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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
I'm going to a Thanksgiving potluck dinner tonight so I made the "wrong" kind of biscuits (which are the right kind for this occasion).
Dear American recipe writers, please learn that it's possible to measure things by weight and as well as volume.
"Half a cup of shredded cheese" is an absolutely nonsensical concept.
Thank you for your service.
Me: Where the hell is my grater? I'm sure it's here somewhere. Why can't I see it?
My grater, mocking me openly in plain sight:
In my continuing quest to get reacquainted with Apple stuff, I added a Time Machine share to a server in the house, and I have to say a computer that quietly backs itself up in the background whenever it's at home is pretty nice.