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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

Reached the critical "my hair is shitting me" threshold and got it all buzzed off. I was kind of holding out for it to get a bit warmer before I did this, but I'm a big brave boy who owns beanies so I'll tough it out.

Is Clara the new Nicole? Been rejecting a few new account registration requests the last couple of days for "Clara" sometimes with a number following, from a new Gmail address each time.

Anyway if you don't have registration approvals on for your Mastodon or whatever instance, then maybe fix that right fucking now and delete some of your Claras, hey?

I'd strongly recommend that anyone with a genuine interest in mycology mute the word "mushroom" for a week and maybe just go out on a field trip or something.

An issue just landed in the queue which pretty much just says "please make Zip compression better so I can email all my photos to someone" and now I kind of want to watch Silicon Valley again.