Spent most of the day cleaning up a hacked website. Computers might have been a mistake. WordPress definitely was.
I’m trying out AutoHotKey after seeing Joel’s post with his example script. Looks promising and more flexible.
Please help support a trans community member in San Diego receiving gender affirming surgery: https://gofund.me/1892ec18
Any amount helps and boosting appreciated. 💛
I’m a big fan of Blue Star Donuts
Listened to “Air-Borne” with Carl Zimmer on 99% Invisible. It was a great introduction to our growing understanding of airborne viruses and the importance of cleaning the air, much like we clean the water.
Very relatable. Thank you for sharing and I wish the same for you tomorrow. 💛
Watched a great Defcon talk by Micah Lee: “We are currently clean on OPSEC”: The Signalgate Saga
I knew it was bad but hadn’t followed it much after the initial news cycle. It was even worse than I thought.
This cracked me up: comicss.art/comics/190/ 🤣
h/t Joe Crawford
I updated my site to use the Libravatar CDN for avatars. If one isn't found, it will still fallback to Gravatar, so it should be seamless for commenters. I also updated the default icon to identicons, so people without avatars will get a nifty geometric image instead of the anonymous silhouette.
My privacy policy is updated with this information too.
Want to read: The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by (ISBN 9780399573194)


Throwback to 2018. This mural used to be in North Park, San Diego near where I lived. The artist is Mark Paul Deren (@madsteez on Instagram) and it was titled “WEENosaurus Rex.”
Unfortunately, a mini Target moved into the space and they painted over it, despite a petition trying to save it. Here’s an NBC San Diego article about it. It looks like WEENosaurus might still live on in Fairfax, Virginia, though.
Challenge accepted! 😉 jk


New shirt arrived just in time for HTML Day! Of course I got the cat one, too.
Grab your own: drawingsbynicole.com
This method worked for me and I love it: tenbluelinks.org
I watched Shiny Happy People S2 about Teen Mania. I thought it was a good overview and done well. I think I’m going to write more about my experiences from my current perspective. Most of my writings on it are from early 2000s and a lot has changed. Ask me anything!

An IndieWeb meme, quoted from Tantek in the #indieweb-meta chat.
Just a friendly reminder that we don’t have to rank different levels of independence and there’s no One Way to Be Indie™. There are always tradeoffs with the web, but hopefully we are moving towards more individual control of the things we create. I think the IndieWeb community does a good job embodying that in the principles.
Gripe: I got a parking ticket for being within 20ft of a crosswalk. It was right in front of my place where I’ve parked for years and was not in the red zone. That doesn’t matter, though, because I learned the California “Daylighting” law (CVC 22500) does not require painted curbs to be cited. So, heads up out there.
I think the 20ft rule is good, but this implementation of it sucks. It went into effect January 1 and supposedly they had a grace period of 60 days where they issued warnings, but I never received one.
This crispy chickpea pesto eggs recipe sounds so good, going to try it out.