Year: 2023
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The Frosted Pane
Pagan Wanderer Lu's new album Planets In The Wires dropped today, and I just cried my eyes out at track 5 (The Frosted Pane).
It opens almost apologetically, like an explanation for the gap in new releases for most of the twenty-teens. But it quickly becomes a poetic exploration of a detached depression of a man trapped under the weight of the world. It's sad, and beautiful, and relatable. -
It Takes Two
At the weekend, Ruth and I travelled to Edinburgh to attend a tango class for which we were in no-way qualified. We learned a lot, but mostly because we knew very little to begin with!
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Household Finances Revisited
A year or two ago, my polyfamily and I switched from an "income-assessed" to a "same-residual" model for managing our household expenditures. If the former could be described as "socialism at home", the latter is more like "household Universal Basic Income".
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Pen Pals Wanted
Please will you be my pen pal for one month in 2024?
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My Default Apps at the End of 2023
All the cool kids are sharing their "lifestack" as we approach the end of 2023. Here's mine.
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ET App
Travelling around Edinburgh by tram this weekend, I kept being advertised the "ET app".
I didn't install the app, in case it was bundled with spyware.
After all, everybody my age knows: ET phones home.
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Bramble
Fresh D&D campaign! I'm playing a Harengon Barbarian.
I'm a fierce bunny rabbit! -
Gemini Squared
How did I never think of accessing Gemini (the protocol) on my Gemini (portable computer) before today?
Of course, I recently rehomed my Gemini so instead I had to access Gemini on my Cosmo. -
Gemini and Spartan without a browser
Half a dozen different ways of downloading content from Gemini (and Spartan) servers from the command-line using everyday tools.
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Making WordPress Fast (The Hard Way)
Lots of guides explain how to improve WordPress performance easily. This guide is different. I'd like to share the hard ways in which you might squeeze even more speed out of your WordPress site.
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Incredible Doom
I just read a comic book full of early-Internet nostalgia that delighted me, and wanted to share it with you.
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Reading Rolled Papyri
Researchers using x-ray tomography have for the first time managed to read an entire word from one of the carbonised Herculaneum scrolls, and that's awesome.
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Absence/Presents
Unless you're a child, I won't be buying you a Christmas present. And you shouldn't feel like you have to get me one, either.
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Monster Munch Sandwich
Experimenting with some unusual combinations in anticipation of International Crisp Sandwich Day. Today's is Roast Beef Monster Munch on Farmhouse White.
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Weird A.I. Yankovic, a cursed deep dive into the world of voice cloning
What if Weird Al wrote the original versions of the songs the covered, and the other artists did the parody covers? With "thanks" to AI voice deepfake technology, and some work by Andy Baio, we can answer that question.