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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

Something has definitely shifted in my mental/physical state now because it's just after 9pm and I'm feeling restless instead of utterly exhausted, which is a lot more in line with "normal" for me, heh.

Felt like a fairly successful day of professional computer touching today. I was feeling very out of sync with things after a holiday and then being sick left my brain resembling something closer to a bowl of soup than anything capable of reasoning.

I'm just about becoming friends with working in macos (rhymes with tacos) again but I hear they're about to mess that up for me this week.

I, a non-resident who does not visit Sydney really that often, saw this headline and immediately thought "oh that'd be Paramatta Road".

Headline screenshot:
After four decades of stalled attempts, there’s a new plan to ‘transform’ Sydney’s ugliest road