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The New York Times last week noticed a new film, "Obsessed with Light", about the dancer Loie Fuller. I know little about dance, but one of the sections of Yeats's "1919" beginsWhen Loie Fuller's Chinese …

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 …

More photos from the garden, a woodlouse having a close encounter with a flashlight. Also photos of berries, blackbirds, etc.

Over the course of this week I made a few small break-throughs culminating in the realisation that: If after one week I suspected that cleaning, sorting and separating garbage was about to become a big …

Recently I ran a session of the tabletop RPG Trophy Gold for my gaming group, and because one of us had already read all the introductory adventures, I decided to make my own one, called …

Just in case anyone is unclear about this, this sort of corporate workshop is explicitly about manufacturing consent,1 rather than any kind of actual collaboration. Specifically: Making people “feel heard” and bringing them around to …

I needed to do a little housekeeping on mah banks before some upcoming performances, so I strapped a little gimbal camera to my chest and talked my way through it. Come for the rambling, stay …

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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 …

My final week of work of 2024. It’s our company policy that all staff need to take two weeks of consecutive leave each year. I’ve been so busy that I’m only able to do this …

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One thing I like to do is make fires. It’s often considered a less socially-acceptable pastime than my other wood-destruction hobbies like writing and woodworking, but each of these ways of killing trees teaches me …

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 …

Late last year I had the opportunity to go to my first concert since the Before Times at the Fox Theater. Not one to do things by halves, I dove into the deep end of …

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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 …

From The Grapes of Wrath: “There’s some way to stop this. It’s not like lightning or earthquakes. We’ve got a bad thing made by men, and by God that’s something we can change.” Chapter 5 …

Howdy to Deliberate Internet – my newsletter combining nuanced perspectives on Remote Work, Technology, Psychology, and other latest obsessions. Guilt, like pain, is a very useful signal: It means you are doing something you should …

From my teenage days browsing skyscraper forums to standing atop the third tallest building in the world, I've witnessed how a single river divides two different architectural worlds that somehow form one incredible city.