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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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Always pretty wild being at the post office first thing in the morning and seeing a bunch of older folks paying their bills with cash at the counter, thinking that they were likely the age I am now around the year 2000, and wondering what amazingly anachronistic habit I'm going to refuse to give up on when I get to that age.

I'm a nerd, yes, but I wouldn't be nearly so interested in the current Moon mission stuff if all the other news going on wasn't so absolutely awful.

Hey Melbourne fedifriends, me and @CuriosityBlue are going to see Nicky Barry's show tomorrow and go for dinner after at Fancy Hank's, and maybe see another show to be determined after.

Come with us! Probably just going to wing it for dinner without a booking but get tickets to see Nicky. You should definitely see Nicky.

comedyfestival.com.au/browse-s

Update: just got an email saying Nicky's slow has been cancelled, no further info but I'm still having dinner at 7

Nicky Barry | Unladylike | Melbourne International Comedy Festival

https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/browse-shows/unladylike