Personal blogs

Out before breakfast and walking Lucie across the farmland and I see a landscape that warrants a photograph for the photo library. Then a Terrier intervenes with a good solid jerk on the lead. Never …

Notes from my recent trip to Maui.

2024, running native on a MacBook Air and the machine doesn’t even get warm to the touch. Awesome. Head to https://ioquake3.org/ to get started.

Comments on Ryan Barrett’s plan to create a “bridge” between the Fediverse and Bluesky, with reference to defaults, consent & moderation. Kind of a geeky post coming up! I was going to put it as …

There is a space between renting woes and property sales that is often unseen. On the one hand, we read stories of students renting places with black mould and being taken to the tenancy tribunal …

Posted on March 23, 2024 Tags: madeof:atoms, craft:cooking, craft:baking, craft:bread Yesterday I had planned a pan sbagliato for today, but I also had quite a bit of sourdough to deal with, so instead of mixing …

Just in my inbox is an email from DeployHQ – my favoured deployment tool since as long as I can remember – telling me that they’ve been bought by DeployBot. My first reaction whenever this …

Alan Jacobs makes a point here that I’ve been trying to make for a year or so, but have been unable to phrase anywhere near so succinctly: If, as celebrants from Vico to Northrop Frye …

To understand how far the modern Republican Party has fallen, please read this famous speech by President Dwight Eisenhower. Ike’s thoughtful reflection is a breathtaking contrast with the bombastic idiocy of the most recent Republican …

It feels weird not blogging every day. Although writing once or twice a week leaves more room for other creative and relaxing things: Made a new zine: Monstrous Existence Issue 2. A one-page (double-sided) zine …

Be able to click a button to like a page. Without logging in.

The snow is still here from yesterday. It is enough snow to close some schools, but not others. The kind of snow a seasoned winter-ist would scoff at – just a dusting! The kind of …

Blue sky and sunshine this week. Thursday I’m on the train and it’s filling up. Someone says “How are you?” into her phone and doesn’t wait for a response before she continues: “My boss has …

7829/20770After cleaning up some overnight dog diarrhoea from the kitchen floor (Wolfie had kindly gone right in a corner so splatted some of the cabinets) I went out for an early morning stone clear. You …

Braeyden Jae, someone I’ve returned to a lot over the years. Track 3 stands out for that Galaxie 500-era guitar figure and scratch-shuffle. A very late-night sound, to me.

I just had surgery to repair an incisional hernia near where my appendix used to be. By “just” I mean Thursday week ago. I am recovering well, thank you, though it did knock me for …

Sydney Sweeney Knows Her Boobs Drive People Crazy – LOL. Good for her! I want that sweatshirt. The Man Who Killed Google Search – Deliciously scathing post about the enshittification of Google Search. Guess what? …

Carrying C the very short walk home from nursery (because even though he is nearly four I cannot say no when he asks for a carry). I kiss his cheek, which is covered in sand …

It’s drizzly but otherwise nice today, which makes it a fine time to peruse a stack of new books and ARCs that have come to the Scalzi Compound. Which of these books are particularly catching …