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Google sucks, Uber sucks, and so on.
For the past few days, we’ve had a group of crows in town. Their cawing is THE sound of autumn for me. Not long now… 🍂
On 30 August 1976, the Notting Hill Carnival ended in a riot, with more than 100 police officers taken to the hospital and 60 carnival-goers needing hospital treatment after the clashes which led to the arrest of at least 66 people. The...
Are you looking for a long term relationship? Here’s the one question you should ask of everyone you date. It’s going to sound weirdly specific, and has little to do with compatibility or shared interests or personality matching, but...
They named a tropical stormafter a person who was LEAST likely to storm through anythingand damage it. I don’t like it.I’m of the mind to reach outto my local news stationand send them a letter expressing my disdain. Dolly would never...
Dan had a good post about polyamory, in which he explains how his partner Ruth shares a bed between him and his meta — her other life partner. This invites a discussion about polyamory, but first, a discussion about fairness and content....
A couple of recent posts have claimed that I fed years of a customer's personal writing into an LLM without their consent.I want to clarify what actually happened. I used Claude Code to help write a parser for a WordPress export file,...
The one thing that I am pining about old software: there is 'no need' to upgrade the software ever so often, because there is no always-on internet. Or heck, no internet. And you don't get viruses so long you practice safe diskette...
§ This feels like the last big gasp of summer before autumn starts creeping in. In the garden our first dahlia finally bloomed and our sweet autumn clematis is suddenly full of tiny flower buds that are threatening to open any day now. §...
When a student in Edinburgh I regularly walked past by the huge Scott Monument, a memorial to the novelist Walter Scott, and wondered why there was such a huge memorial to a writer that I’d never read and didn’t seem to be read by...
Wenn man an Traditionsrestaurants in Herne denkt, dann kommt man ums Forsthaus im Revierpark Gysenberg nicht herum. War doch das schnuckelige Fachwerkhaus über eine Jahre eine Bank für Gemütlichkeit und gute Küche. Leider hat dies… Der...
Five years ago I tried to trace a popular quote from its two 1870s literary appearances, to its becoming so hackneyed it was a punchline for Il’f and Petrov in the 1920s, to its later life in twenty-first century political rhetoric. The...
Mentioned at the time, but not included in the post, the third Tattle Tale from Phidal I bought back in 2023, it still needs to be cleared out and ticked-off, so here it is; As with the others, it contains four figures from one of the...
New in Swift 6.4 (which at the time of writing is in beta as part of Xcode 27) is a warning which is emitted when a nested closure performs a weak capture while the parent closure implicitly captures that object as a strong reference.At...