This is the least rustic-looking bread I’ve ever baked.

Two loaves of surprisingly-professional-looking homemade bread on a wire cooling rack
Some surprisingly-professional-looking homemade bread

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.

Electronic street sign showing question marks
Electronic street sign showing question marks

Another great quote from that piece about libraries:

[L]ibraries are a sweet little drop of socialism in our late-stage crapitalist coffee.

Nice:

Twitter is where nuance goes to die.

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?

Watched season 4, episode 1 of The Bridge last night. I’m not sure I like it any more…

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.