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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

Been learning how to make myself at home in macOS again after about 15 years away, and I'm getting there. I'm not hating it, but I am very much remembering why I left.

Me, having been unable to order some medication for weeks that's out of stock everywhere, finally has a brainwave and sets the "delivery" address to my workplace instead of home, which is approximately 500 metres from All The Hospitals.

Order ready for collection within 30 minutes.