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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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Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]

The train door buttons really need to blink red instead of green at the metro stations when the door is going to open automatically.

Couple of times now someone has shoved past me a bit in a panic because I'm not pushing the button when it blinks and they think I'm just oblivious or something

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]

I have cancelled today because damn I just need one day to do fuck all except bum around the house before everything starts again.

I didn't exactly have a lot booked in today but I find just the act of giving myself permission to do nothing helps a lot. 🙃

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]

Realising that if I was in the TNG universe, I'd be on Team "Data is a toaster" and what the hell, I'll go harder than that. The Doctor is a toaster. Picard is a toaster. Kirk is a toaster. We're all toasters, nobody is sentient and nobody ever has been.

Case dismissed or whatever. It doesn't matter.