Up until now, I maintained my YouTube channel list by manually tracking any new channels I subscribed to and any channels I unsubscribed from. I would then, when I felt up to it, update a markdown file with the changes. This was a flexible way to share my subscriptions with peopl … | Continue reading
Rideshare Renegades is my first ever TTRPG. It's an entry for 2024's One-Page RPG Jam. In it, you play as someone who needs to make a living with ridesharing but doesn't own a car. Instead, you'll ferry your passengers around via bus while trying to figure out what level and kind … | Continue reading
My memory is notoriously bad. I forgot what I ate today or whether I washed my hair. I walk into rooms and forget why. I tell friends stories they were themselves involved in. You better believe that, when I return to some sort of web development project after several months, I'v … | Continue reading
I just finished implementing Webmentions on this blog! At least, I think it's done. It may not be perfect, but I'll refine it as I go. I've read lots of posts about people implementing it. Many of them talk about how it's actually very easy. That wasn't my experience implementing … | Continue reading
I love the Arc Browser, but every time they add new AI features of refer to me as a "member," I feel like I'm teetering over a cliff, about to plunge to the harsh ground that is our current VC-funded software reality. Instead of waiting around for them to force my hand by startin … | Continue reading
This is my first time participating in the IndieWeb carnival. I've enjoyed working on my blog, but it very much feels like an island. I'm excited to make it part of a larger community. If you found me through this, welcome! The most common argument I hear for "good enough" is tha … | Continue reading
I love experimenting with video. I love to try out new video games. What better way to join these two things than to record myself trying them and share the videos on the internet? That's all well and good except that I'm not a fan of YouTube… or really of Google more generally. … | Continue reading
Not long after the height of Covid, I found myself relatively suddenly untethered from the anchors that had stabilized my life for many years up to that point. Losing those anchors also untethered me from the city I lived in and pushed me out to find where I should live next. I c … | Continue reading
These old web links drop like flies! Links what done broke refined.blog itsevergreen.rip Beeep’s Linkies 👋😢 Updates "God bless the internet" was previously on a site called clouded. It's now on a site called marea. | Continue reading
I did some pruning of some channels that needed to go. I also went down a CRPG rabbit hole and added some relevant channels. Removals Most of the channels I removed were just because I found myself ignoring their videos more often than not. This happens from time-to-time: what I … | Continue reading
OpenAI is a 30 billion dollar company whose value comes not just from the language model that allows it to write convincingly but also from the limitless text it was trained on. You and I wrote that text. I've kept watch on the mailbox, but I haven't yet received my stock options … | Continue reading
I added an about page with some information about why and how this site was built and some cool buttons you can use if you want to link to me. Someday, this may be the home to my links out to other sites and potentially some web rings? Not sure yet. | Continue reading
If you're an existing subscriber, you may have noticed that all of the feed items have resurfaced in your feed reader as new. This is because I discovered the data I was using as each feed item's guid, the field used by readers to determine if an entry was unique, was not suffici … | Continue reading
Found some cool new channels and added them to the list. Grickle Grickle makes creepy animations. I found this through a Metafilter post. If you're played the Puzzle Agent games, you'll recognize Graham Annable's style from that series. If you haven't played those games, give the … | Continue reading
Just a couple of updates this round of sites that dropped off the list. Links what done broke IndieSeek.xyz directory Maya's subscriptions 👋😢 | Continue reading
You probably noticed that the original RSS feed item for my favorite internet videos list did not embed the videos. Honestly, I'm not clear why that didn't just work, but I have implemented a fix. If you don't see the embedded videos on this one, call your member of congress (or … | Continue reading
Most of the YouTube channels I subscribe to, categorized. I'll provide descriptions of channels that need it. Key 👀- Instant watch 🤌- Online video virtuoso 😿- Seemingly (and sadly) defunct 😴- Good for sleepytime (This doesn't mean the content is ba … | Continue reading
These are some of my favorite internet videos. I'll add new entries to the top and mark anything added since the last update so you can easily keep up. ACTION BUTTON REVIEWS Tokimeki Memorial An epic review of a game I was totally unfamiliar with. Tim's interviews are more about … | Continue reading
These are things that are secretly better than their alternatives, although many of the alternatives are much more popular. Some may be controversial. If you disagree, please make your own list and share it. handkerchief > tissue bus/walking > car Mastodon > Twitter/BlueSky/Threa … | Continue reading
The site now has a new section: lists! I could have just put lists into the blog (and I kinda did in the past with the old web directory), but they're more evergreen than a blog post. They're pieces of content that are relevant for a long time and will be updated. It made sense t … | Continue reading
It's a story as old as the commercial internet. Sites fail and are closed all the time. But surely popular sites with tons of engaged users will stick around, right? That's what many of us thought before Digg fell. When that happened, we could write it off as a one-off occurrence … | Continue reading
A very nice person contacted me on Mastodon to inform me their site was going down for a while as they rebuild. Also, Terra is back, which is great! I didn't do a comprehensive check on this update, so there may be some problems. Get in touch with me on Mastodon if you find them. … | Continue reading
It's hard to overstate the influence of Minecraft. The entire survival genre that is all over games today owes a great debt to Minecraft. A generation of gamers has an affinity for chunky pixel graphics that they wouldn't have had without it. Sandbox games got big in a way that t … | Continue reading
I added a key to the top of the onramps section to explain the link status icons, and I updated a lot of the statuses. Here's what changed: Links that died ☠️ Terra Nerd Listing DOKODEMO LINKS Links that were fixed/updated I'm not sure if I had the wrong URLs to begin with on the … | Continue reading
These are my thoughts on some games I've played over the last few months, in no particular order. Spookware The microgames of WarioWare paired with the cute and self-aware irreverence of Undertale (featuring skeletons just to complete the analogy). I really like the vibe here. Th … | Continue reading
I was very bad at the video game Curse of the Dead Gods at first because "curses" were, in my mind, something to be avoided at all costs. I thought of them as punishments for doing poorly, and I didn't want to be punished. You can't avoid them, though, and once you've played a fe … | Continue reading
tl;dr- I got tired of the commercial web, so I went looking for the Old Web. I found it through directories, blogrolls, webrings, and some weird search engines no one has heard of. My First Love on the Web The first web site I ever loved was called Illucia: The Town of Final Fant … | Continue reading
Since I discovered RSS back in the early 00s, RSS has been my favorite way to consume the web. It went even a step beyond ad blocking to remove a lot of the annoyances of the web — like having to maintain a bunch of bookmarks and navigate to each one each day, searching around fo … | Continue reading