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I watched a large part of All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace this month. This also counts...
1st May 2025
I watched a large part of All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace this month. This also counts as a “listening” item, because the theme song,
“Baby Love Child” by Pizzicato Five, is also spectacular.
Guitar Moves is a good series of interviews by Matt Sweeney,
who I...
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Personal tools
I used to make little applications just for myself. Sixteen years ago
(oof) I wrote a habit tracking...
3rd Apr 2025
I used to make little applications just for myself. Sixteen years ago
(oof) I wrote a habit tracking application,
and a keylogger that let
me keep track of when I was using a computer, and generate some pretty
charts.
I’ve taken a long break from those kinds of things. I love my...
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I have a non-recently post ready to write, any day now…
Reading
This was a strong month for reading:...
1st Mar 2025
I have a non-recently post ready to write, any day now…
Reading
This was a strong month for reading: I finished
The Hidden Wealth of Nations, Useful Not True, and Cyberlibertarianism.
I had a book club that read Cyberlibertarianism so we discussed
it last week. I have a lot of...
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Recently
I am not going to repeat the news. But man, things are really,
really bad and getting worse in...
4th Feb 2025
I am not going to repeat the news. But man, things are really,
really bad and getting worse in America. It’s all so unendingly
stupid and evil. The tech industry is being horrible, too. Wishing strength to the people who
are much more exposed to the chaos than I am.
Reading
A...
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2025 Predictions
I was just enjoying Simon Willison’s predictions and, heck, why not.
1: The web becomes adversarial...
11th Jan 2025
I was just enjoying Simon Willison’s predictions and, heck, why not.
1: The web becomes adversarial to AI
The history of search engines is sort of an arms race between
websites and search engines. Back in the early 2000s, juicing your
ranking on search engines was pretty easy -...
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Bandcamp wrapped
I still use Bandcamp almost exclusively to buy music, and keep a big library of MP3s.
The downside...
6th Dec 2024
I still use Bandcamp almost exclusively to buy music, and keep a big library of MP3s.
The downside is that this marks me as a weirdo, but otherwise it’s
great and has been working well for me.
Since I last wrote about it, Bandcamp was acquired by Epic games
(?) and then acquired...
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Recently: Cycling and Autumn
I haven’t been posting much to the ‘main blog’ recently, but I have been keeping the micro blog...
3rd Nov 2024
I haven’t been posting much to the ‘main blog’ recently, but I have been keeping the micro blog updates humming. If you want more content in your RSS reader, you can subscribe to those posts, which are shorter, more scattered, and even less copyedited. It feels bad to have...
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Reading
It is very easy to get ChatGPT to emit a series of words such as “I am happy to see you.”...
1st Oct 2024
Reading
It is very easy to get ChatGPT to emit a series of words such as “I am happy to see you.” There are many things we don’t understand about how large language models work, but one thing we can be sure of is that ChatGPT is not happy to see you.
Ted Chiang’s article about AI...
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Reading
Since last time, I read a few books: Sea of Tranquility, a book club book, Doppelganger, the...
3rd Sep 2024
Reading
Since last time, I read a few books: Sea of Tranquility, a book club book, Doppelganger, the new Naomi Klein, and Manywhere, a collection of short stories.
Sea of Tranquility was very digestible sci-fi. I haven’t read that much sci-fi overall, so it’s probably inaccurate...
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Recently
I skipped Recently last month. This one’s even more
of a grab-bag than usual!
The <video> element...
1st Aug 2024
I skipped Recently last month. This one’s even more
of a grab-bag than usual!
The <video> element and browser abstractions
I was reading Iván Sánchez Ortega’s thoughts on maps4html
(at the time of writing, his website is down, so that’s an archive.org
link). The post is about a...
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