Today’s soundtrack: Delta Airline freebie earbuds and whatever is random shuffling on this old thing:

I didn't go to uni, let alone Oxbridge, but I know people who did and their anecdotes track with a lot of the vibe in Thompson's debut. There's a lot of lived experience throughout the book I have absolutely no hope of truly understanding — I am not a Black woman — but I find it fascinating. Obviously Thompson doesn't speak for all Black women, but I feel like I'm being educated through the unlikely medium of a cosy revenge thriller. Given the genre, it should be no surprise there's some bad…

I want (once again) to motivate myself to write more often, so I make a second attempt at #100DaysToOffload. Previous attempt two years ago improved my writing consistency somewhat, but not enough to reach 100 posts in a year. This time, I started with two straight weeks posting five posts a week. Wish me luck again!

Watched Forrest Gump for the first time in 20 odd years this evening. Watching it again with an adult brain...Jenny is a real bitch! Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email, or leave a comment.

If you aren’t familiar with the mass-lawsuit campaign to weaponize California’s “Yelp Law,” Civil Code 1670.8, maybe start here to get up to speed. In short, California banned contract provisions that purport to restrict consumers from reviewing the business. Plaintiffs are now doing drive-by litigation, claiming that TOS provisions improperly restrict consumer reviews even when the TOS clearly does not say that. Previously, California appellate courts denied a private right of action for parts…

Things I Did Went to a football game and my team won! Glad college football is back in season. It’s also the first few weeks of the NFL starting back up. Had to deal with a bad Windows update in our environment and a custom script to update effected machines. I made a World Clock app with Python and PyQt6. I work with many time zones and timestamps, I needed a simple tool to help keep it all straight. Read another book! Things I Read Four things that made my Eleventy website faster without…

In my last blogpost, I showcased how I review tasks finished over the last seven days. It implicitly assumes that I attend every group meeting[1] and that the group meeting happens during the same time every week[2]. In a more practical sense, it would be nice to generalize this workflow. I would like to specify a date, since when completed tasks would be displayed until the current day. This way I would be able to review my finished agenda items since a particular day in the past. This date…

I recently switched from Namecheap shared hosting to Cloudflare Pages. I have two websites that are both plain text html files that I edit by hand (for now). For my needs, paying to host two plain text websites that take up a combined 300MB is a bit overkill. I also had previously pointed my nameservers from Namecheap to Cloudflare, and I've been using Cloudflare's Zero Trust Tunnels for a couple of services. Namecheap has been fine, but they require that you pay for SSLs certificates.…

17:35 Forgot to share, but I got a pixel on Pixel Area now. Fun new way of discovering new personal spaces on the internet. Reply to this post

22:49 - Buttons are just a website bumper stickers and I'm obsessed. Honk if you love buttons!

Work it, make it, Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger Firefox is already one of the most privacy-respecting and customizable browsers out there … sort of… another post for another day… I tried throwing a bunch of neat links I found at Gemini to see what it would shit out, and it wrote some slop, so I’m gonna go back and do this like a human because fuck yea? So yeaa…. honestly this is just a link dump post with stuff that I really hope will help other people. YMMV? 🤖 Smarter: AI-Powered…

I try to write and nothing comes out but fluff bursts of cotton candy, pink fluttering wings of a butterfly tiny blooms of something with an intoxicating scent berries and cream and fingertips fitting into dimples perfectly I try to write but it's all fluff

It's yet another speculative-history fantasy novel by Tim Powers. In this one: Of the famous creative folks living in Paris after WWI, why were so many interested in bullfighting, of all things? One might guess "It's just a coincidence" or "This was before we had video games, so they didn't have better choices." But: What if it's because they were mixed up in the cult of the pagan god Moloch?

Subscribe WordPress Facebook Twitter Instagram If you enjoy reading please consider “buying me a pint”, this will help to cover my hosting and image hosting and help to ensure further trips can go ahead!BUY ME A PINT Preston Pub Festival: Two Days of Brilliant Pubs, Great Beer & Lancashire Micropubs I spent Friday and Saturday exploring Preston for the Pub Festival, calling into a brilliant mix of traditional pubs, craft beer bars and independent spots across the city. There was loads of…

everything looks different from home.

I reluctantly traded in my 2013 Mustang GT for a 2025 Mazda MX-5 Miata Club. I haven’t regretted it yet, although I do miss the Mustang’s throaty roar. One inducement: Siri AI calculates that I’m saving about $100 a month on gas. All that and having a top-down blast.

Back in the 1930s, a terrible discovery was made at Galley House – a broken corpse on the doorsteps, the blood still not quite dry, and a range of other bodies scattered about the place. The scene of the crime baffled the authorities, and the lack of progress meant that the case was largely forgotten about after its original stir. 60 years or so later, and forensic science had moved on. A certain investigative agency was facing a baffling crisis which had troubling parallels with the Galley…

How I tuned my GTD productivity system around an AI agent harness: end-of-day brain dumps, start-of-day briefings, read-only calendars and a dedicated agent mailbox.

When the comics character Pogo said, “We have met the enemy and he is us,” he was referring to pollution. He might have said the same thing about the dreaded algorithm. In a recent post at Skuthus, Skyler points out that the Bear Discover “trending list is full of naysayers, warnings, dire laments, and gripes.” For those of taking us refuge in the indie web to get away from all that, Skyler’s conclusion hits hard. “I just think the mudslinging should be minimized or the big guys will win,…

Having exhausted my supply of the Chicago-design Field Notes, I ordered a new set of Field Notes from the Portland series. These look great. I got some super-gooey gel pens with 1.0mm tips just for fun.

I’m running a workshop in Lisbon next month, and you’re invited! It’s a small, in-person, hands-on session on optimizing Python code, with a Django flavour. Here are the details: What: Python optimization workshop When: Saturday 10th October 2026, 10:00–13:00 Where: Martinhal Lisbon Oriente, Parque das Nações, Lisbon Cost: Free, but places are limited and registration is required Size: Up to 10 people Led by: Myself, Adam Johnson Organised by: Mafalda Marques Register on Luma What we’ll do In…

by Cláudio Alves In the current political climate, it feels incredible, nigh impossible, for such a movie as Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother to come out of a major Hollywood studio. Yet, here it is, in all its MGM-backed glory with a TIFF world premiere to boot. Bassam Tariq’s third feature and follow-up to 2020’s Mogul Mowgli, concerns a man of that profession which seems ever-so-common in moving pictures, but not so much in real life – the contract killer. He’s Latif, whom we meet in a…

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When this game recently got a translation patch, and having playe the SNES Spriggan game, which is a high-quality, but conceptually pretty standards shooting game, I assumed this was one of those cases where a team practices by translating and patching a puzzle or shooting game with little text of little importance. However, it turns out that I was Booboo the Fool in this assumption, because Spriggan Mark 2 is actually an insanely ambitious game to have been released on an eight bit console in…

Stopping to watch the cows grazing on Davidson Mesa on the way to get groceries. Over the past two years, I’ve put more than 4,000 miles on my cargo bike, 1,000 of them in the past three months! It has become my default mode of transportation for daycare, groceries, and other errands. I think it could do the same for many families with access to good cycling infrastructure. Here are some things I’ve learned along the way: 1) You can run most errands A full Costco trip, with room to spare.…

Let all substance be taken from. Let all order of the world be stripped from you. Let even the bones that tie you to the tyranny of the flesh dissolve within you. Only then, veiled in grey from mortal sight, shall you serve the true Lords of Man. This small book wrapped in grey cloth – its text copied in a small, cramped hand using a dark green ink – speaks of the Vreeth, one among the “servitors of the Galchutt”. The book describes those of the “true faith,” who give up the entirety of their…

The staffing error that gets filed as a motivation problem The mechanism, in ninety secondsPitching is adding yeast to wort. The pitching rate is cells per millilitre per unit of sugar, and it is decided in about four seconds by somebody holding a packet. Underpitch and three things happen, in order. First, the population spends itself reproducing before it can start the actual job, budding through more generations than it was designed for and producing thinner, less competent cells each round.…

I am of the growing opinion that AI will very quickly devolve the entire internet into an unusable overgrowth of digitally generated, popover infested slop and AI agent simul-babble. Amidst this tangled wasteland there will, however, remain some beacons of hope for the online creativity and connectedness of mankind. That hope is The IndieWeb. The IndieWeb is a community of independent and personal websites based on the principles of owning your domain and using it as your primary online…

In this post, I will show you how we can connect two peers (any two servers/instances) via Wireguard.As long as at least one of the peer is able to connect directly to the other one, this should workeven if one of the peer is behind a NAT/firewall

In yesterday’s thread, Rodger C wrote: Surely unrelated, but I can’t resist mentioning it here, is Mozeemlek, a people of western North America mentioned by Lahontan in the early 18th century. This and other things in his books are commonly called fictitious, but they look to me as if he’d sat in Minnesota collecting Indigenous stories about parts west, and then faked a visit to them. Plurals like “Mozeemlek” and “Tahuglauk” have an Algonkian air to them. A post on this topic? His wish is my…