Personal blogs

I went to Portland for a conference with awesome folks and got a little overwhelmed on the first day and went to see Inside Out 2 and have a late lunch by myself. I came …

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 …

Much like me, I think the pigeon was looking to get away from the masses. The cool thing about a place like Florence is that even though the popular locations are completely swamped with tourists, …

Keeping up with the days has been getting harder and harder these past few weeks. Last night I was in bed by 7 and slept clear through to 6 this morning. That’s normal, right? </sarcasm> …

I took a little break from sharing to get used to my new normal. A week ago I had to have some blood work done and for the first time in my memory I engaged …

A bug in Chromium and Safari makes support of proper superscript and subscript characters problematic. See exactly why, and what you might be able to do about it. Read more.

In September I was in Portland, Oregon for WordCamp (as I mentioned). Here are a few snaps taken with iPhone 12 Pro Max and Halide’s Process Zero. Film snaps to come when I develop my …

I went off to see Megalopolis excitedly knowing that a lot of people think it sucked, because even if it sucked I figured it would have some interesting thing to say about “the Future” and …

America’s greatest living writer is a forty-nine year-old management consultant with a shattered moral compass and a cardboard box of unfinished manuscripts in the trunk of his silver Miata. He spends one-third of his waking …

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 …

It’s so easy, watching on the news, to scream at people who don’t evacuate ahead of oncoming storms. I get it. I scream at them, too. It’s often a fitting reaction.And yet.Evacuation is a process. …

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 …

The reminder for the next Micro.blog Analog Tools Meetup has been emailed! 🖋️📓🗂️ If you’re not on this list and would like to join us, let @jessekelber or me know.

Still alive – still feeling ropy, although at least all the chest infections and so on have cleared up. I’ve still been left with a cough that’s just hanging around the back of my throat, …

Lately I have been reading quite a bit, and while doing so I came across the Literata serif font. I really like its style and how well it reads in both regular and italics, and …

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, …

Why do governments go after companies and executives of services of more weakly encrypted tools? It’s very hard, this early, to pierce through what’s going on with the French authorities’ arrest of Pavel Durov, the …

✅ Inbox Zero ✅ Slack Notification Zero ✅ Assigned PR Reviews Zero ✅ Owned PRs… one, but it’s approved and just waiting for the right moment to merge That’s got the be the first time …

It’s how they treat you when things go wrong that matters most. Anyone can be a fair-weather friend, but it takes guts to stand with someone through a tough time.

A few stunners from a yearly delight – the Flower Exhibition at the Carbon County, Penna Fair. All shot with a fully manual TTArtisan 50mm f/1.2 on a Canon digital back (the TT is a …