Saved you a clickAfter a lot of effort I've managed to get full content RSS feeds implemented across this website. The feed for this blog (the one you're reading right now), my gigs, design updates, and desk updates now contain the full content for each post by default, without having to set your feed reader to...

Everyone is making apps with LLMs. Should they?The other day, in a business setting, I was listening to someone talking about an app they had vibe-coded. I have to leave out names and any other identifying details, but this person was claiming to have made a tool that was orders of magnitude better than anything...

Getting back to running after a short breakI ran 3.5 miles today after a short break. My last run was more than a week ago: on Sunday, 30 August. I had run 6.29 miles (just over 10K) that day; my longest run ever. It was raining, and I had been sick for a day or two—a very annoying cold, with violent coughing fits....

Giving up coffee for a month(?)Starting the day before yesterday, for no particular reason at all, I have decided to do a coffee detox. For a month. I don't know if I will last that long, but that is the plan. Yes, I'm doing okay; this is just a silly idea that had been implanted in my brain some time ago. Now I...

A recap of sortsFor the uninitiated, Blaugust is a blogging challenge, started by Belghast in 2014, where participants post 31 times during the month of August. A post for every day of the month. I took part this year and completed the challenge successfully. No slumps, no misses, no scrounging around for ideas—I...

And telling the world about itThe topic of evolving opinions has been on my mind lately. I think a chat with a friend first sparked it. I am not the same person who started this blog 12 years ago writing about international political affairs. I've changed my mind about many things since then, many times over. As...

Thundermail is finally here! Got the invite to join today, so I did and moved my personal email from Hostinger to Thundermail. Now if we could get Thunderbird for iOS released right away, please, Mozilla. Spark has been great generally but the recent AI-bloat is just too much.

Looking back through life with objects as anchors for memoryI remember the bookshelves we had growing up. They were six-feet-tall and quite wide. The top halves had shelves in them, and I always picture them full of books. The bottom half had drawers, full of more books. They were finished in a dark wood veneer that...

The Pink Cloud, c. 1896. Henri-Edmond Cross (French, 1856–1910). Oil on canvas. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift, 2020.106 A brilliant explosion of colour on canvasJames and I are doing an art exchange, where we each give the other a painting to write about. You can find...

Making hyperlinks pop againIf you're reading this on your RSS reader, you may want to leave the relative calm of it and step into the chaos that is my website for this one. I had a basic underline effect for hyperlinks on this website. That changed this morning. I changed the colour of linked text from the accent...

On slow and incremental progressIf you've ever visited my changelog, you'd know that this website gets built almost every day; several times a day on most days. It's not just because I've been blogging regularly this month. Things get changed around a lot. Fixes, tweaks, overhauls. It's never ending. I have a Trello...

Some thoughts from internet friendsIn my post Thinking language, I wrote about my curiosity on the subject of inner monologues, especially those of bilingual and multi-lingual people. This led me to ask a question in the Web Writers' Forum, which I knew is full of excellent writers from around the world, many of...