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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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Four years ago today I sat at a table constructed of railway sleepers from the Old Ghan line, and heroically resisted the temptation to carve "NO FATE" into it as I contemplated the way forward from here.

The world outside was not doing well. New South Wales was still closed off, Victoria was back in lockdown and Queensland was not accepting guests at this time. South Australia was still relatively open, but uncertainty was hanging over everyone's heads. I had enough supplies to live anywhere for a few weeks if needed, but what then?

I stomped around ruined buildings for the rest of the day.

A knife laid out on a wooden table constructed from railway sleepers. The aesthetic is reminiscent of a scene in Terminator 2 where Sarah Connor carves