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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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In my kitchen, once again proving via practical experimentation that cooking a meal for only one single human being is something I am incapable of.

Spent far too long looking through tiny on-screen menus on my audio recorder trying to find out how to turn on phantom power for the inputs before realising there was a physical switch for it on the side.

Technology has broken me.

The Technics stack is growing. After shuffling parts around between a couple of disfunctional CD players I've got one that's mostly ok, but a bit picky about what discs it'll play back happily.

The sweet spot seems to be commercial pressings from the early 2000s which I don't actually have many of, so I guess I'll need to hit some second hand shops soon, haha.

It may just need some tweaking of the many adjustment pots, but I'll save that for some time when I've got the oscilloscope out.

A Technics tape deck from the late 1980s on top of a CD player from a similar era.