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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

I have a growing suspicion that war may be good for absolutely nothing, and I wish someone could have pointed this out to us at some point.

I shouted at the TV the other day because a scene allegedly set in 1997 showed a computer with the Windows XP green hills desktop background. Why can't these productions just hire a couple of damn nerds?

Nothing quite deflates the spirit like sitting down on Monday morning, thinking "right, what was I in the middle of working on last Friday?" and remembering that it was SELinux policy.

Temptation to type "setenforce 0" and do something else instead is quite high.

If we're giving helpful advice, you can easily tell if a piece of cement sheeting contains asbestos, because it'll tingle on your tongue like popping candy when you lick it.