Steph Vee :blobcatcoffee: 🇨🇦

st3phvee@mastodon.social

Posting nerdy stuff on the internet since the advent of the 56k modem. 🤓You can find my website at stephvee [dot] ca Unless they're linked to my blog, my posts auto-delete after a week to foil the AI data vampires that are sucking the internet dry. 😘My profile pic is a pixel art drawing of my eldest tabby cat taking a nap (drawn by myself in Aseprite), and my header picture is an extreme close up of that pixel art drawing. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blogger" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#blogger</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/canadian" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#canadian</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cats" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#cats</a> <a href="https://mast

Posts

Post #1652465
Yeah, so I&#39;m never posting anti-AI thoughts to my blog ever again. A post I made yesterday ended up gaining WAY more traction than I ever thought it would after it got shared to HN. While it generated some good discussion, it also led to some pretty nasty comments/personal attacks and retaliatory behaviour. It&#39;s at times like these when I feel like retreating from the internet altogether. The #SmallWeb is supposed to be a refuge, but all it takes is one link share on a big site...
Post #1120842
🔗 https://stephvee.ca/blog/rewinds/rewind-mar-2026/ My latest monthly rewind is up! Included are links to my March blog posts, as well as a new recommendation (Maxis&#39; 2024 port of SimCity 3000 on Steam), and some new bookmarks. I also briefly discuss the reason why I&#39;ve removed links to my Bluesky account from my website, and vaguely allude to my latest anti-scraping efforts. #indieweb #blogging #bookmarks
Post #1120841
🔗 https://stephvee.ca/blog/crafts/early-efforts-in-sticker-making/ New blog post! I’m teetering on the brink of middle-age, and I’m dealing with that like any Mature Adult would by … uh, making stickers for my laptop. Lots of them. #indieweb #blogging #stickers #stickerbomb #crafts #hobbies
Post #1120840
I recently finished &quot;The Raven Scholar&quot; by Antonia Hodgson. There were some neologisms that irked me a bit, and the book probably could have been at least two hundred pages shorter, but it was enjoyable enough. It&#39;s difficult to find modern fantasy these days that ISN&#39;T romantasy, so I appreciate it for that alone. I&#39;ve now moved on to &quot;Slow Horses&quot; by Mick Herron. I&#39;m a big fan of the TV series, so I&#39;m looking forward...
Post #842278
🔗 https://stephvee.ca/blog/updates/a-clean-redesign-for-2026/ I gave my website another makeover! I&#39;m still using the same palette (which automatically respects your dark / light mode preferences), but I&#39;ve cleaned things up considerably. As always, don&#39;t forget to boop the cat ... he reacts now! :patcat: #indieweb #pixelart
Post #842277
🔗 https://stephvee.ca/blog/rewinds/rewind-jan-2026/ My latest rewind is up, where I summarize the blog posts I wrote this month, recommend some entertainment titles worth checking out (including The Pitt and The Studio, among others), and share a few interesting links. #blog #blogging #indieweb #smolweb #thepitt #thestudio
Post #842276
🔗 https://stephvee.ca/uses I love reading /uses pages on the #indieweb, but I always want to know more about WHY people use what they use... so I made sure to add that information to my own /uses page. :blobmiou:
Post #842275
🔗 https://stephvee.ca/blog/cats/my-elderly-cat-is-slowing-down/ TW: discussions of pet aging and illness #blogging #indieweb #cats
Post #842274
🔗 https://stephvee.ca/hobbies/ I&#39;ve been slowly chipping away at this page on my days off, and it&#39;s finally finished! Check it out! I can&#39;t stand what social media has done to the hobby scene. I know so many people on/offline who feel like they can&#39;t &quot;waste time&quot; on hobbies, especially if they can&#39;t use them to make a few bucks on the side. Hobbies can be *so* beneficial to your well-being, so I say screw side hustle culture! Do fun st...
Post #842273
🔗 https://stephvee.ca/blog/artificial%20intelligence/how-safe-are-our-rss-feeds-from-ai-scrapers/ Some quick thoughts about the relentless bot onslaught so many of us are seeing on our personal websites, and what this likely means for our RSS feeds. 😔 If anyone has any ideas on how we can protect our feeds from data thieves, please feel free to chime in. I&#39;m at my wit&#39;s end with this crap... #indieweb #rss #antiai #fuckai
Post #842272
🔗 https://stephvee.ca/blog/updates/my-rss-feed-is-now-excerpt-only/ After thinking more about the worsening data theft /scraping problem, I&#39;ve decided to strip my RSS feed of full-text content. :welp: I did not make this decision lightly, and am frankly incredibly annoyed about it. We shouldn&#39;t have to worry about this sort of stuff... #indieweb #rss #data #fuckai
Post #842271
🔗 https://stephvee.ca/blog/artificial%20intelligence/generative-ai-is-built-on-the-exploitation-of-the-global-south/ (CW: references to sexual abuse material and unsafe working conditions) Sorry for the re-toot, but when I finished this blog post last night I was ... a little concerned, I guess, that I might attract too much negative attention from AI boosters with it, so I shared it here on quiet public. I&#39;m feeling braver about it this morning, so screw it, full public it goes! This...
Post #842270
🔗 https://stephvee.ca/blog/rewinds/rewind-feb-2026/ My rewind for February is up! I take a look back at the blog posts I wrote this month and the other new additions I made to my site. I also link to some interesting sites / blog posts I found recently that you may enjoy. New recommendations this month include: Pluribus (TV), A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (TV), and Cult of the Lamb (Video Games). #indieweb #blogging #recommendations #pluribus #aknightofthesevenkingdoms #cultofthelamb
Post #842269
🔗 https://stephvee.ca/blog/updates/the-scraping-problem-is-worse-than-i-thought/ The extreme amount of unethical #scraping that&#39;s occurring all over the web right now *definitely* won&#39;t be solved by limiting nice features for good-faith visitors; for that reason, I&#39;ve reinstated my full-text RSS feed. Apologies for truncating it in the first place -- that was dumb of me. More about that in my latest blog post. #indieweb #scrapers #fuckai
Post #842268
🔗 https://stephvee.ca/blog/computers/new-os-old-memories/ I recently installed Linux on a laptop that was collecting dust, and have mostly been using it to revisit SimCity 3000. I&#39;ve been having an absolute blast with it! #indieweb #blogging #linux #kubuntu #microslop #simcity
Post #842267
🔗 https://stephvee.ca/blog/cats/my-cat-has-dementia/ Time for a little update on Mr. B... It&#39;s not great news, but it could be worse. #Blogging #Cats #CatsOfMastodon
Post #842266
Mr. B showing off his new bow tie. #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon
Post #842265
RE: https://boing.world/@pre/116291125766048520 Yet another #TediousBastard chiming in: if you don’t want your Mastodon posts scraped and fed to an LLM by Laurie without your consent, block him and his entire instance. #FuckAI #AntiAI
Post #842263
I don&#39;t think I&#39;ve *ever* blocked an account that quickly before. NO, I&#39;M NOT SORRY ABOUT IT. Bluesky just keeps on giving me all sorts of reasons to stop using it completely... #Bots #FuckAI
Post #842261
ClaudeBot is making regularly scheduled requests for my sitemap. It&#39;s completely ignoring robots.txt. Enjoy your 403 errors, ClaudeBot! #FuckAI #Scraping
Post #842260
Basket Cat is ready for delivery. #CatsOfMastodon
Post #395633
RE: https://mastodon.social/@geerlingguy/116126520015859501 RIGHT? Playing the tiniest violin for Anthropic while I continue to try to defend my website from the hourly barrage of AI bots that ignore my robots.txt. These assholes have no right to complain about ANYONE stealing their work. #bots #fuckai #fuckanthropic
Post #368337
… OK, Winter, I think you’ve made your point. You can stop now. (That is a picnic table and two chairs, by the way.) #winter #snow #ineedittobesummer