Personal blogs

Wilco has a new record coming, Cruel Country. Jeff Tweedy, in his newsletter, shares some of the background promo material, which includes this gem of a graf.The whole record is comprised, almost entirely, of live …

Whenever I’m stuck on a writing project—an all-too-frequent occurrence—I usually try to find my way forward by contemplating a single question: How can I shift what I’m trying to say without reaching for cliches? Because …

The Rise of Dopamine Culture “Here’s where the science gets really ugly. The more addicts rely on these stimuli, the less pleasure they receive. At a certain point, this cycle creates anhedonia — the complete …

Late last year I started looking at a microtonal pitch quantiser for my modular synth setup, and then I remembered that I had an Arduino Nano and an Adafruit MCP4728 Quad DAC sitting in a …

I guess this does. We’ve been in the house two days. Moving took all of one. There’s something subtly different in the new place. Kind of a relaxed vibe. I really did this whole thing …

Lady rona finally deigned to come and visit, with comically bad timing. It’s pretty nasty, even after vaccination. On the other hand, the freezer is well stocked, and I had a week off of work …

This is my first post for my Have You Played games newsletter that’s appearing directly on my blog! Everyone who subscribed to my old Substack should have received this via email but let me know …

I came across this essay in the Paris Review titled "A Well-Contained Life". I appreciated the reflection it offered on how sometimes the containers we buy for our endless amounts of stuff can sometimes become …

A nice mild day but showery. Did Bond’s car. 600 galls of oil came. Put one gall of additive in it. Cleared pipe from wash bowls in lads’ locker room.

As I very slowly (so very slowly) make my way through recovery from this exhaustion of the last year, I find myself with moments of lucidity where I think of something I want to write …

I’ve been remiss about keeping up with this blog – mea culpa. No real excuses other than being tired a lot, between the traveling and working. The traveling does continue to be fun, though. We’ve …

Restic is good backup software. It’s a command line tool for backing up filesystems to various local and remote options. It is well documented, easy to set up, secure, and quite fast. It’s a very …

Mastodon remains problematic, can we fix it? A designer thinks out loudAll this is super opinionated.However, it is informed by the great user research Erin Kissane has done with mastodon users who were on bluesky. …

“Shall we walk back the way we came?” There had been, as Constance reflected later, no possible argument against Xander’s suggestion — not that she felt disposed to argue with Xander. Lunch at the pub …

O shred shred shred they all go into the shredder The paper into crosscut traces, the paper torn from paper. The trash bills, cancelled cheques and plaintive requests for money, The invoices paid and unpaid, …

Wow, I haven't shipped anything in a year and a half, huh? Not even a blog post? Sure, I've generated lots of ideas, at different stages of development, but in the end, all that matters …

Today is the centenary of the birth, in Vinton, Louisiana, of Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown (who got his nickname from a teacher who said he had 'a voice like a gate'). Brown was a popular performer …

The Tidö party leaders. Photograph by Tom Samuelsson - Eget arbete, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=128410949 Marcus Larsson, with the think tank Balans, has recently published an audit that shows how elected politicians in Stockholm are …

I was in New York the other week and the local Tesla showroom had a Cybertruck on display. It got a lot of attention. It was very weird to see one in real life. It …

It seems to me… as if all the moments of our life occupy the same space, as if future events already existed and were only waiting for us to find our way to them at …