CogDogBlog

Oh my, the Ai sauce is oozing from Google’s search, for which many are predicting the Fu of Google Search is gone. Yeah, it’s a mess, but frankly, I still have my fleet of hone bookmarklet gi...

https://cogdogblog.com/2024/05/wrenching-google-urls/

The web as whatever we thought we knew it is all going to poop, eh? I don’t disagree about the large parts of it most see on an every day basis. I do wonder though how much we can make these gr...

https://cogdogblog.com/2024/05/enduring-web-stuff/

I was thinking about calling yet never got around to it. For months, I had been getting word by direct message via my friend @pumpkiny- screenshots of Facebook posted photos shared by Carl Berger...

https://cogdogblog.com/2024/05/carls-last-shutter-click/

Today’s Daily Create made me do it! That listicle glorifying title would never have gotten past my clumsy on the keyboard fingertips. I was sent to Portent Title Generator to randomly generate...

https://cogdogblog.com/2024/05/why-the-world-would-end-without-storytelling-on-the-web-with-ds106s/

There is a myth. Cue the string section. That there was once a place for all to gather, share, be festive, develop new connections, every course a hashtag, topple a few governments, people power....

https://cogdogblog.com/2024/05/where-did-will-everyone-go/

Me and Dad were but 5 days apart on the birthday calendar, aand today, were he here, I’d be calling to tease and say, “How is 98 feel Dad?” There’d be that pause and a throaty left, with ...

https://cogdogblog.com/2024/05/dad-scale/

I never thought I’d learn something from dumping paint. Once upon a time when I was living in Arizona, I decided to do the right thing and dispose of my cans left over paint. The Gila County du...

https://cogdogblog.com/2024/04/gray-mcphee-crossing/

Surely I am not alone in wondering if time has been following the same portal as lost socks. But it has been— checking the calendar and not doing the math– a “while” since I left the venu...

https://cogdogblog.com/2024/04/everything-but-presentations/

More in the little web joys of selk tinkering. Rewards you never get by pouring your houghts into some packaged medium sized substack of a LinkedIn space. Self-stylin; as it were. Way back in the...

https://cogdogblog.com/2024/04/css-shine-wayback-links/

It’s no surprise that Jay Hoffman writing about The Analog Web caught my eye, not for nostalgia, but something that circles forward. I’ve been following Jays History of the Web writing since,...

https://cogdogblog.com/2024/04/pulse-net-art/