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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

A recurring theme in my professional life is finding myself needing to solve one of those little puzzles where you slide square tiles around in a frame, but this one doesn't have an empty space in it.

Guy on the train here is reading a book called "The Stoic Guide to ..." either Health or Wealth and I keep waiting for him to move his thumb off the first letter of that last word so I know whether or not I hate him.