Introducing a JSON-LD sanity checker
A short announcement for the new JSON-LD Sanity Checker on hluska.ca: a local-only browser tool for checking whether pasted JSON-LD is valid, readable, and obviously sane before publishing.
Introducing a new JSON formatter
A short announcement for the new JSON Formatter on hluska.ca: a browser-only tool for formatting, minifying, copying, and inspecting JSON without uploading files to a server.
The Curse of the Live Demo
Live demos have consistently bit me over my career, to such a point that I shun them. So why did I try to show my mom Siteimp? Why was I surprised when it failed badly? And most importantly, how can I spin this as a QA win?
Two years later - thinking about Steve Albini
On May 7, 2024 the world lost a great audio engineer, musician, thinker and writer when Steve Albini died. Over the years, he made some of my favourite music, taught me a lot about building with integrity, wrote many of my favourite articles... and even made me a better cook. After two years, it is time to lay down some words about him.
Introducing the NDJSON Formatter
A quick announcement for the new NDJSON Formatter on hluska.ca: a local-only browser tool for formatting NDJSON and JSONL files, plus a first step toward a fuller Siteimp support workbench.
Siteimp has reached the desktop
Siteimp has evolved from an old performance-testing script collection into a local-first Windows desktop application for website integrity, accessibility, content analysis, monitoring, media inspection, and support diagnostics. This article explains how the project came back to life, why the cloud version stalled, how Tauri made the desktop version practical, and how testing Siteimp against real websites exposed the exact small problems it was built to find.
Random thoughts after nine games in the 2026 MLB season
Nine down and 153 left to go - the MLB season is too fresh to make any grand statements yet also fresh enough to point out some interesting trends that are shaping up.
Another broken arm?
My mom was attacked by dogs while out on a walk. She fell, broke her arm and one of the dogs bit hard enough to rip through her jacket. She's fine but her arm is broken, she's 77 and this was totaly preventable.
2026 Major League Baseball Opening Day
Is anything better than opening day (or in this case opening evening)? I can't think of many things. With a week before baseball, I'm going to drone on and on and wax nostalgic about the sport I love most.
Nanoclaw, open source software and search optimization
The open source project Nanoclaw recently ran into a familiar but troubling problem: its real website isn't ranking in search results, while unrelated domains are. In a world where AI tools can control real systems and access sensitive data, domain squatting and misleading sign-up pages represent a serious risk. This post explains the issue and why developers should protect their project's identity long before launch.