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David Hockney sadly passed away on 11th June at the age of 88. In 2019, the Royal College of Art did a video with him where he talked about his time there and how it influenced him. We were born in the same city so I always felt a...
Thanks to the current heat wave and thus a shear TON of sun, I’m currently running around with both my prescription sunglasses and my regular glasses whenever I’m out and about1, as while the sunglasses are great for outdoors, they are...
I started founding my second company in Germany in late January. It is now late June. In that time, the state, two courts, a notary, a law firm, a tax firm, and software vendors have all found a way to bill me. Every single one of them,...
This essay, like most of my other essays, was born out of a recent conversation I had with a friend, or do I call them an acquaintance. Honestly, I’m tired of labels, so let’s call them a friendquaintance and move on. I’m not even sure...
Jon Banafato shared his older blog post Stacking Chairs in Mastodon the other day. “Stacking chairs”, taken literally, is what it sounds like. You know those stackable plastic and metal chairs that they have in your local library’s...
Ja, was hab ich denn heute für euch? Ich würde sagen, eine meiner Alltime-favourite Crews. Nämlich die Roots mit dem Track „Respond/React“ aus dem frühen Album „Illadelph Halflife„. Der Song ist vielleicht nicht ganz so bekannt, wie...
Continuing from last week’s thoughts. In a recent conversation we had, Ed Jollyboat used the analogy of an airport runway as a linear introductory section to a game, which opens up into blue sky freedom. I want to run with that, but I’m...
One of the more interesting conundrums that I’m encountering this summer is how to write about the afterlife of the Roman bath at Isthmia without getting dragged into endless detail (and the kind of fine grain arguments that...
A very short read about mostly very short haircuts. OK this is a strange thing to reflect on but ... I’m idly thinking of the whereabouts of where I’ve suffered the fleeting joy and/or the deeply felt indignity of getting a haircut - as...
June 24, 2026 She goes away a lot in the summer. Mostly long weekends with a group of friends who have homes at the beach. The packing part drives her crazy. She doesn’t need to really dress up, but she still always finds herself on...
Photo: © Stan B.Imagine waking up, walking down your block and finding Darth Vader's Headquarters right smack in the middle of what was once a picture book, beautiful, American town. Past tense. Just look at that cancerous, oversized...
I saw a great introduction to CSS Grid Lanes, aka Masonry Layouts, by Patrick Brosset at CSS Day 2026. I liked the versatility of its use cases, but I was also concerned that it's inaccessible by default. Note: This post contains...
Does anyone know good examples of personal sites combining a blog with apps listings? Thinking of changing up my site but the examples I know separate the blog from the applications. Inessential is a good one though.
A meme from the #dotcons The recurring argument around violence and nonviolence gets trapped in a false choice. One side says “Violence is never the answer.” the other says “Violence is the only thing that has ever changed history.” Both...
If hazy IPA is loosening its grip on the independent beer scene, nobody has told Whiplash. They're still churning them out in Ballyfermot, doubtless to a still-appreciative audience. It falls upon your correspondent to pour the requisite...