My Mastodon User Experience and Hope for the Future

My experience is likely the same as that of many other. When you are first new to mastodon, and you begin setting up your account, you make some basic selections. There is nothing unusual about that but, what do you do next? That’s the real aim of this article. What are your best next steps, and where is mastodon really headed as it changes to accomodate the rise in adoption? ...

Read: Mastodon Pixel Artist Highlight

Mastodon Pixel Artist Highlight

Promoting Pixel Art as a culturally and historically important artform.

June 17, 2026 · 3 min · DCKIM

A Conversation With Myself About Metadata

A discussion about metadata, and a resolution about ignoring it.

Testing Out Some Changes to the Program

Code, blog, public live test(and code freebies!)

June 16, 2026 · 3 min · DCKIM
Text: Aaron has made an old fashioned Internet Directory made for today.

earlyweblinks.com takes Us Back In Time With This Old-Fangled Directory

An Internet Directory has Sprung Up Out of Nowhere. Thanks! We all needed this. And most of us forgot how much we have missed it.

Text Reading, Experts: 'AI only makes slop!', True but you are working at the leading edge...

Still Setting Up the Blog

There is nothing easy about setting up a blog. Even using something easier than Hugo, it’s still extremely difficult, frustrating, and time consuming.

June 14, 2026 · 4 min · DCKIM
The Load button is shown, so that people will know how to load their OG-image on a per page basis.

More Details on the 20 Page Setup

OG-image per page is explained. I then ramble on about some more potential changes.

June 12, 2026 · 4 min · DCKIM
A diagram showing the location of the Zip-Save button and giving a folder layout for the generated website.

20 Page Format Completed

The Zip save button now saves the entire twenty page arrangement that will allow a one to one correspondence between your experience in the program and the feeling of the finalized webpages.

June 12, 2026 · 2 min · DCKIM
This is showing a picture of the menu tab for HDUB Pixel Art Edition which has the Level Selector for the program.

Thinking of Some New Additions to the Program

I’m brainstorming some possible additions/changes to the default program setup for HDUB Pixel Art Edition…

June 7, 2026 · 3 min · DCKIM