Personal blogs

Using Mailpit as my default MTA Three years ago I blogged about Using Mailhog as my default MTA and that worked great for me. However, Mailhog development seems to be stalled and it had occasional …

If you grow up in England, you know about rain. You know about heavy rain, light rain, drizzle, mizzle, and mist. You know about the kind of rain that slaps you in the face, the …

Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn

I’d like to feel that every reader of this blog gets value for money, so today I’m going to give you a real bonus and hand back the fifteen or so hours it would take …

cafeinevitable:Beautifully-observed & realistic figure of a sleeping Antelope incised on rock up to 10,000 years ago at Tin Taghirt, Tassili n'Ajjer in Algeria, one of the largest & most important groupings of prehistoric cave art …

It’s said that thinkers are either foxes and hedgehogs. The fox knows many things, and the hedgehog knows one big thing. Ever since I heard about this I’ve known that I am a hedgehog. My …

Let him who has two pairs of trousers turn one of them into cash and purchase this book. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, The Waste Books I have never gone trouserless in order to buy a …

Let us posit a simplification, which will hopefully seem less arbitrary and less reductive as we further describe it. The simplification is this: that the two poles of concern, when it comes to what we …

Now that all electronic issues are resolved, it’s time to update the PCB for my expansion board that adds a W65C22S Versatile Interface Adapter (VIA) to my Commodore 64....

For once, I have managed to continue on with the ongoing craft projects without starting any new ones for, ooh, must be nearly a couple of months now. Most of the crafting time has been …

A deep dive into Rust’s vec::Drain and its Drop implementation as an example of how ownership prevents subtle bugs—memory and otherwise! Assumed audience: People who can read Rust and have a basic (and I do …

The other day I was sent an audio recording of a meeting I had been part of, but no textual transcript was available. With a relatively small amount of hacking it is now very easy …

I popped a few Bay leaves into a pot of beans I was making this weekend and thought about how I have become a person who has Bay leaves, and puts them in things. I've …

I’m pinching the bullet pointed style of week note from Alice Bartlett. Last week at work, and not back until the 6th of next year. That’s three weeks off. Glorious, and much needed. Related: I …

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I just got Apple Intelligence on my MacBook, and I’ve spent today playing around with the summarisation, rewriting, and proofreading features. My hot take: It’s fine.I’ve had all these features and more running via my …

Crouched, hunched, bent-double on a floor, wooden, carpet, concrete. One input, one output, mediated via a BOSS ME-50 multi-effects pedalboard. Looping, delayed, pitch-shifted, crunched. Over the last few years, I’ve performed occasionally as Snails in …

I'm thinking about war this morning, specifically Russia and Ukraine. Many people seem to write off the nuclear possibilities, I don't think they have a clue. Do people really want to push someone with more …

Horns above me Tail ahin me Hooves beneath me Tripe within me Hail to the Hornèd Fáilte to the Fleet of Foot May fur fly Voice bell loud and strong Trapped in the rut Oh …

SON OF A ...! You can tell American politics is having a deleterious effect on me because of two behaviors reflecting low mood: In a late-night Wikipedia session I let myself get nerd-sniped into trying …