Week notes: 12th April 2026

A search engine that only indexes personal sites

One of my coworkers suggested this the other day. I’m not sure exactly what it would look like, but I want it.

  • Sites should be run by individuals or small groups.
  • Sites should be primarily not-for-profit.
  • The personality of the site owner(s) should not be obscured behind a Brand.

Electric Heartbeats

Reminds me of the locative art from Spook Country.

The Home Stayer

Luis Mendo’s excellent COVID era cover covers.

Howl

Probably the first beat era poem I’ve read all the way through. Feels like rolling waves crashing against the rocks. Reminds me of the Philip K. Dick bit from A Scanner Darkly: “They wanted to have a good time, but they were like children playing in the street; they could see one after another of them being killed–run over, maimed, destroyed–but they continued to play anyhow.”

Inputs and the Information Firing Squad

Jeremy Bassetti: “It is difficult, if not impossible, for someone to live and work optimally when they have too many inputs.”

Why So Many Control Rooms Were Seafoam Green

I love this sort of thing. It would be fun to take the colour palette and turn it into a CSS theme.

 
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