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  • Collections
    · Fixing up an Astro blog with ChatGPT's help.
  • Bye, bye, Netlify
    · Netlify's billing approach is potentially scary.
  • Blogging again
    · How many times have I written this post over the last 25 years?
  • Weeknotes: week 13
    · Better late than never.
  • Weeknotes: week 11
    · This is my first attempt at getting back on the weeknotes bandwagon and doing some accountability, after some pondering in Weeknotes debug.
  • Weeknotes debug
    · I love the idea of weeknotes (honestly, I do) but I have always struggled with actually doing them, even more so now than when I first tried doing them…
  • 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.
  • 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…
  • 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.
  • 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…
  • Comments
    · A timely article from Smashing, Publish What You Learn:
  • Hello
    · Right, blogging again. This time it’s vaguely technical.
  • Month 106
    · One of the things I expect to enjoy about keeping monthnotes is looking back at the predictions for upcoming work from previous months and laughing at how…
  • Month 105
    · I tend to lose track of things I’ve managed to get done, so have been thinking about keeping weeknotes for a while. I reckon monthnotes might be a better…
  • How To Make Your Own Music Site in 10 Minutes
    · joelaz:
  • SuperDuper 2.5
    · Shirt Pocket is happy to announce that SuperDuper 2.5 is now available as a free update for all users. The new version includes full Leopard support.
  • Running from Camera
    · The rules are simple: I put the self-timer on 2 seconds, push the button and try to get as far from the camera as I can.
  • Schrodinger's lolcat
    · Photo of a cat in a box with the caption "In UR quantum box... maybe."
  • Nike Run Through Wall
    · (via FFFFOUND!)
  • Reboot
    · Starting from scratch; there may be some slight turbulence.
  • Universal Opaque Escape Clause
    · Can’t post at the moment, I’m afraid.
  • Plug Myself In
    · Have been busy with work one, work two, work three, setting up a company, moving flat, getting slightly older and sundry other bits. Thanks for being…
  • Motion
    · Ever had that urge to turn your life into one big project?
  • Work And Non Work
    · Goodness, it all comes at once, doesn’t it? Apologies for this latest interruption in service – life has been rather busy recently. Regular posting will…
  • A Slight Return
    · Still away; just dropping a few bits in while recovering from the exceptional Seed Records birthday party at Aldwych last Friday.
  • Motor City
    · Have shiny dual-boot laptop, will roam. Back in a month or so.
  • Norra Potter
    · Off to Newcastle-under-Lyme for a few days. While you’re here and I’m not, how about feeding me weird things?
  • Bring On The Clones
    · Plagiarism.org appear to be crawling anglepoised with their sinister-sounding SlySearch. Cue paranoia.
  • A.N.G.L.E.P.O.I.S.E.D.
    · Artificial Neohuman Generated for Logical Exploration/Positronic Organism Intended for Sabotage and Efficient Destruction.
  • I had planned to spend all next week trying to get this…
    · I had planned to spend all next week trying to get this site finished, but instead I thought I'd go out and do stuff. CMN Tour's 'Japanorama' looks like…
  • Yes, yes - I know.
    · Yes, yes - I know. I've done fuck all. I'm sorry. I'm trying to get things done, honest I am. Moving to a new host soon, lots of stuff going on in the…
  • No Parson, No!" I really must stop listening to War of the Worlds so often.
    · "No Parson, No!" I really must stop listening to War of the Worlds so often. Been too busy to do much blogging recently... a terrible state of affairs, I…
  • Been working on a new contact thing.
    · Been working on a new contact thing. Nothing too fancy, but it'll get the job done. And it should save people the horror of thinking up subjects for…
  • Changes are afoot - if you need illumination…
    · Changes are afoot - if you need illumination (what is this? where's the curvy orangey bits?), then... well, you'll have to wait until I can be arsed to…