AI Said....
06 Jan 2026: A new front page section called "AI Said..." is shaping up into a collection of (subjectively) interesting articles. Is it AI slop? No. It's simply the result of a modern-day search that's presented in a better way than those found on legacy search engines.
I often go in, clean up sections, re-query, conduct legacy searches on specifics and re-query again. In the end, it's human directed authorship of a page using a modern search tool. If I like the original query and the end-result, it gets posted.
(Legacy searches have been annoying for years. So much time and energy wasted on clicking through an unending series of blog spam, dead links, partially done research, partial copy/paste of wikipedia sections. I do agree that AI creates many new problems but legacy search engines have failed us: I dare you to search president trump. That's why additional verification is necessary no matter the tool.)
Weather: wttr.in
01 Jan 2026: I was looking for an excuse to use wttr.in and so I posted the simplest of an HTML page (a wrapper) on the Free Apps page. It's called weather.wttr and displays the extended forecast for a selected city in an iframe.
I love the ASCII format and wanted to incorporate it into my workflow. See the HTML source.
Happy New Year (bash)
30 Dec 2025: Simple little bash script wishing everyone a Happy New Year. Safe to run. It's just a bunch of echo commands to stdout.
Public APIs
29 Dec 2025: Wrote World Clocks (simple table design), Random Dog Facts (API) and Random Stoicism Quotes (API) in the last week or so. Lots of interesting APIs on this github list of public APIs page. Many more here.
13 May 2026, update: Rewriting Random Dog Facts and Random Stoicism Quotes because of API issues. They can be fixed but I want to avoid having to keep tweaking simple apps like these. The new rewrites will contain quotes (arrays) inside the same htmlApp.
Weather App
23 Dec 2025: Wrote a weather app. I still use @graph.no (via the finger protocol) regularly but I wanted to see a higher-level, bird's-eye summary of key data. Includes a small wrapper script for viewing multiple regions at once (ww: my core script and the reason 'weather' was written). Screenshot: latest.
This is a major rewrite of a previous version I posted a week earlier. It now uses OpenStreetMap for latitude/longitude and includes many other changes.
The Council of Linux Greybeards
14 Dec 2025: Wrote a new short story (with an accompanying txt2bin app). It has a little harmless satirical fun at the expense of no one. Lots of fun to write.
Scream into the Void
13 Dec 2025: Created a Scream into the Void page as an alternative to hbo.com's data-slurping screamintothevoid.com. Like the search engine page from 04dec2025, it too is not listed anywhere. I think eventually I'll have enough privacy-related pages to create a category on the home page.
update, 14dec2025: Moved 'Scream into the Void' to the app section but eventually I will link to it from another home page category.
From -50 F to 110 F
11 Dec 2025: Added a couple of more interesting places to my local version of nf (netfinger). Verkhoyansk, like Beaver Creek, is currently in the -50F range. Oodnadatta and Marble Bar are both consistently well over 100F (as high as 109F) with zero cooling off period.
These temperature extremes remind me of an episode of The Twilight Zone called The Midnight Sun.
Yukon, Canada... -36 F
08 Dec 2025: I use the finger protocol to see weather in various places around the world via nf (netfinger; nf --weather). Just noticed that Snag, Yukon is going to hit -36 degrees farenheit today.
Updated nf (netfinger): changed the Yukon location to (the very interesting) Beaver Creek (a ~90 person community) as it's been consistently colder than (ghost town) Snag in recent years. While Snag is hitting -38F tomorrow, Beaver Creek will be at -44F.
An Extension of the State
30 Nov 2025: I wrote a short story (meh) and used names like CorpSearch, PatriotOS, BoomerBook and iComply. But are those names really the illusion, the distraction? Isn't the truth instead... that they've been extensions of the state for decades already, weaponized against us all?
We Value Your Privacy
29 Nov 2025: I came across this ironically insane popup a month ago. Yes... it's real. It's the real web. "Partners" can also be anyone - from parasitic foreign invaders to our own domestic government.
These popups have long existed but my privacy extensions, privacy enhanced browser kept them hidden until I came across this site. I am seeing it for the first time.