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Have I said on here that I’m doing Project 24 again in 2025? I think I’ll do it ever two or three years, to try and stem the flow of books into my house – and to read more books from my shelves. For those not in the know, Project 24 is simply a self-imposed rule to only buy 24 books throughout the year. Well, for myself. I can buy …

This is the third and final post in my three part series on blogging. It was due last year but I got a little busy!Part 1: Why BlogPart 2: In NumbersPart 3: For HumansPart 3: For HumansI don’t blog for robots. I find it quite alarming how many people do. I write for humans.I’ve never given thought to SEO on my personal websites. SEO can be done effectively but I …

Thank goodness this book exists. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been attacked at a suburban backyard barbecue by some crazed IT guy with a wrench and thought, “Damn, if only I had studied techniques for severing his femoral artery with my drop point knife!” It’s like a heart-pounding form of l’esprit de l’escalier. Well, next time I’ll be ready.

Blazing fast implicit surface evaluation

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In this episode, I look at making the bridge and tailpiece and then the final assembly. There’s also a bit of as surprise for you??

Fuck you Facebook. That was the first thought I had when I woke up this morning. Followed by: What ministry is Mark Zuckerberg volunteering to manage for the dictators of the world? All I could think of is how Orwell’s Ministry of Love is about hate. So what are we creating here? The Ministry of Empowerment to ensure the oppression of the most vulnerable? Lovely. But maybe you, dear reader, …

We still have iced snow here, with - 9°C expected tonight, and even colder temperatures tomorrow. Several hundred feet below...

Back in 2023, I belatedly jumped on the bandwagon of people posting their CSS wish lists for the coming year. This year I’m doing all that again, less belatedly! (I didn’t do it last year because I couldn’t even. Get it?) I started this post by looking at what I wished for a couple of years ago, and a small handful of my wishes came true: Subgrid support Nested selectors …

How to quickly get code syntax highlighting in Keynote without having to select each bit of code and changing the colour manually. Read more.

I have news! On Saturday 11th January I will be performing at Voodoo Daddy’s Showroom in Norwich. I will be playing a 20 minute set of original songs and poems, raising funds for PAL Humanity and PCRF. I will be joined by kirakira, Billy Lubach, The Mink, and Damp Matches. I will be selling poetry books, photography books and maybe other things, with all funds split between the two organisations …

Recently I realized I was yet to see the sunrise in Taiwan.In my first year, summer temperatures pushed my daily walks further into the night. Then, by the time winter returned, my late starts had become habitual.And suddenly, I’ve been here two years already. Time passes me by, like sunrises in my sleep.So today, on my two-year anniversary in Kaohsiung, I set my alarm for 5:30am—an unfamiliar time of day …

Ridgeline subscribers — A new year, a new city. My pick for New York Times’ “52 Places to Go 2025” is Toyama City of Toyama Prefecture. It is placed at 30 on this year’s list (not that the list is a “ranking”!) and Osaka — with its forthcoming Expo — is placed at 38. I think that’s quite the interesting contrast of Japanese cities to highlight. Times picks aren’t entirely …

A list of BBC Sounds things I have listened to over the festive break. It's quite a long list.