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• 29 Jun 20261012

  Every Kickstarter project I've backed

  Between March 2011 and October 2021 I backed 19 Kickstarter projects, spending £386 and $565 across the lot. Here they all are, in order, with what became of each. March...

• 28 Jun 20261010

  How the five AIs actually did

  The Group Stage of the 2026 World Cup finished today, so it’s time to mark the homework. Back in the launch post five AI models, a deterministic lookup table, and...

• 25 Jun 20262020

  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...

• 24 Jun 20260010

  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;...

• 23 Jun 202616352

  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...

Links worth a lookView all

• HL2 in the browser, a Raspberry Pi camera, and chess roguelites

• Nobody clicks share buttons, Metal Slug at 30, and chili peppers of the world

• Cassette Deck Vader, keygen music, and a cypherpunk reading list

• Wallace, Gromit, Zelda, and making Pebble apps

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

Recent reviewsView all

• Every Kickstarter project I've backed

• The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader

• The Anbernic RG DS

• The DS Pico might be the last DS flashcart you'll ever need

• Building a Home NAS from Mostly Spare Parts