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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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Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]

There are a lot of bad things to be said about the mere existence of global megacorps, but I have to say it's sometimes kind of cool to be able to say to someone who's calling you from an airport with a broken laptop "I'll send an email and see if I can get one of my team in Paris to organise a loaner for you when you arrive".