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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 a wild article that illustrates some real bullshit that we're all going to have to live with.

abc.net.au/news/2025-04-04/afl

tl;dr - we added "AI" crap to our processes and everyone was really pleased with how much faster everything was but it turned out what we had just didn't fucking work. it was faster though!

Two men charged after allegedly carrying two guns into MCG during Collingwood Carlton clash

The men were arrested and charged after allegedly bringing two…

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-04/afl-guns-found-collingwood-carlton-mcg/105136164

Tonight I'm going to see Becky Steepe's show, as linked above! Come along if you're free, or go and see Donna Collins! Either way you are in for a great time!

uspol snarky

The only surprising thing about any of this current wave of utter insanity and bullshit is that a lot of Americans seem to actually be surprised by it

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