2026 May 9
Mike, Now With More Money
I'm working full time. As of a few weeks ago I've taken an employed position as a FileMaker developer for a large educational nonprofit.
I'm still freelancing a little on the side, keeping a few of my long-time clients happy in my evenings and weekends, but mostly trying to focus on the full-time job and getting life back on track after a prolonged…
Test, test, test.
All my life's a test. Sunrise and sundown.
testing through the evening 'till the daybreak rolls around
Once upon an Indieweb dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten CSS,
While I coded, nearly hacking, suddenly there came SYN ACKing,
as if packets gently attacking, attacking at my firewall ports,
"'Tis some webmention", I muttered, "SYN ACKing at my firewall ports,
only this and nothing less."
Eagerly, I wished the morrow, for in vain, I hoped…
Once upon an Indieweb dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten CSS,
While I coded, nearly hacking, suddenly there came SYN ACKing,
as if packets gently attacking, attacking at my firewall ports,
"'Tis some webmention", I muttered, "SYN ACKing at my firewall ports,
only this and nothing less."
Eagerly, I wished the morrow, for in vain, I hoped…
testing. this is a test.
Forsooth! Thou hast. Indieweb
test indieweb
Fall, mountains, just don't fall on me.
Indieweb
A note to the very small handful of people who read and occasionally even repost the website blog items and articles that I've been syndicating from my website, where I'm currently writing this, to a small clickable link on a Mastodon post or a somewhat more human-readable excerpt on Bluesky:
As of today I will no longer be syndicating my content to my current Mastodon and Bluesky accounts at…
A note to the very small handful of people who read and occasionally even repost the website blog items and articles that I've been syndicating from my website, where I'm currently writing this, to a small clickable link on a Mastodon post or a somewhat more human-readable excerpt on Bluesky:
As of today I will no longer be syndicating my content to my current Mastodon and Bluesky accounts at…
blah blah blah
I'm just going to keep trying
This could be the last time, this could be the last time, maybe the last time, I don't know
Sometime around February last year, I setup my comments system using ntfy. I think it’s actually pretty neat how it works and I’ve barely received any spam. I’ve kept it bare-bones since people rarely comment these days. Unless there’s an edgy or controversial post; there’s barely any exchange. And that’s perfectly fine too, I think. For what I write here is just for my future self and to scratch…
Please forgive the spam. test 123.
#indieweb
Kindly pardon this test blog post, seeing if it gets pulled by #stream.
News that seems Indieweb-adjacent: according to a study reported on by investment strategist Joachim Klement, among commodity imports, only oil, LNG, and iron ore shortages have a higher impact on EU inflation than coffee shortages. https://klementoninvesting.substack.com/p/which-imports-really-matter-for-inflation
_Source: Consonni and Magerman (2026) via Klement On Investing_
No word on…
I've just posted an alpha of a small new WordPress plugin to my Github: KupieTools Usernote Shortcode.
Basically, I wanted to leave myself a note in a post, so I can see it on the front end when I view the post, but nobody else will. Now I can do this with [usernote]Note to myself here[/usernote]. It also allows specifying visibility by username or WordPress account role, like this: `[usernote…
2026 Apr 4
This website is no longer accessible via direct links or webmentions from any sites listed by the personalwebsit.es "Personal website directory" sca^h^h^h, er, project, as that seems to me to be run by trolls. While I don't know these people and have never spoken to them, this weekend they went out of their way to personally insult me. A few weeks ago on a whim I made a move to…
_Once a month, someone in Indieweb hosts the "Indieweb carnival", a monthly theme which a bunch of bloggers all write about the same theme, and the links to posts are collected in a page together. This month's theme: Museum Memories (see the announcement post, and the roundup and recap of all submissions.)_
Like many people, I have many fond memories of museums. Here are some…
Here are some additional images I created while working on the featured image for March 2026 Indieweb Carnival piece "Museum Memories".
~ Click any image to enlarge ~ AI image copyright infoUnder current US copyright law, unaltered AI-generated images are not copyrightable. However, all AI-generated content on this site has been subjected to a subsequent creative process of manual human edits…
In my first post on this subject I wrote about my intention to make this website the hub of my online interactions.I talked about the vision for the web that many of us had in the late 90s and early 00s, that the web would be a federation of personal websites that we would use to share ideas and communicate. Then came the walled gardens with their corporate management to squash that idea. But…
For a long time I have been a big proponent of keeping my data on my personal website, and sharing to social media as I see fit. You may recall an earlier post where I talked a lot about the "open web". The problem is hardly anyone sees what I post on my website. People may follow a link from Facebook or Bluesky, but they don't come back and check if I've posted anything new, nor do they…
For a long time I have been a big proponent of keeping my data on my personal website, and sharing to social media as I see fit. You may recall an earlier post where I talked a lot about the "open web". The problem is hardly anyone sees what I post on my website. People may follow a link from Facebook or Bluesky, but they don't come back and check if I've posted anything new, nor do they…