Summary: I extracted a load of old blog content from the feeds archived on the Wayback Machine and converted it into markdown files suitable for posting on my blog, and got AI to write all the code for me. The generated code is all here in github.

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This is from the web-based RSS reader I use, which apparently does not always escape content quite right. Gotta love that <marquee> tag! With thanks to

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Leaving Twitter so you can post elsewhere? Off to write toots on Mastodon? Making long posts on Bluesky? Have some ambition.

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So after titling the last post "Finding out how to write", it turns out I broke just about every single link in it by writing in one tool, pasting into another, not checking it had pasted in OK and then hitting "send". Excellent work Phil, good job.

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Posting to a statically-generated site is theoretically easy - it's just a file on your desktop after all.

But whilst the words are easy, it's also easy to mess up the metadata, and wouldn't it be nicer to get it right in one shot? After all, the ideal for writing on your blog is hit the keyboard with your fingers until your point is made and hit "send".

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The move is finally done and sometime last week I switched my blog over to a statically-generated site powered by Zola. This is the first post I’ve written directly into Zola. In a month’s time I’ll have been writing this blog for 22 yea...

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“This paper lays out a unified framework of the ergodic animage, the rule-based and interaction driven part of visual representation in video games” I do sometimes wonder if other people browse the web in the same way that I do. I was followi...

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I follow Steve Messer’s blog – he’s a product manager in the UK Civil Service, making land and housing data easier to find, use and trust. And he writes weeknotes which I enjoy reading. He mentioned this week that his team’s blog doesn’t prod...

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Once this post has been made, I will have posted 998 blog posts since 2002. That rounds to about 52 posts a year, which is extremely satisfying, even if some of those first posts are just meme reposts, or me talking directly to people I knew at the time (I don’t advise reading them). Many links are now broken, many images have disappeared along the way (most of the early ones were hotlink...

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Last blog standing, “last guy dancing”: How Jason Kottke is thinking about kottke.org at 20 One of the compelling things about blogs, for me, was that you had individual people presenting links and information that were a little view into wh...

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