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February 15, 2025For those who’re just joining us, I’ve dusted off a two-decade-old project idea and have actually started working on it. There’s a working prototype which I’m not going to link in this post, because this text will likely be around long after it’s been and gone, either shelved for another 20 years or thrown online in some kind of working form. [...]
February 9, 2025In April 2005, I registered a domain name. I had a plan, and it was an ambitious one. I had read an O’Reilly book on XML (cover-to-cover) a couple of years beforehand, and it did something to my brain and I thought I could see through time. Weblogs were ascending fast, the web was exciting, … [Read more …] [...]

Chinwag Posts

This is my special box of USB cables. It's special because it has the magical ability to contain every single type of USB cable ever made, except for the one you're looking for right now.

View looking down on the contents of a cardboard box which is a tangled mess of dozens of USB cables, and one not-USB cable.  Kids, can you spot the impostor?

Bought a new record album to listen to! I've not been especially enamored of Brian Eno's later works, but this one turned up on sale for only $28 which is unheard of for a brand-new vinyl LP so I grabbed it anyway.

The cover of the Brian Eno album ForEverAndEverNoMore (styled in all caps on the cover but I don't want to risk making someone's computer shout at them if I enter it that way)

My NBN speed upgrade happened overnight, and I was very confused that my tests still peaked at around 90Mb instead of around 250 no matter what I reset or restarted.

I finally ran the test at the router, got 240Mbit results, and it slowly dawned on me that my wifi AP only has a 100Mbit ethernet port on it.

I guess some more infrastructure upgrades are needed.

🙃