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Cleaning the Artemis database

If you are a user of Artemis, the calm web reader I maintain, you may have noticed that there has been more downtime than usual lately. This is largely because of a difficult database task on which I have been working. If you are not interested in the technical details but ...

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First Night of Chanukah

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A340 Lavatories

Have not been on an aircraft where the lavatories are in the cargo hold, below the passenger cabin before. Lufthansa opted to do this on their A340-600s in order to make more room for economy seats. It reminds me of the lower level on an Amtrak train.

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Morning

I am sitting on a train, looking — or at least aspirationally looking — in equal measures downward at my phone as well as to the horizon. The sun is rising above the hills; yellow peeks through the light, low clouds. Rain briefly fell. Standing, waiting for the train, I tho...

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Wow. FU.

“The AI-driven growth in the data center has led to a surge in demand for memory and storage. #Micron has made the difficult decision to exit the #Crucial consumer business in order to improve supply and support for our larger, strategic customers in faster-growing segments.”

https://investors.micron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/micron-announces-exit-crucial-consumer-business

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Lufthansa A319

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@webrocker Badumms! 😁👏

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What I have been reading lately

For a while I have wanted to make a bookshelf page on my website but such a page comes with the feeling that I should keep it up to date, a continuing obligation. I don’t want to keep a list of all the books I have read on my website right now, but I do want to share a few ti...

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A concept for a two-panel web reader settings page

For a while, I have had an idea for Artemis – the calm web reader I maintain – to have a page that shows your feed and feed settings on the same page. I am interested in this idea because there is presently a distance between the settings to customise your reader and the re...

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12 days of Soundtoys.
6 free plug-ins.

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🔗 Over/Under #45 with Daniel Pietzsch

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I have been interviewed for Hyde’s “Over/Under” series.

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May 2024

A birthday celebration, Beyond Tellerrand conference, Frankeninferno, and a whole bunch of random shots from Düsseldorf. (70 photos)

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A new home page

I have been thinking about redesigning my website for a while. I wrote a bit about one of the design directions I explored recently. I loved doing the design part of the project, but knew there would be several hours of work to integrate the new style into my website. Today...

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just setting up my srvr

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“Why don’t you put your site behind Cloudflare to deal with those LLM bots?”

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Okay, they’re back – that was quick this time… 😁

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Bridging and My Time of Late

Lately, I have been writing a lot over on Gadget Wisdom, where I write more tech themed stories, about self-hosting. That isn’t exactly uncommon, it is a popular topic for many people. But what does that do in relation to my longstanding practice of working on tools for my w...

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Saturday

Last week I ran a meetup for writers on the web. During the session, I brought up the topic of distance in writing. [1] We explored the topic in various ways – the distance between writing and publishing, the distance between reader and writer, how distance varies. As I writ...

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Little moments of joy

I was thinking about a design for a web page yesterday that I wanted to build with a few illustrations. I remembered that there was a site with old-timey illustrations that were available in the public domain. I thought I have no idea how to find this website! Today,, I was...