Personal blogs

It's hard to believe that it's been 20 years since I left Australia. It feels like a lifetime ago, yet the memories of that time are still vivid in my mind. When I decided to …

I have two setups. One for the workweek and one for the weekend.

He hadn’t even gotten the letter into the envelope when he was sprayed down with Ending Gel. I know what the letter said because I was the one who sprayed him down. I tore the …

My friend Josh died last week. He was only 32 and had already given the world so much. I’m angry on the world’s behalf at all the decades of Josh it should have had and …

The year is 2016. It was a Monday, starting my second week of my first trip to New York in August, and I was sitting on the subway. I think I was just looking at …

A month on our bicycles, unsupported, spanning the entire isle of Great Britain. Three countries. Five major cities. Tens of thousands of feet of incline. 800ish miles. Literally millions of sheep. If you missed the …

#SFHellscape

Notes for season 5, episode 13, “return 0“ 08:26 Even with HR removed, it’s apparently not hard to find a bunch of cops at the precinct that would execute fellow officers for “a nice fat …

I’m using Bunny.net (referral link) for my CDN. As part of that, I cache certain files that get hit a lot but aren’t updated frequently, such as images, CSS, and my RSS feeds. I deploy …

Q: How do you know if SE19-dwellers have a local indie bookshop? A: Don’t worry, they’ll tell you! A local bookshop one of the things you look for, isn’t it, when choosing a dream place …

Firstly I wanted to say sorry for being so downbeat in my last post, usually I'm able to find a bit more balance and positivity. Thank you so much to everyone who took time out …

Trying to keep on the reading, writing, and painting focus for the year. I have a hard time right now doing extra hobbies during the week. I have been mentally drained from work to do …

I must maximize the silent time and remove as many activities as possible for a while. Writing is a non-negotiable for me, but public writing is not. I hope to one day resume writing here. …

I’ve been playing with Downpour recently. It’s a lot of fun. You could explain what Downpour is by comparing it to something like Hypercard. By combining text, images with some basic interactivity you can create …

I just yolo-ed a server update here without any backups. Looks like everything works again, though.

Dennis Rice, former headmaster of my eccentric, much-loved little high school, wrote some thoughts about the Morning Assemblies we used to hold. I’m reproducing it here because I haven’t written anything in a long while …

For 41 years I’ve met March 25 with feelings of varying degrees of “This day sucks.” Some years I put my fingers in my ears and try to tune it all out. Some years I …

This time next year, we'll bring back the Greek, Old Church Slavonic, three kinds of Swedish, Haitian, Icelandic, and Quenya....

The sun is out today. The daffodils are in bloom. Spring is here. It’s been an odd winter, very warm until a hard freeze in January where it got down to 6ºF, -14ºC. It was …

Mark Gurman says that Apple “has renewed discussions with OpenAI about using the startup’s technology”. GPT-4 is simply more advanced than anything else. Makes a lot of sense for Apple to have their own small …