Around the web (week of 16 February 2026)

I had forgotten my practice of compiling weekly notes. I want to get back to it. This week, I have been reading about the IndieWeb. I will explain the thoughts and motivations that led me down this rabbithole another time.

For now, I will just compile some resources that I will want to refer back to.

Reading

• A Website to End All Websites, by Henry (from online):

In American cities, for example: though at first the automobile enabled humans to travel further distances, it now demanded that humans travel those distances, and demanded infrastructure be created & maintained to enable it. Many now must use an automobile to get everything done in their town in a day, and must pay & take time for that automobile’s fueling & maintenance.

• BurgeonLab: A “logbook where I document my tech explorations and any topic I find interesting” by Naty

• Mister Chad’s mindgarden, made with Obsidian Publish

• Sometimes by Mary Oliver

Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

Other tools

• Codeberg, a Git hosting alternative

• #giveupgithub, for making a case to give up github. I have largely given up github since 2019-20 due to their partnerships with ICE. I now use gitlab. But perhaps an open source alternative for personal work is even better.

• Hugo paper mod, maybe something to use in the future. What theme am I using on this Jekyll site, I wonder?

• Cookie zero

• Keeping track of Kudos/upvotes without cookies

• Public Domain Image Archive

Twenty two rules of storytelling

This morning, I was paging through some old notebooks in which dad had jotted down assorted notes. I came across a list which he had entitled “Twenty-two rules of storytelling”. I found them to be pretty fun and compelling, and so am jotting them down here. (From a short google search while transcribing dad’s notes, I learned that these ‘rules’ originated from a series of tweets by a Pixar Directory/Storyteller).

Not all are profound, but most are at least helpful. Some of them are incredibly applicable to science writing, too. I’ve marked the ones I found most endearing, resonant, or reminiscent of conversations with dad, with **.