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When I was summing up my reading habits in 2022 I said: I think the lesson this year is: you can’t go wrong with Octavia E. Butler or Ursula K. Le Guin. I stand by that. But maybe I’d recommend some Ursula K. Le Guin books more than others. A Fisherman Of The Inland S...

I made a new site header. This one was fun. I reused a background that was a great big GIF and turned it into an AVIF which is half the size. I added it in the same directory where the original one was. The folder name is permanent_media. I was half my current age when...

Inkwell 1.0.1 is out for Mac with several bug fixes, especially for dark mode. Choose “Check for Updates” from the application menu to get the latest version.

If you missed the announcement, I posted a video about Inkwell yesterday.

Gulf of Mexico. Heading out on a kind of crazy adventure that I’ll blog more about later. As usual with my travel, I’ve devised the most complicated trip possible. Boat, trains, planes!

When I write about nature, I sometimes go to my archives and search for what phenomena I am thinking about. I was looking at my previous posts on blossom and saw that I last wrote about the topic on the 5th of April, 2025. I started my post with “One of my favourite times of ...

I am trading blog post titles with Frances. Frances wrote Where art exists in my life. I will be writing “Sparking joy”. On the top right corner of my bedroom whiteboard, written in orange pen – one of my favourite colours! – reads: Have a great day xxx Whenever I read this ...

I think back to how I used to think about how my finger tips would hurt if I learned to play the guitar. I was right: my fingers do get a bit sore. But with practice playing for longer gets easier. I am so glad I started to play. I have been continuing to learn new Taylor Sw...

I asked Claude: "What is OpenClaw useful for? Do you think I could use it in my programming work, based on what you know about what I do?" Basically it's for non-programmers. Then I asked: "I wonder if I could make software that would be useful to people who love OpenClaw?" That was more interesting and included in the response I linked to, above.

A clip from a video interview with Marc Andreessen has been making the rounds. He was a very successful entrepreneur in the early days of the web and has been a very successful venture capitalist in years following. He's 54 years old. You should watch the clip before reading...

It’s weird how there’s a subgenre of time-dilation folklore in Japan and Ireland…

Urashima Tarō: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urashima_Tar%C5%8D

Oisín in Tir na nÓg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ois%C3%ADn

This weekend I started work on rewriting the static site generator that I use for this website, Aurora. I was looking over the codebase and wondered if I could make the code a bit more efficient and easier to understand. I had ideas for new abstractions – things I could do to...

On March 12th, 1989, Tim Berners-Lee submitted Information Management: A Proposal. This would form the basis of what became the World Wide Web. On March 12th, 2026, Web Day Out happened in Brighton. Coincidence? Yes. Yes, it is a coincidence. But it’s a pretty nice coinci...

Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh, a chairde!

Brian takes us back twenty years (which is when we first met):

To gather so many like-minded, energetic people in once place and not have it ruined by corporate greed felt unique.

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Matt has some smart reckons on the relationship between time and technology:

The factory bell, the railway timetable, the telegraph wire, the always-on smartphone — each imposed a new temporal discipline, each produced its own characteristic form of exhaustion, and each was eventually (partially, imperfectly) domesticated through a combination of regulation, design, and collective action.

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An animation offered up to me on iPad to tell me about the milestone. It’s a ubiquitous and highly problematic platform. YouTube remains useful to me. My account is at youtube.com/@artlung The first video I uploaded was this Bauhaus animation I created using Cinema4D. I wrote a bit about my experience with 3-D software in...

Interesting to see u/joe_skidiachi_irl‘s experiments in baseball score cards with typewriters show up on Joe Van Cleave’s YouTube Channel. Links to past experiments that appear in the video:   https://www.reddit.com/r/BaseballScorecards/comments/1l9alpy/experiment_with_typewriter_scorecards_also_rays_1/     https://www.reddit.com/r/BaseballScorecards/comments/1lflsw8/end_of_tickertape_typewriter_scorecard_experiment/ https://www.reddit.com/r/BaseballScorecards/comments/1lp0m9y/typewriter_experiment_2_also_cin_6_bos_13_6302025/   https://www.reddit.com/r/BaseballScorecards/comments/1m4p6ih/typewriter_experiment_3_the_codex_also_bos_1_chc/   https://www.reddit.com/r/BaseballScorecards/comments/1mt1cuz/typewriter_experiment_4_the_index_card_multiple/ cc: u/lou_sprito, u/Informal-Writer-1140, u/oogieball

Opening day of baseball is coming. ⚾ I’m finishing the adjustments and final coats of polish to my 1957 Royal FP standard typewriter in Dodger Blue. It was manufactured the same year that the Brooklyn Dodgers announced their move to Los Angeles, so it will be a fantastic machine to score the 68th Los Angeles … Continue reading

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