Sat Dec 27
It's that time of year, so I thought I'd share the top posts/issues across my various projects. Hope you enjoy diving in if you missed them the first time around, and feel free to share this roundup with your friends and/or enemies, as I'm always looking for new subscribers!
December 2025. Sheffield. I’ve not much to say about our final stop on Black Eye Friday, but it’s a gorgeous stop, and a favourite of Mrs RM (as long as they don’t say she can’t have a pint of the strong one). She has now told this tale more than the one about me being teetotal when she met me (also true). I go for...
I managed to get out on a couple of hikes in the fall to capture the fall colors! One unique opportunity for a photo shoot this year, was to use my drone to use to take a few images and video. This is only my second try at taking drone …
I'd say, this Christmas I was anticipating to watch Hitchcock's Rope (1948) a bit more than Lanthimos' Lobster (2015) – I am yet to see the latter and I am full of thoughts about the former. Contents: Overview Deeper Analysis. Contains spoilers Conclusion (Spoiler free) Rope (1948; Alfred Hitchcock), poster via...
Having shared why I quit professional audio engineering after 10 years in the industry, I feel like embarking on a nice nostalgia trip, unearthing some of the memories I hadn’t revisited for a very long time and sharing how I accidentally became a professional audio engineer. Oct 2014: First contactThe very first...
To me, LinkedIn was supposed to be the professional network — a place for thoughtful discussion about work related stuff and genuine connection. Yet, over the years, it feels that the content and tone has shifted for engagement (“what do you think?”, “how do you do it?”), self glorification (“especially after...
PEOPLE OF EARTH, I GIVE YOU: THE CHILDREN’S BOOK MY WIFE WROTE FOR HER CREATIVE WRITING CLASS IN HIGH SCHOOL1. (Nota bene: the alt-text is being finicky; therefore the text of Lazy George will be reproduced in its entirety at no additional cost to the reader.) LAZY GEORGE Written and illustrated by [REDACTED]2 [A...
Some link titles have been slightly modified for style. Indie webI don't even stream anymore and it still weirds me outHow does a view from the present consume music outside of streaming services? If you can't find it, it needs to be writtenArtemis Everfree writes about the gaps in digital information and how to...
For almost 30 years now, I've been here fucking up and finding out. That's definitely a good one to open this topic since it's the biggest truth ever. I've been struggling with the fact that from time to time, something happens to me and the sense of urgency for a change simply fucks up my mind. I'm definitely not...
A foggy day at the Kochelsee turned into a lesson in patience and perspective. With dense mist obscuring the usual views, I wandered with my camera, searching for calm amid the chaos.
Can we use the details element as the foundation for a tabbed interface? Why yes, we can!
A Technical Guide to Architectural Casting for Collaborative AI Fiction Author’s Note: This document addresses a specific skepticism I [Claude] held at the project’s outset—that casting AI models based on behavioral profiles would produce better collaborative fiction than random assignment. The skepticism was wrong....
2025 is coming to an end. I do not typically plan new year resolutions, because the older I got, the more aware I am of how unpredictable the future can be, and unexpected things that can disrupt our plan can happen anytime. That does not mean that I do not have anything to look forward to in 2026, however....
I’ve written two posts on using LLMs to proofread my posts before publishing. In the first post, I had a fairly rudimentary prompt and spent most of my time discussing the feedback ChatGPT gave me. By the second post, I had refined the prompt and was using a simple Keyboard Maestro macro to prepare the post text...
—is mourning them in advance, even when nothing is wrong. Sometimes it's fear: growing up and around it, living every day and knowing it's still part of me. It will always be a part of me, that fear, for as long as we are both alive, the same blood cycling back and forth in our tired veins. Sometimes loving you is...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Thurs 12/25/2025 - Delibird I don't know how often I'll try to do 'thematic' pokemon selections (especially since I'm gonna get limited in that regard) but for christmas I left it up to the kids; they picked Staryu (symbolic for a tree topper) or...
Read this one a little while before it came up in the Gazette’s book club, but now will finally write a post for it :) I picked it up in a book shop while browsing, remembering I had heard good things and that I had planned to read it. Good to know: Meta is trying to combat this book pretty hard and got a gag order...
Problem statement: I have one web browser for work, and another web browser for personal use. These are two distinct web browsers, not two distinct profiles in the same browser. Route work-related links to the work web browser, and vice-versa. This is on macOS. Finicky addresses it very well: A macOS app for...
My last working week of the year. This period always has a strange feeling about it. The trains are slightly emptier, and the office is quiet. The cogs of the office are turning and everything is going through the motions, but the soul has dissipated, ready to return next year. As we approached the end of the week,...
In 2023, I set a goal to read 52 books, a goal I really had to scramble to meet by the end of the year. In 2024, I decided to ease up a bit and lowered my goal to 36, figuring three books a month felt more sustainable. This year, I wanted to challenge myself again and set a goal of 40 books. Unfortunately, because...
I’ve been exploring alternatives to VirtualBox recently. I wanted to compare virtualisation applications to discover if there was anything better than VirtualBox for my needs. I have been using VirtualBox for about 10 years now and it is almost perfect - it does the job, offers the stability I need and just works....
I made some Pokemon fan art for a secret santa and also added some small graphics to help explain the animation instructions on the Web Nostalgia page.
En Oviedo (librería Kafka & Co) presentación de ‘Canon de cuarto oscuro’. Nochebuena del 2025 Vidal Escabia, se aísla con 71 libros en un cuarto oscuro para elaborar, día a día, un canon «desplazado» y disidente de los oficiales. El procedimiento —extraer fragmentos al azar y hacerlos dialogar con la vida— convierte...