Personal blogs

You can download video game emulators on iPhones now. I love the idea of playing old games, but when it comes down to it I'd rather be doing something else. There's joy in the possibility …

One highlight of the fortnight was going on a tour of friend’s Animal Crossing islands. With a WhatsApp call for chat. It makes you realise how big the game is – not in what you …

Title: Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing Author: Adam Moss Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group Pages: 432 What is the work of art? In this guided tour inside the artist’s head, Adam Moss traces …

At the beginning of the month my position changed when my team was eliminated and I reverted to being a developer again as a result. It had been a few years since I had written …

It's twenty four years to the day since A List Part published John Allsopp's seminal treatise A Dao of Web Design. But all this time on, we're still making the same mistakes. Read more.

Chicago snaps part 2: A few Tri-X photos from walking around downtown Chicago in mid-March. The worm-like aberrations seen on the images is because I didn’t pay close enough attention to temperature while I developed …

If you’re out on the street and your wheelchair breaks down, you need immediate help. (You can’t always rely on Love and Magic!) And similarly, if you’re stuck in your house because of a flat …

Last night, a man with an unspecified weapon followed me around an underground parking garage. Now, don’t panic—it was only a dream. In this dream, I turned away from him; I ran up a flight …

On the Eve of Valentines Day, I was sat scrolling Mastodon and a post from the @playdate account popped up on my Home Timeline to announce they had just shipped over 70,000 pre-orders of the …

After many years of using SuperDuper!, I am trying Carbon Copy Cloner for the first time. Wait, backup programs can look modern? Be this user-friendly? What black magic is this?

Checking in for 2024-03-25: Buckle up. This is a big update. Yesterday I felt like I was going to explode. I compared it to the video game "Dig Dug", which has been an interesting litmus …

Today’s Micro.blog Analog Tools meetup was an entertaining show-and-tell session of our favorite pens. 🖋️📓🗂️ We ran out of time, so part two will be next month. Let me know if you’d like to join …

Well, today’s the day of the new (to me) car’s MoT, so it’ll be interesting to see what happens. Let’s hope it just cruises through. [Updated : It passed, no problems and one minor advisory]

Housefresh - an independent publisher and reviewer of air purifiers for your home - recently published a well-researched and damning article about how big media companies game the system by flooding Google with useless listicles …

As we await the next generation of engineered writing, of tools like ChatGPT that are based on large language models (LLMs), it is worth pondering whether they will ever create truly great and unique prose, …

I didn’t write for a bit. The world doesn’t end; I still get paid; it’s all good. Also, I had no opinions to speak of. Well, that’s not true. For instance, if I took a …

This checkin to GCADM5E Rembrandt park #2 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. On my way out for pizza with my work colleagues, a quick and easy find in the …

Oliver Burkeman has a great saying, “Everyone is totally winging it”. So worry less. People aren’t looking at you and critiquing you, they’re too worried about looking like a goof themselves. Give it a go. …

Of archetypical power is the fantasy story where an age calls forth its hero. As when, high up in Nerd-Olympus, the spirits of Anne McCaffrey, Frank Frazetta & Gary Gygax drew forth & braided kaleidoscopic …

Tonight I sent a note to the indictment.fyi mailing list that I was not going to be continuing to send updates on the ongoing criminal trials of Donald Trump. For those of you that have …