Personal blogs

It's the time of year that you're looking for gifts for others (and maybe yourself) and I thought I'd pull together a list of all the things that I've got for sale through my own …

I know from personal experience that if you work with an artist or band, you very frequently end up liking, or even loving, their music. This is true even for music that is wildly out …

Lots of basketball this week. I had my normal session on Monday. Played much better than last week and made a lot more shots. On Wednesday, I played in Worthing D&D White's 90-43 away win …

I’ve been an insomniac my whole life. I remember taking long walks as a teenager around my neighborhood in the…

This is a real question. I don’t know the answer and I’m curious. I lived in New York City for ten years and Los Angeles for seven years, and there are a lot of Jewish …

Thanks to Prof. Dr. Molly Steenson for initiating this habit in 2005. What did you do in 2024 that you’d never done before? I prioritised holidays and therapy Did you keep your New Years’ resolutions, …

One fine day as I was riding a bus, onto it stepped an attractive 30-something white woman. I’m old, but still notice such things. Her hair was tidy, she was wearing nice clothes and makeup, …

The story of my 2024 really ended up being the story of my health (or lack thereof) despite it being another ‘exciting’ year for other reasons. I came into the year feeling underpowered and out …

Over the last few weeks, my much-missed dad has been on my mind more than usual, which has been largely as a result of a number of less-than-typical happenings in the natural world. The first …

In my notes on part 4 of The Art and Science of CAP I make a number of references to functions as first class citizens, and show the parallel with queries also in CAP having …

The Bay Area Dungeon Crawl was a night of dungeon synth music at the Knockout in San Francisco. Dungeon Synth is a type of electronic music that blends elements of black metal, dark ambient, and …

Read / Listened: Taming Big Techification? The European Digital Markets Act Digital Markets Act The EU has no homegrown Big Tech companies of its own

I love Tom Forth's response to the Aria call [X thread] "Request for Opportunities - as a spark of inspiration for new PD candidates, we pulled together a list of "why aren't more people working …

Filtered sampling from sorted values with incremental binary search Published 2024-12-03 I had a problem recently that I solved badly. As is traditional, I figured out how to solve it well in the shower this …

I joined Freja with Redox to talk about the state of US politics and white supremacy following Donald Trump’s second election. It’s partly in Danish, but my contributions are in English. Have a listen!

I was driving to Birmingham - that’s Birmingham in the middle of England, not in Alabama. I stopped for a rest, got some bad coffee, clicked up Facebook on my phone. A post from Lindsay …

Earlier this year, following the closure of my publisher, I reacquired the rights to my three books. And as of last night, you can read the first two books — the second edition of Responsive …

An efficient all-in-one hat and scarf by Xenia Telunts, available at Folk. A tree curtain by random clichés, for greenery that never needs watering.Fleurs D'Hiver herbal tea lollipops, for a particularly lovely cup of tea.An …

Outlook and Dimensions, a pair of UK-run festivals which used to temporarily takeover Pula in Croatia each summer, are famous for putting on a boat party series across each festival. Each party sees a hundred-ish …

I've tried a variety of times to keep month notes, week notes, logs, all sorts. Failure, all of them. However. I still need to solve these anxieties for myself: Feeling like time slips by too …