Cleaning out some old boxes trying to find an old work contract I came across a sticker sheet I got back when HTML5 became a standard that has all the icons on there the W3C defined as part of the “web reboot”: I posted it around on social media to see who can remember them […]

We've got a new blog over at Folio and I've used it as an opportunity to write somewhat of a love letter to hypertext and the World Wide Web.

Here's the post - How Folio connects with suppliers. After a bit of nostalgia-gazing into the history of the web, the post explains a few different mechanisms for facilitating "procurement" workflows - aka business to business transactions. Also, the post's got all sorts of nice diagrams, courtesy of Folio's co-founder + designer + engineer + musician + all the things Al Hertz.

I'm looking forward to sharing more about how Folio makes procurement easy, thanks to the web, on our Folio blog. Building tools for procurement has really given me an even greater appreciation for esoteric document formats and protocols (like EDI). Documents are fun! Everything's a document! It's documents all the way down!

Highlights

• I got useful feedback from early readers about my chapter list.
• I found it frustrating to edit video of an interview but had fun creating a written transcript.
• My plan to promote my freelance blog editing services went better than I expected.

Goal grades

At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I did against those goals:

It's been six years since the last Hotdog Johnny & the Shady Oaks show. Well, we're back, and live from the Appalachian Mountain Club in Blairstown, New Jersey with a brand new song: Ask Me Anything

As of September 2025, Hotdog Johnny & the Shady Oaks remain:

• Jack Byrnes - Banjo
• Peter Clabby - Electric Guitar, Vocals
• Charlie Harrington - Acoustic Guitar, Vocals

Solo act

To the continued chagrin of our emcees, I had another song on deck, explicitly not a medley, so as not to violate Uncle Mike's open mic rules.

Here's my new song West Front St. / River Rd.:

Weddings with Open Mics

Weddings with Open Mic Nights as the welcome party are the best sort of weddings.

Tess & Michael Forever! Thank you both for an amazing weekend of love and music and frogging and fishing and family! I love you!

For our weekly WeAreDevelopers Live Show I wanted to have a way to include a time progress bar into the page we show. The problem there was that these are markdown files using GitHub Pages and whilst I do use some scripting in them, I wanted to make sure that I could have this functionality […]