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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 …] [...]

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Also I have some minor sniffles going on and I'm not sure if I'm just feeling crappy because it's cold or if I'm actually slightly unwell.

Either way, I keep feeling like I just want to crawl under a pile of blankets and try again tomorrow, but I got up and have obtained a cup of coffee so let's see how it goes.

I used to have a lot of self-doubt about Rainbow Headcleaner, which stared mostly as a joke, but I really liked the results.

Conceptually, it's "what if you took public domain 1950s educational films and cut them up with the free Apple loops library in Garageband?" and see, it's all legally clear of course, but I used to wonder if I could really consider that this was "my work" because all I really did was edit things, play with effects, tempo ... all sorts of things except (in most cases) actually generate the original noises.

Well all the recent AI bullshit has certainly cured my impostor syndrome in this space, I can tell you.