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It hasn't quite been a full month and I'm already missing it here, which I think is a good sign. I've come to the conclusion that I really like treating this blog as a personal journal, and that's okay. I'm a remnant of the old days of...
Summer is about to officially begin. My daughters are finished with their schooling and my family's thoughts are turning to time off, trips, visits to family and other leisurely pursuits. With that in mind, I am going to park all...
Last weekend, I took my first EVER horse riding class. I’ve read about adults ‘going back to horse riding’ but not much about adults just starting horse riding journey without any childhood experience. This inspired me to keep track of...
We went to BBC Gardeners' World Live at the NEC near Birmingham last weekend after meaning to go for several years. My wife loves our garden and has spent a ton of time in ours since we moved here so she was very excited! The outdoor...
Built a docs site for astro-jsonfeed, powered by Starlight. Setup was painless. Took an afternoon.
While the weather is stewing here and there’s no desire to do anything, I suppose this is a good occasion to talk about two formats with the same extension that I’m not going to support. The first TWV format comes from Reality Pump games...
Weirds are elemental quasi-constructs created by the Izzet League to … well, to see what they could get away with, it seems. They involve mashing together elemental energies not usually found in combination with each other, giving them...
Vite’s default port, 5173, is leet code for the project’s name: 5 = “V” (Roman numerals 😉) 1 = “I” 7 = “T” 3 = “E”
Spending a week here in Belgium.
Already??? I had one post which had a moment on the trending page and suddenly there is this unconscious need to make every post count. When I started the blog I just wanted to write whatever, and now I'm already stuck in a metaphysical...
Developers and nerds have seemed satisfied with Markdown as a plain text format for a long time. Now, I see Markdown approaching the edges of the mainstream. I casually mentioned Markdown in conversation with some of my schoolteacher...
BBQ
I recently acquired a 2009 Citroen Relay van. Driving it home, though, I discovered that the cab cooling fans didn't work. Turning the switch to 1, 2 or 3 did nothing, going to 4 led to a whiney fan noise with very little output from the...
The temperature of 36.7C recorded at Merryfield, Somerset, represents a new June maximum record for the UK. It is also now the 7th= hottest day ever recorded, matching the 1911 record at Raunds, Northamptonshire, that stood for nearly 80...