Everything Links, March 20, 2026 tk - published March 20, 2026 A Sum of Errors Or, how to lie with numeric affordances - published March 16, 2026 Links, March 6th, 2026 working in tech; depression & supplements; on the hardware affordability crisis and its consequences; some tools for making PCBs, software, and capturing web pages as markdown - published March 6, 2026 Links, Feb 27, 2026 Musical expression, tech, and Jimi; Snakes on a SSH; What feminism holds for men; Art, Joy, and Copyright Infringement; Behind the curtain on Identity Verification and LLM Tokens; Google's Authentication Antics; more on LLM harms and ethics in tech - published February 27, 2026 Discworld Book Recommendations - published February 22, 2026 Links, February 13th, 2026 pro-human; tactile; communities; ffmpeg; detecting preclinical dementia; a roundup of just some of the real costs of LLM addiction - published February 13, 2026 Links, Jan 23rd, 2026 the relationship between culture and technology - published January 23, 2026 Links, Jan 16, 2026 synthesizers, software's place in the world, the true nature of genAI - published January 16, 2026 Links, Jan 2nd, 2026 the death of creative business; work ethics; LLMs again; Liquid Glass (again); new botnet threat - published January 2, 2026 Resolutions and Routines, Intention and Attention - published December 31, 2025 The Relativity of Naming The effectiveness of a name depends on contexts which can change - published December 29, 2025 Links, December 26th, 2025 information ecosystems; technology; maps; public domain day - published December 26, 2025 Links, December 19th, 2025 font-making; computing metaphors; affordability; maps - published December 19, 2025 Links, December 12, 2025 ducks & ADHD; a short story about confidence; note-taking; cyber-espionage & journalism; the nature of research; the nature of portals - published December 12, 2025 A Sorceress Comes to Call Book Recommendations - published December 7, 2025 Links, December 5th, 2025 command-line stuff - published December 5, 2025 Links, November 12th, 2025 building culture; restorative justice; html magazine; open source funding; digital governance; nuclear AIs - published November 12, 2025 Links, November 7th, 2025 math & sound synthesis; creepy tech; document rendering; calendering - published November 7, 2025 Links, October 31, 2025 spooky link edition: data broker opt-out; css classes; - published October 31, 2025 A Wizard's Guide To Defensive Baking Book Recommendations - published October 24, 2025 Links, October 24, 2025 music economics, code&color, tech longevity & resiliency, bathroom availability - published October 24, 2025 Links, October 18, 2025 apps vs web; software quality; music streaming; cynicism, friction, and cheat codes - published October 17, 2025 Links, October 10, 2025 sudoku, psychoacoustics, sampling, smol software, dewaffling tech, and *sigh* more on software "supply chains" - published October 10, 2025 Links, October 3, 2025 Treat modeling, in a variety of forms - published October 3, 2025 Links, September 26, 2025 bad things afoot with the Ruby language; Good medical news; Weird custom dice; Great geek videos; self-host video sites - published September 26, 2025 Links, Sept 19th, 2025 ease of development; the rise of whatever; the nature of resistance - published September 19, 2025 Links, August 15, 2025 on generative art; web contrast; developing while blind; on friction; the ramblings channel - published August 15, 2025 Wayfarers Book Recommendations - published August 6, 2025 Links, July 25, 2025 Naming Things; Dubai is the city of wonton capitalism; LLMs are bad for your intelligence - published July 25, 2025 Links, July 11, 2025 the effect of LLMs on Law; Hilarious reading of an RFC; Digital Sovereignty; Make Fun of Business Leaders - published July 11, 2025 Links, June 13, 2025 email surveillance; turing-complete markdown; good internet; software industry soothsaying; more *sigh* on LLMs - published June 13, 2025 Monk and Robot Book Recommendations - published June 10, 2025 Links, June 6, 2025 CLI domain search tool; on Bell Labs; Mu the Lost Continent Myth; Making RSS feeds more like podcasts; Signal & Recall; Confidence vs Social Dominance; LLMs are Going Just Great - published June 6, 2025 Links, May 30th, 2025 the nature of music; tool choice; burnout; keeping optimism; the importance of giving a damn; technology & consent; more on the bullshitting plagiarism machines - published May 30, 2025 Links, May 23rd, 2025 Apple's leadership; Martha Wells talks TV; Optimism; Design, Version control, and Centralization; Vibe Coding and AI may actually kill you - published May 23, 2025 Advice for an Aspiring Programmer A few things I would want to know if I had to start over - published May 2, 2025 The Murderbot Diaries Book Recommendations - revisited October 6, 2025 Links, April 25, 2025 On being "technical"; On being cynical; open source; data formats; cell phone bans; AI, climate change, and you - published April 25, 2025 Links, April 18, 2025 Dataviz Inspiration, Work & Ethics, Phone Privacy, more on the pitfalls of LLMs - published April 18, 2025 Links, April 11, 2025 CSS Layout Proposal, ffmpeg Cookbook, about the Fediverse, More Bad Things About Chatbots - published April 11, 2025 Following System Color Scheme Settings in CSS CSS has features for following changes to the browser's light & dark modes. Please use them. - published March 28, 2025 Links, March 21, 2025 Software & Co-Existence, Privacy, Baiting Scammers - published March 21, 2025 Prove Your Humanity Login Bingo People should not have to deal with frustrating puzzles as part of your attempts to countermand bots - published March 18, 2025 Login Bingo A list of anti-patterns & common frustrations for an everyday experience - published March 18, 2025 Shared Login Info Login Bingo Individual people should be able to have separate credentials to log in to a system to manage shared resources - published March 12, 2025 Type Through a Straw Login Bingo People should be able to log in to a system using a device actually meant for entering credentials - published March 11, 2025 Use the App Login Bingo People should be able to authenticate without being forced to use your brand's general-purpose software - published March 10, 2025 Wings of Fire Book Recommendations - published March 8, 2025 Context-Ignorant Visibility Login Bingo People shouldn't have to deal with obscured fields in difficult input situations, or unobscured input in possibly public situations - published March 6, 2025 Very Short Sessions Login Bingo People shouldn't needlessly suffer ridiculously short session times; but if those are justified, it should be clear the session has ended - published March 5, 2025 Trust Me, Bro Login Bingo People shouldn't have to use their primary credentials to authorize account access in less secure contexts - published March 4, 2025 Moved the Entry Login Bingo People should be able to rely on an external link to the place where they can log in to your system - published March 3, 2025 Links, Feb 28, 2025 what is your work?; parental controls; phishing & digital wallets; calculator apps; BMI is racist; scrolling & feel; personal websties - published February 28, 2025 Sent You a Link Login Bingo People should be able to use a password to log in to a site without having to check their email - published February 27, 2025 Apples to Oranges Login Bingo People should expect that what they entered when setting credentials will be honored when verifying them - published February 26, 2025 Tease the Preview Login Bingo Forcing people to log in or create an account to read something that is presented publicly or found on search engines is rude - published February 25, 2025 Hall of Redirects Login Bingo People shouldn't have to tour your system's infrastructure when logging in - published February 24, 2025 Links, February 21, 2025 The tech of politics and the politics of tech - published February 21, 2025 Do the Two-Step Login Bingo People shouldn't have to go to additional steps to enter a password just because some other people don't have passwords - published February 21, 2025 Type This Way Login Bingo Don't make people suffer your misguided reimplementation of an input affordance - published February 19, 2025 But First You Must Login Bingo People should not be unnecessarily interrupted while logging into a system - published February 18, 2025 Links, February 14th, 2025 Model Making as Bias; Tech Work & PTSD; Schneier on DOGE; Find Your People - published February 14, 2025 Choose Your Login Provider Login Bingo Multiple login providers is a recipe for confusion - published February 12, 2025 The Disappearing Spoon Book Recommendations - published February 11, 2025 Check Your Messages Login Bingo System users shouldn't have to use separate, less secure contexts in order to log in - published February 11, 2025 Only One Session Login Bingo Website visitors should be able to use multiple open windows across multiple devices - published February 10, 2025 Links, February 7th, 2025 The man who saved the world; Against Access; Prompt UIs; Against Personal Branding; Enhanced Terminal Keyboards - published February 7, 2025 Start at the Beginning Login Bingo Website visitors shouldn't have to attempt to navigate back to where they wanted to go after logging in - published February 7, 2025 No Autofill For You Login Bingo Website visitors should be able to use their tools for managing logins without frustration or exposure to nefarious processes - published February 6, 2025 Open a Window Login Bingo Website visitors shouldn't have to clean up your litter - published February 5, 2025 Forget This Device Login Bingo Website visitors should be able to trust the functionality of trust-granting affordances - published February 4, 2025 Choose Our Client Login Bingo Website visitors shouldn't have to know which client of yours their interacting with - published February 3, 2025 Choose Your SubSite Login Bingo Website visitors shouldn't have to know which sub-website they need to log in to - published January 31, 2025 Links, January 31st, 2025 Urusula K. LeGuin on “Technology”; JavaScript Temporality; more AI poison - published January 30, 2025 Guessing Interactions Making interactive things requires discipline - published January 27, 2025 Links, January 17th, 2025 Playing God; Tarpits; Beyond Colonialism; Artists, Art-Making, and Image Formats; Ethics & Technology; Web Development is Collapsing - published January 13, 2025 Links, January 10, 2025 ANSI art, OSS Synth, Visual Programming, disappointing tech, corporate structure dark patterns, personal info tip - published January 10, 2025 Links, January 3, 2025 Viewing recommendation, macOS keyboard tool, software & sound, software as theory building, abandoning the quantified self - published January 3, 2025 Links, December 13, 2024 Your personal website, storing time, how to think about energy efficiency - published December 13, 2024 Links, December 6, 2024 Artistic Creation as Self-Preservation, SciFi Armor Analysis, GPSR & the Trade Wars, Social Media, Advertizing, LLM Econommics don't add up, Tech Personalities - published December 6, 2024 Links, November 22, 2024 Moderation, Safety, Expertise, Invisibility, Outliers, Consent, Locations - published November 22, 2024 Links, November 15, 2024 Consuming, Creating, and What's needed; Making Art against odds; Math & Maps - published November 15, 2024 Links, November 8, 2024 technological independence & resiliency, getting serious, building empathy - published November 8, 2024 Links, November 1, 2024 Where the Web is going, Spotify rips off artists, Team Stages, 1-bit tiles - published November 1, 2024 Links, November 19, 2024 Slack Communities, Daylight Saving Time is bad, RSS is good, Unix tool replacements, Burnout, and the nature of Celebration - published October 19, 2024 Links, October 11, 2024 care networks, domain politics, web forums, economics, software & AI, roblox - published October 11, 2024 Redeeming Codes Finding ways to support emergent use cases for something helps reduce frustration - published October 8, 2024 Links, October 4, 2024 UI feel, understanding furries, social media & forgetting, more on multi-factor & web components - published October 4, 2024 Links, September 27, 2024 “the software supply chain”, the sonos app, switching password managers, real estate & arbitrage, web components - published September 27, 2024 Links, September 13, 2024 AI Supercuts - published September 13, 2024 Links, September 6, 2024 game doors, documentation tips, originality, and collaborative computing - published September 6, 2024 Lies in Reach My first full-length album, a intensely personal piece of work - published September 4, 2024 Links, August 30, 2024 broken design processes, the kids are still hacking (and it's alright), scaling down & run-your-own nanoservices, preferred numbers - published August 30, 2024 My experience of XOXO 2024 What a breath of fresh air – even when masked - published August 27, 2024 Links, August 16, 2024 plugdata, wezterm, phone cameras back to basics, selfhosting, linkrot, the cost of too much javascript - published August 16, 2024 Links, August 9, 2024 git & worse is better, public domain imagery, hypercard, done with deno, imposter syndrome, color palettes for power users - published August 9, 2024 Links, August 2, 2024 kinworking vs networking, SSG for dataviz, framing "technical debt", a webcomic, technology & serendipity, and writer's block - published August 2, 2024 Segmenting Fields Sometimes attempts to prevent mistakes make correcting them impossible - published August 1, 2024 Links, July 26, 2024 designing for expertise, RSS, open source licensing, CrowdStrike, SVG, poisoning AI, & modular music creation - published July 26, 2024 Backfilling Design Design Happens Regardless of Intention - published July 24, 2024 Links, July 19, 2024 web frameworks & tooling, writing & websites, technology as aids for thinking, sound design outside-the-box - published July 19, 2024 Living Cyberpunk This is not the cyberpunk dystopia we were promised - published June 29, 2024 Gardening, Digitally I'm rethinking what a personal website is for - published June 26, 2024 Cheat Sheets for Music Gear - revisited April 2, 2024 Music & Discography List of music releases by Matthew Lyon - published January 18, 2024 Choosing Counties don't overwhelm & frustrate people when collecting data - published January 17, 2024 Passage of Remnants My first 4-Track EP - published December 1, 2023 Collapsing Context The circumstances in which software used must be considered - published October 18, 2023 Taking up the Slack Redesigns change how something works, and for whom - published October 5, 2023 Linnstrument Chord Reference Printable Chord Diagrams for the Linnstrument, or any other instrument using a fourths-based note grid - published July 23, 2023 Generating Tests An introduction to Property-Based Testing, with a focus on practical examples - published July 13, 2023 Golden Times Golden Ratio calculator for musical time values - published June 27, 2023 please subscribe a poem about the new economy - published May 9, 2023 Reviewing Ratings Everyone's a critic now, and it's terrible - revisited July 3, 2024 Making Music With Math Exploring the relationship between music theory and math - published September 9, 2021 Computing Art Demonstrations of the relationships between visual art, math, and code - published May 14, 2020 Understanding Time Zones You think you want worldwide UTC – I think you're entitled. Stop treating what the clock says like a number and learn about the terminology of time - revisited January 4, 2025 Dreaming of Jobs Musing about the idea of a dream job, and how it must exist in a larger context of a dream life - published November 2, 2017 Regretting the Golden Handcuffs A story of the long tail of startup success, and an examination of costs not apparent or measured - published August 31, 2015 Mistrusting Email Addresses Email is a communication medium, not an authentication medium - published December 2, 2014 Minimum Viable Documentation Some ideas about the role of documentation writing in the process of lean software development - revisited September 21, 2017 Refining Software You learn the wrong lessons from building the wrong thing quickly - published February 25, 2014 Making Time For Quality What does it mean to be creative in an age of instant gratification? An argument for patience and the process of refinement - published February 17, 2014 About Why Books for Children and Young Adults? - revisited October 21, 2025 Book Recommendations Consulting Handwriting Link Roundups Newsletters Search Search this website lyonhe.art • Home