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Ruf Kutz latest release hails from the Bundjalung County rainforests in New South Wales. The 2-tracker is the work of label founder Ruf Dug’s old mate Mike Kee, who appeared on the label way back in 2010, as M.Miutante, on the “Sydney...
I wanted to celebrate the American semiquincentennial in some way, but it was too hot to go out for fireworks, so I watched all twenty of my still-unseen movies on Jonathan Rosenbaum’s 1998 list of American movies, from his...
Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 20th February 2026 French avantgarde death metallers Aabode have released their second record, ‘Hyper-Death’, two years after their debut album ‘Neo-Age’. Their debut was an interesting mix of...
It appears that someone is wrong on the Internet, and if Hacker News is anything to go by, that person is me! Or rather, it might Justin Prime who wrote that Stack Exchange post about Gmail's possibly buggy support for periods in the...
I'm well aware that some of the takes about DC being a crime ridden den of iniquity are bait. But DC is currently in an overlapping state of people claiming that things are out of control, and therefore shampoo in the drug store has to...
Three things I read this past week or so that I wanted to share. There’s a theme in here, I suppose. But that’s where we’re at right now. PS these are all by people I know, but they’re very worth your while. Legacy Media Wants to Hire...
🍕 I’m JA Westenberg. I write essays about technology, philosophy, productivity, and what it means to be human. If you like ideas that take their time, you’re in the right place.While you’re here, a … Read more
I want to get back into sharing what I read online. With the help of the bots, I built myself a little Mac reading-curation desk app. It runs locally and recovers links from my Firefox, Safari, and RSS reader histories. The private...
I really wanted to stick with Sublime Text, and I gave it my best shot ever. But VS Code has pulled me back in again. This time is was format on save. It’s a must-have I forgot to mention — the code you mess up becomes tidy again when...
Running out of ideas sucks. So save this link: Get a blogging topic That’s the Open Mentions random question link. You reply by writing a blog post and ping the question using WebMention. Don’t worry if you don’t have WebMention set up,...
Before the sun set, we changed to starboard tack. At first it meant that we were going slightly too much north, but as per the forecast, the wind slowly backed towards north and we could point straight towards Aitutaki. The Arutanga...
I thought and hoped that this time I’d settle into the analog lifestyle. But digital called me back again. So now I’m intentionally using some apps as a bullet-journal replacement. Whether you go analog or digital, there are trade-offs....
Desert Brat 2026-08-17 Today's comic brought to by oliviacruz.net
Learn the true story of the scandal behind the closure of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry. Tickets available for my tour of Whitechapel this Sunday 23rd August at 2pm. Tour includes tea and strudel at the Whitechapel Gallery. Click here to...
Last week, Typhoon 15 (Chan Hom) passed Tokyo, we had rain but not much more, other areas were not too luckyThen Chiba had massive rain (I can’t remember if it was from Typhoon 15?!) and they had lots of flooding and some deathsThis past...