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Denton Road - I’ve spent countless blogposts and even a video extolling its virtues and the stories I can tell within its confines. A stage set for 90s memories, epitomised by the 90 and 158 in their sector liveries seen here…These...
TL;DR: Mothing is the activity/hobby of observing, recording, and photographing moths. You don’t need expensive equipment, specialist knowledge, or a massive garden to start—just curiosity. If you are interested in wildlife, photography,...
Thor #338 Date: December 1983 Publisher: Marvel Comics Group Cover Price: 60¢ 2013 NM Price: $6.00 Stats: 22 color pages plus ads, Bullpen Bulletins and "The Hammer Strikes" letters page Story & Art: Walter Simonson Other Artists: John...
This essay, like most of my other essays, was born out of a recent conversation I had with a friend, or do I call them an acquaintance. Honestly, I’m tired of labels, so let’s call them a friendquaintance and move on. I’m not even sure...
NO-ONE IS GOING TO BUY YOUR GAME is a manifesto by illomens aka Mike Cook which digs into why you should focus less on making games to sell and more on making games you actually want to make for the sake of making them. While I don’t...
For the first time since I’ve been a full-time Linux user (25+ years), my machine is hitting some sort of bug –either software or hardware– that makes the PC fans stop working after resuming from suspend. Essentially I may be doing...
general life update! heatwave day 7 or 8 of the current heatwave. 4 more to go, the worst of the bunch. apartment "cools down" to 28 at night, so in a way days are actually better (we can run the small AC in the other room). fingers...
Thinking about the horizon of autonomous agentic workflows. I visualise them as sequences of decisions that are dependent. If decision D1 is correct, D2 is more likely to be correct. If D1 is wrong, then D2 is more likely to be wrong,...
David Hockney sadly passed away on 11th June at the age of 88. In 2019, the Royal College of Art did a video with him where he talked about his time there and how it influenced him. We were born in the same city so I always felt a...
Thanks to the current heat wave and thus a shear TON of sun, I’m currently running around with both my prescription sunglasses and my regular glasses whenever I’m out and about1, as while the sunglasses are great for outdoors, they are...
I started founding my second company in Germany in late January. It is now late June. In that time, the state, two courts, a notary, a law firm, a tax firm, and software vendors have all found a way to bill me. Every single one of them,...
This essay, like most of my other essays, was born out of a recent conversation I had with a friend, or do I call them an acquaintance. Honestly, I’m tired of labels, so let’s call them a friendquaintance and move on. I’m not even sure...
Jon Banafato shared his older blog post Stacking Chairs in Mastodon the other day. “Stacking chairs”, taken literally, is what it sounds like. You know those stackable plastic and metal chairs that they have in your local library’s...
Ja, was hab ich denn heute für euch? Ich würde sagen, eine meiner Alltime-favourite Crews. Nämlich die Roots mit dem Track „Respond/React“ aus dem frühen Album „Illadelph Halflife„. Der Song ist vielleicht nicht ganz so bekannt, wie...
Continuing from last week’s thoughts. In a recent conversation we had, Ed Jollyboat used the analogy of an airport runway as a linear introductory section to a game, which opens up into blue sky freedom. I want to run with that, but I’m...