Microposts
Term started today, technically. Coincidentally, 38 years to the day after my first term at Edinburgh started. I don’t have any classes till Wednesday, though.
Off we go, then, into this new adventure.
Ten days between posts? Good lord. What have I been up to?
I hope to tell you soon. Watch this space.
Last night’s pizza: the wee tables in the box were triangular! I’ve never seen the like.
This is the least rustic-looking bread I’ve ever baked.
Robin Rendle’s ‘An Astronomical Clunk’ is a great celebration of what the web is, and can be.
It’s these moments when the web holds up to its original promise; the web standards, the infrastructure, the open web. With eyes wide open I watch as this beige suite of specifications link together until they’re like constellations out of stars in the sky. It all begin to makes sense. But it’s not just the technologies that fit together in these moments, it’s the skills, too. When I’m excited about design, and writing, and coding all at the same time, and when each of them can be seen as the same thing, just from different angles.
I played Dungeons and Dragons for the first time last night, with the family. My grown-up son plays, and he was our DM. It was more fun than I expected, but it takes a lot of work to set up. Mostly by my son, of course.
This street sign in Hackney today represents the times we live in.
Another great quote from that piece about libraries:
[L]ibraries are a sweet little drop of socialism in our late-stage crapitalist coffee.
The Bridge season 4 picked up after the first episode’s shock ending. It led to a good conclusion, though not without some questions, which is fine. But what to watch next? That is the question.
Phil Schiller is now an Apple Fellow. Given the shape of their headquarters, is he part of the Fellowship of the Ring?
Do people not know breath comes out through the nose as well as the mouth?
And then there’s these folk who only breathe through their chins. Impressive.
Still, seems like we’re getting the solar panels up just in time for the hottest day. Or actually, not: watch when the rest of the summer is cloudy.
Damned noisy round here today. At the front we’re getting scaffolding put up, for our solar panels to get installed tomorrow. Out the back it’s all strimmers, drills, other people’s scaffolding, and I don’t know what all. It used to be quiet!
Why are so many Johnny Cash compilations being released at the moment? Seems like I’ve seen about six different ones in the last month or two.
I hope I didn’t fool you with that last title. It had nothing to do with the B-word. That ship has sailed, and the icebergs won’t really loom till the end of the year. It was about email. Go and check it out.
The growth of email newsletters over the last few years has been interesting. But they have a major problem, compared to blogs.
That is, once they’ve been sent out, the author can’t fix typos. Other errors can be corrected in later issues, but typos are out there forever.