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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

My TV has "fixed itself" again, who knows for how long, but at least I can put off dealing with that for a bit.

Also, I have realised my UPS alarm is no longer going off occasionally and all the lights are green again.

This reaffirms my opinion that you should ignore all your problems for as long as possible because they'll eventually just go away forever all by themselves.

This strategy has no flaws.

Saw The Overlander go past at the end of the street as I was walking up to get a coffee, and when I arrived at the cafe they'd just put out fresh blueberry muffins on the counter, still warm from the oven.

The omens for today are favourable.

Today I did a bunch of searches for things like "pop song structure", "typical pop song keys", and "chord progressions" to see if I could make one without really knowing what I'm doing.

Shockingly, it seems to have kind of worked.

I'm not too happy about the transition into and out of the bridge but it mostly does what it says on the tin!