It's an easy enough mistake to make. We've all been there. Don't let it bring you down. It never was spaghetti. Good news: you can own a copy of the original artwork (as above) quite easily but I'm not going to tell you how to do it. Frustration is good for the soul, so they say. Success in life requires determination, patience and treachery.

Foggy first thing but not cold. Did K car. Moved a lot of boxes out of the office in the library and cleared silage lab again. Went for half gallon of juice.

Over the last five years, the #Fediverse has been pushed down the path of copying corporate #dotcons: chasing raw user growth, building paywalled conference cultures, reproducing professional #NGO gatekeeping, and concentrating power around branded projects and scale. To balance this mess the Open Media Network (#OMN) path offers both the conceptual shovel and the practical social infrastructure to help dig the Fediverse out of this #mainstreaming trap. The answer is not to discard the last…

I think it’s obvious that with Ai we will see a fundamental change in how we organize and Structure Teams. This post follows one ticket through a German Scrum team and shows where that path breaks. In short, roles will merge; you will not have an Isolated Developer, Designer or Business person anymore. These merged roles will also use agents to ship new features, fix bugs and verify the result. Now before we go deeper on how exactly this will change let’s first look back at how most German…

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved string parsing and reassembly, and word squares. (Note that this ends today.)

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The easiest one-to-one to run is a status update. It’s also the least useful: you can get status from the board. The point of the time is the stuff that never makes it onto a ticket. Here are seven questions I come back to: What’s taking more energy than it should right now? Gets at friction (process, tooling, people) without asking anyone to complain. If you could change one thing about how the team works, what would it be? Small enough to answer honestly, specific enough to act on. What did…

Personal notes for week 42 of 2026

UpdatesFeels like I am back in rhythm with my weeknotes now. As I get ready to launch my new venture, having a pause once a week to collect my thoughts is good.Focus this week has been putting many of the bits and pieces in place when starting a new business. I finished the Start Your Own Business course I was doing with the Local Enterprise Office. I learned well on the evening course, and I'd recommend it to anyone starting a venture here in Ireland. The biggest win for me was having space to…

This month's Field Notes restores presence, cutting out the endless background noise to focus on one thing at a time in both work and leisure – and asks whether a business can scale with the same outlook. | Read full post >>

This month's Field Notes restores presence, cutting out the endless background noise to focus on one thing at a time in both work and leisure – and asks whether a business can scale with the same outlook. | Read full post >>

Some interesting links I found on the web. Origami by Dan Q (via). HTML boilerplate by Vale and Manuel (via). Improved CSS Text-Stroke. CSS for underlines. Thanks for reading this post via RSS. You're awesome ♥️

Understanding blogs – Tracy Durnell’s Mind Garden Neo-Etiquette Basics: The New Rules of Being Human – some of those tips are worth sharing Bubbles is a New Way of Recreating Old Problems Why I Use Uruky, a Private Search Engine Our Privacy Expert Tried, and Failed, to Disappear From the Internet W​hy are European leaders staying silent after our summer of climate shock?

In mid-September we spent a few days in the Italian Dolomites, our first visit despite living on the other side of the Alps in Munich. We travelled by train to Bolzano, then rented a car for the journey into the mountains. After a night in Santa Cristina Valgardena, we drove to nearby Ortisei and took the cable car up to Seceda. Seceda rises to 2,519 metres on the edge of the Puez-Odle Nature Park. Its southern slopes are mostly alpine pasture, but along the northern edge the ground drops…

My Blog as a Library IVI am redoing it again lol#blog #redesign #pixels #websiteThank you for following my feed! ♥ Leave a reply here.

Apparently upgrading writefreely through docker can cause some posts to disappear... The post on my Comicstash project seems to have completely vaporized. I was busy rewriting the blog anyways, so I will not bother, but just be mindful.

Two weeks at number one from 30th July 1988At some undisclosed point in 1988, Clint Mansell woke up from an appalling nightmare where his group were paid a fortune to soundtrack a McDonald’s advert. In exchange for this financial windfall, the group were mocked by the music press to oblivion, abandoned by their fans, forever associated with Ronald the corporate clown and a questionable fast food chain. RIP PWEI.Shortly after this dream, he read a newspaper article where he learned that in the…

What’s going on, Internet? Saturday was a pretty good day. Sun was shining, but damn it was freezing cold (literal shivering) when out of the sun. So after we had dinner down at Ralph’s on our way to Western Springs to see Olivia Dean we decided to make a quick detour home to grab our jackets. Lucky we did, because damn, it was cold. Western Springs is an outdoor stadium. We were amongst 45,000 people who turned up to see Olivia Dean. She kicked off on time at 9pm, but three songs in disaster…

Likes The RSS Universe by Readers, Tools & Standards. No algorithm, no timeline, no engagement bait. Just feeds you chose. Here’s the whole ecosystem — readers, feed generators, monitoring, directories, and the standards that hold it together. Great looking set of RSS tools. Via Joe and Alan.

Snoozle numero uno is a wonky photo of the Submarine Lagoon, from December, 1964. If it wasn't for those glowing red lights, I might have assumed that the Submarine ride was down for maintenance. This isn't the worst photo, but it ain't great either. Next, from "sometime in the 60s" is this bright, sunny photo of Main Street Station, with the Ernest S. Marsh coming in for a landing. "But Major, this picture is pretty OK, why is it a Snoozle?". BECAUSE I SAID SO!

When last we visited this dead tree a scant few weeks ago, there was nothing to be seen. Imagine our joy on finding THIS upon our next visit: Well, maybe not everyone was joyful… Big whoop…can we go now??? Hang on a minute, Bowsie….I need to take some close-up shots. Servants’ quarters at the base of the Palace, perhaps? One of the many “balconies” of the Palace. Servants’ view. Close-up of another balcony. Okay, okay…we can go now! Stop giving me those judgy looks, dog. Can’t a person have a…

The Lord Of The Rings (1978)

For the final read of our #1949Club week, I turned to a book which I’ve owned for some time but hadn’t initially realised was released in the year in question – “The Far Cry” by Emma Smith, in a Persephone Edition. This came to me some years ago courtesy of an X/Twitter acquaintance, the lovely Tracy, who kindly sent it on to me. It was obviously awaiting its time, which arrived now, as it managed to grab my attention despite the 1949 pile having some amazing-looking books. This one seemed to…

Welcome to my sixth year of doing week­notes. What a journey. My week­notes sure have changed since my very first week­notes entry. Quick bits For acting class, I had to write a three-minute piece about myself. One could assume that this would be easy, given the vast amount of writing I have done on this web site. Alas, I struggled with it so much! I did not even finish it, but had to present it anyway, improvising the ending. It wasn’t badly received, at least. In a few weeks’ time, we have to…

Toronto-based artist Bradley Sean Alexander Deschamps’ solo catalogue, as anthéne, online catalogue goes back around a decade. That of his label, Polar Seas Recordings, goes back a little further. BBTT, however, only discovered Duchamps’ work in 2023, via a collaboration with site favourite, IKSRE, titled “Shifting Seasons”. Deschamps’ latest release is a 2 track package, aimed to raise money for the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund. Both compositions / improvisations are 12-minute plus…

Some things need time to mature. For example, it takes years to build an organic presence. Yes, you can spam and cheat, or go viral or whatever, but what you build will most likely die away as fast as it came. For a true and lasting following, be that for your band, your blog, or your business, nothing beats the slow and steady approach. This is one of those things I have been around long enough to notice. I have just enough data in year four for Matt’s Social Node that you can see the process…

A song you’d do at karaoke? No. I do not enjoy karaoke. But, the first time I did it I was “volunteered” on a work night out. The track, I kid you not, You Got The Power by Snap. Even if I HAD chose to sing that night it’s not exactly a first choice candidate, ya know? The second time I sang at karaoke was a very VERY drunken night in Spain. The local bar that my expat in-laws frequented, long after they called it a night, started up karaoke and I was drunk enough to perform Times Like These by…

I went on a walk today. The weather is nice, temperate. I can take four consecutive steps without sweating beads. Autumn is here. Let’s go. I make my way to the first stop of my walk: local café. It’s bustling for a Saturday morning, but still enough seats for me to choose from. I order chai with an espresso shot added in, and two pastries. I wait at the bar area. I’m thinking ahead of how the walk will go, then just as I’m beginning to thinking too far ahead, my order is ready. I eat, sip, and…