First of all, apologies for the lack of content here. I’ve been to Canada in September and have had some projects I’ve been working on ever since (including all the prep work for moving house). I’ll do a more detailed post on what I’ve...

I was today years old when I learned this incredible word

The West Highland Way is a waymarked, long-distance path in Scotland. It starts just north of Glasgow and ends at Fort William in the Highlands. It is probably the most famous of Scotland’s Great Trails (similar to the National Trails in...

Erin Kissane has started a new research studio with the most punk URL I’ve ever seen: wrecka.ge. Get out of here! That’s fantastic. But also everything about this project is, as Erin writes: We need new networks that genuinely work...

I didn't upgrade my iPhone last year. And I'm not doing it this year. My iPhone 14 Pro is paid off. I've been on the iPhone Upgrade Program since it debuted but decided to skip last year's 15. This year's 16, while initially tempting in...

Micro: Wednesday Whopper

After trialing SearXNG for a while, I decided to host my own SearXNG instance. In case you are not familiar with SearXNG, it's a metasearch engine that pulls search results from multiple sources, such as Google, Qwant, Brave Search,...

A babbler, a kite and a sparrow walk into a bar.