27 Aug 2026 · with words, wonder
In the past, I have used the shorthand “if you have a website, you’re in the indie web community.” I have used this because I don’t think there are, or should be, any other qualifying factors (i.e. using particular tools, having a certain site layout). While I think this shorthand is useful in ensuring people don’t feel like they have to do things a certain way to participate in the indie web, it misses one constituency that I don’t think are talked about enough: readers. Before some…
27 Aug 2026 · with words, wonder
I was listening to Lorde’s Melodrama, an album I haven’t listened to for some time. Her music continues to echo through my week. It is hard to believe that I got to see her perform live a few days ago; the electricity of the performance still sticks with me: the moments we all sung with all the passion we had. Do I listen to the same song over again because I want to feel it more? I thought about this while sitting on a bench looking out onto green bushes and idly watching as the world went …
27 Aug 2026 · with words, wonder
A warm glow from the still-on kitchen light passed through the hallway, illuminating the floral book, opened, on my lap. The night’s task: to start making the book my own. My impulse to create new things – music, stories, memories – is not dampened by the absence of daylight. Every few months, I sit at my piano, playing whatever music I am in the mood for; sometimes, I write a story under the cover of moonlight and my fairy lights. Tonight, I felt it was a good moment to start my new scrap…
26 Aug 2026 · with words, wonder
You feel like you have joined a community in a festival line. Everyone is together, waiting for music — we all came here with a common purpose, a purpose that we can see, a purpose that we can feel. We came here because we are human. Many people are dressed up, in all colours — blues and pinks and browns and purples. Time feels amorphous — isn’t is always? — where minutes pass like seconds and seconds pass like minutes. We are all surrounded by conversation, in the tone only made possi…
26 Aug 2026 · with words, wonder
Eula wrote a response (“Collecting reference books for creativity”) to my post on inspiration from physical artefacts and organising them. Ironically, I didn’t appreciate the continuity between these posts until now. I digress. In her blog post, Eula wrote about how she organises her bookshelf, which made me think about how I organise mine, too. At the moment, I have one bookshelf which I am actively outgrowing. My bookshelf has three shelves, and I keep more books on the top. My books are…
25 Aug 2026 · with words, wonder
The sixteenth episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out: In Episode 16, I chat with Nic, the author of nicchan.me about, among other things, using the web as a design tool, web accessibility, learning from others' code, and more. I hope you enjoy the episode! Wonders of Web Weaving also has an RSS feed you can use to follow along from wherever you get your podcasts.
24 Aug 2026 · with words, wonder
When I got out of bed this morning, I felt a chill from the autumn air that had been flowing through the room since yesterday evening. The air was cooled by midnight and would soon be warmed by the burgeoning sun rising over the hills. The seasons are changing. I can feel it. I opened the window and looked onto the white horizon sky; so intense was the white sky it took me a few moments to notice the faint blues that were already above me and extended across most of the rest of the sky. I love t…
24 Aug 2026 · with words, wonder
I wrote this a few days ago, inspired by Things I Want to Remember by A Graceful Life. I planned to add more to the list but I didn't end up finishing it. With that said, I do want to publish what I have, as a little snippet of four things that caught my eye on one evening last week. Ironically, I cannot remember on which day I wrote the things I want to remember, but it would have been either Thursday, Friday or Saturday. ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ Things I want to remember from today: The way tiny flies, so …
24 Aug 2026 · with words, wonder
When I started to study art history, I had a feeling that I may no longer spend as much time reading about and experimenting with technology. This has turned out to be true in many senses: I have spent countless hours reading textbooks and literary texts, and writing essays. I forgot how much I enjoyed writing essays. This year I have spent a lot of time thinking about art. I have spent many weekends in art galleries, a kind of building that has a magnetism comparable to that I used to feel writ…
24 Aug 2026 · with words, wonder
I have been saving a lot of links to things I have read and appreciated this month. And since it is Blaugust and many of my friends and other writers whose works I enjoy are blogging, I have been reading more blog posts too. I thought I would share an excerpt of what I have read and seen on the web this month here, both for future reference and in case you would like to explore some links. This list is by no means complete, and I am limiting myself to one post per author. Blog posts and articles…
23 Aug 2026 · with words, wonder
I love admiring spaces and thinking about how they work but, when it comes to the physical spaces I use most or every day – my bedroom, my desk, my bookshelves – I haven’t spent as much time thinking about decoration. When an environment functions, I don’t often think about how I can make it beautiful. Indeed, I have never been particularly adept at decorating. This evening I had a discussion about organising mementos from trips: museum maps and guidebooks, and all the other little thing…
22 Aug 2026 · with words, wonder
the potential poetry of the URL: /nature#timeless.
22 Aug 2026 · with words, wonder
websites: collaborative poems between reader author -- you can be (are) both. the web makes space. (written as a poem within a poem) My website home page with a poem at the top and a text area between the first and second stanzas in which the poem on this page was written. ALTMy website home page with a poem at the top and a text area between the first and second stanzas in which the poem on this page was written.
22 Aug 2026 · with words, wonder
poems embody Nature, of seasons (for)ever- changing; living in time.
22 Aug 2026 · with words, wonder
Before I leave this morning, I have to pack some things to read. I picked up a zine and a book on colour and set out to a coffee shop to ease my way into the weekend. I purchased the zine and the book following my reflection on reference works earlier this week, which had me thinking that I wanted to vary the kinds of books on my shelf. This year I haven’t read many fiction books. Most of my reading has been devoted to textbooks and what I read online: blogs and the news and articles and every…
21 Aug 2026 · with words, wonder
How many HTML elements are exactly five letters long? This question came to mind in the context of a discussion I had yesterday about what an indie web version of Wordle would look like. We all started to name elements. table, tbody, input, among others, all have five letters. After the discussion, I wrote a Python script to compute the string lengths of each HTML element. I used the list of HTML elements on the MDN website as my dataset. The MDN list includes some elements (like selectedcontent…
21 Aug 2026 · with words, wonder
The sun is shining through the big and small clouds in the sky. The sun shines with such power that the areas that most catch my eye are the periphery of the darkest clouds, illuminated by the yellows of evening. The light coming through the window ebbs between faint and full, casting a shadow of four keys on my typewriter that rests on the coffee table. I looked to the skies after a piano session, one in which I played along to some of my favourite songs to play on piano. These songs in particu…
20 Aug 2026 · with words, wonder
I look out the window. Every time I look I notice change: the ambering of leaves that are still green in my memory, the movement of clouds as they go from one end of the sky to the other, the movement of leaves as they sway to-and-fro with the light morning breeze; some mornings I see birds in the trees; yesterday I had the pleasure of seeing a small bird take flight, soaring to another tree. I look at the trees outside and see the leaves that have been changing colour for a while, and those in …
20 Aug 2026 · with words, wonder
Zachary and I are trading blog post titles. Zachary has written a blog post in response to the suggested title “What everyone should know about Australia”. I have written my post in response to the title “Why I wish people a happy day of the week”. For the last year or so, whenever I have been on a call with someone, or met up with someone I know, I have often said “Hello, happy [day of week].” On the day I am writing this, for example, I said “happy Thursday!” to people in a gro…
20 Aug 2026 · with words, wonder
The Macbook Air in Carlos‘ response to Michael’s post “My perfect laptop” caught my eye as soon as I saw it. The Macbook (which I will refer to as a “Mac” going forward) in the blog post looks similar to my first Mac. I originally wanted a Mac because I had been following CS193p on YouTube and I wanted to build something along with the course. When I got a Mac I didn’t end up following the course, but my love for programming – specifically for the web – continued to bloom. Here…