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Last month I asked a family member about their digital photos and whether they had them backed up. They replied, “Of course. They’re in the cloud.” I followed…

For 94 minutes at least, all the countries in the world (except the US) were rooting for Belgium. And did they deliver. 4-1 to Belgium and US was knocked-out…

I bought a book on my Kindle — a thing I have done many times before. I exchanged money for goods, as one is supposed to do in a capitalist society. Then this…

Sunscreen use is increasing, but skin cancer rates are also rising. Does that mean sunscreen doesn’t work, or – even worse – sunscreen might cause skin cancer?…

As Web standards have moved on, a particular 1990s library of GIFs has been hard to effectively archive and was at risk of being lost forever. So I swooped in,…

I hope other cities are seeing a similar trend to that of Minneapolis — we’re seeing a revival of independent physical video rental shops (the latest being a…

Valve wins by doing absolutely nothing

Releasing Burst taught me that the hardest part of game development isn't how a game looks or feels, but getting the difficulty just right.

I'm just so bored of talking about AI. It's like listening to vapers tell me how delicious their flavoured poison is. Did you ever meet someone at university…

A ghost bike is a memorial for a cyclist who has been killed in a motor vehicle accident. These bikes can be seen all over the world, painted white and located…

I saw a comment on a post somewhere a few days ago, a post around the topic of Americans having rooftop solar...

For context, I have gotten a lot of emails either asking why I deactivated my account or just sending me well wishes after the deactivation. This post is more…

Pretty hard to write an intro for this post that consists of anything other than ‘Holy fucking shit this is hot’, so I won’t even try. Please welcome the…

open for a surprise, etc

As a shameless fan of men, one of the things I look forward to about summer is seeing so many of them out and about slutting it up. Shorts, vest tops, lovely…

How much does your choice of email provider matter? In some sense as an individual not much. However, together our choices do matter. So I reminisce about…

Thanks to Paul from Defiant Sloth for bringing two more video rental shops to my attention—I literally just learned about The Video Shop Mpls yesterday. And…

I won’t beat around the bush. I’ve never thought of myself as a Software Developer who simply happens to play at being an Artist from time to time on the side.…

If you're the kind of person who really likes burgers then why not treat yourself to some burger wallpaper for free? Link below.BURGER WALLPAPERIf you're not…

A recommended read.

The collection of signs for the 'Cornwall at War' museum makes me smile every time I pass them. It's on the way to a woods I take the dog to often. Every time…

The other day I was listening to this episode of Decoder Ring where they talk about how bad modern sculptures tend to be because we no longer have the…

Hell yea rain gifs

Introduce yourself with five albums that have shaped you. OK Computer by Radiohead Rid of Me by PJ Harvey Goo by Sonic Youth Siamese Dream by Smashing Pumpkins…

Gareth's been in a mood all week. Turns out it started with a hosting bill. Not his own, mind. He doesn't have a website. Gareth thinks websites are for people…

Man, I've been circling on this idea for some weeks now and couldn't quite figure out the best way to open, but I think this is a great one: About a month ago,…

I have been getting back into blogging recently. I know I write this newsletter every 2 weeks, but I try and keep to a set number of topics as I know my…

The massive chasm between AI hype and reality is finally reaching the breaking point.

A piece of advice that is also a (somewhat sad) statement of fact https://filiph.net/text/to-make-money-be-useful-to-rich-people.html

You share your blog post on X, Facebook, Bluesky, etc and you know it will be presented so much better if it has an image. Sometimes it's easy. You blog about…

I use AI every day; it’s unavoidable. But something has been grating on me for months, and it isn’t about development: non-technical people are using it to…

Yael Grauer on being told to "ask Claude" when seeking trusted advice:→ String Literal

Every year I dread coming back from vacation not because of the work, but because I have no idea where I left off. A failing test, a well-written TODO, and a…

I've recently rediscovered something I had done a long time ago: modifying pictures from weather and traffic cameras. Note: I am cautious about the cameras…

I do not want Moments to become another place that tries to keep people inside. That sounds obvious, but it shapes a lot of small decisions. A photo journal…

Last week I went full speed into setting up webmentions on my site. My implementation works around using webmention.io in my site's <head> and Bridgy for…

I spent years wishing for a better way to indicate when one of my posts is part of an ongoing series. You know the kind: Annual birthday posts for Frankie…

Katie Paul and Courtney Rozen, Reuters: Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged shortcomings in the company’s sweeping restructuring at an internal…

POSSE it, they say. Own your content. Publish once, fork it five times. RSS, Mastodon, Bluesky, webmention, pick your parasite. Fix the typo in two minutes.…

The view from Lake Michigan from Michigan City East Lighthouse, 2026-07-03. Fri, July 3rd, 2026: All of these articles were in the Top 12 on Bubbles this…

The recent end-of-financial-year sales were rather interesting – I found myself spending a lot more time browsing AliExpress than I did Amazon or eBay this…

I managed to write this without using the word endofunctor once. Wait, shit, I just did. Uhhh, oops!

A couple of weeks ago I decided to read John Green’s book, Everything is Tuberculosis, in part as research for the novel I am writing about a tuberculosis…

Revolution over revulsion!