Blog Archive: Page 1 of 3

A list of all the posts on this blog.

• Friday 10 #6

  Sep 26, 2025 | I was born to be a fiddler in an old-time string band

• Friday 10 #5

  Sep 19, 2025 | Sunday’s on the phone to Monday, Tuesday’s on the phone to me.

• AI Coding Weekend (I)

  Sep 16, 2025 | Giving the AI coding thing "the old college try," not that I tried that much in college.

• Friday 10 #4

  Sep 12, 2025 | All of the greenery is coming down, boy

• Honestly, I probably have more fun than anyone else with the Friday 10.

  Sep 11, 2025 | Some thoughts after the first few weeks of my lyric guessing game.

• Friday 10 #3

  Sep 5, 2025 | Nothing ever changes when you're acting your age.

• The question of purity tests

  Sep 4, 2025 | When people argue about "purity tests" in politics, it’s to dodge accepting uncomfortable compromises.

• CSS guide: parents should tell children where to sit

  Sep 3, 2025 | The principle that reshaped how I wrote CSS.

• Friday 10 #2

  Aug 29, 2025 | Another 10 lyrics for you to identify!

• Interactivity without JavaScript

  Aug 26, 2025 | Bejofo reworks their JavaScript game to run without JavaScript, which is an interesting experiment — and reinforces my biggest concern about modern web development hosting infrastructure.

• We’re outsourcing to AI

  Aug 25, 2025 | What happens when a business starts outsourcing the busy-work? Is that even useful? Or is it just another cash drain?

• The blog post image conundrum

  Aug 24, 2025 | I’m always having a debate with myself about how to handle images for blog posts — and whether they need images at all.

• Friday 10

  Aug 22, 2025 | I give you the lyrics, you tell me the artist and song.

• Static no longer

  Aug 20, 2025 | I've gone and done it. I took my nice, static site and turned it dynamic. Wow, what a headache.

• Should we even call it AI?

  Aug 14, 2025 | Words matter, but sometimes more to rhetorical approaches than to any real understanding.

• Why does work expand?

  Jul 25, 2025 | Ever heard that “work expands to fill the time available”? Let's dig into why that’s only half the story — and what Parkinson’s Law gets wrong about how real work (and real people) actually operate.

• On Zombies

  Jul 23, 2025 | Writing a game in Javascript, HTML, and CSS as "vanilla" as I can manage.

• Process Matters

  Jul 16, 2025 | Writing notes by hand and rephrasing them in my own words is more valuable to me than relying on AI tools.

• Thudfactor Link Roundup #2

  Jul 9, 2025 | This week's links lean more towards the technical / business side of things.

• Markup for fancy headings

  Jul 7, 2025 | How to mark up elaborate headline structures