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[Note] 3-day streak
Using WordPress internally at Automattic as a productivity tool is great… until you have to call in sick three days in a row and Jetpack treats your “streak” as an “achievement”! 😅 🧡 I love RSS feeds....
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[Note] Getting better!
After most of four days spent primarily in bed with what’s probably a norovirus infection (or something like it), this afternoon I got up and went outside. 🎉 It felt like a huge achievement, even if I...
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[Article] A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
I’d already read every prior book published by the excellent Becky Chambers, but this (and its sequel) had been sitting on my to-read list for some time, and so while I’ve been ill and off work these...
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[Article] AI vs The Expert
The Expert Eleven years ago, comedy sketch The Expert had software engineers (and other misunderstood specialists) laughing to tears at the relatability of Anderson’s (Orion Lee) situation: asked to do...
View Article[Note] Coffee dogs
What’s the equivalent phrase to “hair of the dog”, but for caffeine? I’ve always been pretty sensitive to it, and while I’m less-so now, it was still definitely a mistake to eat several portions of...
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[Note] Bean chilli breakfast pizza
Breakfast today will make use of leftovers to produce a bean chilli pizza. This’ll work, right? Update: yeah. This works.😋 👏 Congratulations on being an RSS user. 🎉
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[Article] A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers
As soon as I finished reading its prequel, I started reading Becky Chambers’ A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (and then, for various work/life reasons, only got around to publishing my micro-review just...
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[Note] Dawn Chorus
How do birds hear the calls of species of bird other than their own? Is it like background noise that they can talk (sing) over, filtering out everything but the calls of their own kind, like how you...
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[Note] Dan Q 88×31
My love of the yesterweb forced me to teach myself just-enough Blender to make an animation for a stupid thing: an 88×31 button representing “me” (and, I suppose, my blog, whenever I next end up...
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[Note] Elon’s Musk
Somebody’s doing a kickass job with these adverts on the Tube. Found via https://bsky.app/profile/strictlychristo.bsky.social/post/3ljobtnidrk2s; there are other examples in that thread. 🦸 You're my...
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[Note] Rewilding Slay
I’ve been playing Sean O’Connor’s Slay for around 30 years (!), but somehow it took until today, on the Android version, before I tried my hand at “rewilding” the game world. The rules of the game make...
View Article[Checkin] Dan Q found GC3KQK8 RRR11 Pillow talk!
This checkin to GC3KQK8 RRR11 Pillow talk! reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. My partner Ruth is, by installments, attempting to walk the entire Thames Path. Today, I’m...
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[Checkin] Dan Q found GC4B6QP RRR 14 Put that Rod Away!
This checkin to GC4B6QP RRR 14 Put that Rod Away! reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. A quick and easy find in a brilliant hiding spot. I was helped by the geokid with...
View Article[Checkin] Dan Q did not find GC4B6QJ RRR 13 Not that Alder – incy wincy!
This checkin to GC4B6QJ RRR 13 Not that Alder - incy wincy! reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. No luck here for the geokid and I. He speculates that perhaps “down came...
View Article[Checkin] Dan Q did not attempt GC3KQKM RRR12 2nd tree downstream
This checkin to GC3KQKM RRR12 2nd tree downstream reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Did not attempt to find, today: an angler was sitting almost right at the GZ,...
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[Note] Horny and Silly
This year it’ll be 10 years since webcomic A Softer World ended its 12-year run. If you missed it, you can still go back and read them all, starting from asofterworld.com/index.php?id=1 But in the...
View Article[Repost] It is as if you were on your phone
Being on your phone all the time and while also not being on your phone all the time has never been more important. “It is as if you were on your phone” is a phone-based experience for pretending to...
View Article[Note] Engagement
I’ve been trying to comment more on other people’s blogs. It’s tough, because comment forms continue to wane in popularity, and it’s not always clear who’ll accept Webmentions, but there’s often the...
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[Note] Coaching in the Library
I decided to take my meeting with my coach today in our house’s new library, which my metamour JTA has recently been working hard on decorating, constructing, and filling with books. The room’s not...
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[Repost] It’s not cheating if you write the video game solver yourself
… I didn’t know how to solve the puzzle, but I did know how to write a computer program to solve it for me. That would probably be even more fun, and I could argue that it didn’t actually count as...
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