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I recently finished reading Blake Butler's memoir Molly. I've not been so taken aback by a memoir in a long time. Butler tells the story of his life with Molly Brodak. I highly recommend the …

This captivating blend of photography and AI artistry captures the magic of lavender fields bathed in the warm glow of a stunning sunset. Rows of vibrant purples and blues stretch toward the horizon, meeting rolling …

A great piece by Riccardo Mori on the walls slowly closing in on bootable backups on macOS. When I started using Linux full-time for my personal computing last year, one of the things I’ve missed …

This will be one of the most boring blog posts I've ever written, but bear with me as it's mainly an aide memoir for me. A few years ago we bought a light fitting for …

As the final part of our move out of the cloud, we are working on moving 10 petabytes of data out of AWS Simple Storage Service (S3). After exploring different alternatives, we decided to go …

This evening I made a Timeline of Discovery, listing historical inventions, discoveries, events, etc. that I find personally interesting. I started doing it because I saw a project, Markwhen, on Hacker News, that turns a …

Katherine Rundell’s five audio essays on the power and politics of children’s fiction. So far I’ve listened to the first two and have loved them. Worth your time. Erin Kissane says the big platforms like …

Chris Armstrong, advocating for a digital garden over a blog structure: A blog structure places the highest emphasis on ‘what’s new’… but what’s new has had the least scrutiny and little authority. Robin Rendle linked …

I wrote Interpinkie, a basic Finger client in Interlisp that runs on the Medley environment. This is the main window of the program: It was a fun challenge considering I couldn't use Medley's TCP/IP stack. …

Hey, did you know I make really good BBQ chicken wings? I use a recipe I invented myself, and every time I make it I’m terrified I’ll forget how to do it; I’ve never written …

Fuck Time Fuck Space by Spooky Jaguar

As usual, I wanted a Skaven class for LotFP, as I have a ton of Skaven miniatures. This allows players to pick a Skaven PC, or create leveled Skaven NPCs if you so wish.Class features:High …

I thought maybe I’d seen LIBIDO, an early giallo (1965!) and DIABOLIQUES knock-off, but if you’d asked me “What film begins with a loooong quote from Freud followed by an off-model Jiminy Cricket doll in …

This popular annual event returns to KCL on 17th May 2024. This one day event features a range of papers of original research in all areas of film culture in Britain and areas affected by …

We’re brought up to say that the dual concept of injection is surjection, and of course there’s a perfectly good reason for this. The monics in the category of sets are the injections, the epics …