As attentive readers of this website will know, I’m happily using micro.blog as the site’s hosting platform. Micro.blog has a surprisingly wide range of features and it comes with several associated mini-apps, which provide easy access to those features. One of the apps is called Wavelength, and it has just been updated. This has inspired me, finally, to actually make use of it. Wavelength makes it easy to edit and publish voice recordings and now with Wavelength I’ve been recording my voice,…

In light of recent events I've canceled my 1Password yearly subscription, after 10 years as a loyal user. This was not a decision I made lightly, I’ve got everything in my password manager and the muscle memory for using it is deeply ingrained in me. After much procrastination I finally took the plunge a month ago and it turns out, it was actually pretty easy to switch. And it came with some upsides too, Bitwarden is almost half the price of 1Password on the yearly plan. Migration guide There…

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I'm getting back into being Sandy Bawls, but I'm having a hard time getting people to notice me. And when I tell people, I can point them to an Instagram account, but that doesn't really explain anything about the whole act. I knew I didn't want a business card, because that isn't going to really tell people anything more. And I know that I can make delightful A4 zines. (Yes, you too can take colouring books off of Archive.org and turn them into abridged tiny colouring zines!) So I thought…

ou, I don't want to be here, I wanna to go back to bahia. mudar de seu país é uma experiência um tanto quanto intrigante e eu, afortunada como sou, já pude vivê-la duas vezes. a primeira foi rápida, quase um bate-volta, três meses em terras italianas. e a segunda é a realidade em que ainda vivo, na inglaterra há quase seis anos. e enquanto assim for, este texto estará em eterna construção. dizem por aí que imigrantes só apreciam o brasil após se mudarem e te garanto que não. mesmo que antes eu…

While cleaning up my podcast follows, I noticed that BBC's Infinite Monkey Cage has a new cover image, and new description, and has new (guest) hosts: Prof. Adam Rutherford and Jess Fostekew. It has been a year since one of the original host, Robin Ince, resigned from the show, and BBC is apparently rebooting the show. I will give the new episodes, if they arrive, a try, but I will miss the chemistry between the original hosts. ~ Links: The Infinite Monkey Cage, by BBC Comedian Robin Ince…

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Isabel Cristo, Grub Street: The philosopher Simone Weil was a devout Catholic and mystic. She also died of voluntary starvation at the age of 34, which makes her an unlikely choice for guidance on the topic of dinnertime, but she offered a perspective in 1949, in The Need for Roots, that captures my own feeling: “Obligations, whether unconditional or relative, eternal or changing, direct or indirect with regard to human affairs, all stem, without exception, from the vital needs of the human…

After failing to convince the client otherwise On the side, I do a bit of pedalboard “making”. And yesterday I just finished the largest board I’ve ever made. But even though I failed to talk him out of the giant board1, I still enjoyed making something this ludicrous! My Squier JV (if you know, you know) Strat for scale… I had a previous version where I prioritised squeezing in even more pedals. But that made pedals even harder to access, and would’ve made maintenance even more fiddly. The…

I recently re-watched The Day the Earth Stood Still, one of my favorite movies since I first saw it roughly 50 years ago. As I wrote about it 15 years ago, This is one of the first serious science fiction films, and since the minimal special effects take a back seat to old-fashioned concepts like “story”, “character development” and especially “acting”, it’s still better than just about everything which has come along in the genre since. Michael Rennie’s portrayal of the alien diplomat Klaatu…

Jake Casella Brookins Hello everyone, happy October! We’ve had a busy month behind the scenes at ARB—as often happens, the vagaries of publishing and reviewing schedules conspired to stack our queue with good stuff. Fall and early spring tend to be good book release seasons, so we’re loaded up with things that have just come out or are about to. Additionally, we’ve received a ton of interest in our call for volunteer editors—if you’ve applied, look for an email from us soon! We’re already…

To start things off on the right foot this morning, I am exhausted. The game was on later last night. The Phillies lost, but I actually expected that. It just was not their year this year. After the dreadful start to the season, I am surprised that they even made the playoffs at all. Oh well. Starting Nola was a choice last night. So was keeping Kevin long after the bats all became inconsistent every year. I feel like I did not sleep enough last night because of that. That aside, I did want to…

September was a rainy, rainy month here in Tokyo. I spent the first week of it down in Sydney visiting my Mum, then came back to Tokyo and holed up in my apartment for much of the rest of it. Suddenly the skies cleared though, and I got in some hiking right at the end of September, which is why this newsletter is a little delayed coming out. Hiking Hokkaido's Mt Poroshiri and Mt Yotei I did a road trip around Hokkaido in August, so September had me slowly making my way through my blog posts for…

Someone heard about my USD2,500 loss, this person offered me a way out and the opportunity to make even more money. What he said makes sense. I have worked hard to service my customers and play within the rules. All I need is just one screw up to undo all my hard work. Since my massive losses from last year, has things improved? Did anyone come to me and want to work with me because I own my mistakes? After my losses, has anyone step up and give me a helping hand? He remarked that I could not…

As of writing, I have the particular privilege of working on open source code as a full-time, salary-paying job. I have to attach a conditional to that because the open source nature of it isn’t a guarantee—what I do could get put behind a wall next week for all I know—it’s only open because someone higher in the organisation allows it to be. Being able to do stuff in the open and witness how it spreads, mutates and feeds back on itself is a major draw of the job for me. Whilst I’m no…

Yeah I got a new guitar. It was 80 Euro used, and I couldn't say no. It's a Squier Sonic Mustang in color "Torino Red". The post New indie machine appeared first on Alessandro Muraro.

To be read in conjunction with the tangent section of the astrophiz podcast #243 https://soundcloud.com/astrophiz/astrophiz-243-october-sky-guide-saturn-opposition-orionids-venus This month as Venus swells in size and becomes a wire thin crescent, visible even in binoculars (although best seen at twilight as its brightness may cause reflection artifacts), let us reflect on its reflective atmosphere.Seen through ordinary binoculars and telescopes, Venus is plain (almost blindingly) white and…

Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it. – Daniel Lakeland

The summer of how-did-we-get-here? books continues with three more titles – and there are at least two more to come in the next month. This latest crop take broader views than the last few, which were mostlsy centered on Silicon Valley and written by people who live there. In End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World, Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor treat the predations of billionaires as just one piece of a larger global turn to the right. They begin their tale at Davos and US…

For nearly 4 years, the public has been told that generative artificial intelligence is an economic wrecking ball aimed directly at white-collar employment.The warning arrives from every respectable corner of modern commentary. When Jack Dorsey slashed 4,000 jobs at Block, he announced that artificial intelligence allowed the company to operate with half its staff, warning corporate America that any executive failing to execute similar cuts was late. When Bill Gates published a 6,000-word…

In just a few short days, on 5 October 2026, Vueling flight number VY1010 will be on its way to Madrid after taking off from Barcelona at 07:25. The roughly 485 kilometres between the two Spanish cities takes 1 hour and 25 minutes in flight time and has enough demand that Vueling decided to restart this service after having given up this route in March 2025. When this restart was announced over the summer, a number of news outlets covered it and commented on the decline of the high-speed rail…

It has been 10 years since I ran Cardboctober, a month-long hackathon in which I created something new for Google Cardboard each day and wrote about it. I considered doing it again this year, but my time is spread thinner these days than it was in 2016, so I thought I’d do a bit of a retrospective on the WebVR and Google Cardboard scene instead. It started with a hack day Cardboctober didn’t come out of nowhere. In July 2016, I had run Game Dev Day for JSOxford, a hack day at the Story Museum…

I watched a documentary on Channel 4 recently called England 'Til I Die (embedded below from YouTube). It follows a group of racist thugs and how they want all the "rapist Muslims" out. Horrible, vile people. These idiots often quote that the asylum seekers are here to rape and pillage. They're not, you fucking morons. They're here because it's not safe wherever they've come from. GET THEM OUT! This is another quote we see a lot. But what have you done for this country? Except squat around in…

Arguably the best Culture book by Iain M. Banks, arguably the greatest sci-fi author of all time, at the peak of his powers, making this one of the very top books in sci-fi history. I’ve not read Excession since I was a teenager and while I remembered bits of it, most of it felt like reading it for the first time, what a privilege. A magnificent story about a conspiracy between some Minds, with some great ships, humans, aliens, and an inexplicably powerful object they call the Excession. As…

View from the hillNikon N200050mm f/1.8 Nikon Series EKodak Ektar 1002014 I’ve shot enough Kodak Ektar over the years to know that I like it for autumn landscapes and other similarly colorful situations. But I don’t love it for general purposes. I suppose my favorite general-purpose color film is Kodak Portra 160. But the color film I use the most is Fujicolor 200, entirely because it’s the lowest-priced color film I can easily get. I’ve shot miles of the stuff. My Fujicolor 200 album on Flickr…

The other day I read this piece by Eleva Verna, who heads Growth at AI-powered vibe coding company Lovable: What it’s like to work at an AI-native company. I highly recommend it, it’s a super useful description and offers a really valuable (and relatable) perspective by a self-described “millennial of the previous tech era.” Since I’m a total sucker for descriptions of how companies work and how organizations, well: organize themselves, this is right up my alley. And of course as a strategist…

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Death and the Pleasant Voices by Mary Fitt published 1946 Marcel was sitting at the grand piano singing…Ursula was standing beside Marcel with her hand on his shoulder…laughing across at each other, quite absorbed. She was singing with him now… [picture from date of publication rather than my theoretical timing of the action, see below] comments: I have a love/hate relationship with Mary Fitt – I’ve read a number of her books, and blogged on a couple, but she is not a favourite. I think because…

Quick one this week. I really liked the sustainability post by Etsy. They are about measuring stuff and advocating for change in the industry. Quote of the Week How does a manager motivate his subordinates? For most of us, the word implies doing something to another person. But I don’t think that can happen, because motivation has to come from within somebody. Accordingly, all a manager can do is create an environment in which motivated people can flourish. High Output Management Andrew S.…

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