A frontpage of personal websites.

https://text.blogosphere.app/

There are two versions: Minimal (HN-inspired, fast, static): https://text.blogosphere.app/ Non-minimal: https://blogosphere.app/

#smallweb, #getablog #indieweb #webring

The sale of my mom's house was complete a week ago. I'm still getting used to someone else living in the house I grew up in. It was different with renters. They were borrowing it. Now the house is gone.

I had felt for a long time that the house was dead for my family. My parents divorced not long after my brother and I moved out, and my mom lived there alone for another twenty years. I liked seeing families with kids checking it out during the selling process. It's a house and yard with a lot of room for a new family. I hope it brings them joy.

My mom has been in a memory care facility since June, 2025, and the cost has gradually increased from $6800 a month to $7800, due to room changes and care needs. She declined more in the last month and an opening came up in a house with "increased care." It's now $9800 a month.

We were fortunate in the sale of the house. It happened just before her other savings ran out. Now we have enough for about three years before I'll need to figure out Medicare. The house is still taking care of her, I guess.

There won't be anything for the next generation, but I never really expected that. I worry about housing for our kids, but I understand why they wouldn't want to be tied to the logging town where we grew up.

Still, it's amazing how fast the medical machine can eat a family's legacy these days. The house is gone, and in just a few years the money will be gone, too.

#getablog, #sandwichgeneration

This week's library haul:
Breakneck by Dan Wang

"EACH TIME I SEE a headline that officials from the United States and China are butting heads, I feel the state of affairs is more than just tragic; it is comical, too. I am sure that no two peoples are more alike than Americans and Chinese."

#amreading #getablog

For anyone who remembers StumbleUpon, this little tool add similar functionality to your blog:

susam/wander: A tiny, decentralised tool you can host with just two files to explore the small web - Codeberg.org

https://codeberg.org/susam/wander#readme

#smallweb #getablog #stumbleupon

A couple small web resources

https://kevinboone.me/small_web_is_big.html

https://blog.kagi.com/small-web

#smallweb #getablog #savedforlater

To me, Mastodon still feels like a global stadium full of random people talking, where I wander around listening to stuff that's interesting but can be hard to follow, until I finally find someone I know and hang out with them in the midst of it. So I generally appreciate this post https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/

#fediverse, #getablog

You wrote a thing. It looked interesting to me. Up until the moment I discovered you'd put it behind a login-wall on Medium.

Fuck off, then. I'm pretty sure I can find the same information somewhere more accessible and less intrusive. Get a blog, for gods' sake.

#getABlog