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Stephen Judd
This site is the personal site of me, Stephen Judd. It replaces a similar site I have operated for many years. I am a middle aged Pākeha Jewish New Zealander. I am interested in many things and a terrible dabbler and dilettante.
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Posted on April 30, 2026 As always, this summer I had to net the figs. As soon as they began to ripen the birds noticed. How do you know a fig is perfectly ripe? A bird has eaten it. Figs are biblical. Certainly I enjoy eating figs under...
Posted on February 3, 2026 From late August to the end of September last year I was in Brazil. My purpose was to hang out with Mestre Roxinho and observe his work with the Bantu Cultural Institute, and to generally learn more about...
Posted on January 1, 2026 Remember roundups of links? That was the original web logging, my friends. And I’m feeling old-school. It wasn’t deliberate to hold off until New Year’s Day, it’s just worked out that way. Please enjoy this...
Posted on December 23, 2025 This post was written as a guest post for Cycling in Christchurch. The version there has some good images nabbed from Streetview too. Last weekend I had an overnight trip to Auckland booked. So I thought I...
Posted on November 30, 2025 Remember roundups of links? That was the original web logging, my friends. And I’m feeling old-school. Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era — a troubling tale of fake journalism (which isn’t...
Posted on November 29, 2025 Keen readers of this blog, if there are any, might remember that I have some great black runner beans. Obviously I planted some more this year. Not that I really needed to, because runner beans are a...
Posted on November 16, 2025 Remember roundups of links? That was the original web logging, my friends. And I’m feeling old-school. This poem by Denis Welch really stuck with me. Denis Welch! A byline you don’t see much these days. I...
Posted on November 14, 2025 After I set up my homelab I was casting around for ways to do monitoring and alerting. I didn’t want to use anything that was fiddly to set up, I did want something that could send email and ping my phone, and...
A list of more interesting seed vendors in Aotearoa
Things I read recently
I have a diary
Things I read this week
Things I read this week
Some notes on how to set up restic backups to Catalyst Cloud
Things I read this week