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I've started using Mastodon a bit more recently since lots of Pagecord customers hang out there. I've just changed my handle to @olly@indieweb.social since my last one was far too obscure, so give me a follow if you'd like 👋
Rick Vega made this helpful site to build your own zine.
As some of you know, the color collection of Schulz’s late-1950s newspaper feature It’s Only a Game that I published in 2013 is a bit weird — namely, the book’s spine is not on the left, as with a normal English book. No, the spine is on...
This was a hard one to get through honestly. It's one of those books that presents a lot of old ideas as if they were just discovered. With a title like this I thought it would really go for something new and provocative. When the title...
Met up with Tony this morning at Ebley for our regular monthly riverfly survey. We decided to use the alternate site rather than the main site, because we were never confident the main site would show anything during the summer months....
Much of my career boils down to: All code is liability. Minimize it. Feedback loops are everywhere. Speed them up; do them more. We’re bad at predicting the future. Avoid it. More tests. Hire smart, motivated people, then get out of...
Love this essay by Conor Dougherty about 40- and 50-somethings who skate a Costco car park before work. Curbs as an excuse to keep showing up for each other.
Left to right: Lester Square, me, Karina Townsend and Ruth Tidmarsh. I haven't had time to write it up because I was ill last week, but it was a fantastic afternoon at the Eel Pie pub. There is some footage of it which I'll upload soon.
When I was in Greece, I made a list of things I need in my life to be happy. A way of finding my priorities for a situation that felt unsustainable. The list has 15 things and I decided to choose three to focus on. It's been interesting...
ARB publishes reviews and essays on a wide range of speculative topics, including science fiction & fantasy, weird fiction, and their relation to utopian impulses. ARB is also always interested in reviews of nonfiction broadly related to...
Is there a better kind of day?New book day is always a good day. I read the Jacobs volume on my Kobo via Libby in July and liked it so much that I had to order a physical copy. (You can look forward to a review soon!) Meanwhile I’ve had...
It makes sense that a mapping app for the Apple Vision Pro would evoke Boston’s Mapparium. Using that virtual space to display cartograms, which is what Worldmapper VR does, is not something I would have… More
Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens by Dr. Ethan Hein Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens Read on Substack Last week I was at the International Society for Music Education conference, which is by a wide margin the...
The start: Knockoff browser extension A few weeks ago I wrote a post about the Knockoff browser extension which helps consumers to filter out cheap and bogus brands from the Amazon search results. Now I found two websites which help me...
I’ve been using FreshRSS for a while as a backend for NetNewsWire and decided to finally create an extension to add rssCloud support. This not only does what you’d expect: subscribe to feeds that support rssCloud <cloud> elements. But it...