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Wonders of Web Weaving podcast annotated transcript
James was kind enough to have me on his podcast, Wonders of Web Weaving. The audio version will give you the best experience — go listen over there — but if you’re more of a text person, I’ve lightly...
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Weeknotes: Sept. 26 – Oct. 2, 2026
she’s been hanging out while I read after lunch — potentially because that’s where the sunshine is lol Win of the week: went to Front End Study Hall and got help figuring out why my site wasn’t...
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Stage one: acquiring my word list
Step one of my latest mini project was acquiring my word list from my Weeknotes posts over the past few years. Spoilers: I was able to do it all in Notepad++ and Excel. Although this wasn’t what I...
View ArticleHealthcare Theory of Everything?
I’ve seen the Housing Theory of Everything, but I kinda wonder if the Healthcare Theory of Everything might work almost as well in the US to make life better for most people? People stay in jobs they...
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Adopting new words
my new shelf of words (wish I’d bought the thesaurus in hardcover) Although I’m looking up more words than ever, I don’t find myself adopting many of those new words for my own use. (This realization...
View ArticleLearning scripting by scraping my own website
Let me preface this: I have no idea what I am doing. This is in no way a tutorial. I’ve been putting off updating my vocabulary webpage because it involves manually opening all 52 weeknotes from the...
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Weeknotes: Sept. 19-25, 2026
Win of the week: I was the errandinest and it paid off — got my cat a new catnip toy and they gave me a 30% off coupon for litter; picked up supplies for making apple crisp and snagged a ‘manager’s...
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Weeknotes: Sept. 12-18, 2026
she’s happy, really — miraculously she did not fall through the gap under the chair arm, the t-shirt was enough to hold her Win of the week: did a task I’ve been putting off for years 🙌 Sorted through...
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Photos from the end-of-summer garden
tall oregon grape! for real this plant is a winner if you have a large spot that a spiky shrub would work (I planted mine a bit close to a walkway 😬) The light was muted this morning so I decided to...
View ArticleTwo and a half years without a gallbladder
I’m posting this — the kind of report-back on a personal experience that I’d look for on Reddit — because I want anecdata to be available on the open web, too. Two and a half-ish years ago (late...
View ArticleLegibility in work
We’re defined by our work It’s not only our desire to be seen as productive (and thus worthy) that keeps Americans from working fewer hours and leaving bad jobs. In American culture, the first thing we...
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Weeknotes: Sept. 5-11, 2026
that’s the good spot Win of the week: I sometimes get stuck in the mentality that town is sooo faaar (it’s a 7 minute drive) and I can’t justify a special trip for a craving, but I wanted a cookie on...
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Working less: decoupling self worth from paid labor (part 9)
Happy Labor Day to my fellow Americans! (And workers abroad ✊) This is part nine of a series on tackling wants, managing my media diet, and finding enough. Each post stands alone. Read the introduction...
View ArticleI bought retinol and I feel weird about it
I’m trying to do better about caring for my skin, so I went into the dermatologist for a full body skin check in January. (Apparently most insurance companies will cover this annually!) My grandparents...
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Weeknotes: Aug. 28 – Sept. 4, 2026
Bellevue Botanical Garden — Joe Pye Weed / Eutrochium maculatum ‘Gateway’ Highlight of the week: saw my niece and met her partner Looking forward to: seeing Coyote vs. Acme with my friend Stuff I did:...
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Distinguishing human readers from bot traffic with server-side stats
I was looking at my server stats (AWStats) to see if I could identify bot traffic easily. (Spoilers: no.) Basically, I wanted to know how “big” of an issue bot traffic is on my site since I’ve read...
View ArticleThe betrayal of perceived allies
I appreciated Newsonaut’s recent post arguing that we should keep supporting Firefox, as well as the Hacker News discussion about it. I am one of the people who got so annoyed at Mozilla in the past...
View ArticleFormatting as courtesy to the reader
Formatted text (especially bullet points with the first sentence bolded) seems to be twigging some people that it’s AI-generated. (I’ve mostly seen people share Reddit posts where they’re dismissed as...
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My emergency food supply is extra normal food
While most emergency preparation in the PNW focuses on “The Big One,” I’ve realized the most common scenarios in which we actually need emergency food and water are: winter storm power outages (1-4...
View ArticleI asked my city about their street cameras
Per this map, my city does not have any publicly operated Flock cameras, which I’m very happy about. But, we do have school zone speed enforcement cameras. I realized I don’t know how those work, so I...
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