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Articles and Code Examples

2026

"AI" Alignment May Take More Time Then We Have Left–Sep 25

DNSimple: "DNS Hosting and Domain Name Management"–Feb 26

Black History in West L.A.–Feb 15

Santa Monica Pier at Sunset–Jan 14

2025

West Los Angeles Veterans Home Streetcar Depot–Dec 26

Cloudlare DNS to Avoid Cost of Excessive DNS Queries–Dec 7

I'm Astonished to Disagree with Kevin Kelly–Oct 9

Free Speech and Big Tech–Jan 20

2024

LLMs: Harmful, Useless Scofflaws–Dec 11

Cryptocurrency–Sep 29

Network First (Like "Housing First")–Feb 28

CSS-Only Lightbox with Deferred Loading–Feb 4

Solar Experiments for Camping and Biking–Jan 28

2023

Vardi and Berjon: Freeing the Next Web: Regulation or Design?–Oct 28

How to Improve Disaster Alerts–Sep 16

2022

My Exeriments With Mastodon So Far–Nov 13

Pinned Links–Oct 16

GPS Track Map Example–Feb 5

2021

Dragula Experiment–Jul 31

The Light Phone–Jun 5

Hey, Fastmail, If There's No RSS, It's Not a Podcast!–May 26

Bitwarden Open Source Password Manager–May 2

2020

Plausible: Simple, Privacy-Respecting Web Stats–Dec 20

HTML 4 Media Player Kluge–Mar 8

Highly Recommended: Fastmail!–Feb 29

Markdown Handler for Apache–Feb 3

The .org Scandal–Feb 1

2019

Hardening My Archives–Aug 29

Internet Archive Use Case: BayCHI A/V Raw Archive–Aug 21

On Linux Journal–Aug 15

Getting Familiar with the Heritrix Web Crawler–Aug 13

OpenSearchServer for Site Search–Aug 2

2018

Small Form Factor Linux 'Puter–Aug 19

Westy Custom Computer Display Mount–Jun 5

San Francisco Community Colocation Project–Mar 8

2017

Santa Cruz Bicycling–Apr 10

2016

Naming the 'Net–Jun 6

2015

Here's Why Google Shouldn't Hire Me–Jul 23

Ting for Mobile Voice, Text, and Data–Feb 14

2014

Toots Thielemans–Nov 2

2013

Replace Google Reader with The Old Reader–Jul 4

Integrated Laptop Charger for my Westfalia Camper–Jun 18

Ash Creek on Long Island Sound–May 18

2012

1938 McKesson & Robbins Scandal–Dec 22

Toward a Sustainable Lifestyle–Feb 10

2011

Westy House Battery Upgrade–Aug 8

California Parks to be Closed–May 14

O'Reilly's Release 1.0 Archive–Apr 18

Circumventing New York Times Paywall: Legal?–Mar 19

What's Up with Idealist.org's New Design?–Mar 8

Why Mobile Apps vs. Mobile Web?–Feb 18

PayPal Won't Fix Click-Wrap Page–Feb 4

2010

Piwik Open Source Web Stats–Dec 28

Blogger vs. Journalist–Dec 6

Orange Airplane from Massachusetts to California–Sep 15

Configurable PHP Class to Generate HTML Pagination Links–Aug 30

Orange Airplane Fuel Starvation Incident–Aug 19

Digg API OAuth Example–Jun 29

Recent Digg Activity as Activity Streams–Jun 12

Use CNAMEs for Trustworthy Links–Jun 5

Alabama to Massachusetts in the Orange Airplane–May 24

Identity Woman: Identity Spectrum–May 22

California to Alabama in the Orange Airplane–Apr 21

Ribbit/Kynetx Mash-Up–Jan 8

2009

Some of my Favorite Podcasts–Aug 24

RSS Widget Example–Aug 13

Technology and Society Committee RSS Feed–May 10

2008

Train and Bike to Kincaid's in Burlingame–Jun 22

Solution to Caltrain Bike Capacity: WiFi–Jun 18

Digg and the DataPortability Project–Jan 29

2004

Sprint PCS Dumbs Down Images–Jan 23

2003

Spam Ends, 2004–Dec 5

WYGFOPIWYGFAP: The Failure of Word Processors–Dec 5

Rules for Good, Accessible Web Sites–Jul 29

Want List for Photo Album Software or Service–Jul 29

Using PHP and Apache to Improve My Photo Albums–Jul 29

Why Twelves?–Feb 6

Ones and Zeros? Then What?–Jan 17

2002

P.J. Plauger on Consensus–Nov 4

Holofcener and Gilliam on the Sexes–Aug 6

The Trip to AYA 2002 and Back–Jul 29

My Favorite Bay Area Band Names–May 14

Oil Impeller AD Exempts Certain Gears–Mar 14

Diagram of Grumman Nose Strut Assembly–Jan 30

Maximize IE the Right Way–Jan 23

Thwarting Spambots–Jan 3

2001

The Quarter-Ton Quartet–Oct 21

The Word "Safety"–Sep 20

Switch Ratings, Fast-Ons–Aug 28

The Trip to AYA 2001 and Back–Jul 29

S-TEC 30 Familiarization–Jul 13

Flying–Jul 11

World Time Zones Calculator–Mar 26

Kirk in a Bag–Jan 21

Century I Guts–Jan 20

2000

History of My '67 Beetle–Dec 19

Coast to Coast in the Restored '67 Beetle–Dec 6

Ricochet 128kbps Wireless Flat-Rate Internet–Oct 7

Fuel Flow Installation in AA1A–Oct 1

1990 Audi 100 Quattro–Aug 4

Is Health Care Really Broken?–Jun 6

The Grizzly and the Nebula–Apr 8

Tech Toys, and How They Shape My Days–Feb 20

The Mormon Church Hides Out–Feb 10

Why the "W" in WAP?–Jan 1

1999

Homebrew Computing Before the PC–Nov 25

Bicycling–Nov 13

Jon Maestre Memorial, Brookville, Ohio–Sep 19

VW Restoration–Aug 2

Finally, GPS–Apr 5

1998

Batteries: Cranking vs. Capacity–Oct 18

De-Certification in Your Future?–Oct 17

FletchAir's PMA Trim Arms–Oct 6

Buying an Aircraft: What's Important?–Sep 13

About This Site–Sep 12

In Association With Amazon.com–Sep 12

AA1A Overvoltage Protection–Sep 9

Fuel Squawks–Sep 9

AA1x: One Key, Canopy and Ignition–Sep 8

Oil Temperature–Aug 16

Hayward Cats Barbecue–Aug 14

Aircraft Tax Tips from Bob Fields–Jul 15

The Orange Ignition Blues–Jun 5

Gyros: Suction is Bad–May 13

The "Minimalist" Instrument Panel–Mar 8

Three Taildragger Yankees in Formation, by Fred Fenning–Jan 30

1997

AA1A: 135 Knots at 2,000 fpm Climb–Dec 29

Kracon Paints Grummans–Dec 4

Family–Oct 3

Greg Amy and N81140–Sep 29

The Route to AYA '97 in Bowling Green, Kentucky.–Sep 7

The orange airplane at Moffett Field , Young Eagles Day, June 14, 1997–Sep 7

Monterey, Georgetown, Nuckolls at CMA–Jun 23

Trainer Electrical System Changes–Jun 12

Check the P Leads!–Mar 16

Whelen Strobes Replace Flashing Beacon–Mar 16

1996

The orange airplane at Gallup, New Mexico, October, 1996–Oct 28

Boy, Am I Spoiled (Rant)–Jun 14