The Second of Bleptember brought back the morning school run into this doggo’s routine. And while she was glad of the extra walk, she also seemed glad of the opportunity to lie down in a quiet, child-free hallway upon our return home.

Bleptember’s upon us once again, so I’ll be attempting to snap a daily picture of my bleppy doggo with her tongue sticking out! This young lady is dog-tired after a long day of running around and playing, this First of Bleptember.

Q Misell and CraftByte are speaking the weekend after next at MRMCD, on the subject of the UK's (and Slovenia's) railway ticket barcodes and how FOIA requests are so-far failing to reveal information (that shouldn't be secret!) about what information they encode. Wish I could be there...

The dog came out for a walk with the eldest kid and I, but we couldn’t stop her sticking her head down rabbitholes! (Oh, and the dog kept doing it, too.)

James has come up with a fun way to do Mastodon-like alt-text-bubbles. I'm intrigued, and am looking forward to expanding on the idea when I get the chance to try implementing it on my own blog.

Looking forward to the school run starting again next week… so I get a bonus excuses for walks around our beautiful village!

This post is secret; you can only find it via my RSS feeds (and places which syndicate them). It's okay to talk about it or link to it, though. Thanks for being part of RSS Club! Last night, an undermaintained VPS of mine went kaput. The data’s all fine, and most of the services I […]

The cheese scones from My local supermarket Are hexagonal. It’s not for packing. Their film-covered rectangle Leaves corner gaps. Are perhaps they made In honeycomb baking tins? Baked by bumblebee? Or else it’s branding. A visual identity. Trying to sell more. A six-sided scone Does not taste better to me, Nor warm up faster. The […]

Turns out I'm not quite done obsessing over Musical Transients, and I found a video of YouTuber Acai playing the album on Clone Hero, which was a fun and enjoyable watch-along.

After sharing the album yesterday, today I found a review of Musical Transients which 100% echoes my experience of this amazing concept album. Spoiler warning: there are themes in the album that I think are most-fun to discover as you listen to it, but if you already did, or if you're not going to anyway, then you might as well read my and sophie's thoughts about it now.

A recent video by Will Smith gained widespread condemnation for using AI to artificially-inflate his crowd's size. Except that's not what happened at all: a little creative editing by his media team, combined with a secret experiment by YouTube to make some videos look immeasurably more-shit by performing AI upscaling on them, seems to have kicked off this particular round of Internet craziness.

Last month, my friend @garethbowker@infosec.exchange observed that the numbered lists in my blog posts “looked wrong” in his feed reader. I checked, and I decided I was following the standards correctly and it must have been his app that was misbehaving. So he contacted the authors of @unread@goldenhillsoftware.com, his feed reader, and they fixed it. […]

Musical Transients from Psynwav is absolutely excellent, and (unless you've already learned better than to pay attention to my music recommendations) you should give it a listen.

This post is secret; you can only find it via my RSS feeds (and places which syndicate them). It's okay to talk about it or link to it, though. Thanks for being part of RSS Club! Outside of Christmas Day, I don’t often get to use 6+ hobs and both ovens simultaneously, but I appreciate […]

Maybe I’m just hungry, but this morning’s breakfast bagel with brie looks especially scrumptious, right?

I hand-drew a QR code so it looks like what I did was made a maze in Microsoft Paint. But it works! Here's how.

Sean McPherson shared a "four quadrants" diagram for people's beliefs about AI, with a specific focus on LLMs used for coding assistance. Here's where I sit on it, and why.

Based on my experience of 'vibe coding', I think Jim Nielsen's analogies are absolutely spot on.

For years, I've been using a HTML+CSS-only technique for popover 'lightbox' images on my blog. Now I've come up with a more-semantic way to do the same, and its HTML code is tidier too!

A moderately-large house spider dropped down and startled my dog as she napped in her basket, so now she’s hiding under my desk and refusing to return to bed. 🙄😂

I walked to a different COUNTY one morning before breakfast, just to get a geocache!

This checkin to GCAJH34 Jonah's Oak reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. My little tribe and I have, in some form of another, been attending Cropredy for decades: intermittently in the past, but lately with more regularity every year. For me, it’s coincided with the growth of our family: I’ve […]

This checkin to GC8Z1F6 Church Micro 13672...Great Bourton ⛪️ reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. My family and I have made a tradition of our regular attendance of Fairport’s Cropredy Convention. There I – being the earliest riser of us – have in turn made a tradition of getting up […]

This checkin to GC91EH6 War Memorial #1,340 ~ Great Bourton 🌹 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. My family and I have made a tradition of our regular attendance of Fairport’s Cropredy Convention. There I – being the earliest riser of us – have in turn made a tradition of […]

From 1973 onwards Doug Biggert, driving around California, took an (analogue!) photograph of every hitch-hiker to whom he offered a lift. Now you can view a gallery and read his story.

I somehow missed the news from June about Daniel Hamrick, who courageously got on stage to play a anti-transphobia protest song at a 'heterosexual pride' event in one of the most deeply-conservative parts of the USA. Here's the video of his (short!) set.

"I still get that powerful feeling that anything is possible when I open a web browser — it’s not as strong as it was 20 years ago, but it’s still there." - Geoff Graham

A freaking excellent longread by Eevee (Evelyn Woods), lamenting the direction of popular technological progress and general enshittification of creator culture. It's ultimately uplifting, I feel, but it's full of bitterness until it gets there.

When you signed up with an ISP, you used to get Web space, email, shared FTP access, a nearby IRC node, newsgroups, and a software bundle. Nowadays you get a shit router, a voucher for a free month of a streaming service you didn't want, and crap customer service. Where did we go wrong?

Finished work. Figured I’d chill in the hammock for a bit as it’s so nice out. The dog decided she wanted to lie in it too. So now I am a pillow for a dog.