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What I listened to in 2025

The musical year in quantitative, qualitative, and other observations.

Jan 2, 2026 09:34 AM

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1. Go read Coyote’s latest post, Which Part of the Indie Web Ethos is the Bigger Priority? It’s a great post, wrestling with some challenging questions.

   Webmention is how I found this one so quickly. One of my older notes (from January 2024) is linked in this. Reading my older note now makes me cringe a bit. What a difference a couple years’ perspective makes.

   My definition of “indie web” is still broad, and I want it to be inclusive. I see having a presence on the web as something bigger than a hobby—it’s your voice.

   My favorite bit from Coyote:

   If it’s not for someone whose every dollar is already being sucked up by survival, then it’s not for everyone. If it’s not for the hungry and the homeless then it’s not for everyone. If it’s not for the refugee and the runaway then it’s not for everyone. If it depends on having cash to spare on renting a custom domain name then it’s not for everyone. People in these demographics do use the internet, and they deserve better than to be ground up for a predatory machine, which is why we need more options that are easy and free and independent from venture capital and corporate giants.

   Jan 4, 2026 02:58 AM

2. Bookmarked oklch.fyi by Jakub Krehel.

   This looks like a useful guide (visual explanation plus interactive tools) to the OKLCH color model.

   Jan 2, 2026 10:43 AM

3. Henry (from Online) published A website to destroy all websites, a transcription of a talk delivered at WebDevConf in Bristol in 2025. It will be familiar territory for anyone who has read or written a persuasive “joining the indie web” blog post in the last few years. I think you should still read it, particularly if you are feeling stuck or hung up on Making That Website in 2026. Read this, and go Make That Website.

   I particularly liked this little bit here on design:

   Don’t worry about design unless that’s the part that brings you joy. Make friends with designers and trade your work for theirs, or trade tips, trade advice. Get comfortable with being joyfully bad at something — from that soil of humility grows a million questions for those who have learned and are excited to share. Iterate until you’ve something you’re proud of, or iterate so much you’ve ruined it and have to go back to bald.

   Jan 1, 2026 09:26 PM

4. Bookmarked Why AI is exposing design’s craft crisis by Dolphia.

   The counter-argument is always gatekeeping: requiring technical knowledge excludes people from design. But what actually excludes people is creating a professional track that leads to strategic irrelevance…We told designers they didn’t need technical knowledge. Then we eliminated their jobs when they couldn’t influence technical decisions. That’s not inclusion. That’s malpractice.

   Via Dana Byerly

   Dec 31, 2025 05:59 PM

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