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What I would do (for the web) if I could retire. Or, more accurately, what I would do for the web if I could afford to quit my dayjob.
Blaugust 2026 is here!
# The first wave of CSS tweaks are complete. I was getting a bit bored (no surprise there) so wanted to mix things up a little bit. Cue user selected colour themes: Choosing an option from the menu simply sets a key-value pair in the...
Over many years, if I’ve wanted avocados to ripen fast I’ve tried the method of putting them in a paper bag or box with a banana or apple, but I never saw them clearly ripen faster. I became curious to test the method properly. The...
I just added several new dates to my Apple History Calendar, including these: July 23, 2026: Apple and Ford announce MapKit for Automotive to power navigation in future EVs July 2028, 2026: iPhone Upgrade Program replaced with broader...
Some of the lists from Anthony Bourdain's li.st account. (Li.st was a social list-making site) The website is unavailable, but these were recovered by three different people here, here, and here. (Links added by me) Crimes Against Food...
time-machine is my library for mocking the current date and time in Python tests. I’ve just released version 3.3.0 with a decent number of changes, so here’s a lovely summary for you. Despite doing one simple-to-describe task,...
🍕 I’m JA Westenberg. I write essays about technology, philosophy, productivity, and what it means to be human. If you like ideas that take their time, you’re in the right place.While you’re here, a few things I’ve built: Kerouac, a...
At Marks & Co, 84 Charing Cross Rd After I left college and came to London, I rented a small windowless room in a basement off the Portobello Rd and I spent a lot of time trudging the streets. I believed the city was mine and I used to...
The words used to describe the novels that I like best are “literary” and “humor” or “funny” (see Reading, below). Most of the novels that I read are about absurd romantic entanglements. My problem with them is the sex scenes. The scenes...
To round off July, I thought I'd catch up with a couple of bits of writing I unexpectedly ended up doing for BBC News Online this month.The first actually resulted, indirectly, from the Mr Pastry piece I did for Secret Norfolk and News...
The Trent River near Courtenay, British Columbia is a hotbed of 85-million-year-old fossil fauna immortalized in stone. The bedrock of the Trent River has yielded both marine and terrestrial fossils. While you might just gloss over that...
Straight-line wind or tornado, I guess regardless of what you call it, it was friggin strong.
While listening to a Top 40 countdown of songs from 1981, the DJs introduced "America" by Neil Diamond. My ears perked up. I hadn't heard this song in a long time. "America" sent me back to the past but also brought me all the way back...
Longtime Turner Classic Movies viewers may recall that the channel showed documentaries on weekends under the title Films on Film. On September 4, 2026, Films on Film is returning to TCM, although with a slightly different format. Films...