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My weekly blog post. Links this week include throwing message bottles in the sea, an archive of mid 20th-century commercial art and the story of a lion pride taking care of one of their own. I talk about my own childhood experience with throwing a message bottle in the sea and about some upcoming surgery. Plus, as usual, I listened to, read and watched things.

My weekly blog post. Links this week include how to get extra library cards, an artist who crochets old technology and the story of the creation of instant coffee. I talk some more about postcard clubs and which ones I joined, buying cross-stitch supplies and I shout out a couple of fellow Neocities peeps. Plus, as usual, I listened to, read and watched things.

Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing… On Monday, 04 May 2026 The average temperature today is 10.7˚C, With highs of 11.09˚C and lows of 10.38˚C, It may feel like 10.25˚C with overcast clouds The wind speed is 0.45m/s and visibility is 10000m The pressure ...

Everyone wants to excel at what they do, but on the other side it's very lonely, especially when they want to vent but there's no one else sharing the same context as them. People want them to stay where they are to solve hard problems. Let's not forget they are also humans ...

The Murderbot Diaries is a sci-fi book series about a socially anxious security android that protects an expanding group of humans as it uncovers conspiracies and fights evil corporations. As the series progresses, Murderbot’s identity emerges and evolves. In this 7th book ...

I have a single page site with all the WordPress news. Bookmark it. Here's the OPML subscription list, import it into your feed reader, get the news as you like it. WordPress is an amazing platform with a blogging community that we just can't see. And once we're listening, more will appear. It's a great idea exchange platform. So -- are there any great WordPress news feeds we're missing? Please share here.

Contemporary art is often criticized for being extravagant, farfetched or nonsensical. You might think of the paintings and movies of David Lynch, sculptures of Miquel Barceló or even the banana (Comedian) of Maurizio Cattelan. They are definitely strange and hard to interpr...

Everyone is working on something with Claude.

Heard on the internets ad nauseum. "I know how to do what you do much better than you do."

I was just marveling with Claude about how well all the pieces are fitting together, two databases, connected by an RSS 2.0 feed and a websocket pipe had to agree on how to communicate the same object. Worked the first time. Small pieces loosely joined.

Scoble asks on Twitter if there are successful companies that have an open source product. There are lots of them. There are markets where users and developers won't even consider your product or service if it isn't open source. It's a trust issue. I offered an example, WordPress, which probably wouldn't have launched well if it wasn't open source.

What’s Changed Added: Fediverse and webmentions Better scheduling New Top page (for top 30 ranked by webmentions) Follow on bluesky and Mastodon etc Bump actions/checkout from 4 to 6 by @dependabot in #3 Bump actions/github-script from 7 to 9 by @depe...

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Full Changelog: https://github.com/thechelsuk/cf-worker-x-redirect/commits/v1.0.1

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Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing… On Sunday, 03 May 2026 The average temperature today is 10.56˚C, With highs of 11.08˚C and lows of 10.38˚C, It may feel like 10.15˚C with broken clouds The wind speed is 0.45m/s and visibility is 10000m The pressure i...

Fake Metro Trains "Due to ongoing delays with the delivery of our new Xtrapolis 2.0 trains, we've implemented some temporary measures to keep our network running."

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What's actually new in JavaScript (and what's coming next) This is a helpful

Knicks will play the Sixers in round 2 of the playoffs starting Monday.

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