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Last week I attended Green IO, a conference in London all about sustainability in digital technology, organised by Gaël Duez (who also hosts the Green IO podcast). It was a fantastic conference, and amazing to see so many people who are passionate about this stuff all in one room! I’m not great at taking notes during talks, but there were so many great takeaways I wanted to sum up a …

While the birthday presents were accumulating, other books not slated to be birthday presents were also accumulating. Here's that batch:No, the 43 Visions for Complexity book isn't upside-down. It just has the title on the spine running upwards, rather than downwards. I know this is more traditional in other languages, but it makes the bookshelf annoyingly inconsistent when it's done in English-language books.

Since I started running in January, I’ve noticed something that, while not incredibly surprising, is still new to me: while I’m running, I feel stronger, more physically capable, and healthier. It’s a reliable way to experience eustress on a scalable level.What’s more, when my body feels like it’s functioning as it should, the quality of my thinking improves as well.Physical strength leads to clearer, more optimistic thoughts, and less ego-driven …

Yet another good survey (1045 parents and teens 13-18) showing high use of GenAI in US schools. Now the predictable story of learners using AI on the SLY.UseFirst, we have to recognise that they’re using it and that their use is across a number of tools for different purposes. But homework and assignments are the most common.7/10 teens, 13 to 18 used at least one type of AIUsing AI for …

(Ha, and why it's good none of the players read my blog.)(Northern Continent Detail by Zak S.)I had been intending to run Zak Smith's Cube World setting since Zak began to publish the installments back in 2020. Cube World, literally a cube-shaped world with the campaign taking place on the "near face" of the cube, is the overall campaign setting that contains Zak's major published works: Vornheim: The Complete City …

Since I began trying out more local beauty products since last year, I’ve been looking for more makeup bases to discover. A few stood out while others just didn’t capture my interest. One of the local-brand foundations that I wanted to try was ISSY’s Active Foundation. Since I really like their Active Skin Tint, I […]

The first instalment of some much-belated travel photo blogging from our UK trip in May-June 2024. Above, the Sérilly Cabinet, a private room built for the lady of a Parisian town house around 1778, and now relocated in its entirety to the V&A. Completely unoriginally, we started our trip in London. Slightly more originally (for us), we stayed in Hammersmith, a part of town neither of us knew very well …

I decided to have a poke around and see if I could figure out how the HTTP streaming APIs from the various hosted LLM providers actually worked. Here are my notes so far. The general pattern All three of the APIs I investigated worked roughly the same: they return data with a content-type: text/event-stream header, which matches the server-sent events mechanism, then stream blocks separated by \r\n\r\n. Each block has …

If you’re anything like us, there’s nothing better than sitting down with a freshly brewed cup of coffee and a slice of homemade cake. But what if you could combine…

In the autumn of 2020, television production crews all over the world were beginning to cope with a new normal. Whilst non-scripted series were starting to return to our screens with socially distanced sets, reality show contestants in social bubbles and Perspex barriers in place, fiction was another matter, and production on prestige series including Better Call Saul, Stranger Things and Succession was only just starting to spin up again.Animated …

I’m mixing things up, let’s start with the links. Then end with a bonus one. 🔎 Found, interesting 🧐 This headteacher’s message from Dylan’s new school is flipping great about mobile phones, mental models and morality. (But I’d be less into a phone ban, if that’s where he’s heading). The web we never lost (via Dirty Feed). Giles Turnbull was interviewed by P&B (People & Blogs) and it’s unsurprisingly a …

Nic Chan - Nic has just finished rebuilding her website and it’s INCREDIBLE! Seriously just look at it CSS { In Real Life } | Limitation Breeds Creativity: A Study in Composition with Custom Properties - Michelle has done some (characteristically) amazing things with a handful of divs. Introducing @bramus/caniuse-cli, a CLI tool for “Can I Use …” - This is going to be very useful! Selling a small front-end …

In my head this week had two big themes: CP day and housework. CP day fell on Wednesday: it is my team’s quarterly all-in-office day. This round I was one of the organisers, and between holidays (and illness) we didn’t have much time to prepare. We split the day in two (as a proven format), with the first half being talks and a workshop with the theme of reviewing/discontinuing features, …

Parents and guardians estranged from their grown children often claim they have no idea why their kids don’t talk to them anymore. They say things like, “I did everything for them, and they want nothing to do with me now,” or, “I’ve asked them what I’ve done, tried to find out, and they don’t tell me. No-contact is unhelpful and hurtful.” I’ve been estranged from my biological mother since 2011 …

The full Stockholm Adventure, linked for ease of use:INTRO - Swedish MeatheadDAY ONE: THE RED LINE (SOUTH)Norsberg to Vårby Gård - (Just Like) Starting OverVårberg to Axelsberg - happy dot gifÖrnsberg to Midsommarkransen - Sorry, I Cannot Hear You, I'm Kinda BusyGamla Stan to Liljeholmen (plus Stockholm Södra) - Ödds & SödraDAY TWO: THE GREEN LINE (NORTH)Hässelby Strand to Blackeberg - Blood and ThunderIslandstorget to Stora Mossen - LayersAlvik to …