She Likes Listening To Punk Rock
What’s going on, Internet? September’s been a month of noise, nostalgia, and ferry rides. It kicked off with Minuit at Double Whammy , their reunion tour finale and easily one of the best (or only?) nights out I’ve had in ages. Great company, great tunes, and a dance floor that felt straight out of 2005, just with a crowd twenty years older, lol. The next morning I went full fangirl and stacked my Bandcamp cart with Minuit’s entire back catalogue, along with some Fur Patrol for balance. Then it was time for the London Hardhouse Reunion 2025 . My friends came up for the weekend and we had an amazing time, all bass and hoovers, with a bunch of my favourite DJs that I would see across a single year, all playing the same gig, the same night. The kind of night that leaves your ears ringing (yes I wore my ear plugs) and the tunes stuck in your head for days. We rounded the month off a little slower with a family weekend on Waiheke , swapping the inside of clubs for beaches, markets, and fish and chips. Between the gigs and the music, I somehow found time to catch up on TV. One new show that crossed my radar was The Runarounds ; a perfect binge watch. Fun, short, and chaotic in all the right ways. I wonder if I should share more on the shows I watch and find enjoyable? I also went digging into lost media for Aotearoa’s lost emo banger , a little dive into what happens when labels dropped the ball into the transition to digital and how local libraries can quietly save the music. Plenty of good tunes, good people, and good times this month 🎶 Read four books this month, all enjoyable and worth reading: New records added to the collection : We’ve wrapped up raiding for the season, and expansion. We spent the last couple weeks dipping into the first couple mythic bosses in Mana Forge Omega and we easily got two of them down. The Legion Remix is going live this week. I will play enough to get the mounts and armours sets I need and then give it a break. Rumours on the street are that we’ll be seeing the next expansion, Midnight as early as February. With Warcraft out of the way, I’m looking forward to getting back into Cyberpunk and finishing up some more story lines. After last months ball dropping I’m back with more exciting links from across the web. There’ll definitely be something of interest in here for you. Check back next month, and if you want more in the meantime, dive into the archive . On the site side of things, September was a good month for tidying and tinkering. I started by revamping the Bookmarks page, it’s now fully tagged and easier to browse, and I split the Blogroll off from the Links page so each has its own proper home. There’s been a bit of chatter in my small web circles recently, and I have post drafted I want to share soon. I built out a new Blog Stats page using Robb’s PostGraph to visualise my posting frequency. Then, to round things off, I gave my RSS and Atom feeds a glow-up. They’re now styled with an XSL transformation and integrated into the fLaMEd fury design system. The Feeds page itself got an update to clearly show all the feeds avaialbe. All this work inspired by Robb’s setup, which I pretty much jacked. Thanks Robb. Weird Web October is happening for the second year. I won’t be taking part (I know if I commited, I’d quickly fail). If you are more inclined and creative than I am and decided to take part, come hang out in the Weird Web October thread over on the forums . This post was brought to you by Verona by Elemeno P Sweeet, catch you, laterz 👋 Hey, thanks for reading this post in your feed reader! Want to chat? Reply by email or add me on XMPP , or send a webmention . Check out the posts archive on the website. A Beautiful Family by Jennifer Trevelyan A Different Kind of Power by Jacinda Ardern Toxic by Sarah Ditum Glass Barbie by Michael Botur Christina Perri - A Lighter Shade Of Blue Zara Larsson - Honor The Light Mimi Webb - Amelia Anne-Marie - Unhealthy Minuit - 88 Why I love to read your blog - Sylvia’s Noodling Nook Sylvia shares all the reasons why they like reading your website 🫶 blog comments - Jayeless.net Jessica Smith goes deep into blog comments Breaking Free from Social Media Silos Luke discovers the indie web and discusses the struggle of being out of touch when it seems like most of society exists on facebook rather than the web. Bringing Back the Blogroll Luke wonders about the Blogroll and ends up slapping it on the homepage sidebar after some inspiration You can now attach 10,000 character blogs to your Threads posts Sounds like a wonderful idea. Inb4 people invest their lives work into this platform and lose everything, lol Do blogs need to be so lonely? - The History of the Web We used to do this back in the day, I want to reflect on this deeper in it’s own post soon Curate your own newspaper with RSS Molly White wants us to escape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own enshittification-proof newspaper from the writers you already read Why you should get (back) into RSS curation. Another take on rediscovering RSS as a way to take control of what you read online, curating a personal, intentional feed instead of relying on algorithm-driven platforms Just Put It On Your Blog Shellsharks reminds us to stop overthinking where content belongs and just publish it on our own blogs, embracing the spirit of the independent web. The internet’s hidden creative renaissance (and how to find it) Shame it’s on Substack, but it explores the growing revival of the handmade web, where personal websites push back against the corporate internet. The Internet Feels Broken | Stephanie Vee Stephanie reflects on how today’s internet feels broken under the weight of corporate platforms, and argues for reclaiming the web through personal websites and blogging. Personal blogs are the best, I love yours and I’ll try and tell you why - Nothing Original Here Peter shares a post appreciating personal blogs for their honesty and connection, and why they matter more than social media. bstn - RSS manifesto An RSS manifesto arguing for a return to open web standards and personal curation instead of algorithm-driven feeds The HTML Hobbyist A personal website by HTML hobbyist, Nathan, sharing simple HTML, CSS, and RSS tutorials based on courses they taught at Berkley Computer Training between 1997-2003 Sanding off friction from indie web connection – Tracy Durnell’s Mind Garden Tracy Durnell looks at how indie web tools can be made easier to use, lowering the barriers for people to connect through their own websites. Why I gave the world wide web away for free | Tim Berners-Lee Tim Berners-Lee explains why he released the Web into the public domain. and why we must reclaim it from exploitative platforms and re-centre individual control. Understanding, not slop, is what’s interesting about LLMs - blakewatson.com Blake Watson takes a look at LLMs and where the real value isn’t in the flood of AI generated content, but in understanding how they work to simplify human-computer interaction
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