Thomas Vander Wal

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Who watches the watchmaker?
The NY Times Games being out for the quick mind jog in the morning has been odd.

After “a few weeks" I've posted a weeknote again - https://www.vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=2138

#indieweb

Weeknote - 15 March 2026 :: Off the Top :: vanderwal.net

SCIENCE!
One day after it was 87F the sky has gone all slushie machine on us.

It has been a while since I've seen the GitHub angry unicorn. I was not expecting it trying to get to a github.com repo for Apple.

Everybody has to upgrades some time.

With a few small tweaks today I added in the post number where the title is missing and added the permalink to the blog posts as well.

I'm loving this month's IndieWeb Carnival blogging focus, museums (https://indieweb.org/IndieWeb_Carnival) with @capjamesg hosting it. His introduction is quite good: https://jamesg.blog/2026/03/01/indieweb-carnival-museum-memories

This took me down a bit of a rabbit hole as I have an affinity for museums (I initially was thinking just art museums, but I disabused myself of that quickly). I may have more than one post on museums, but the precursor is up https://vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=2137

#indieweb

IndieWeb Carnival

IndieWeb Carnival is a blog carnival on topics related to the IndieWeb specifically.

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Yesterday I finally swapped the engine in the database for my blog posts in vanderwal.net and my lab project for adding search now can search 3 letter words.

With 35+ years working with SQL flavored databases I'm always cautious, but added a bit more caution than usual. Dang it was simple and no issues.

The vanderwal.net Lab search of my blog is at: https://lab.vanderwal.net/search_page.php should you want to try.

Next step: Add headers to very old blog posts and add the permalink to the search results.

Search Page :: Lab :: vanderwal.net