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Spoopy! Felt a bit weird reading a gothic horror ghost story in 37ºC summer heat but here we are. My first Henry James book! A novella really, read it in two short sittings. Surprisingly unsettling for a victorian-era book, v creepy....
Stewart Brand’s Pace Layers model is a curiosity. It has little theoretical basis, and Brand himself is the first to admit that it is “completely data free”. It’s not been widely enough used, it seems, to have built up a body of practice...
A to-do says what. An implementation intention says when, where and how. “Write the proposal” is a task. “I write the proposal tomorrow at nine, at the kitchen table, before I open my mail” is an implementation intention. Gollwitzer...
the saying goes something like “happy wife, happy life” and the improved version is “happy spouse, happy house” i appreciate that i don’t need much to be happy. i don’t know if i would call it a privilege. but i am blessed for sure not...
Today (August 28 2026) marks twenty-five years since the first broadcast of Go Digital, the World Service radio programme that became Digital Planet, then Click, then Digital Planet again until it ended in April 2023. I appeared as...
This is extremely impressive, not just from a design and kinematics perspective, but because the entire 50Hz control loop runs locally on an RK3566 (not the RK3588 I first assumed), with the ONNX movement policies running on the robot...
NHAMFest ‘26 was a huge success this year, and was great for bringing together two of my favorite spaces: the VRChat music community and the Fediverse music community.Here’s some stuff about the specifics that went into producing this...
There are no rules in writing, but if you break them… Here’s a thing. There are certain ways of writing, certain ways of doing all sorts of things really, that are frankly naff and yet there are people who do them well. I would tell you,...
Python A-Z is a blog series about Python. Each day, I share insights, ideas and examples for different parts of Python development that match with the letter of the day. Blaugust is an annual blogging festival in August where the goal is...
My favorite found-footage horror director is Koji Shiraishi, the director of Noroi - kind of a cult classic - and Occult, which is less well-known but equally fantastic. Noroi is both a found-footage horror story and an elaborate, loving...
Stacks runs classic HyperCard stacks directly on modern macOS, with period-accurate typography, sound, MacinTalk speech synthesis, cross-stack navigation and limited HyperTalk support–all without having to run a complete classic Mac...
You don't have to wait for Donald Trump to rename Lake Ontario. Thanks to MapQuest, you can now direct all your small dick energy into hitting Canada where it really hurts - by taking a Sharpie to Canada's geography yourself.Canada's...
'Twas on a Friday morningThe painter made a startWith undercoats and overcoats he painted every partEvery nook and every crannyBut I found when he was goneHe'd painted over the gas tap and I couldn't turn it on! Flanders & Swann We do be...
Reading Time: 38 minutes Hm, it does rather feel that Summer is now OVER – not, to be clear, that I am complaining about the fact that it is no longer threemillion degrees, but there’s been a feeling this week of the world rather rolling...
Afterglow running Flying Toasters, with the module library and original settings visible Afterglow runs original After Dark 68k screen saver modules natively on modern macOS without requiring a classic Mac OS installation or Apple ROMs....