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Improving my self-hosted Laravel deployments.I updated a handful of Coolify-hosted Laravel apps recently to get zero-downtime updates. Gone are those few annoying seconds of “no server available” I had been living with during...
I use my keyboards a lot, my job as a software engineer involves quite a lot of typing, I also spend quite a lot of my spare time in front of a computer. I’ve been daily driving small keyboards for a while and have been enjoying doing...
20cm x 15cm (8"x6"), oil on board
Spent much of the past few days sheltering from the European heatwave which hit London over the past week. Managed to battle through it working from home and taking heed of the do not travel advice from Transport for London and the train...
A few things raised by stuff we've looked at recently, and despite a slower than usual posting rate so far this year, we've covered quite a bit one way or another, and here are a few bits and pieces related to some of the odds & sods,...
The problem with AI is not just the times it gets things wrong, it’s the times it gets them crass and banal. Although, since AI simply dredges its realities and priorities from the whole online world, I guess it’s no more crass or banal...
10:10 A hungry Sunday morning. Time for a quick breakfast. Reply to this post
tl;dr; The pls package on PyPI is an abandoned Python version (last released as v6.0.0 in 2023). The actively-developed pls was rewritten in Rust and now lives at pls-rs/pls. If you installed it with uv tool install pls or pipx install...
So I finally, finally finished cleaning up the book manuscript. It still needs its cover (coming along nicely; I like what I’ve seen so far and hope you will, too), administrivia like ISBNs, and some final front and back matter before...
Andy shares a 2026 Open Day photo round up. Yesterday the Society staged its Open Day, putting on half a dozen games. Here are a few photos in, roughly, historical order Barons War (13th Century) Andy’s sergeants charge Stephen’s...
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton (1895, Oil on Canvas, 120 ×120cm, Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico) Since this June has seen a heatwave across Europe and even here in Ireland, I was reminded of the expression “Flaming June” which I...
As someone who has spent a lot of time with photobooks — presenting them online, teaching how to make them, writing about them in a critical fashion, making them myself, over the years the most common question has been: what makes a good...
The other day, I saw a brilliant idea come across my Instagram feed. I only wish that I knew who posted it so I could give them credit. Instead of putting your telephone number or address on a luggage tag, the idea is to use a QR code...
I missed the open house at EKSN today because I wasn't feeling well, but I took an enjoyable bike ride to the airport instead. It was delightfully quiet and calm there, and a single airplane was parked on the apron.
My father turned 70 last week. We gathered in Norwich to mark it, and somewhere between the cake and the catching up my mind wandered back to a 5-day walk we took together almost ten years ago. In 2016 I walked the Kumano Kodō Kohechi...