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This morning I walked downstairs to my sweet boy sitting on the couch, surrounded by his treasures. He waved. It was quick though. He was very busy watching his shows.…

On May 13th and 14th, I organise my annual stop of beyond tellerrand in Düsseldorf. If you are from Düsseldorf or arrive in Düsseldorf before you maybe want to attend…

I don’t explore the Yorkshire Dales enough.

UX London runs for three days, from June 18th to 20th. If you can, you should get a ticket for all three days. But if you can’t, you can get…

One of the reasons we seem enamored with the early states, per James C. Scott’s excellent Against the Grain, is that they left records for us to read: Thus if…

Here’s a new free printable I created: It’s a customisable mini-zine containing these pages: Things I Can’t Leave Home Without My Support System My Comfort Items My Safe Foods Self-Care…

The week’s big news was supposed to be Meta’s release of two versions of Llama-3. Everyone was impressed. These were definitely strong models. Investors felt differently. After earnings yesterday showed…

Today's links Antitrust is a labor issue: Banning noncompetes is huge, but it's not all the FTC is doing! Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history:…

(Thanks to word_cloud: A little word cloud generator in Python.)

In recent talks at physics departments about my book, I have emphasized that the elementary “particles” of nature — electrons, photons, quarks and so on — are really little waves…

We went to Tuscany in 2022 and I never wrote it up, so here are some notes that are 2 years out of date. A great trip, apart from the…

The election was a pre-scripted puppet show, just like everything, only more so. A high-school girl on a school trip to Washington D.C. (Talia Ryder) escapes the group and goes…

I have a system I've been using since 2019 for taking notes at work. I use an Arc notebook that I got from Staples that has refillable pages. It's a…

Almost a year ago, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sued subsidiary Ring, the camera security company that started off selling a video doorbell, for allowing employees and contractors to access private data without permission.…

I’ve been a bit obsessed with the website of UI Highstreet brand Boots. I have written four nerdy posts about boots.com theorising about why the website is so rubbish and…

 And Ms Ono also appears, in a roundabout way, to have invented the simulacrum before Baudrillard did.(Both images stolen from Andy Miller on BlueSky)

Forget the usual suspects for your website hosting. You should consider shared hosting for your next 11ty project.

If Hamlet had been a system of noncommuting charges, his famous soliloquy may have gone like this… To thermalize, or not to thermalize, that is the question:Whether ’tis more natural…

I love nearly every aspect of getting out to explore. The research when I'm at home. The anticipation of what will be found along the way. The unexpected discoveries along…