My son's casual comment during our nightly Wordle ritual led to a surprising discovery: I am supposedly a 'Xennial'. This sent me down a path of reminiscence, thinking about the long, quiet afternoons of my childhood and boredom.

I used Bluesky's Jetstream and gleam to resurrect and old project I made for twitter.

It looks like Bluesky is moving ahead with its promise to allow self-hosting. It's not ActivityPub, but it seems like the place that's easy enough for anyone to use while it is possible to avoid lock-in to some extent. I look forward to seeing what people ...

As twitter continues its tumultuous path under Musk's leadership, many people have been moving to federated social networks such as mastodon or other ActivityPub federated sites. Like the web itself, this allows users on different servers to interact and i...

jake.museum: an online collection of my web design and development work, from 2007 to the present day. But finding the source code was just the beginning. A lot has changed since 2007, and getting these old sites up and running again is not as simple as pl...

Ever since I read Bob Nystrom’s 40 Songs, I knew I wanted to write a list of my own. I’ve been procrastinating on it for a while, but “30 years” slips further away as I inch closer to 31, so it’s time to buckle down and do it.

It used to annoy me when people talked about going online as something separate from the "real world." I always thought of the Internet as part of the real world, and as a college student in the early 90s and a graduate student in the late 90s, the Interne...