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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

Once again I find myself about to journey into my childhood homelands and it's always a really fucking weird feeling.

Not staying long enough to make a Big Backyard followup video, unfortunately! I might be able to check on some stuff though. We'll see.

Partial success in repairing a broken CD player - or progress at least.

The load/unload mechanism works now! It was totally jammed when I got it and a piece of the tray assembly was rattling around inside. Fortunately all the pieces were present and I've managed to reattach it and strengthen it a little.

Now the disc is really hesitant about spinning so I've still got work to do.