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A quick post to note that my story collection The Attendants has entered a second printing, and is now once again available worldwide from Waterstones, the publisher Ma Bibliothéque, and the distributor. If you enjoy my writing here,...
When there is no room left for excuses and when there is nowhere left to turn, the next few steps may seem painful or perhaps risky. But rest assured, when there’s nothing left, then there’s nothing left, which means the next steps we...
John Gruber linked to a Q&A with Simon Willison about writing a blog from Cynthia Dunlop's "Write That Blog." How's all that for a little blog linking soup? Links aside, I found the article and Gruber's commentary encouraging and timely....
I greatly enjoyed Michael Ledger-Lomas’s LRB review (23 July 2026; archived) of Converts: From Oscar Wilde to Muriel Spark, Why So Many Became Catholic in the 20th Century by Melanie McDonagh, but I have to give him a whack on the...
In a previous video, I talked about the top things that cause players anxiety in FFXIV. Of course, group content is at the top of this list.
Okay, so I'm not off to a great start with Blaugust this year, I've not been sleeping very well and I've spent most evenings trying and failing to work on my next project. 🙁 To that ends, while I was doing some testing for my current CMS...
§ Another week has flown by before I was able to get a solid grasp around anything. At this rate it feels like I’m going to wake up next week and it will already be mid-autumn. § At work, I started building a five-foot-diameter,...
Scrivenix — An automated Flatpak installer and launcher for using Scrivener 3 on Linux. I haven’t tried this, but it definitely looks easier than other ways I’ve seen. novelWriter — Potentially a nice alternative if one doesn’t have any...
Example’s Quick Update Assess the Options Media Box Options Use the Web Meet the New Overlords, Same As the Old Overlords Overlord with a Muzzle Dreams of Electric Sheep The Grandparent TBD Adjust Your Expectations But Don’t Say THAT One...
A brain dump. From Chloe's AuguStory prompts: What backend stuff about blogging doesn't matter to you? (i.e. SEO, analytics, making money, etc.) Is this different from your earlier days of blogging? I check my Analytics page frequently....
And I am talking about what woodworkers new to woodworking don't know starting out.I'm not really a hand tool enthusiast, but an enthusiastic maker that works primarily with the hand tools he's worked with for over sixty years and has no...
Sunrise, August 7, 2026 - and now that sunrise is 30 minutes later, I actually made it out before the sun was up!As Taylor Swift said, “Things will change, can you feel it now?” (“Changes”) One of my favorite things about aligning with...
It's that time again for my weekly update, which includes a short collection of noteworthy finds, posts that inspire, as well as a few reflections from the past week or two. I'll aim to land these in your inbox by the weekend, in time to...
Sublime Text is still around. The last stable build was released May 2025. There are dev builds as recent as July this year. I don’t know who develops it and I don’t care. All I know is that I can place my text cursor and read the...
Everyone is creating a new programming language these days, often one that's "like Go but with more features" or "like Rust but simpler". Solod, a systems language for C and Go developers, might look like one of those languages, but it...