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How good is the platform now.

When you put something in the oven and need to remember to take it out, or put washing in the machine and need to remember to hang it out, or need to do anything else time-sensitive like take medicati...

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

We used to need `!important` to override styles, but it’s not 2021 anymore and there’s a better way: CSS layers.

Alt: A quote from the movie “Anchorman”. Brian Fantana, describing his cologne, says “60% of the time it works every time”.

I was a very happy Arc user for a couple of years, but after The Browser Company announced they would no longer be working on it, I started to assess alternatives.

Recently I've been experimenting with adding title-less notes to this site, for thoughts the length of a microblog or social post.

Spotify streaming quality has completely gone to pot. It does this thing where it skips (kind of like an old CD would) and then tries to make up for it by playing the track super fast? It sounds like dog shit and makes my four year old absolutely furious.

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Alt: A scene from the show Parks and Recreation. Ron Swanson sits in a circular desks, swivelling his chair away from a woman who is trying to talk to him.

The whole “vibe coding” thing is another reminder that quite a lot of people working in tech don’t understand the difference between programs and products.

Not me getting the warm and fuzzies from a lovely compliment about my writing, until I realise its just AI-generated bot activity posting for backlinks 😭

I have this story in my head, that the longer I go without writing a note here, the better that note has to be when I do eventually come back and post again.

I would be so happy to never have to see an image of Mark Zuckerberg again.

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Virginia Woolf in her diary, 1920:

Every now and then Spotify will throw a song in a generated playlist for a band I've never heard of before. Sometimes I'll look them up and discover that they're quite new, or they are really really new.

I was texting with my best friend. Her mum has cancer, and my friend is going through the brutality of watching it take her piece by piece, just as I did with my own mum 13 years ago.

I was listening to a Chillout Classics playlist when I was hit with a sense memory from 2006: just lying in my bed listening to Moby, in the middle of the day.

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