The monks’ common room beneath the dormitory of Battle Abbey turned into the chapel of the Green Knight, and the nearby Battle Great Wood. Photographs by the author. I’ve got the week off work (I had some annual leave I needed to use or lose before April 30th) so I have time to log some week notes: Out & about On...

This Week — Peace and Quiet TL;DR:I watched two cool donghuas, played the latest Vampire Survivors update, participated in CSS Naked Day, and finally got this blog listed on Ye Olde Blogroll. This blog post has approximately 477 words and may take 3 minutes to read. {toc} I've been doing okay at work: now that I...

Up until a few weeks ago, bookmarking had been a non-issue for me: Add bookmarks to Firefox and let Sync handle the propagation to all my devices. Happy days! Mozilla’s recent changes in Firefox’s Terms of Use and the removal of the query Does Firefox sell your personal data? in their FAQs have sent me on a path to...

I recently wrapped up a job where I spent the last two years writing the backend of a B2B SaaS product in Rust, so now is the ideal time to reflect on the experience and write about it. Contents Learning The Good Performance Tooling Type Safety Error Handling The Borrow Checker Async Refactoring Hiring Affect The...

The sunflowers and bees are just around the corner

Letterboxd has an API but it's available by request only. This is why in the past my projects have either relied on their export functionality (like Letterboxd Gaps) or simple webscraping. This works well when you only need your own activity data, but struggles when it comes to querying multiple users and...

In the early 90s I worked for a couple of years in a what used to be called a "bucket-shop". One of the owners, Jerry Bridge - chose the companies name... Bridge The World , a travel agency specialising in cheap deals to the antipodes. I worked in despatch with a lanky good looking bloke called Mick. We were...

There's a claim running around that em dashes are a sign of AI writing. That might say something bleak about the level of writing polish we expect from humans.

One of the greatest investments in the last half decade I made was the purchase of a Kobo e-reader. The ability to take your library anywhere with you, the e-ink display that doesn’t give you eye strain, the freedom to actually own your books (unlike Kindle), all were great driving points to my purchase. In addition...