the silence of the painting; the music of the painting.
Perspective
The perspective of the painting; the painting of perspective; the perspective of the viewing. The contrasts of the colours between canvases. The contrasts of light between rooms.
I have seen Turner’s Sunrise several times this summer, and every time I see something new. Tod...
Of Day
Herein, vignettes of today.
Silver-tipped trees, reddening leaves hanging over fences. Trees swishing like bristles of a brush, painting the day, or waving away the clouds. Morning — listening to music that makes me happy.
⁂ ⁂ ⁂
Two hearts drawn on a wall on the corner. I...
Back home 🏡 from Denmark 🇩🇰
09.09.2026
“That traditional question of political theory, 'Who should rule?', which begs for an authoritarian answer such as 'the best', or 'the wisest', or 'the people', or 'the majority', […] should be replaced by a completely different question such as 'How can we organize our political institutions so that bad or incompetent rulers (whom we should try not to get, but whom we so easily might get all the same) cannot do too much damage?'”
—Karl Popper
“Excellence is not born out of committee, and Omarchy is not a democracy. It's a benevolent dictatorship in the grand tradition of Linux, Ruby, and Rails. The dictator's job is to listen to everyone, but make the call according to their intuition, vision, and experience.”
Oh come on, David.
Looks like rain today.
Visual; textual
My home page is a poem. I designed it in this way to explore the extent to which a literary medium – a poem – could be used for navigation, for way finding. Poems help me see the world differently, to navigate thoughts. So too does navigation: every link is a bridge to a new...
Today’s #WASSUP tip: a search shortcut for saving pages in the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.Yes this is a lot like yesterday’s tip, except for archiving a page, rather than looking it up. For example if you try looking up a page in the Internet Archive and it’s not ther...
Starry night
I close my eyes and I can still see the blanket of stars that I saw moments ago when I was leaning as close as I could into the glass of the window such that I could see as many stars as possible. Such is the impression that the stars made that I can see them in my mind even...
Autumn
Summer is becoming autumn: as days pass, the green leaves slowly turn yellow. The sun is so bright right now that the distinction between the green and the yellows on nearby trees is hard to see, but in my memory of walks I see paths lined with mostly green trees; some trees...
Second year
I woke up in excitement this morning. Today is the day I can start to access my course materials for next year. My second year of university doesn’t officially start for another few weeks, but from today I can start reading through the introductory material. I spent the morn...
Musical dreams
We’ve gotta keep going. The words flowed back to me with unexpected fluency; the sound of the song was all it took. I sang word after word, words deep within that I forgot were there, a reminder of how much I loved the song, of how much I listened, and, in this case, of how ...
Making memories with music
You get that darkness out your head, yeah
You had it with you from the start
The lightning in your heart
~ Kid, The Revivalists
Last evening – and for the last few days – I have been feeling a little bit down. But music was with me, and helped me see through the grey clouds...
Wonders of Web Weaving, Episode 18
The eighteenth episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out:
In Episode 18, I chat with Ava, the author of blog.avas.space about, among other things, data protection and privacy, consent in the context of privacy, the armchair of great blogging, and more.
I hope you enjoy the episode!
Wonders of Web Weaving also has an RSS feed you can use to follow along from wherever you get your podcasts.
Today’s #WASSUP tip: a search shortcut for looking up pages in the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.Ever click on a link for an article or photo and it’s not found (404), or redirects to a home page, or otherwise is not what you expect?The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine...
Excuse my French here – but with a late grandfather who co-founded a local SA group and was later let off as a “Mitläufer” thanks to a Jewish lawyer, as I recently learned, I’m done with nuance when it comes to this idiotic, wrong, and destructive way of looking at the world and life in general. #nazisraus #noAfD
Timing events in code
Earlier this year I noticed my Artemis reader page (the page that lists posts published by sites to which I am subscribed) was loading slowly. The logic to generate the page encompasses several hundred lines of code, which do everything from retrieving posts from the databas...