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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

Me last night: Hmm, it's been a while since the last Defunctland video.

Defunctland this morning: Here's 4.5 hours of video about Disney's animatronics.

I have an old, inactive Instagram account that I occasionally get an email about when someone attempts to log into it.

I'm very curious to see if it ever generates any emails regarding age verification being necessary, given the account itself is currently 15 years old. 🙃

I was going to declare the Game Boy restoration finished, but I tried playing some stuff on it and the little red power LED next to the screen is just way too piercing.

I might hunt around and swap it out for a more mild colour, orange maybe, or just slap a resistor in there to dim it.