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Visited Roy's exhibition at PixLife. Will be having fun with Lego this week :)
[Zuckerberg]’s vision of the future may be antisocial and bleak, but we have the power to reject that reality. – Amanda Silberling Welcome to the Future (#1500) Surveillance, propaganda-spouting, and thought-crippling in a repurposed sex...
When talking about backups, I often get asked how I do them. My historical tooling was Restic then sent to some S3 bucket and rsync.net, but that has changed quite a lot. Nowadays, my stack goes as follows: Borg Backup (via Vorta)...
Python A-Z is a blog series about Python. Each day, I share insights, ideas and examples for different parts of Python development that match with the letter of the day. Blaugust is an annual blogging festival in August where the goal is...
Too much music to speak to you people, though I'm technically not speaking. Keep safe. If you're new to this metal blog of bones you can also check out the various interview projects I have going on as well as the weekly recommendation...
Every week, I share something I learned in the previous seven days. I usually find these while I'm putting my weekly newsletter together but somehow, they don't quite fit! This week I learned how the International Space Station generates...
The other day I noticed that the Russian series Better Than Us would soon be dropping off Netflix, and feeling in the mood for some near-future SF about a world of personal robots, I gave it a try; as a 2018 production, I figured it...
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