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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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Pray for Meech. After a tough morning trying to sleep in the long grass that I cruelly mowed after distracting him with Third Breakfast, then getting rained on briefly while trying to resume his nap in only one of the many remaining soft and shady places, he has been forced to retreat indoors and do his best to sleep on a humble rug.

A ginger cat sleeping on a red rug, face slightly upturned and toe beans on display