Closed the long weekend and opened the short week with a reunion lunch in Nakame including references to Se7en and what we suspect was Froyo, before heading to see band club play live. They were pretty great! Remember to bring hearing protection lxds. Leant on some of my CliftonStrengths™ mid-week to pull a plan out of many loose strands for a new assignment. That was particularly enjoyable. Meetings are getting easier to follow, but are still incredibly hard. This is to say that grammar study…

The first leg of our campervan life from Sydney to Hunter Valley ✒️ Written by: Abbie We flew from Perth to Sydney overnight, leaving behind our base with family in Fremantle and ready to take on a whole new adventure: eight weeks in a campervan. While we saved one night of accommodation costs by travelling overnight across the entire country, we ultimately paid for it over the next three days in Sydney as we walked around feeling like zombies. Neither of us slept on that hot, uncomfortable…

clean up timePut all the tools away except for the allen wrenches. Buttoning up the lunchbox was next on the menu. I had planned to go to the tool repair on Jefferson but it didn't happen today. I was getting the directions when I noticed that it isn't open on saturday. Saved me some time and gas on that one. It opens on monday at 0830 and I'll head that way after breakfast at Johnny's Chalet.neat and tidyThis is all I got done today and this took a bazillion hours to get done. I woke up…

I completely forgot I had a Bandcamp account. To be honest, I have no idea why. I should definitely use Bandcamp more often.

88 butterfly ventral view, Santa Rosa, Veracruz, MX, 5 Oct 2026 (photo by Kate St. John) 18 October 2026 As we walked the road from Santa Rosa to Cascada de Texolo on 5 October, we were impressed by the butterflies as well as the birds. I had been hoping to see “88” butterflies and my dream came true when one posed nicely for us near the waterfalls overlook. The dorsal side was much more difficult to photograph so when our guide Roland found a dead one, he opened it so we could see its back.…

★★★★: Holds up better than I thought it would. Manages to be consistently unsettling without having many traditional "horror" elements until pretty late in the film. Resolution is a little fast, but everything comes together nicely. FYI: My reviews are scored out of 4. Also, thanks for subscribing to my RSS feed and supporting the indie web!

So today marks the 4th anniversary of us moving to our 2.5 acre smallholding in north Wales. I can't believe it's been 4 years already - it feels like 5 minutes ago that I wad writing my 3 years at the smallholding post. Last year's update wasn't as positive as previous years thanks to us having to get a new roof, which cost a shit tonne of money, and caused leaks all over the house. But I'm happy to say that the update for this year is mostly positive. I ended last year's post by saying: If…

This is a world where people stare blankly, waiting, in their boredom, for you to tap dance. Here's the thing. I'll tap dance on a dime. I'll tap dance if you ask unrudely. In fact, I'll tap dance even when there's no one's there at all, on the chance someone might pass by. Not to show off, or to compile credit, but merely to add my piece to the puzzle—which, in my reckoning, is the entire part of this corroborative art project. I tap dance just to tap dance. In fact, the only thing that can…

Let's continue our investigation of 1959 with Judith Merril, reading the sole "J" and two of the "K" stories from her list of Honorable Mentions at the back of the fifth of her famous Year's Best anthologies. Damon Knight's "What Rough Beast?" is a third "K" story that merited the Merril nod, but we read it way back in 2015. That leaves us with Shirley Jackson's "Strangers in Town," Colin Kapp's "Breaking Point," and Gerald Kersh's "The Oracle of the Fish." The titles of the stories in the…

Collin Walcott (1945–1984) belonged to that rare constellation of musicians for whom the boundaries of an instrument were never quite synonymous with the boundaries of its tradition. Among the earliest artists to bring the sitar and tabla into sustained conversation with jazz, he approached the possibilities of intercultural improvisation with a curiosity grounded in years of rigorous study, including apprenticeships with Ravi Shankar and Alla Rakha. Yet his genius resided equally in the…

Book review for The Odyssey by Homer. I rated it 5 stars. In anticipation of the release of the new Christopher Nolan movie, I decided to give The Odyssey a read. Even if you’ve never read the poem, it’s one of those stories that a lot of people are roughly familiar with just through pop culture references or from school. And I specifically say “a lot” and not “everyone” because I was surprised to meet at least two people recently who had never heard of it (I suppose it depends on your age, or…

When Emperor Heraclius died on 11 February 641, he left two of his sons in charge. Each was from a different mother.Constantine, his son by his first wife, Fabia Eudokia, had been crowned co-emperor on 22 January 613, when the child was only eight months old. This honorary title was a way to ensure succession in the event of the father's death, but did not give him the emperor's authority while his father lived. (The illustration shows a gold solidus with father and son displayed.)Heraclonas,…

October 17, 2026WE HAD A BIG COLD FRONT! I realize this is not always news for jubilation, but in Kansas City, in October, for bird lovers, it certainly is! We’ve been waiting! I was happy to pull out my mittens, my wool beanie, and my coat! This cold front did not disappoint; it’s been a magical week. I could never pick one favorite bird, but if I had to, it would be avocets!The cold front didn’t actually come through until Thursday night, but the birds often fly out ahead of the front, and…

It's that time again for my weekly update, which includes a short collection of noteworthy finds, posts that inspire, as well as a few reflections from the past week or two. I'll aim to land these in your inbox by the weekend, in time to pair with your morning coffee (or your preferred cup of inspiration).The Latest Drippings ☕️Forget Billionaire Algorithms. I've been following Ron Gilbert for as long as I can remember; Monkey Island, released in 1990, is still one of my favorite games of all…

I noted in my IBR2026 Opening post last January that I was taking a different approach this year: I was eager to read a pile of what I called ‘Big Books’ on my table, so I moved Pushcart to the summer. This was an experiment, and what I got from it was that it was a Bad Idea. I’m still feeling the repercussions: I have several half-read books that I’m just not going to finish this year. I’d hoped to fit in at least two more, but BASS drops in four days and I need a little breathing space. So…

I ordered this book from our local bookshop a while ago but have only just found time to finish reading it. It’s an analysis of the decline of the neoliberal model of the university accompanied by the rise of commercialisation, managerialism and authoritarian models of governance. At 165 pages, not counting the notes and references, it’s a concise and compelling polemic, full of controlled anger and sprinkled with sardonic wit. The problem I have in reviewing it is that almost every page…

The Treamcast was an unofficial Dreamcast mod made by Hong Kong company XingHong Electronic Co. Ltd featuring a fold-down LCD display (like that PS1 add-on), region-free playback, the ability to play CD-Rs, and compatibility with Dreamcast controllers and games. It never got official status from SEGA but remained something of a cult classic until the mid-2000s.

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I'm continuing my quixotic habit of getting up early, sitting somewhere with a coffee and streaming a mix to YouTube.I think this morning's was nice, ambient things by Regents Canal. Not actually steamed, the phone signal wasn't up to it, but live-ish.Here I am outside Bar Italia playing selections from Matt Irvine Brown's Modern Boogie Yus. And here's the rain on Gail'sAnd a damp, windy, wavey morning in Lyme RegisFurther along. A couple of days before.

When you ask an AI a question, it doesn’t only answer that question. Without saying so, it also answers another one: does this need checking? And the implicit answer is always no. That silent “no” is the core of what the researchers Shaw and Nave call “cognitive surrender”: you are not delegating a task while keeping your judgement, you are giving up the judgement itself. That is different from using a tool. A calculator or a search engine takes work off your hands, but the verdict on the…

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This blog post is a weekly update of my journey in Djangonaut Space, an 8-week mentoring program for future open source developers in the Django ecosystem. Series: 3… 2… 1… becoming a Djangonaut Djangonaut Log 1: Lift-off and first week in Djangonaut Space (you are here) I shared last week that I was accepted to Djangonaut Space and last week was the prep week before the lift-off: we got to know each other, had a lot of fun discussions and I even got myself into making my first contributions.…

This edition explores agentic commerce interfaces beyond chat UIs. Don't miss a fun clock made from trash, a webcam theremin experiment, cool dataviz and tool to know if a book chapter will make you sad.

1st July / 3.30PM I’m sat in a cemetary park in Brussels praying for good 5G. I joined the digital ticket queue at 10AM, as soon as I came out the Eurostar terminal. Tens of thousands of punters in e-front of me, est queueing time UNKNOWN. Now it’s five hours later and the queue robot’s emailing me to say it’s my turn to hand over the cash. Ha ha ha ha, this is quite funny. Easier to get Beyonce tickets, isn’t it. 3rd October / 7PM I am leading my Mum through Bloomsbury at a clip. We duck down…

Near the opening of Chapter Twenty Six of Capital, Karl Marx writes about Primitive Accumulation thus:This primitive accumulation plays in Political Economy about the same part as original sin in theology. Adam bit the apple, and thereupon sin fell on the human race. Its origin is supposed to be explained when it is told as an anecdote of the past. In times long gone by there were two sorts of

Let's get this out of the way first - this is a terrible idea! I want my two-factor authentication codes to be easily accessible to me, so I've built a watch app which will display them. That's really convenient for me - but makes for a terrible security posture. Anyone who steals my watch will be able to see my one-time code. If they're clever, they can decompile the app and find the secret which powers the code generation. You should absolutely not do this and, if you ignore my warnings, you…

While the days of optical media are somewhat behind us, it’s amazing that through a combination of luck, generosity and diligence that I can still make new discoveries and experience using different sorts of rare media. This post looks at a now-defunct company, King Disc Technology Corp. (KDT), their 8x DVD-Rs with KDTVVV media ID. Aside from the uncommon MID which is not universally supported amongst recorders (and which I have not previously seen), KDT also had a surprising strategy to sell…

What's been happeningThe week started with Sydney amping up the grill to max — we got a taste of how our summer might be when the temperature shot up to 36 degrees out here in Western Sydney.I’m not looking forward to it. Thankfully, the rest of the week was pretty wet and cold - not great from a humidity point of view.A round of thanks to Rushabh who asked me why I haven't written the weekly notes in a while - it turns out that the www version of my site was still pointed to the older Hugo…

Shaping up to be a great book.

Colleagues Cyril Hédoin and Pablo Paniagua are running a symposium on “PPE” (philosophy, politics, and economics) over there. They follow James Buchanan’s classic question, from 1964, of “What should economists do?” Given that Crooked Timber is, arguably, situated at least in part in this field, I thought I’d repost my response to their introductory essay here, with their permission. ——— PPE for Embodied Creatures on a Finite Planet There is much to applaud in Hedoin and Paniagua’s views on…