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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

Four years ago today, I stopped by the Euralia Hall, an old building that's fairly unremarkable except for the fact that not long before it'd been listed for sale at a very low price and I'd imagined that maybe I could have purchased it. I don't know what I would have done with it though.

A large old public hall with faded pale paint over the bricks, and the name

Once again I appear to have put something in "a safe place" while incorporating a threat model that includes criteria such as "I may want to find it one day".

Mike was very good and got his shit together to go to the shops before 9am and now he may have a freshly baked coffee scroll, as a treat.