A post every day in 2022?
I get lazy with my personal sites. A side-effect of working on the web most days. There’s a strong desire to disconnect. But… I also open a lot of tabs. In the past these tabs would’ve been blog...
View ArticleHomebuilt pickups in Sweden
Homebuilt pickups A way that teenage drivers in Sweden skirt age laws — making the their own small trucks
View ArticleA wifi cartridge for the original Game Bot
How to make a wifi cartridge for the original Game Boy. The things that people do with old hardware are pretty wild! Also has a very thorough and technical breakdown of what’s required to make it. Not...
View ArticleAll Day
One of my favourite albums for wandering around the city, doing workouts, etc., is All Day by Girl Talk. It’s a DJ mix sampling a huge variety of songs. Nice for those times when you don’t want any...
View ArticleWordle
Wordle seems to be the game of the moment on social media. This was my first attempt a few days ago. The last few times I’ve been using audio as my starting word (4/5 vowels) Worth noting that the...
View ArticleWordle is a love story
As a follow-up to yesterday’s post, an NYT piece on the game’s origin, Wordle Is a Love Story The word game has gone from dozens of players to hundreds of thousands in a few months. It was created by...
View ArticleMoving old books
Trinity College Dublin begins project to relocate vulnerable books Three hundred years after the first foundation stone was laid, the 250,000 ancient books and manuscripts – including the ornately...
View ArticleColours: where did they go?
Colours: where did they go? An interesting look at colour grading in cinema over the last twenty years or so. If you watch a lot of movies and TV shows, you might have noticed that over the last few...
View ArticleWhy hyperlinks are blue
Revisiting why hyperlinks are blue. For anyone interested in the history of hypertext, the web or precursors to it
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