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It is currently still 32℃ in Bristol and I have barely emerged from my dark cave for days (all curtains, blinds, doors and windows closed in my flat.) Since my last weeknote I experienced the Pitbull invasion in Cardiff Saturday while I...
I’m four months into my interim CEO role at Bluesky, and it’s time for an update. Most importantly, as of today, the interim part of the title is gone. I’m loving the mission and the job, and I’m all in as Bluesky’s official CEO. This...
Last week's post on rubber-legged comic Leon Errol and Mel Brooks, as well as the previous one on The Three Stooges, has profoundly immersed this blog in the pratfall-packed world of slapstick. We've been heavily into Slapstickland, both...
With the 150th interview of People and Blogs now live, it’s officially time to downsize my online presence again. My digital life follows a somewhat regular rhythm and I alternate through phases of expansion, where I buy domain names,...
::chuckle:: The real newsflash: OpenAI broadly released the model called "Sol" — ChatGPT 5.6 — to the broader, unwitting, public and to normies like me... finally. It had been buzzed about in certain precincts lately, and of course I'd...
I’ve been thinking about game development all week.
I read some comics over the past fortnight. Or rather… attempted to. Let’s do the ones I actually read first: Riviere has done a lot of comics, but Goffin is unknown to me — and so is this series. I picked this up at random at a used...
A memory of the old timey internet: in the early 2000s I used to listen to a Christian rock internet radio station. No idea what it was called. It was broadcast live, with actual DJs. It was the station that first introduced me to...
Always the way of it - really scraping to find something to go to some days, then more than you can watch are on the schedule, but also, a thing theaters have been showing previews for is not coming out unless you want to spend twice as...
Thanks to Daring Fireball, I discovered the Eliza Archeology site. As the site explains: ELIZA is the original and highly influential chatbot that launched the genre of human-computer interactions using text-based agents. It was created...
I love reading and writing on paper, and do read and write quite a bit on computer screens. Phone screens are too small and uncomfortable for me. No TV at home. And even videogames, which I love, have been less interesting lately unless...
It's a Friday night in thanks to Typhoon Bavi and I spent it with a few tall boys and watching Kenny Omega defeat MJF on AEW Dynamite to become world champion for the second time. The last time he was champion was way back in 2021, which...
It's 1983, and Doctor Who is celebrating twenty years on air - and this time around, they're going to make sure you know it...
I use my own player for playing videos. It’s not very optimised (video frame decoded with VA-API gets downloaded to my own frame structure in main RAM, which gets uploaded to SDL texture and only then displayed—the proper way is to...
The following is excerpted from “Doormaking & Window-Making,” and refers to frames for exterior doors. (The book instructs that interior “doors are usually hung in “jamb linings,” instead of door frames, these being fixed in the walls...