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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

Love it when the one Firefox rep on the whole fedi asks for our feedback on whether we prefer to be punched in the face or kicked in the stomach so they can ensure the "voice of the community" is heard by a random middle manager maybe.

I am very unreasonably annoyed when people capitalise things IPAD and MAC when talking about Apple stuff. I don't want to fight their branding battles for them, that's not my job. Let them pay someone for that.

But come on people, it looks so weird and wrong. 🙃