February 7, 2026 at 1:45 PM
If I haven't somehow messed up the XSLT, I have officially joined the cool kids club by styling my RSS:
www.jmduke.com/feed.xml
www.jmduke.com/feed.xml
www.jmduke.com
February 6, 2026 at 10:28 AM
If I haven't somehow messed up the XSLT, I have officially joined the cool kids club by styling my RSS:
www.jmduke.com/feed.xml
www.jmduke.com/feed.xml
i would encourage you to watch THE DOUBLE, a film whose quality is aggressively out of proportion with its reputation
www.jmduke.com/posts/the-do...
www.jmduke.com/posts/the-do...
February 5, 2026 at 11:36 PM
i would encourage you to watch THE DOUBLE, a film whose quality is aggressively out of proportion with its reputation
www.jmduke.com/posts/the-do...
www.jmduke.com/posts/the-do...
The Black Hawk War, or, How to Demolish an Entire Civilization and Still Feel Good About Yourself in the Morning, or, We Apologize for the Inconvenience but You're Going to Have to Leave Now, or, 'I Have Fought the Big Knives and Will Continue to Fight Them Until They Are Off Our Lands!'
Deleted a post about “what’s your least favorite song” because the vibes are bad enough already.
Instead: what’s your favorite song that has a long title, say at least 6 words long?
Mine: “Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town” (Pearl Jam)
Instead: what’s your favorite song that has a long title, say at least 6 words long?
Mine: “Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town” (Pearl Jam)
February 4, 2026 at 10:48 AM
The Black Hawk War, or, How to Demolish an Entire Civilization and Still Feel Good About Yourself in the Morning, or, We Apologize for the Inconvenience but You're Going to Have to Leave Now, or, 'I Have Fought the Big Knives and Will Continue to Fight Them Until They Are Off Our Lands!'
February 2, 2026 at 3:34 AM
January 31, 2026 at 2:43 AM
January 28, 2026 at 4:34 PM
The Buttondown guy is super responsive, too, if you ever have questions!
January 28, 2026 at 4:33 PM
January 12, 2026 at 3:53 AM
December 29, 2025 at 12:56 AM
on the off chance that you are debugging the same thing I am: 1password's chrome extension now ships a version of Prism.js that conflicts with other syntax highlighters. Not Great!
www.1password.community/discussions/...
www.1password.community/discussions/...
[BUG] Beta and Nightly extension degrade page's original functionallity | 1Password Community
I was looking https://shiki.style/guide/install , an NPM package which provides syntax highlighting and showing detail hovering on keywords. It is expected...
www.1password.community
December 27, 2025 at 3:36 PM
on the off chance that you are debugging the same thing I am: 1password's chrome extension now ships a version of Prism.js that conflicts with other syntax highlighters. Not Great!
www.1password.community/discussions/...
www.1password.community/discussions/...
Disposables.app
An open-source database of disposable email domains
disposables.app
December 22, 2025 at 3:10 AM
December 21, 2025 at 10:46 PM
number of words written into our support tool (I am in last place amongst the team)
December 21, 2025 at 3:34 AM
number of words written into our support tool (I am in last place amongst the team)
a not-insignificant reason we invest in social media analytics/automations is because literally every single other tool we've tried is not particularly good for our use case
bsky.app/profile/butt...
bsky.app/profile/butt...
You didn't ask for it, but we hope you like it–we've added a Bluesky follower count tracking option to your analytics. Let us know what you think (and, yes, other social networks to come)! 💙
buttondown.com/blog/bluesky...
buttondown.com/blog/bluesky...
Bluesky analytics
Track your Bluesky follower count over time
buttondown.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:10 PM
a not-insignificant reason we invest in social media analytics/automations is because literally every single other tool we've tried is not particularly good for our use case
bsky.app/profile/butt...
bsky.app/profile/butt...
December 20, 2025 at 6:19 PM
December 18, 2025 at 3:54 PM
blogroll.org
This site by Manuel Moreale is not just lovely in the abstract, it might be the _calmest_ and most pleasant design I've seen in quite some time.
This site by Manuel Moreale is not just lovely in the abstract, it might be the _calmest_ and most pleasant design I've seen in quite some time.
Ye Olde Blogroll - Because blogs are the soul of the web
You are viewing a humanly curated list fine personal & independent blogs and sites that are updated regularly. No algorithms ever!
blogroll.org
December 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
blogroll.org
This site by Manuel Moreale is not just lovely in the abstract, it might be the _calmest_ and most pleasant design I've seen in quite some time.
This site by Manuel Moreale is not just lovely in the abstract, it might be the _calmest_ and most pleasant design I've seen in quite some time.
Playing around with my media section on the new personal site has been fun. Here's a variant (live right now but likely not for long) where its sorted by luminosity:
December 17, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Playing around with my media section on the new personal site has been fun. Here's a variant (live right now but likely not for long) where its sorted by luminosity:
the industry is abound with "don't roll your own X" and analytics in particular is one of the things I like reaching to as a counterexample. finally wrote about it!
bsky.app/profile/butt...
bsky.app/profile/butt...
Why did we decide to insource analytics? Three reasons: privacy, performance, and price.
buttondown.com/blog/insourc...
buttondown.com/blog/insourc...
Why we insourced analytics
Privacy, performance, and price. Pick three.
buttondown.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM
the industry is abound with "don't roll your own X" and analytics in particular is one of the things I like reaching to as a counterexample. finally wrote about it!
bsky.app/profile/butt...
bsky.app/profile/butt...
doing two things a little different for this end-of-year, buttondown wise. one is an airbnb-style buildout of all the stuff we shipped. the other is a "raise-the-garage-door"-style series of posts about next year:
bsky.app/profile/jmdu...
bsky.app/profile/jmdu...
December 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
doing two things a little different for this end-of-year, buttondown wise. one is an airbnb-style buildout of all the stuff we shipped. the other is a "raise-the-garage-door"-style series of posts about next year:
bsky.app/profile/jmdu...
bsky.app/profile/jmdu...
one of my goals this year has been to open source more of buttondown's internal sawdust. a little bit under the wire, but this is the first of a few end-of-year goodies
bsky.app/profile/butt...
bsky.app/profile/butt...
We're excited to announce that Sniperl.ink is now open source!
https://buttondown.com/blog/sniper-link-open-source
https://buttondown.com/blog/sniper-link-open-source
Sniperl.ink is now open source
Sniperl.ink is now open source
buttondown.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
one of my goals this year has been to open source more of buttondown's internal sawdust. a little bit under the wire, but this is the first of a few end-of-year goodies
bsky.app/profile/butt...
bsky.app/profile/butt...
the SEO spammers are evolving
November 21, 2025 at 7:08 PM
the SEO spammers are evolving
There are many very cogent arguments against LLMs, but I do think that some people end up arguing that all productivity-increasing technology is immoral because the benefits do not solely accrue to labor
bsky.app/profile/tant...
bsky.app/profile/tant...
November 17, 2025 at 2:50 AM
There are many very cogent arguments against LLMs, but I do think that some people end up arguing that all productivity-increasing technology is immoral because the benefits do not solely accrue to labor
bsky.app/profile/tant...
bsky.app/profile/tant...