Personal blogs

It is New Years Day and I’m writing this as a work marker for the year just gone. It’s been a long year, for me. A bit of a slog. What got done? NHS 111 …

In 1086, when the Domesday Book was composed, what is now the little village of Langham in Norfolk — in our own time, a small place of fewer than 400 souls — already had two …

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, …

After 2 years of procrastinating on this project... it's finally out! My first post-burnout-hiatus interactive thingy: 🥜 Nutshell: make expandable explanations 🥜 👉 https://ncase.me/nutshell/ 👈 This is a tool for writers, to let their readers …

Good grief, it's World Poetry Day again! So here's a poem, one that I'd place among the very best of the late 20th century, and one that's too little known, at least on this side …

This is a list of my favourite Obsidian plugins. With every section there's a GitHub link and an Obsidian link. If you have Obsidian installed, select the Obsidian link to open the plugin page inside …

I really loved Hockney at Lightroom. I've seen lots of sniffy reviews about "immersive art" and about this Hockney show. I haven't seen the Van Gogh one and I need to for a real comparison, …

Illustrations from the patent granted to Seymour Cray and Maurice Roush for the cabinet design for the Cray 1 supercomputer, 1976, via Mini Museum, who will sell you a board from one of the machines …

ALTView on TwitterBut I enjoyed this reply: “That’s not the worst of it, it will sometimes fib about the time in order to make the rhyme work. Priorities!”ETA - Whaaaat? Tumblr makes an *image* of …

I’ve been experimenting. I’ve been concocting a recipe for vegan kugel, and rediscovering little features and edges of my website I’d forgotten I baked in. Like chocolate chips hidden in an oatmeal raisin cookie. One …

Three weeks without a real blog post. Those of you on the paid subscription plan can apply for a rebate. Also, I've renamed this thing 'Weekend Update,' because I write it on the weekend, and …

Ahhh! Year end holiday break. This is deeply needed. Ten days of long walks, reading, writing, and perhaps some planning ahead this stretch. The past week turned out rather well after hitting a wall, but …

This post has a content note of pregnancy, birth & mention of previous loss. Visit the link directly if you're okay with reading it.

Don't worry about running out of QR codes We got talking at work this week on how many possible QR codes there are. It's a lot. I've been learning to sketch and watercolor paint this …

This was the first day of 2023 when it was pleasant to be out in just a couple of light layers, and we have flowers, and I have a camera and a blog, so obviously …

It’s Mother’s Day in the UK today, so I’d like to take the opportunity to thank both my own mother and my wife, Hannah, for being fantastic mums. I spent time with both of them, …

Later today, I’m giving a talk at Brighton’s Sunday Assemly about Psychogeography. I originally spoke on this topic there back in 2018. As part of the preparation, I wrote out this simple introduction to Psychogeography. …

thursday, march 2, 2023 the way that midmorning on a tuesday can be the worst time to think of weekends and the distance from the last one to the next the way february's a bad …

July 28, 2022. Located at La Mitad Del Mundo, the Quitsato Sundial is a place that shares various aspects of the astronomical knowledge of the prehispanic cultures of the region. Not far from the monument …

For a while I've been wondering how to quickly create the short piece of metadata that has to go at the top of every blog post's .md file. It looks a bit like this: And …