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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

I have a mystery on the way, as a tracking entry has appeared in the Auspost app that I cannot link to any particular order.

I thought I knew what it was, but that thing now has its own entry and they're both updating.

Has Meech been using my laptop while I'm out again?

Me, yesterday: spends an hour scratching my head, looking through settings for measurement units, trying to figure out why the objects I'm creating are too large when I enter in what I'm measuring from an item in front of me, then giving up and just eyeballing it.

Me, today: finally realises that my digital calipers are "zeroed" at 5mm.

😭