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Enriching webmentions from third-party platforms
I keep finding new gaps in my webmention implementation. Mentions coming in from Bluesky, Lemmy and Lobsters were showing up with no author at all, just a blank avatar and...
Making GIMP feel less like punishment
GIMP has always had an interface problem. I’m not blaming the GIMP team (they’ve built something powerful on a shoestring). They’ve been clear they’re not interested in copying Photoshop wholesale;...
The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader
I’ve had the Xteink X4 for a couple of months now, a £40 e-ink reader small enough to stick to the back of a phone. I’d seen a few posts...
Running a Tailscale exit node in a local VM
I run Tailscale on my laptops, phone and NAS, and wanted to add an exit node so I could route traffic through my own connection when I’m out and about....
Sending webmentions on deploy
I’ve spent a fair bit of time on the receiving end of webmentions, from adding support for them in the first place through to fetching them at build time and...
Featured
- Archive Archaeology
- Why can't I read this picture book?
- Building a Balatro-lite game with vanilla web tech
- It's 2026, why are vendor prefixes still in your CSS?
- I turned my DevTerm into a Game Boy Camera and Printer
- Finding the Small Web in a Loud Internet
Jekyll & IndieWeb
- Plugins instead of patches
- Moving to GitHub Actions (and adding .txt posts)
- Adding support for Webmentions
- Baking webmentions into the build
- Sending webmentions on deploy
- Enriching webmentions from third-party platforms
Tinkering
- Building a Home NAS from Mostly Spare Parts
- Using emoji to bypass FRP on a decade-old tablet
- Adding an internal speaker to the Pocket CHIP
- The Raspberry Pi Pico and the Pimoroni Pico RGB Keypad
- CHIP Stuff
- DevTerm Stuff