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Sunday Drop Biscuits The past few months I've been trying to set apart the sabbath. It's hard for my little kids to look forward to the day of rest so I'm trying to hoard some special things for them: games we play on the afternoon, nerf...
I recently saw complaints about Google’s search engine crawler taking down websites by sending them too much traffic:We had googlebot blast a random customer system and almost cause an outage, this is when I first learnt that google will...
Last Sunday, I wrote a post calling out Robert Birming's repetitive writing. The post gained traction, receiving around 85 toasts before it got shadow-banned—removed from trending. I'll admit it: I got salty over this. Was it because the...
you missed the opening lines of a long, hard book, and sometimes it's all a bridge meant with whatever intent of what the deal really is, like, sure, a book can point, but what shall i paint for you? other things said all sense of linger...
Photo by Mario Gogh on Unsplash🍕 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...
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Do I Look Like Someone Who Doesn't Know How to Generate My Own Slop?
This northern suburb of Sydney made headlines last year for its Apple store closure. People were speculating on why, given it was one of their largest stores in Australia, and in the catchment area of some of Sydney’s most affluent...
Monday, 7/27, is the day when we celebrate the techies and tech companies in the 727 area code: 727 Tech Day! 727 Tech Day is a one-day, all-in celebration of the St. Pete / Clearwater / Pinellas tech community, presented by the folks...
Power Cat 2026-07-26 the girl reading this
Recently I talked about an order I made at the start of the month for a retrocomputer in the US. After their Shopify store sent me an automated receipt and estimated shipping date, I heard nothing else. Two weeks later I was refunded for...
Bike park… …well, maybe not. Quote of the Day ”Civilisation is a thin film across an ocean of chaos”. Werner Herzog Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news Ry Cooder and David Lindley | Jesus on the Mainline Link My favourite...
Book now for my tours through August, September & October . . Fred & Marie Iles with Smudge Fred Iles was born half a mile from his allotment in Stepney and his wife Marie grew up in Garden St that once stood where the allotment is...
Its a bug not a feature.
While looking for something else, I came across a folder on my Mac called “free for X”. In it were a bunch of plain text HTML files which together made up a Mac freeware website that was the predecessor to thriftmac. So I uploaded it to...