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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

If you've got a device that's not working quite right and isn't very reliable, it's perfectly normal to buy a second one that has a completely different set of problems so you can attempt to combine them, right? Asking for a me.

Could someone please explain what I'm supposed to do with these now? The bloke in the shop was pretty insistent that this would solve my problem.

A garden fork without a handle, and me holding up four candles in front of it.