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This update has been way too long - January was the last one. I kind of let weeknotes take over but they don't include the now part of a now page so I'm going to make an effort to update the now page every month while continuing with...
Spent the morning inside and the afternoon at an indoor swimming pool. Had some dedicated photography time to myself in the evening, hence more photos from the beach. (Please bear with me while I savor being at the ocean. 🙂) 👉 View 5...
Maybe the second in a series of interviews with people who are totally wrong?Anyway, readers will be aware that a lot of people get mad that porn stars play D&D.An adjacent issue is that people get mad when porn stars--or any sex workers...
I first read Elizabeth Bowen’s 1935 novel The House in Paris so long ago that, when I picked it up again recently, it turns out I only recalled half of the plot. I won’t do a full plot summary because it would require more words than I...
Yesterday, I ran my first gimmick promotion for the Brisbane to Gold Coast Ride against Cancer [1]. I invited anyone who donated $100 to nominate a topic on which I should write a post. Reader Daniela Brins-Norris has taken me up on the...
Every time I finish a draft, I need to face the reality: my draft sucks. Stiff dialogue, absent descriptions, plot holes larger than my apartment. But I can make it better. Revising is hard work, but it is the best work. -- Read More
Read the full post at - US Energy Cost Explorer US Energy Cost Explorer is a classic website that takes open, publicly available data on energy costs and makes it usable, useful & interesting – https://energy-maps.com/ Takeaways Energy...
This morning I woke up rested, and buoyant. I quickly realised why: the disquiet that had accompanied me since we left Iceland had vanished. We arrived in Cartwright yesterday, after crossing the Labrador Sea from Greenland. A solid...
Yesterday, Stephen Hackett wrote about changes to the traffic light buttons in macOS Golden Gate beta 6. I think these new buttons are a big improvement, and the change gives me hope that other things could be “unflattened” in future...
I saw this going viral, “AI;DR (AI; Didn’t Read):” I’ve been thinking about it ever since. Why? Because there is growing grumbling among everyone about AI writing. And it’s not just others; it’s me! I am getting to the point where I...
listening to Gandalf reading the Fagles translation touching the Emily Wilson 2017 translation page by page co-reading the epic with Prof and the reconstituted Skandhim vibing to Doug Metzker's summaries and analysis of each Book...
I had a fantastic time joining and Doug Turnbull for Context Camp to talk about Knowledge Management for Personal Agents. An agent’s memory is only useful if it can retrieve the right thing at the right time. In the session, I shared...
Reading about HTML Day and thinking about the olden days. I know marquee is an accessibility abomination. Still fun though. The above is actually marqueeing for me, on Firefox. It might not be for you. But blink is gone. Blink however is...
“In his talk Open Source Caving: 20 Years of Making Cave Mapping Tools at Hackaday Europe 2026, Phil takes us through a series of progressively more advanced open hardware devices that he’s designed to increase the speed and accuracy of...
This is an interesting question, with not an easy answer. I would say that the correct answer is: “It depends.” Modern C++ started with C++11. I think C++11 is the most impactful version of C++ to date, as it introduced very important...