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[Article] Can AI retroactively fix WordPress tags?
I’ve a notion that during 2025 I might put some effort into tidying up the tagging taxonomy on my blog. There’s a few tags that are duplicates (e.g. ai and artificial intelligence) or that exhibit...
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[Article] Trump’s Strategy
What do you reckon? Is he trying to go for a domination victory without ever saying “MY THREATS ARE BACKED BY NUCLEAR WEAPONS!”? His track record shows that he’s arrogant enough to think that the...
View Article[Note] Yr Wyddfa’s First Email
On Wednesday, Vodafone announced that they’d made the first ever satellite video call from a stock mobile phone in an area with no terrestrial signal. They used a mountain in Wales for their...
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[Note] Cafe Proximity Principles
Possible future presentation concept: using a cafe/dining metaphor to help explain the proximity principle in user interface design (possibly with a “live waitstaffing” demo?). Great idea? Or stupid...
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[Article] BBC News RSS… with the sport?
Earlier today, somebody called Allan commented on the latest in my series of several blog posts about how I mutilate manipulate the RSS feeds of BBC News to work around their (many, and increasingly...
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[Article] Sabbatical Lesson #2: Burnout
If the most-important lesson I learned from my sabbatical was about boundaries and my work/life balance, then the second most-important was about burnout. Once all the matches have been burned, you...
View Article[Note] Reading more rolled papyri
In kind-of local news, I see that the folks at Diamond Light Source (which I got to visit last year) have been helping the Bodleian (who I used to work for) to X-ray one of their Herculaneum scrolls...
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[Article] God’s Adviser
Of all the discussions I’ve ever been involved with on the subject of religion, the one I’m proudest of was perhaps also one of the earliest. Let me tell you about a time that, as an infant, I got sent...
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[Note] Bishop McBishopface
Don’t Bishops normally get to retain their regular name? This BBC News headline makes it sound like we’re gonna end up with Bishop McBishopface! 🌟 You're reading this post via the RSS feed, you star! 🌠
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[Article] Blog Questions Challenge
Since Kev Quirk made an adaptation of Ava‘s Blog Questions Challenge I’ve been seeing it everywhere in my blogosphere circle. I’ve gotta be the last person left on Earth to do it, but it has that...
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[Article] BBC News RSS… your way!
It turns out my series of efforts to improve the BBC News RSS feeds are more-popular than I thought. People keep asking for variants of them, and it’s probably time I stopped hosting the resulting...
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[Article] The Continuum
Last week, I discovered Geneveive Raine‘s “The Continuum”, a super-compressed image comprised of 1-pixel-tall versions of her home page’s daily banners, stitched together1. I thought it was a beautiful...
View Article[Repost] UK’s secret Apple iCloud backdoor order is a global emergency, say...
In its latest attempt to erode the protections of strong encryption, the U.K. government has reportedly secretly ordered Apple to build a backdoor that would allow British security officials to access...
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After “fixing” BBC News’ RSS feeds I noticed that I was seeing less news (and, somehow, stressing less over everything happening in the USA). Turns out that in switching myself to my new system I’d...
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“I’m only asking for basic respect.” – Dr. Beth Upton, in the face of a hostile courtroom, media, and world. Her fucking bravery is amazing. 💖 🧡 I love RSS feeds. And I love you for using them. 💙
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[Repost] The 55 Words you Can’t Say in Faster Payments
Step aside, George Carlin! Sam Easterby-Smith – who works at The Co-Operative Bank – wants to share with the world the 55 words you can’t say in a UK faster payments reference (assuming your bank...
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[Note] Step #1
I have A Plan for today. Step #2 involves a deep-dive into Algolia search indexing, ranking, and priority, to understand how one might optimise for a diverse and complex dataset. So obviously step #1...
View Article[Reply] Reply to Ed Catmull on Change
Matt Mullenweg said: … [a quote from Ed Catmull’s book Creativity Inc.] made me think a lot about the early days of Gutenberg and the huge resistance it had in the community, including causing the...
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[Article] INSULTS.COM
Back in the 1980s and early 1990s, I had a collection of 5¼” and later 3½” floppy disks1 on which were stored a variety of games and utilities that I’d collected over the years2. I had lots of floppy...
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[Note] Piano Repair
The sustain pedal broke on our upright piano. Normally the insides of the piano are a terrifying place that only our tuner gets to look at. A scary realm whose mysteries I cannot begin to comprehend....
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