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Reader, this week I am looking at the world through new eyes. Primed by some smaller conversations last weekend, a discussion about classifying cultures connected big dots in my head, and further reading/thinking/talking led me to an...
Disclaimer: This is an opinion piece and most of it is speculation about a future that has not arrived (yet?), based on a few data points that have. As usual, summary at the end. A few years ago I would have laughed at anyone telling me...
Andy Miller joins Tim Worthington for a chat about The Punisher resolutely failing to turn up whenever anyone could actually have done with his help in The Defenders.
Somewhere deep in Fife this working phone box actually works.Cats at large.OK, The Word Art belongs to another time. Forget it. You may have missed that stage of MS Office. Show some love for the P Bass. The faithfull and reliable...
Despite what I said in April, I'm still using coding assistants on my personal projects.Using them to one-shot entire features leaves me unsatisfied and disoriented, but I do enjoy using them to fast-forward through the boring parts of...
For one brief moment yesterday morning, I thought about doing the Sealey Challenge: reading 1 volume of poetry each day in August. I've only done it once in the past, so yesterday morning, I went back and read the blog posts that I wrote...
Introduction It’s possible to set up Time Machine drives from the command line. This is way more convenient and becomes scriptable (there’s one GUI checkbox at the end if you encrypt, so the drive can unlock itself). Also, based on my...
Kelvin and Glasgow Uni Tower flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
Templatemaker.nl — Brilliant site that generates templates for various things, like bags, envelopes, boxes, etc. (Disclaimer: A long time agao, I helped with some translations) Ink/Stitch — “An open-source machine embroidery design...
This week I listened to the audiobook for Yesteryear, the 2026 debut novel by Caro Claire Burke. It’s about a tradwife influencer with about ten kids and ten millions of followers. White, Christian, she lives on a farm in Idaho and makes...
"You can just do things" or some variation has been the unofficial slogan of startups for a long time. The expression was a reminder that you have permission. You are allowed to do things, nobody but you is stopping you trying...
There’s a reason she turned up to the club wearing no knickers, and it’s a very very good one. As she’s getting dressed, she briefly contemplates which ones to wear – silk, lace, maybe a tiny black thong that can be easily torn off....
I’ve stopped naming these posts weekly life updates because they are simply too infrequent. Whilst I am happy with my life, when you break it down into weekly segments and review what has happened, it’s mostly the same. So I’ll still do...
Foraging is a practical, important survival skill. The corporate state is organised so you get everything from its centralised systems, yet know almost nothing ... Continue The post Life skills, not a hobby appeared first on Robin...
What's been happeningEvery now and then, when you've been struggling to do a task and failing repeatedly, sleeping on it activates something in your brain and enables you to do it successfully. This week's swimming was one such case -...