I recently picked up a Coospo TR70 Radar Bike Light to use for my bike riding, specifically for my commute to work since it puts me on a few roads where there can be heavy/fast car traffic, mainly Hampton Avenue through Milwaukee, Butler, and Menomonee Falls. Matt has a Garmin Varia and I thought about getting one but I still get nervous spending over $100 on something. The Garmin Varia is $150 USD while the Coospo TR70 is $70 USD. That half-price deal really got me interested, though I was…

The title of this post is making a connection to my previous post titled Group communication is hard. Like in that post i am discussing a current matter of conversation in the OSM community. There is a discussion happening at the moment in the English speaking parts of the OSM community that is well suited as an example for two topics that have been dear to me for a long time – that is documentation of tagging practice and cross cultural communication. How to propose The current discussion is…

And here we are three years after I wrote about the Google Pixel Fold being announced, followed now with the announcement of the iPhone Duo...(I have questions about the naming by the way). Four years ago I was talking about web primitives in the platform for the Surface Duo. My how time flies. There are CSS media features, a Viewport Segments API, a Device Posture API but Chromium based browsers are the only ones currently supporting these things. I haven't been able to find any signal yet on…

Is the LAMY 2000 part of stationery journey? Myke and I are fired up to meet in Memphis next week for the St. Jude Podcastathon, but first, we have pens to talk about! Wait, make that pencils, as I have a few words on the latest uniball Kuru Toga Dive, and then we dig into pens, and some advice on the stationery hobby as a whole. Show Notes & Download Links This episode of The Pen Addict is sponsored by: Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code PENADDICT.

I’m boycotting the feedback-hostile Apple Feedback Assistant, so this blog post is my bug report. The bug was brought to my attention by a reader of my blog, who said that it was introduced in iOS 26 and continues in iOS 27. I’ll illustrate the bug with screenshots. First, you need to save a pdf file to the Files app. I recently filed a WebKit bug report (the WebKit Bugzilla is less hostile than Feedback Assistant) with a sample downloadable pdf, so I used that to test. (Don’t worry, the…

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The current issue of Delayed Gratification looks back at January to March 2026, and includes an interview with Mark Lloyd, the CEO of The Rivers Trust. If you have access, it’s “Troubled waters” (DG#62, p. 102).A couple of things happened back then. News arrived from the Environment Agency that 2025 had seen 1.9 million hours of sewage spills. And Channel 4 broadcast Dirty Business, which you will have watched.The focus there is on the sewage—rightly, as it’s grim. But as with many things, it…

Blooger isn't fixed but it is a tiny bit less broken. Two of you have reached out, the blogroll updater is still totally broken for some, sorta broken for others, but when anyone clicks the site button they are sent to the front page of the respective site which is current and up-to-date, click on the site title, not the alleged lastest post link. My bandcamp is up-to-date and has the new Bonnie Prince Billy live album, released last FridayBlogger sent me an email last week telling me they had…

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The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level, in which one can be absolutely precise. Edsger W. Dijkstra, computer scientist Poem: Abstraction Towers Abstraction on abstraction, Put some more on top of that; Abstraction's the attraction, Till there ain't no turning back. I don't like abstractions; I feel they blur your vision and make you weaker. In almost all scenarios I could think of. Take for example, on the web. I like using HTML, CSS and JavaScript…

This week's revisit isn't quite up to regulation standards - rather than hit CTRL+R in Music Collector and let fate decide, I deliberately picked Violator this week. There was a little bit of random chance involved, don't fret. A Discord server I'm in started a new rota of weekly community-driven album listens where each week a randomly picked participant chooses an album they hold dear to their heart and then people discuss and rate; I've avoided the game to date because I'm bad at forming…

Good pies and good pints in a Wylam-esque venue is sometimes all you need.

Today I'm thinking about the reasons why almost every website you visit wants your email address or phone number, but almost none will EVER ask for your social media accounts as contact info. I feel like that says something about how valuable social media is in terms of actual networking.

OK, so I missed the 2026 Autumnal Equinox by two days, but I can still celebrate. Here are a few paintings of Autumn landscapes, mostly from the 19th century. You can find many of them larger from this Wikimedia Commons page (scroll down and notice the link to “next page” at bottom). Others you can look up easily enough. (Images above, links are to Lines and Colors posts): Albert Bierstadt, Jasper Francis Cropsey, Ekaterina Junge, Frederic Edwin Church, H.A. Brendekilde, George Inness, Isaac…

Hanging out with the local Portuguese football fans for a cappuccino and a pastel de nata. I’m at: Café Central Portugais, Montréal, Québec Location map: https://misterchrisjones.ca/location/chris/7377/ Note tags: checkin, food, montral, qubec, portugueserestaurant

Mixing emotion and action, Heart of the Beast casts Brad Pitt as a retired special forces soldier who becomes stranded in the Alaskan wilds after his seaplane crashes. Director David Ayer, who directed Pitt in the 2014 World War II drama Fury, leads the way as a spare Cameron Alexander screenplay teams Pitt's James with another combat vet, his beloved dog Odin. Pitt's portrayal of a strong but psychologically damaged warrior proves convincing throughout. For his part, Odin's service in Iraq and…

In this edition Four years of revenue growth for 2degrees ComCom plans shift to a five-year trailing average for fibre debt Vocus integration now complete2degrees turned in a pre-tax profit and revenue growth for the 2026 financial year. The unlisted company says it managed the positive result despite challenging economic conditions.Chief executive Mark Callander described the result as marking the completion of the integration with Vocus four years after the two companies merged in…

Accompanied by my friend Q. and her Royal O, I sat yesterday in the lobby of Xavier's main classroom building with my Underwood Champion and invited passers-by to "Ask A.I.*" These were the results.

Most years, Hallmark has a book edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas. Often, it’s just a tweak on a previous edition. This year’s listing has popped up. It’s a book with sound buttons that also interacts with a stuffed Snoopy figure, which makes its own sounds as part of the reading. And if that sounds and looks exactly like last year’s edition, yup. (It’s the one that I chided for having Snoopy make sound effects during the reading of the Gospel.) Only there’s one thing: the description says…

Thursday, September 24, 2026 - 11:00 The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Blog entry form is behaving oddly. Good thing today's post is brief and not particularly relevant. Major category: LHMPTags: LHMP LHMP #581d DeVun 2020 The Shape of Sex Chapter 3 About LHMP Full citation: DeVun, Leah. 2020. The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance. Columbia University Press, New York. ISBN 978-0-2311-9551-5 Chapter 3: The Hyena’s Unclean Sex—Beasts, Bestiaries, and Jewish…

Image credit: Janno Nivergall on Pixabay A lot has been written about how is not “just a tool”. I think brettcodes wrote a pretty cogent treatment in this essay: AI is not “just a tool” Why it is irresponsible to continue to frame the use of AI-powered software as “just a tool.” brettcodes.com Iris Meredith beautifully captures what it means to use a tool; how the “human-tool gestalt” precipitates a change in the mindset of a person using a tool. There's no such thing as Just a Tool |…

I didn't want to do more bird photos as they were starting to feel samey. Spoiler alert: more bird photos!78 words · 3 images

The September 2026 release of CAP is out. This is the first minor release following the major release upgrade in June of this year, and brings CAP Node.js to 10.1 and CAP Java to 5.1. It's "only" a minor release, but goodness me there's a lot of great stuff. Let me take you through some of the highlights, which are split into different categories. CAP Native AI First there's the CAP Native AI category, which has come about mostly because there's been so much work in this area. After all, CAP is…

Hey there, been a while. I’ve been working on a big update for quite some time and it is finally live! Some highlights of what’s new A brand new theme! I spent a long time trying to figure out a design I liked and am happy with where I landed. Revamped links page, including buttons to other sites I like. A bookmarks page, pulled from Linkding, complete with an RSS feed. A guestbook , powered by my webweav.ing project. Showing my latest scrobble from last.fm, I might expand this into a larger…

“The purpose of a system is what it does.” Such a neat little turn of phrase; it makes you sound wise and cynical and like a person who sees through things. But it’s mostly wrong and almost always counterproductive. A bit of background; the phrase (and let’s just say “POSIWID”) was coined in 1979 by a British management consultant. It’s thrown around heavily; a search on my Mastodon server turns up plenty of examples. Most of which, instructively, are lightweight arm-waving. Try it on yours.…

A few days back, I discussed how I wanted to revisit HTML and CSS to hopefully better support myself as I venture into the wide world of the web. And then yesterday, I shared the Non-zero Days concept (which is absolutely brilliant).Well today, it's time Learn in Public. Photo by Brett Jordan on Unsplash As part of my perusal of interesting articles in effective learning, I stumbled across Shawn's well-written post about Learning in Public. The premise he shares, which I imagine I'm likely…

The end of a season of work and the beginning of (more) Traitors and science fiction. The past week was a lot of enforced rest due to being sick. I still have a bit of it lingering in my sinuses, but I think the fatigue is more burnout from pushing myself so hard jobhunting. I'm really bitter I put so much effort into interviews where nothing came of it. And then just as I was really planning for being unemployed for at least the next three months, I finally get an interview invite for a job…

Lately, I've received a number of emails warning me that old "digital" accounts are in danger of being deleted. If you are more disciplined than I am, you might be thinking this is some kind of phishing scam. However, I believe most of these are legitimate, and the result of a past addiction to new technology. With regard to digital tools, I used to be like a crow with shiny objects. If it caught my attention, and it was free for the taking, I was going to sign up. Email accounts. Cloud…

Image credit: Janno Nivergall on Pixabay A lot has been written about how is not “just a tool”. I think brettcodes wrote a pretty cogent treatment in this essay: AI is not “just a tool” Why it is irresponsible to continue to frame the use of AI-powered software as “just a tool.” brettcodes.com Iris Meredith beautifully captures what it means to use a tool; how the “human-tool gestalt” precipitates a change in the mindset of a person using a tool. There's no such thing as Just a Tool |…

Walking around the plateau means a stop for a quick snack to share. I’m at: The Dumpling Hut, Montréal, Québec Location map: https://misterchrisjones.ca/location/chris/7376/ Note tags: checkin, food, montral, qubec, chineserestaurant