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Tracing my way around a failed email redirection.How hard can emails be? Or so I thought. Boy, was I wrong. This post is basically me fucking around with email infrastructure and finding out the hard way. #The Problem As a person with...
Lords save me from this nonsense. Many don't know this, but I never went to art school. Much to my misery, I actually ended up in business school (long story). Though not a very good one. One of things I was looking forward to the most...
The poet Anthony Etherin is noted for his interest in wordplay, devising pieces that use limitations in the letters used, or particular structures, to provoke high ingenuity while retaining meaning. He has recently launched a new...
Happy weekend! I’ve been off work for two days already, so I’m starting to get into my stride with this relaxation thing… nah, kidding, I’m really bad at it! Even on my birthday on Thursday I was doing chores like a normal day… Books...
Sharp and unsentimental, the prose of Danish writer Tove Ditlevsen crackles across the page, exposing the painful insecurities of ordinary people as they navigate the often messy experiences of life—housewives who question their...
What caught my eye this week. Weekend Reading – featuring the week’s best money and investing articles from around the web – can be read by any logged-in Monevator member. Alternatively please subscribe to our free email newsletter to...
Look out! An archer is hiding in ambush in the bottom of this kylix (wine-cup). If you look closely you can see that his shield has a rim sketched in with pale paint. Around 510-500 BCE, Museum of Fine Art, Boston, object 01.8074 When we...
I've updated this site to be more minimal. A home page, a blog, an About page, no social links, no Now, no baggage. I've also deleted a couple of recent posts and a bunch on social media, to try and heed my own advice. Webmentions are...
Cryptome was always an odd thing. It was (is?) an online archive and document repository which published things that it hinted should not have been published.I remember Cryptome from back in the 1990s, when I was first getting on the...
My writing elsewhere ▷ It’s a failure mode I’ve seen over and over among software-engineering leaders: coaching that engineer on something long past the point it’s clear that they’re not getting better. That’s when it’s time to switch to...
What is my taste even doing at the moment? My media consumption basically consists of scrolling through lists of options that don't appeal to me, occasionally just giving something a go, and bouncing off it in pretty short order.I put...
Following on from the post where I decide to change my DJ name to cubicgarden. Here is the whole mix live from EMFCamp 2026. I am just transcoding it for Peertube but uploaded the full 8.6gig cut to Youtube (very surprised its not been...
Welcome to the weekly newsletter! This week on the blog I wrote Reading in the Dark. The most popular posts were Kickstarter Whales – Guest Post, Dungeon, Inc., A First Review, Close and Distant Playstyles, Dolmenwood Resources for You...
Winter is not too far away and soon we'll need something warm in our bellies. There is still plenty of time to get practice in to make sure your roast potatoes are the absolute best. Firstly, Maris Pipers are great for roasting. If done...
TIL that you can reference git commits by providing (parts of) the commit message