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Last week, the New York Times carried an obituary of David Lodge, who died on New Years at the age of 89. Going through Wikipedia's list of his works, I find that I have read …

I don’t feel like this is what Microsoft were expecting when they set up the ‘on this day’ feature. What a day though. What a day…

As part of wrapping up the work I’m doing toward a PhD, I realized the other day that I’d never actually compiled anything like a comprehensive bibliography, and that it’s well past time I fixed …

A year gone, another year about to happen

Back in London this week to do, as I put in an email, the “grown-up parts of moving out”. Also to celebrate the new year. Or at least, that was the plan. You know what …

There’s far too much going on in this winter photo of the Avon river. A background of trees in haze, then a bridge with vehicles. Closer, more skeletal trees against reflected ripples on the water …

Like the internet is general, this goes from zone-out-level soothing to enshittified nightmare really rather fast. But. I am a sucker for a clicker game. So. I got to the ocean.

I’ll never forget hearing Paul Simon’s album Graceland for the first time. As a kid growing up in West Texas surrounded by country music and perpetually drowning in the blood of Christ, the South African …

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Adding Google Web search to FirefoxRecently I read this blog post which highlights some bad practices by Google and also provides a way to make the new web search results tab the default search provider …

At Album Club #167. I’ve heard a lot about this band over the years, but have never knowingly listened to any of their songs.

On Saturday, I got into a stupid little spat with Wendy. We tentatively planned she would meet me at my place, and from there we would head to a 5:45 dinner reservation together. By 5:35 …

For the last few months, there's been a lot of conversation around the "Department" of Government Efficiency, which is ostensibly an effort at improving government efficency, with a primary narrative being around government spending. This …

went for a beer with Alice and suggested I might write a weeknote when I got home we each had two pints of Neck Oil. it was £6.30 for one pint. I’m glad I don’t …

Happy new year, everyone. I've updated my .plan file in celebration. All of the usual warnings apply.

Thoughts on 2024 The Big Stuff:Family life in full flow. School going well. House coming together. Kids settled and happy. Meanwhile, a year of wintering at work. Slow sign-offs, hard decisions, unpleasant conversations. But pockets …

Anton Podviaznikov namevalue tableBordernone tableWidthinitial tableFontSizeinitial tableCellPaddingBottom0.8rem tableFirstRowColor#555 noteHeaderPropsnone linkIconyes slugcv About Engineer. From Ukraine. SF->NYC->Miami. Work Experience 2017-2021Mulesoft/Salesforce 2014-2017Runnable 2011-2013CircuitHub 2010-2011Montora 2007-2010Eclipse/Sigma Education 2008-2010Master degree in Software Engineering. 2004-2008Bachelor degree in Software Engineering. Contact …

I watched Lynch as Ford in Fablemans 5 times today. It’s perfect. Its meta. It’s passionate. Its earthy. It’s surreal. Its funny. It’s heartfelt. It’s basic. It’s a non sequitur. I cried. David Lynch cannot …

I have been relying on Github actions to publish my plugins to the .org repositiory for some now. It feels magical – you publish a release and it builds, zips and uploads the plugin wherever …

What connects a rear-engine sports car and a manual rangefinder camera? A bold approach to design that turned limitations into legends.