I have published a new weekly recap post, featuring: International Women's Day, total lunar eclipse on the Lantern Festival, car accident on my way to school, and Eleventy's rebrand.
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I have published a new weekly recap post, featuring: Pokémon 30th anniversary, Scarlet Hollow Episode 5, Stardew Valley 10th anniversary, and more!
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My uncle's dog who lives in our family durian plantation had given birth to her second litter of puppies in December 2025. We just got the chance to see the new puppies during Lunar New Year! 🐶
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It's not enough to tell people to be "outraged." What precisely is it that you want them to DO? This is where so much falls apart and where a number of people fall short. Part of it is that people do not actually know what they want people to do; the other part is that it's DIFFICULT to organize ppl
I have published a new weekly recap post, featuring: Preparing for Lunar New Year, Limeide mechanical gaming keyboards, completion of Pokémon Legends: Z-A's DLC main story, and IRC as a Discord alternative.
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I have published a new weekly recap post, featuring: my student showcase presentation, VPS access problems, Pokémon Legends: Z-A base game post-game completion, and more.
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I have published a new weekly recap post, featuring: student showcase preparation, Pokémon Legends: Z-A post-game, Neko-like website widgets, web browser de-bloating tool, and more.
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Life Is Strange: Reunion
A game doesn't need to be 'by and for fans'
aftermath.site/life-is-strang...
I'm excited to release Just the Browser! It helps you remove AI features, ads, shopping integrations, and other annoyances from desktop web browsers.
This project includes configuration files, a simple setup script, and guides for manual installation. It supports Chrome, Firefox, and MS Edge.
Inspired by other weekly or monthly recap blog posts, I decided to start writing such posts myself, and just published my first weekly recap post:
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For the record, this account (@verified.pds.mmatt.net) is NOT ran by Bluesky Social PBLC and never will be.
This account serves as a public information sector for the Bluesky verification system, which can be publicly observed via the ATProtocol.
The operator of this bot states: "F#CK ICE"
I wrote a three-month review of my baby.
joshcollinsworth.com/blog/baby-re...
And with that, we have reached our goal on Kickstarter!!! That went incredibly quickly and I don't know how to thank all of you.
However!! We are not done yet!! But one of the scariest hurdles has been surmounted and we are bouncing off the walls here!!
🎉🎉🎉
Hi there Bluesky! -- let's introduce ourselves :3
We're dotmeow, a queer-run community project to register the gTLD .meow. The profits of this gTLD will go to community causes, turning every domain into queer community support, especially focusing on trans projects and issues.
A look back at the year of 11ty, 2025 edition (№8):
+73% releases (×177)
+15% issues closed (×804)
+51% downloads (4.7M)
-28% dependencies (×134)
-22% size (21 MB)
www.11ty.dev/blog/review-...
Not to mention, the Affinity On Linux project was what finally encouraged me to switch to using Linux full-time.
As a contributor to the Affinity On Linux project (mainly by improving documentation), I'm happy to see the project got shout-outs from established news publications, especially one that I respect like 404 Media!
Lessons on laying out the 404 Media zine using a relatively weird setup—on Linux, using Affinity, with the help of the Windows translation layer WINE.
I wrote about what I am looking forward to in 2026:
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If there's a better way to let people know you're available for work than writing a curse word laden blog post, I simply do not want to hear it!
Jokes aside, what do YOU call this kind of contact page?
www.nicchan.me/blog/the-f-o...
I have a lot of thoughts on AI.
I've been working on this post for a couple of months now. It's very personal, characteristically lengthy, and sure to be at least somewhat controversial. Take it (or don't) as you will.
joshcollinsworth.com/blog/sloptim...
Today I learned that Obsidian allows you to use Vim key bindings by enabling it in the settings. I also love that Obsidian wants to make sure you know how to use Vim by asking you what is the command to quit Vim without saving, before finally enabling Vim mode.
I used to use Bun, but I've ditched it as soon as I found out the team had been posting U.S. propaganda memes on Twitter:
helenchong.dev/blog/posts/2...
A cartoon in the style of old US Army propaganda posters but featuring cutesy cartoon bao buns as the people. A huge bun flies overhead carrying an American flag while beneath it 3 terrified looking soldiers flee with rifles. A caption reads "download Bun today"
Breaking one of my rules about being critical of a competitor in public... but I hate this imagery they feature on twitter so much. Especially in the current climate. I don't care how cute the character is.
424-word hot take: “You Can’t Make Something Accessible to Everyone”
adrianroselli.com/2025/12/you-...
#accessibility #a11y
Had a weird dream last night where my PC, which has Arch Linux installed, somehow had Windows reinstalled without my knowledge. I have ditched Windows and switched to using Linux full-time for months, and I have no desire to go back, so thank goodness it was just a dream.
It's December 1st, which means that throughout the entire month you should reserve 5-10 minutes every day to read a fantastic article about HTML. ❤️🔥
Check out what's hidden behind the first door.
htmhell.dev/adventcalendar
Following the conclusion of Everybody Codes 2025, I am participating in Advent of Code 2025, joining the staff and fellow students of Malaysian campuses of 42 the computer science school in our private leaderboard.
Help guide the future of Eleventy by participating in the Eleventy Community Survey (and Suggestion Box)
11ty.dev/survey/2025/
