James

I have been working on a few new features for Artemis, the calm web reader I maintain. You can read a summary of what’s new below..
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Trafalgar Square is a special place. The architecture and views are breathtaking.
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This is my entry for this month’s IndieWeb Carnival on the topic “Museum memories”..
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I had spent half of the day travelling and the other half looking at art. Whenever I am going anywhere, I like to arrive as early as I can and either walk around or go to an art gallery; ideally, I like to do both.
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The days are getting longer and brighter. The bite of the winter air is being replaced by a delicate breeze.
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My blog has an offline mode that lets you view articles you have previously read on my website. This mode allows you to read something on my website even if you don’t have an internet connection.
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I am writing about a few paintings to help me build my description skills. My analyses are not formal or comprehensive.
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State of the Browser was electric. This is how I summarised my experience at the annual State of the Browser event in London in my notes.
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Berthe Morisot’s Girl on a Divan, displayed in the National Gallery, London, caught my eye as soon as I saw it. The painting was the last one I saw in the Impressionist room in the Gallery, but despite having been on my feet for hours before I stood for several minutes looking at the painting […]

I am using Duolingo to learn a bit of German. I have been using the app for a while and enjoy the exercises.
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When I was building the search engine for my blog, one feature I wanted to implement was syntax highlighting within the search input field. I wanted special operators (i.e.
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Museums and galleries are places we can go to learn about the past, think about the present, and consider the future. Museums are places we can connect: with times, people, and place.
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When I was in high school, I used to keep a pencil or pen up my sleeve. I don’t remember anyone else doing it, or why I started.
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Last year I was introduced to the idea of “Dopplr colours” in the IndieWeb community. This refers to an accent colour assigned to cities on the now-defunct travel website Dopplr.
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Search is one of my favourite disciplines in computing. In 2024 I spent a lot of time working on a NoSQL engine that I called JameSQL.
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When I announced Artemis in 2024, I titled the announcement “Artemis, a calm web reader, is available (in beta)”. So central to the philosophy of how I build the software is the principle “calm” that, when I write about Artemis, I still use the phrase “a calm web reader” to describe what the […]

Recently, a feed a few users – including myself – were following with Artemis published a “bookmark”-like post. The markup in the corresponding feed was a bit different than expected, so Artemis ended up linking directly to the bookmarked post rather than to the author’s post itself..
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This evening I added an idea I have had for a while to Artemis: a dense layout..
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The IndieWeb community chat has a feature that lets you create a wiki page from a chat interaction. You can say “what is {term}?” in the chat and, if there is a definition on the community wiki, the definition will be returned by a bot.
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Earlier this week I started to feel something I haven’t felt in a while: I felt lost. I started to look ahead and feel disoriented.
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Jo and I are trading blog post titles. The title Jo chose for me is “A perfect day.”.
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I am trading blog post titles with Joe. He gave me a few suggestions for what to write about.
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I have been thinking about the rhythm of my writing recently. I wrote in my drafts:.
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I visit the IndieWeb wiki almost every day. The wiki is maintained by the IndieWeb community, documenting everything from interfaces for creating posts to POSSE..
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This is a test post..
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Sending messages..
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Britt and I are trading blog post titles. The topic Britt chose for me is “A piece of art you would like to see in person”..
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hii! I have had Brid.gy Fed set up for a while but I haven't used it much for sending replies yet.

I love winter mornings when the sky is clear. Looking out the window, the sky is a clear blue, interspersed with the occasional white cloud so faint that it is almost invisible.
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