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artlung.com

artlung.com

/now
Updated July 17, 2025

Recently I: **am angry at fascists.** I've been thinking: everyone carries a web browser in their pocket. Go make a web page. Web pages are fun. This is my _now_ page. Blog post more info ------------------- * Return to Mashups (2025-07-15) * Low Key Outing; Art; Lazy Bears Over Under (2025-07-15) * Pancakes could bring up Sequel Pro (2025-07-09) * Pelican (2025-07-08) * Making GIFs with Fliiip Book (2025-07-08) * Unposted 4th of July (2025-07-07) * Blog comments ā€œlike taking a number at a grocery store deli counterā€ (thanks Matt) #comic #blogging (2025-07-06) * What Bodysurfing Taught Me About Life Away From The Water (2025-07-05) Affirmations more info ---------------------- * I am enough and I have enough. #affirmation (2025-07-17) * I am creative. #affirmation (2025-07-16) * I am intelligent and resourceful. I find solutions to problems. I am not defeated by them. #affirmation (2025-07-15) * Be gentle with yourself. #affirmation (2025-07-14) * Because my higher power will keep me unharmed, I am confidently on the firing line of life. #affirmation (2025-07-13) * I set my boundaries for me. #affirmation (2025-07-12) Comic more info --------------- * (2025-01-24) Mastodon post more info ----------------------- * DO A KICK FLIP (2025-07-17) * Now in my Lab with source available in GitHub. And in theory, it will retain the pinwheels you create. https://lab.artlung.com/slideorama-pinwheels/ (2025-07-17) * I love a web page in 2025. With a little bit of JavaScript and some CSS (and SCSS) one can create an interactive gewgaw that I find very satisfying. And so, I present Slideorama Pinwheels. #cpcSlideInteractions #CodePenChallenge https://codepen.io/artlung/pen/PwPqXLw (2025-07-16) * I think we learned our lesson on making California Governors into US Presidents from Ronald Reagan. Like the Mayor of NYC, it’s a substantive position that SEEMS like it might could lead to the Presidency, but really: HELL NO. (2025-07-16) * Found on Metafilter Projects. https://projects.metafilter.com/6407/Pixel-Piranhas (2025-07-15) * Created by Michail Rybakov https://rybakov.com/project/pixel\_piranas/ (2025-07-15) Lab more info ------------- * Slideorama Pinwheels (2025-07-17) * WML, WAP, & Microformats Demo (2025-06-18) * Kanban Task Board in CSS Grid (2025-06-04) * Ventcheck, a Twitter bot (2025-05-16) * Safari Mailto Converter (2025-05-15) * Mid-air footer (2025-03-06) * Gettysburg Address in HTML. Interactive. (2025-02-21) * Spoiler Widget (2025-02-12) Smorgasborg more info --------------------- * Maarva Andor Has A Posse (2025-04-26) * IndieWeb Sickos (2025-04-10) * Guru Meditation (2025-03-15) * This Man Wants To Clean Your Clothes (Velvet Touch Dry Cleaners & Laundry) Pacific Beach, San Diego California (2025-02-23) * Illinois State of the State Address, 2025 by Governor J.B. Pritzker (2025-02-19) * Good Words (2025-02-12) * Giant Woman (2025-01-27) * All the Foods I Cannot Eat by Leoh Blooms (2025-01-08) CSS Battles more info --------------------- * CSSBattle for JULY 17 (2025) * CSSBattle for JULY 16 (2025) * CSSBattle for JULY 15 (2025) * CSSBattle for JULY 14 (2025) * CSSBattle for JULY 13 (2025) Sorry for the audio glitches! FrESH more info --------------- * Front End Study Hall #032 _Jul 17, 2025_ * Front End Study Hall #031 _Jul 1, 2025_ * Front End Study Hall #030 _Jun 17, 2025_ * Front End Study Hall #029 _Jun 3, 2025_ * Front End Study Hall #028 _May 20, 2025_ Likes more info --------------- * Joe Crawford liked: Mashups by James : > what if I blend two blog posts together? (2025-07-16) * Joe Crawford liked: Sticker Samples by Thomas Vander Wal : > This started as a small 88 x 31 badge for my site. Then I went to make an alternate at a different size. But, then I ran across a set of travel stickers for suitcases in a magazine that can be used as intended. (2025-07-16) * Joe Crawford liked: Melanie Richards by Melanie Richards : > My personal mission is to empower people to make interesting, useful, and inclusive things on the web…and I always love making side projects! (2025-07-15) * Joe Crawford liked: The Secret Web by Benjamin Hollon (2025-07-15) * Joe Crawford liked: A Decade of Botwiki by Stefan Bohacek (2025-07-15) * Joe Crawford liked: Be My BIMI (Brand Indicators for Message Identification) by Mandaris Moore (2025-07-15) Bodysurfing ----------- * (2025-07-15) Mixtape more info ----------------- * 2025 PHŌLƖSOPHŶ Toy Robots more info -------------------- * (2025-05-07)
benjamincongdon.me

benjamincongdon.me

/ideas
Updated June 17, 2025

Ben Congdon * About * Blog * Projects * A service to generate a podcast from a RSS feed using text-to-speech. * A version of Buffer for Mastodon. * Instapaper * Chrome Extension to add ā€œAdd to Instapaperā€ links to lobste.rs. * Chrome Extension to add ā€œAdd to Instapaperā€ links to feedly. Fitness / Health ---------------- * Self hosted version of MyFitnessPal. Others’ Ideas Pages ------------------- * Jonathan Borichevskiy * Alexey Guzey * Gwern * James McMurray (Updated June 16, 2025 )
bryanhogan.com

bryanhogan.com

/now
Updated July 17, 2025

Last updated on 17 July 2025 from Seoul in South Korea.
calbryant.uk

calbryant.uk

/about
Updated July 17, 2025

I’m Cal1 Bryant. I enjoy writing software, electronic design, leadership, DIY, coffee, HiFi audio, cardio/strength training.2 I live in Cambridgeshire with my wife, 2 daughters and our cat. I currently work at Cydar (a medical imaging technology company) as Head of Engineering after a stint at Broadcom I studied Electrical & Electronic Engineering (MEng) at the University of Leicester.3 You can check out my CV as HTML or PDF. 4 See also my Github,5 X and LinkedIn profiles. Generally at work my philosophy is to try to ā€œreplaceā€ myself; automate systems and empower team members to produce a robust and effective business unit. This is to allow me to focus on the bigger picture of driving to commercial success. I tend to hire generalists and look for people that are excited, passionate and have the drive to pursue hobbies in related areas. I find these are the best indicators of someone able to innovate and invent, which is essential in my mind. I enjoy mentoring and work closely with my team, being careful not to micro-manage. I stay technical, keeping close to system design, architecture and technical decisions. Despite engineering being a huge motivation for me, I work closely with the commercial team and rest of the leadership to ensure a return on investment for the engineering spend. Get in touch via email or X regarding anything on this website.6 * * * 1. Short for ā€œCallanā€Ā ā†©ļøŽ 2. Badminton, running, cycling and circuit training. Sometimes kayaking.Ā ā†©ļøŽ 3. Awarded 1st Class Hons.Ā ā†©ļøŽ 4. Generated from a YAML template using Hugo and LaTeX with Jinja2. Optimised for file size with ghostscript, cleaned with exiftool and qpdf.Ā ā†©ļøŽ 5. Of note, dstask (terminal git-powered todo app) and dsnet (quick wireguard VPN manager)Ā ā†©ļøŽ 6. Made from scratch with hugo with a focus on typography, quality UX and SEO. Optimised to load lightning fast using a bs4 + tinycss2 based script to inline CSS/JS, tree-shake CSS and substitute class names, a selenium script to annotate images below the fold for lazy-loading, html-minifier (which uses clean-css and UglifyJS), optipng, jpegoptim, svgo for originals, with webp images, no frameworks, caching and a global CDN behind nginx with a best-practice config. Written with neovim, validated with VNU validator, spellchecked with typos, linted with eslint, stylelint and proselint. Built as a nix derivation.Ā ā†©ļøŽ
dbohdan.com

dbohdan.com

/about
Updated July 17, 2025

My website has been online since 2013. It serves as my personal wiki where I collect writing and thoughts. Some pages are rougher and most useful for me, while others are more polished and made for other readers. Cam Pegg’s defunct ā€œNotes to Selfā€ listed the site as a ā€œdigital gardenā€. In its current incarnation, the site is a collection of interlinked HTML files output by a custom static site generator and served by Caddy. The result is something like a wiki that only one person can edit. The static site generator performs the following steps for each page: 1. Take Pandoc Markdown text and TOML metadata 2. Expand Jinja macros in the Markdown (if enabled for the page) 3. Convert Markdown to HTML with Pandoc 4. Inject the HTML into a Jinja page template configured using global and page metadata I keep the content and the code versioned separately in two different Git repositories. Influences on the site include Wikipedia, the Tcler’s Wiki, Ward Cunningham’s wiki, the Memex and Ted Nelson’s writings, TiddlyWiki, TV Tropes, Everything2, and Everything Shii Knows. The common theme of these sites is writing evolving pages instead of finished blog posts. Other themes include internal linking, organizing link collections into documents (similar to Memex ā€œtrailsā€), and one page per subject. The biggest influence is Gwern.net. Watching its development was what finally made me turn a stalled blog into a personal wiki. Besides the philosophy of perpetual drafts and writing for your future self, the influence is concrete in the design. I have borrowed many design elements from Gwern.net that are not visible to the reader, like Pandoc, link archival, and the interwiki link syntax (`[favicon](!W)` to link to ā€œFaviconā€ on Wikipedia), as well as visible design elements like the subscript dates and link icons. The initial version of the site (subsequently labeled 0.x) was a static page with links to my profiles on other sites and a contact form. The links survive in the ā€œelsewhereā€ section of the index page, and the contact form is largely unchanged. I wrote the pages in Markdown and converted them to HTML manually with John Gruber’s `Markdown.pl`. To store the page source code, I created a Git repository. The manual process was soon replaced as I started developing the Tclssg static site generator. The focus of the site became its newly-added blog, which lasted from 2014 to 2016. Blogging was not necessarily a medium that encouraged me to write and publish. The blog is preserved. Tclssg remains in use outside my website. It has been adopted by some Tcl users and projects, including core.tcl-lang.org. The second major version (2020–2022) was a personal wiki served by Fossil SCM. After examining different wiki software and finding flaws with each, I went with one I was already using. I had noticed Fossil’s curious potential for use outside of source control. Fossil had enough wiki and theming features to serve a customized website. It let you edit the site’s contents in the browser. I joked that Fossil SCM was secretly ā€œFossil CMSā€. This marked a temporary break from storing content in Git. Deployment became a Debian package that replaced or failed to replacethe previous version atomically. It took some hacks to make Fossil do what I wanted. The wiki lacked categories and transclusion. At the time, it could not generate a table of content for the page. I created a simple notation for tags and began generating a ā€œtag pageā€ using a Tcl script. The script ran when I synchronized my local Fossil repository with dbohdan.com. (A Fossil synchronization is like a Git pull followed by a push.) The TOC was generated in JavaScript in the reader’s browser. I enjoyed my time with a Fossil site. Being able to edit the wiki in the browser removed friction compared to a static site generator. However, I kept feeling Fossil’s limitations as a wiki engine. Besides built-in categories and TOCs, I wanted the ability to version pages together. You can understand the edit history of your site better when related changes to multiple page are grouped together. Using the `/doc/` page feature was an option but would negate Fossil’s advantage of live wiki editing. I wrote fossil-wiki-export to to have a migration path off Fossil and eventually used it. I initially ​(2022) wrote the third major version of the static site generator in Clojure. It was still a wiki, only static now. The code ran in Babashka and rendered a page template using Django templates-inspired Selmer. Not long after, in 2023, I ported it to Python to take advantage of its numerous libraries and good optional static typing thanks to Pyright. A Django-inspired template language made it easy to translate the template to Jinja. Deployment remained through a Debian package, only now it contained static files for `/var/www/`. I was pretty happy with the Clojure-Python version. By using `ThreadPoolExecutor` in Python and leaning on Pandoc Lua filters, I reduced the build time of the site to single-digit seconds. (I also experimentally wrote an `async`/`await` version. I discarded it when it proved slower than a thread pool.) In 2025, I ported my Jinja page template to htpy. As the Jinja template grew more complex, I started thinking about how make it more maintainable. I looked into other template languages and was drawn to writing HTML directly in Python. It meant I could use standard tools like Ruff and Pyright on the template. I compiled a list of Python HTML DSLs and later went with htpy as the most mature. Porting the template and refactoring the generator for it only took a day. I kept using Jinja for macros. More about htpy. Ruff linting and Pyright type checking were immediately useful. The Ruff Formatter was not. It didn’t format `foo[bar, baz,]` as multiline the way it would `foo(bar, baz,)` and didn’t produce the look I wanted for a markup DSL. I quickly placed the layout between `# fmt: off` and `# fmt: on` comments to disable automatic formatting. htpy only output minified HTML, and I wanted the final HTML to be readable and indented consistenty. This was something I didn’t have with Jinja and Pandoc. Since whitespace can matter in HTML, I looked for a formatter that wouldn’t break change significant whitespace like tidy-html5 sometimes did. Pretter looked the most proven. I was hesitant to add Node.js dependency to the project compared to C, Go, or Rust, but it turned out a nonissue. As a notice bonus, the formatting step only takes a couple of seconds. I consider shortcodes or macros essential for managing complex pages. They make a page easier to create and especially to maintain over time compared to HTML markup. The macros in page Markdown went through several iterations. Tclssg allows you to write Tcl code in pages, which I used for transclusion and a more compact syntax for images. Those macros were gone with the switch to Fossil. Macros in major version 3 of the site began as edn expressions between `<<< ... >>>` delimiters. The first term determined the macro function to call, like `include`, and the rest was passed as arguments. The string returned from the function replaced the delimited expression. These macros were only simple shortcodes without control flow. With the migration to Python, I replaced edn with `shlex`. The content required minimal changes because I didn’t use complex edn expressions. Most recently, I have replaced custom macros with Jinja. This improved the macro system and at the same time reduced the line count in the SSG. What pushed me to do it was the need to optimize the size and image quality of the _Chrontendo_ episode guide page, which grew large with the addition of the episode covers. A little testing of different image formats showed I could accomplish both goals with AVIF. However, I needed a fallback for browsers that didn’t support the still-new image format. Jinja let me define a macro in the body of the page that generated `` tags for AVIF images with JPEG fallback. This is the macro: <% macro cover(alt, src_prefix, attrs) %> <%= alt =%> /> <% endmacro -%> The delimiters are `<% ... %>` and `<%= ... =%>` in place of Jinja’s standard `{% ... %}` and `{{ ... }}` to avoid conflicts with things like the Caddy templates. I experimented with long URLs derived from the page title by a simple algorithm. What I learned was that URLs should be short. They should also use a minimal set of characters in the path (`[/A-Za-z0-9.-_]`) and avoid query strings. In the Fossil incarnation of my site, I decided at first to embrace Wikipedia-style page naming: my page URLs included the full title. I thought it was neat: one less thing to worry about; less friction when creating pages. My Fossil URLs started out as > https://dbohdan.com/wiki?name=How+Internet+communities+function and evolved to > https://dbohdan.com/wiki/How+Internet+communities+function and then > https://dbohdan.com/wiki/internet-communities First, I realized the query part of a URL is too easily lost. Looking for alternatives, I discovered Fossil allowed `/wiki/Baz+foo` instead of `/wiki?name=Baz+foo`. I didn’t link to my site from many places, yet I still noticed that spaces encoded as `+` in the path part of the URL were sometimes a problem for linking and automatic URL detection. Encoding spaces as `%20` worked more often but looked even uglier. Eventually, I gave up on the idea of page names with the full title. When I migrated off Fossil, I dropped the `/wiki/` part. My current URL format is one or more lowercase English words joined by dashes: > https://dbohdan.com/internet-communities * Sam Hughes, ā€œOn short URLsā€, https://qntm.org/urls2011 * Derek Sivers, ā€œShort URLs: why and howā€, https://sive.rs/su2022 * Gwern Branwen, ā€œDesign Graveyard: Long URLsā€, https://gwern.net/design-graveyard#long-urls2023 * Clean URL I cannot quite endorse Derek Sivers’s approach. I think regular words are preferable to single letters or initialisms. Words are easier to remember. Words are also easier to type on a mobile device with autocomplete. Typos are more obvious in common words. With words instead of single letters typos are less likely to take you to an existing but wrong page. For almost a decade the site used lightly customized Bootstrap 3: at first plain, then with the theme Sandstone from Bootswatch. Now the site uses its own stylesheet that partially imitates the look it had with Bootstrap. The site’s current palette was built around a tweaked subset of colors from Sandstone. The site favicon is taken from the original Windows File Manager (`winfile.exe`). In 2018 Windows File Manager was released as free software under the MIT License. Unless indicated otherwise, all of my code on the pages of this site is distributed under the MIT License. License pages like /mit-license/2025 are generated dynamically in an approach inspired by mit-license.org. It is documented on the Caddy page.
ggirelli.info

ggirelli.info

/ideas
Updated July 13, 2025

> I am following the `About Ideas Now` manifesto. > The `About` page holds the _past_, the `Now` page the _present_, while the `Ideas` page the _future_. ### šŸ–„ļø At the computer * Improve `Rust` proficiency. #### `ggirelli.info` * Add an accessibility statement (see this page) * Move data for lunr index to separate page and asynchronously read it via AJAX. * Use GitHub actions to POSSE microblog posts. * Use GitHub actions and webhooks to quickly post microblog posts. What does the future hold? šŸ”® (Updated: Jul 13, 2025)
joshsutphin.com

joshsutphin.com

/ideas
Updated July 5, 2025

Released -------- Backlog ------- I have too many things in progress 😭 **Briarcliff** A moody exploration of the aftermath of one man’s desperate sacrifice to an ancient god. **Crossroads** A hopecore novella about a down-on-her-luck artist who takes a job at a supernatural boutique. The vibes are cozy, but there’s one rule: _we don’t talk about the hellmouth in the basement_. **The Blizzard** A pair of small-time criminals on the run from the law take refuge in an abandoned gas station in the middle of a blizzard. There, the ghosts of their past catch up with them. **The Deep** A deep sea salvage dive encounters a cosmic threat that reframes human existence as we know it. Copyright Ā© 2025 Josh Sutphin. All rights reserved.
nicksimson.com

nicksimson.com

/now
Updated July 15, 2025

I am currently: * working with an awesome digital experience team. * raising a preschooler with Eleanor. * watching and listening to the Amazin’ Mets ⚾ broadcasts. šŸ“ ABQ NM USA ------------- (Forecast by OpenWeather) The Duke City has been home since 2023. I am slowly making more friendsĀ here! šŸ“š Reading ---------- I use Literal and The StoryGraph to keep track of my reading. šŸŽ§ Listening ------------ My last.fm account keeps track of music I listen to throughout the day. Stats are fun. I’m also scrobbling to Libre.fm as much as I can. This page uses a few third-party widgets and APIs to display my current status, weather, books, and music. _Last manually updated July 15, 2025._ Inspired by Derek Sivers’ nownownow.com. This page has its own profile, too.
nnethercote.github.io

nnethercote.github.io

/about
Updated July 18, 2025

I am a software engineer in Melbourne, Australia. I like Rust. I have worked on many kinds of systems software, including compilers, web browsers, profilers, checkers, benchmarking suites, and networking infrastructure. More about me. Posts ----- * Jul 18, 2025 ### I am a Rust compiler engineer looking for a new job * Jun 26, 2025 ### How much code does that proc macro generate? * May 22, 2025 ### How to speed up the Rust compiler in May 2025 * Apr 8, 2025 ### A home free from fossil fuels * Mar 19, 2025 ### How to speed up the Rust compiler in March 2025 * Dec 19, 2024 ### Streamlined dataflow analysis code in rustc * Mar 6, 2024 ### How to speed up the Rust compiler in March 2024 * Mar 5, 2024 ### Code review in the Rust compiler * Aug 25, 2023 ### How to speed up the Rust compiler in August 2023 * Aug 1, 2023 ### How to speed up the Rust compiler: data analysis update * Jul 25, 2023 ### How to speed up the Rust compiler: data analysis assistance requested! * Jul 11, 2023 ### Back-end parallelism in the Rust compiler * May 3, 2023 ### Valgrind 3.21 is out * Mar 24, 2023 ### How to speed up the Rust compiler in March 2023 * Oct 27, 2022 ### How to speed up the Rust compiler in October 2022 * Oct 5, 2022 ### Quirks of Rust's token representation * Jul 27, 2022 ### Twenty years of Valgrind * Jul 20, 2022 ### How to speed up the Rust compiler in July 2022 * Apr 12, 2022 ### How to speed up the Rust compiler in April 2022 * Feb 25, 2022 ### How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2022 * Jan 5, 2022 ### Rust and Valgrind * Dec 8, 2021 ### A brutally effective hash function in Rust * Nov 12, 2021 ### The Rust compiler has gotten faster again * Nov 11, 2021 ### Jury Duty * Nov 10, 2021 ### Bio-poem
paologabriel.com

paologabriel.com

/now
Updated July 13, 2025

Also found on the /Now project. Here is what I am doing ----------------------- I mixed feelings about vibe coding. As an experienced engineer, I find it powerful to delegate routine but important tasks. Not sure how someone with no experience will find space, however... Now that this website is live and publishing quarterly Logs, it is time to grow the swamp. Several pages need growing and there's some new content on the way. I also learned about IndieWeb, so am trying to connect. I'm also updating my resume to give to an AI agent. It's part of the beta program for Cardinal Refer, currently only for Stanford engineering alumni. Work is going well. Otherwise, just trying to live. * **May 2025**: website go-live * **March 2025**: published a new paper with **Frontiers in Imaging** * **August 2024**: stardust kitchen manager at ttitd * **July 2024**: engaged <3 * **April 2024**: MazatlƔn solar eclipse * **April 2023**: New Zealand van-life * **February 2023**: Greta adoption * **September 2022**: promoted to senior engineering * **August 2022**: alto saxophone with the black rock philharmonic * **September 2021**: Iceland van-life * **April 2020**: legendary defender of Ascalon (Guild Wars) * **November 2019**: published main paper with Journal of Neural Engineering graduate from UC San Diego, joined LookDeep Health as Computer Vision Engineer, moved to Oakland, CA * **October 2019**: phd thesis defense * **August 2019**: joined stardust at ttitd * **September 2018**: Nigel adoption * **August 2018**: first time camping... solo at ttitd, census and barista volunteer. * **Summer 2017**: National Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies * **September 2013**: joined Translational Neuroengineering Lab * **July 2013**: moved to San Diego, CA for phd at UC San Diego * **June 2013**: graduated from Stanford University * **Summer 2012**: internship in Yokohama (Furukawa Electric) * **Spring 2012**: study abroad in Kyoto (Doshisha University) * **Summer 2011**: XOX co-op * **September 2009**: move to Stanford, CA for Stanford University, joined LSJUMB * **June 2009**: graduate from Sycamore High School * **June 2000**: moved to Cincinnati, OH * **January 1995**: Great Hanshin earthquake displacement (HK->PH->JP) * **January 1993**: moved to Kobe, Japan * **September 1991**: born in Manila, Philippines * * *
virtuallyconnecting.org

virtuallyconnecting.org

/about
Updated July 18, 2025

The purpose of **Virtually Connecting** is to enliven virtual participation in academic conferences, widening access to a fuller conference experience for those who cannot be physically present at conferences. We are a community of volunteers and it is always free to participate. Using emerging technologies, we connect onsite conference presenters and attendees with virtual participants in small groups. This allows virtual conference participants to meet and talk with conference presenters and attendees in what often feels like those great spontaneous hallway conversations, something not usually possible for a virtual experience. There is only room for 10 in each session but we record and, whenever possible, live stream, to allow additional virtual attendees to participate in the discussion by listening and asking questions via Twitter. We add value at all levels of the conference experience: **For Virtual Participants** You are our main focus. We exist to give you access where there was none before – well at least not the way that we do it. It is always free for you to participate with us. If you have purchased a virtual pass to a conference that we are at that’s great, you can dive even deeper in our sessions; you will find that our sessions are much more informal and loose knit – think the informal time at the conference during hallway or coffee breaks. If the conference is not offering a virtual option or if you cannot afford or otherwise obtain a virtual pass you will find that our sessions are a great way to get a feel for what is going on there. If there is a conference that you would like to attend, and you cannot, reach out to us. **For Those Onsite at the Conference** We add value to the onsite experience by bringing in diverse perspectives that cannot often make it to the conference. These can include unaffiliated scholars, graduate students, adjuncts, moms of young kids, those with health issues that prevent travel, and people from countries with emerging economies or countries far away from where most academic conferences are held. These voices broaden the collective conversation that is happening at the conference creating a more heterogeneous voice influencing those that are in attendance. If you are planning to attend or present at an academic conference and would like to connect with virtual participants contact us. **For Conference Organizers** We aim for our presence at your conference to broaden and enliven the experience for all participants. Our presence will help you to create a larger mark in the virtual space (think social media, networks, blogs, and an international presence) whether or not you are offering other virtual options. The value we bring to participants, attendees, and presenters, both onsite and in the virtual world, will help you to extend the reach of your mission and purpose. If you are holding a conference and you would like to partner with us please let us know. It is our hope that through our work people will not only make new connections, but they will also make weak connections stronger. Currently our focus is on Educational Technology conferences because those are the ones we attend/follow, and they are also ones that often have some virtual participation option via streaming sessions (free or paid), active Twitter usage, or make presentation material openly available in some way. Please note that **_we consider ourselves to be free agents –_** _While we welcome conference partnership (e.g. conferences organizers that mention us in sessions, give us space onsite with good wifi or space on their website or blog, or offer us free/reduced registration) we think of ourselves as guerilla connectors and we feel we are free to meet individuals at conferences without needing organizer permission. Unless otherwise noted, we are not officially affiliated with any of the organizations and/or conferences in which we participate._ **For more information see:** * Beyond Twitter: Virtually Connecting at Conferences – ProfHacker Chronicle of Higher Education * Bali, M., Caines, A., DeWaard, H., & Hogue, R. (2016, December). Ethos and Practice of a Connected Learning Movement: Interpreting Virtually Connecting Through Alignment with Theory and Survey Results. _Online Learning Journal, 20_(4). Pp. 212-229. Retrieved from https://olj.onlinelearningconsortium.org/index.php/olj/article/view/965/247 * Virtual, Hybrid, or Present? The #ET4Buddy Conference Experiment – Digital Pedagogy Lab * The Virtually Connecting Manifesto * Virtually Connecting f(un)bios
winther.sysctl.dk

winther.sysctl.dk

/ideas
Updated July 3, 2025

winther blog ------------ / /blog /about /now /ideas /postroll /bookmarks /guestbook This is for work in progress stuff and loose ideas. Possible future blog posts -------------------------- * An essay of sorts on spaghetti westerns and why I love them * Simple analytics of nginx logs with awk * Something about Calvin & Hobbes * Memories of my early web days * Commentary tracks on movies * Art is more than just content Technical todolist ------------------ * Make a dark theme for the blog * Migrate my other blogs from Jekyll to Zola * A last updated time for the postroll * Containerize the sciencefiction.dk CMS Part of the /about and /now concept from aboutideasnow.com Updated July 3, 2025

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