dave kellam

▲ I make things on the internet ▩ developer・designer・teacher ▤ he/him ⊙ Montréal ☞ davekellam.com

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Aeronaut

I've been enjoying using Aeronaut, a Bluesky app for mac that feels quite native. Still tend to use the site in browser, but it's a nice dedicated option to have.

Feb 9·1 min read·61 words

There Is No Antimemetics Division audiobook

I just finished up listening to the audiobook version of There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm. Can safely say that I really enjoyed it and would highly recommend. That said, I loved This Is How Y…

Jan 13·2 min read·238 words

Reweirding the web

The Good Internet: How Fandom Can Reclaim the Web. This talk by Sacha Judd at FFConf was stellar. I'm in the process of finding my back to the weird web.

Dec 30·1 min read·63 words

Requiem For Early Blogging

From Requiem For Early Blogging: [I]f you wanted people to read your blog, you had to make it compelling enough that they would visit it, directly, because they wanted to. And if they wanted to respon…

Dec 17·2 min read·296 words

Programming is mostly thinking

From Programming is mostly thinking, an article that I meant to post awhile back: If programming is 1/12th motion and 11/12ths thinking, then we shouldn't push people to be typing 11/12ths of the time…

Dec 12·1 min read·124 words

Tailscale on a Kindle

How to put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle. Might have been fun to try this, but my aging Kindle seems to have updated itself already. It would be neat to be able to drop books to it on the fly. I en…

Dec 5·1 min read·117 words

Complete CSS

I bought a copy of Complete CSS from Picalli.li a few weeks ago, with the intention of upping my CSS game. It's old territory for me, but my layout techniques pre-date flex... floats, clear fixes and …

Nov 27·1 min read·182 words

Theme of Theseus

The Ship of Theseus, also known as Theseus's Paradox, is a paradox and common thought experiment about whether an object (in the most common stating of the paradox, a ship) is the same object after ha…

Nov 26·2 min read·240 words

Make your own website

Meant to post this article a year ago when I first read it, For The Love of God, Make Your Own Website.This almost reads like me in my early teens: Browsing the internet used to be a hobby of mine. Ev…

Nov 25·2 min read·292 words

Why hyperlinks are blue

Revisiting why hyperlinks are blue. For anyone interested in the history of hypertext, the web or precursors to it

Jan 12·1 min read·42 words