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This follows on from my last post which was prompted by my first sighting of a Woodpecker here at The House of Light. But on 31st October 2017 at Wild Poplars - a static caravan residing in the winter quarters of a circus - a redheaded...
Due to my compulsive need to self-host whatever I possibly can1, I decided to set up a self-hosted PDS. All that's on it so far is my Bluesky profile data, but it was a surprisingly painless process. Why bother? Well, I get to own my...
Read these two sentences and see which one you find yourself nodding to before you've even finished. The government's gotten fat and lazy, and it's high time somebody made it earn its keep again. The richest country on earth ought to be...
White Boat at Nyhavn – Copenhagen, Denmark – Fujifilm GFX100RF – Copenhagen Negative People often ask me why I think Fujifilm Recipes have become so popular. The answer seems obvious: they produce beautiful pictures. That’s certainly...
The following was written for Locarno Film Festival’s retrospective and book Great Expectations: British Postwar Cinema 1945-1960, edited by Ehsan Khoshbakht. It wasn’t called Foul Pest at the time, but actor Brian Pettifer tells me that...
Matheus Moreira (blog) built lone lisp directly on Linux system calls. In this interview, he shares his knowledge of C and the Linux Kernel. How did you get into computing originally? What was your path before discovering Lisp etc.? I’ve...
America appears under-policed compared to European countries, which have more police per capita: France has a higher police-to-population ratio than the United States. France averages roughly 330 to 452 police officers per 100,000...
Babrius 120 (tr. Ben Edwin Perry): That denizen of the swamps who likes the shade, the frog, who lives beside the ditches, once came forth on dry land and bragged to all the creatures: "I'm a physician, skilled in the use of drugs such...
Today, I endeavoured to travel to a Japanese volcano and visit a traditional Japanese onsen. I failed in such a spectacular fashion that it makes this particular report almost pointless. That’s not to say I didn’t travel. Boy, did I ever...
Linus Torvalds: I realize that some people really dislike AI, but this is an area where I'm willing to absolutely put my foot down as the top-level maintainer. Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with...
Dear Reader,Please enjoy this conversation I had on the Design Systems House!I share a lot of new ideas I've had about reading as a system, and I get to look like a cool computer man as well!Best,Bram
the nights are getting darker I try not to think about it the air feels like a shift away from summer already, again and I'm still here time is cruel, it won't stop not even for a moment it's a train refusing to wait that I gather the...
We were back in the Bay of Islands with a weather window developing on the forecast, so we told ourselves. The forecast changes. It always does. For now, we waited. Kerri was on the WhatsApp with the community, watching the same ten-day...
“Asian workers ‘at home’ have been organized, culturally and politically, and have provided a critique of anthropological categorisation themselves by focusing on political and organizational issues. It is salutary to find that the...
Desert Brat 2026-07-17 women are always making faces in the mirror