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2023
- Bring Your Dolphin· Ever-shifting views on the worth of LLMs et al.
2022
- Adding a post scaffold generator to an Astro blog· Way back when this blog was built with Hexo, I used the convenient Scaffolds feature as a way of bringing some consistency to blog posts.
2021
- The Strange, Soothing World of Instagram’s Computer-Generated Interiors· Certain elements—plastics, curves, and soft, indoor light—are more straightforward to create with 3-D-modelling software, and relatively fast for render…
- Lego Summerhall· We especially like that Tammy’s model is not intended to be an entirely faithful representation of the building, but a response to it.
2019
- Manhole covers· There are a lot of beautiful designed and colored manhole covers in Japan
- Goodbye orange kinesis roadmap· After 20 years of on-again, off-again blogging, it's become clear that writing essay-length posts while trying to focus on work is hard. I can blame the…
2016
- Exploitation· A quote in an article by Oliver Burkeman caught my eye a while back:
- Codeship and curly bracket expansion· This isn't an issue with Codeship as such, but it can affect it.
2015
- Continuous deployment of static sites from Codeship to WebFaction with rsync· Mmm, that's a a bit of a mouthful.
- From Ghost to Hexo· I've moved this blog from Ghost to Hexo.
2014
- HMTL Using Codeship talk· Last week (last week!) I was going to give a quick talk about Codeship at HMTL. However, events conspired against me and I couldn't attend. And there…
- HMTL Vagrant talk· Last year (last year!) I gave a quick talk about Vagrant at HMTL. And then promptly forgot to put the accompanying presentation in a useful location. So,…
- The journey is the goal· People commit to all kinds of activities, she said, "for the process, for the memories… The argument that there is nothing tangible at the end of it…
- Affiliates· I've been arguing with myself again. Should I use affiliate links when I post here? If I do, should I identify them as such? And if so, how should I make…
- Trying out Ghost· A couple of weeks ago I moved this blog from Tumblr to Ghost. I'd wanted to do so since Yahoo acquired Tumblr. I don't have any trust left in Yahoo after…
- Waste· There is another kind of waste […] and that's overconsumption. Eat food you really don't need to eat and that too has been wasted.
2013
- Have you seen this cat?· Have you seen this cat?
- The Atlas of True Names· The Atlas of True Names
- Vagrant shell provisioning and usernames· I've been spending a lot of time with the excellent Vagrant recently but was getting mildly annoyed by starting in `/home/vagrant` when SSHing to a box,…
- A set of then/now merges for the Newington Green/Highbury area· A set of then/now merges for the Newington Green/Highbury area.
- A personal timeline of front-end web work· I've been thinking about how much the process of building websites has changed since I laid down my first crappy `frameset` nearly fifteen years ago, so…
- 9eyes· A woman in Victorian dress on the drive at Longleat, caught by Google Street View, via 9-eyes.
- MunrOverground Map· MunrOverground Map
- Kraftwerk denied China visa over 1999 Free Tibet concert· Kraftwerk denied China visa over 1999 Free Tibet concert
- What Major World Cities Look Like at Night, Minus the Light Pollution· What Major World Cities Look Like at Night, Minus the Light Pollution