John Skies Skinner's blog

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2026

• Repression as a service

2025

• Qubes installation frozen
• Cloudflare domain hitches
• Ruby tricks
• Just start a book club
• On GSAi
• Domain name battlefield

2024

• Ship of Theseus beats strangler fig
• 11ty recursive _site error
• My favorite mugs
• OpenSSL error installing Ruby

2022

• My favorite characters!
• XMLHttpRequest blocked by CORS policy in local HTML document

2020

• The Business Model of Police Brutality
• On being not afraid
• Wikidata words
• Using the Open Syllabus Project API

2019

• Semantic search faceting
• My first Glitch web app
• Making a simple, static website with AWS
• Replacing setTimeout with promises
• Wikiconference North America

2018

• Many happy returns
• Nebraska Family Alliance are a hate group
• Purse shoulder armor
• The Secret was CNAMEs
• Getting started with Elixir and Phoenix