Shuffled Posts
Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both? 2020-11-09 I recently came across Adam Silver’s post about the merits and pitfalls of bidirectional scrolling and found myself conflicted with the design arguments put forth in the article. It’s a very good article overall, and I suggest giving it a read before digging deeper...
I have no connection to the authors of the Superpowers plugin for Claude Code, but I have been raving about it to everyone I talk to. Using Claude Code with Superpowers is so much more productive and the features it builds are so much more correct than with stock Claude Code. I cannot recommend it enough. Earlier,...
Streaming sucks for artists because the major players pay squat per stream. And in Spotify’s case, artists who don’t get many streams may get literally nothing. One alternative to traditional streaming services is to bring focus back to your own personal music collection. That could be simply playing music locally...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Quick caveat up front; Saturday night I got incredibly INCREDIBLY sick (don’t wanna go into it but I’ve legitimately never thrown up that much in my life) and by the time I’m posting this (Thurs 12/4) I’m only now in “not dying” mode. Once I’m well...
I’ve already mentioned Calibre quite a few times in this blog in the past; for example when I talked about my sustainable ebook strategy, or when I gave some Flatpak tips and tricks. But Calibre has become such an important part of my workflow and daily computing habit, I feel I need to publish a product review...
I’ve been struggling with my fibromyalgia + chronic fatigue lately. So hard for me to do any of the things I want to do. I can push myself into it for something especially compelling but that ends up wiping me out for days afterward. And I feel like I’m missing so much time, too.
In this third and final part of my audio vs text series, I examine where podcasts fit into the cultural content landscape. The thesis of this series is that audio formats, such as podcasting and audiobooks, have in some ways replaced textual formats like blogs and print books. Text content is certainly not dead, of...
I recently started a new job and found myself in the Go ecosystem. To be honest, it has been a bit of a shock. I’ve written .NET code for the past 15 years and know its ins and outs pretty well. As a language, I don’t mind writing Go code. About the only thing that still bothers me is the if err != nil { return err...
workshop Manorhamilton, Ireland ||| A 2-day workshop in interactive technologies, as part of Creative Heartlands' programme of professional development. Attendees learned how to use open source technologies, sensors and electronics to control video and image in a flow from...
Back in March (which feels like it was 6 months ago), I helped organise the IndieWebCamp London and one of the sessions was about analytics and the IndieWeb. At the time I blurted something without much context and I think I need to explain myself. Analytics on this blog Every once in a while I reactivate my...
It seems like fate that James chose Museum Memories of this month’s Indieweb Carnival, because just recently, by chance, I visited one of the most impressive places from my childhood after more than 40 years: the Deutsches Museum in Munich. My wife and I had traveled to the Bavarian capital for a rock concert by the...
A new little project: How to write a letter is a new thing from Haudoo, but it's not the same as all the previous things from Haudoo. It's a different thing. And it's free.
Hello, RSS reader! 👋 This post has some bespoke art direction you’ll only see if you view it directly. No hard feelings if you prefer to read here, I just wanted you to know! ✌️ It’s 2026, and I’m writing this post on a MacBook Air I bought in 2011. Why? It still works, for one. No dead pixels, no dents or dings in...
My plan to write here often has, not unexpectedly, failed. I can believably blame for this my two week trip to Uruguay and so I will. To get back into it, here's a list of what I've read last month: Another Day of Life by Ryszard Kapuściński, a Polish correspondent in Angola during the civil war in 1975. This was an...