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One of the few uncovered sections of Bowker Creek, one of the dead rivers of Greater Victoria like the Walbrook. This section runs between Cadboro Bay Rd and Bee St

I have no blog post today, just one scheduled and three almost complete. My review of the “Matthew Amt” kopis from Deepeeka in India is complete except for editing and photography (I need a sunny day with no day job). I have a post about Google declaring war on the web, and why now is an excellent time to disconnect from centralized American services. And because it is income-tax and rebalancing season, I have two posts on personal finance: one offering two cheers for dividend stocks, and the other on the performance of an actual index portfolio over thirteen years. Instead of finishing this post I attended a Victoria Civic Orchestra concert at Oak Bay High on Saturday, then picked up a preorder copy of Greeley’s Almighty Dollar at Munro’s and checked the posters for events along Government Street.

I am not living the way I like, but I am living.

Edit 2026-06-01: layout issues, typo in title

(scheduled 31 May 2026)

#lifeUpdates #metaBlogging #modern
lmorchard's linksMay 6
RSS Feeds Send Me More Traffic Than Google – Terence Eden’s Blog

"about 25% of my traffic comes from people who have chosen to subscribe."

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/rss-feeds-send-me-more-traffic-than-google/

#metablogging #rss #webdev
RSS Feeds Send Me More Traffic Than Google

Yeah yeah, I know, data-point of 1. I recently read Susam's blog post where they said that "most of the traffic to my personal website still comes from web feeds" - I wondered if that was true for my site. I've been writing this blog for a while. I've never much bothered with "aggressive" SEO - I have a fairly semantic layout, all my reviews have metadata, and stuff like that - but I'm not…

Terence Eden’s Blog
lmorchard's linksApr 7
Password Protecting Static Site Content with WASM

"I use static site generators for my sites. I call out to external APIs to do anything dynamic. The exception is password protection. I'd always thought that needed to be done dynamically on a site's host server. I realized with WASM that's not the case. Files can be encrypted and served statically with a WASM process providing decryption directly on the front end."

https://al9000.com/rust/wasm/static-site-file-decryption/

#metablogging #security #ssg #static #wasm #webdev
Password Protecting Static Site Content with WASM

a post from alan w. smith

lmorchard's linksMar 31
Fully Local Code Embeds | Aleksandr Hovhannisyan

"A few years ago, I was looking for a way to add interactive code sandboxes to my Markdown files without embedding third-party iframes, like the ones from Codepen or Codesandbox. Those services are great and I use them all the time to share demos, but I’ve never been a fan of using them on a blog since you have to jump back and forth between your local Markdown file and an external site to make changes to the demos. Plus, they typically load lots of JavaScript."

https://www.aleksandrhovhannisyan.com/blog/local-code-embeds/

#metablogging #webcomponents #webdev
Fully Local Code Embeds | Aleksandr Hovhannisyan

A simple web component for rendering isolated code embeds using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

lmorchard's linksMar 31
You are falling behind because you haven’t fed the insincerity machine in the last 5 minutes | Christian Heilmann

"As an actor or author you don’t send your body or stunt double to attend interviews or sell autographs at comic con. Don’t create a virtual double that posts for you on social media when you can’t be arsed or feel overwhelmed. Take that overwhelming feeling and write about it, showing the world that your mental health is as fragile as the one of the people who follow you and read your work. Be human and only there when you can be there."

https://christianheilmann.com/2026/03/28/you-are-falling-behind-because-you-havent-fed-the-insincerity-machine-in-the-last-5-minutes/

#ai #metablogging #socialmedia #writing
You are falling behind because you haven’t fed the insincerity machine in the last 5 minutes | Christian Heilmann

lmorchard's linksMar 18
RSS Gizmos - Tools for Creating, Finding, and Using RSS Feeds

"RSS feeds give you the power to set up and control your own information flow — you get to make your own algorithm for the things you want to see from the sources you want to follow. Choose a tool below to get started."

https://rssgizmos.com/

#feeds #metablogging #rss
RSS Gizmos - Tools for Creating, Finding, and Using RSS Feeds

ピゴスパMar 14

After my first blog post only introduced my blogging software, but not so much the blogger (i.e. me :) ), I now added a secong blog post, in which I introduce myself and all my hobbies and interests. Ejoy!

https://pygospa.codeberg.page/posts/pygoscelis-papua/

#metablogging #introduction #aboutme #hobbies #blogosphere #background #programming #linux #hardware #photogrpahy #languagelearning #language #learning #reading #movies #series #music #festivals #videogames #boardgames #travelling #geocaching #community #conference #sports #nutrition

Pygoscelis papua?!

An introduction of myself, and what to expect on this blog

pygospa's blog
lmorchard's linksJan 26
A fun trick for getting discovered by LLMs and AI tools

"I have been getting a lot of newsletter responses, DMs, and emails in general saying that people have discovered my work not via traditional SEO, but via LLMs and AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and even GitHub Copilot."

https://cassidoo.co/post/ai-llm-discoverability/

#ai #llms #metablogging #search #seo #web
A fun trick for getting discovered by LLMs and AI tools

After learning that people were finding my content via LLMs, I tried using said LLMs to make them find me even more often!

lmorchard's linksJan 10
Various ways to include comments on your static site

"Static site generators like Eleventy, Jekyll or Hugo have become a popular choice for a blogging platform or a CMS. When using something like WordPress or Medium, you get a comment section out of the box. It isn't as straightforward in a static environment. In this article, I'll summarize different options to provide your audience with a way to leave a comment."

https://darekkay.com/blog/static-site-comments/

#indieweb #metablogging #webdev
Various ways to include comments on your static site

Overview of different techniques to implement comments using a static site generator.

Darek Kay
Les OrchardJan 10
Finally getting around to giving a hard glare at that Disqus widget at the bottom of all my blog posts. Subsequently, I've fallen down a rabbit hole of Webmentions info and newer self-hosted comment systems for static blogs that I've been meaning to check out for a long time. #webdev #indieweb #metablogging