux, macOS, and other Unix-like systems.

    Cool!! Was not expecting to see a new, from scratch, browser engine come into existence!

  • On fighting AI bots

    Manu Moreale writes about fighting AI bots: I guess there are only two options left: Accept the fact that some dickheads will do whatever they want because that’s just the world we live in Make everything private and only allow actual human beings access to our content And Molly White … read more

  • JWZ | Mozilla’s Original Sin:

    Some will tell you that Mozilla’s worst decision was to accept funding from Google, and that may have been the first domino, but I hold that implementing DRM is what doomed them, as it led to their culture of capitulation. It demonstrated that their decisions were the decisions of a company shipping products, not those of a non-profit devoted to preserving the open web.

    Sad to see Mozilla’s decline. I can’t help but wonder, which browser is left carrying the torch of the open web?

    I’ve been using Safari more, as I feel it’s most aligned with my interests and tastes these days. But I’m not sure Apple is the best steward of the open web, since this platform tends to compete with their App Store platform.

    So, who’s left? Certainly not Google and Chrome.

  • @Westenberg | RSS: The forgotten protocol that still matters​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

    Using an RSS reader restores a sense of deep satisfaction, control and personal connection to the web that many folks have forgotten - or never experienced in the first place. RSS makes you the curator, the arbiter of your own attention.

    I ❤️ RSS

  • Travel Report: Italy in Review 🇮🇹

    Hello from Delta flight 67 Rome to Atlanta! Now that our time in Italy has wrapped up, I thought I’d try to compile some thoughts on our overall experience in Italy. This was my first time traveling in Italy. I’ve been wanting to visit for some time since I love Italian food and I have … read more

  • Travel Report: Puglia

    Hello from Puglia, aboard the train headed to Rome. Puglia was the last leg of our trip in Italy, aside from tonight in Rome before we catch our flight back to Atlanta tomorrow. So, let’s cover what we got into in Puglia! We stayed in a house just outside the city of Noci. It was a great … read more

  • Travel Report: Tuscany

    Ciao from Noci in the Puglia region of Italy! Get ready for a giant, image heavy post about our time in Tuscany! There’s so much beautiful scenery, I absolutely failed to edit this down. To start, and a big highlight of this part of our trip, was the Tuscan villa and farm where we stayed. This … read more

  • Trying to work on my next Travel Report from the train, but I can’t get the WiFi to activate and I have 60 (?!) photos I want to upload. 5g cell is too inconsistent to upload this many photos.

  • Travel Report: Florence

    Buonasera from Tuscany! Tonight’s post has the highlights from our time in Florence. We’ve been in Tuscany for a few days now and it’s taken me a while to get this post together because there’s so much I wanted to cover even though we only had 2 nights in Florence. And the … read more

  • Travel Report: Roma

    Ciao from on board the Frecciarossa high speed train to Florence! Rome was incredible! It’s hard to capture everything in one post, just like it’s hard to capture like 2,500 years of history in a few days in Rome! Still, here’s the highlights! I successfully linked up with my … read more

  • Travel Report: Milan to Rome and the end of my solo train journey

    Ciao from Rome! With my arrival in Rome, this marks the end of my solo journey that started in London, England. I’ve managed to make it all this way with nothing but train travel and my own two feet! Milano centrale. But before reflecting further, here’s my ride from Milan. This is … read more