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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

In my life I have dealt with some extremely obtuse and unfriendly user interfaces, run software that was undocumented and confusing, and had to trace paths of assumed knowledge back into archived forum posts with critical information lost up link rot many times.

I have always generally emerged victorious.

Trying to get a hard drive loaded up with a few games on a Playstation 2 nearly defeated me on all counts as a perfect storm of all the above.

Nearly.

I'm getting too old for this shit.