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AJ @rustgeek.me · 26/09/2026

The Age of Asterisk; Barney Ronay in the Guardian on the 114: "But the fact is the rules do matter, even if you think they shouldn’t exist. They matter because other teams were abiding by them. Other teams didn’t buy players, ... social.rustgeek.me/2026/09/26/the-a…

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AJ @rustgeek.me · 19/09/2026

Re-reading: The Poetry Pharmacy by William Sieghart

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AJ @rustgeek.me · 19/09/2026

Finished reading: The Laws of Thought by Tom Griffiths 📚

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AJ @rustgeek.me · 14/09/2026

Will the Love continue when the walk becomes a crawl..

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AJ @rustgeek.me · 09/09/2026

Self-hosting is truly a gateway drug…. After nearly a year down that rabbit hole, I have dived deep into Audiobookshelf and old classics from LibriVox. Just in time for my soon-to-ballon-to-ninety-minutes-each-way commute!

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AJ @rustgeek.me · 03/09/2026

Currently reading: The Laws of Thought by Tom Griffiths 📚.. Pausing to reflect on the outsized impact of the five Boole Daughters 🙌🙌🙌

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AJ @rustgeek.me · 30/08/2026

Currently (re)reading: A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism by Adam Gopnik 📚

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AJ @rustgeek.me · 30/08/2026

The Wallace Bros.. Southampton

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AJ @rustgeek.me · 28/08/2026

Last Friday of Summer (Hols)

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AJ @rustgeek.me · 27/08/2026

Hard at work.. 2 yrs ago

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AJ @rustgeek.me · 20/08/2026

The 18 month old loves Ubuntu.. in a manner of speaking…

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AJ @rustgeek.me · 13/08/2026

Splurged on a bunch of old Integrity Music Urban Praise and Worship albums from the good old days #Navidrome

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AJ @rustgeek.me · 12/08/2026

The view.. Staines

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AJ @rustgeek.me · 11/08/2026

Surprisingly quiet at Feltham station today..The Heat, or the summer holidays finally making a difference?

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AJ @rustgeek.me · 02/08/2026

Abeedeen’s shiprow is getting a makeover. Found quite a few new food places, and a coloured umbrella installation.

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AJ @rustgeek.me · 01/08/2026

I fear I may be the sort of chap who - rather than dance at a Nigerian party - casts his mind to Zadie Smith’s essay -Joy. Is all this dancing (unfettered) joy, a trick of the mind to distract from the reality of life, or simply a pleasurable activity?

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AJ @rustgeek.me · 31/07/2026

Penultimate leg of three hectic weeks… Plus side, i might wake up to this:

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AJ @rustgeek.me · 30/07/2026

Finished reading: How To Think: A Survival Guide For A World At Odds seven years ago today 📚. For some reason i thought a picture of the thinking person’s checklist qould be great.

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AJ @rustgeek.me · 29/07/2026

Today I learned of Poortugaal, the Portugal of the North-ish

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AJ @rustgeek.me · 28/07/2026

10 years ago today I was at the Hillsong London Conference. A lot has changed since then, both personally and otherwise.

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AJ @rustgeek.me · 27/07/2026

Long non-EU passport lines at Schipol… Brexit dividends! Faces blurred by Gemini of course…

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AJ @rustgeek.me · 23/07/2026

Currently reading: Work in Progress Confessions of a Busboy, Dishwasher, Caddy, Usher, Factory Worker, Bank Teller, Corporate Tool, and Priest by James Martin 📚

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AJ @rustgeek.me · 21/07/2026

Finished reading: In Pursuit by Osaretin Oswald Guobadia, Chukuka Chukuma 📚 Moral of the story - building a business in Nigeria has, and remains, a Sisyphean task of sorts. It helps if you can capture the State of course…

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AJ @rustgeek.me · 20/07/2026

Today, I learned about perpetual stews - a fascinating metaphor for the web (and link rot) "Perpetual stews work by adding ingredients, eating the stew, and then adding more ingredients to replenish, and then repeating th... social.rustgeek.me/2026/07/20/today…

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AJ @rustgeek.me · 20/07/2026

In which we go walkies in the Birmingham city centre: rustgeek.me

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AJ @rustgeek.me · 18/07/2026

Siderite on the broken world of technical recruiting: "And finally, when the improbable happened and both employee and company are happy with the arrangement and it all works fine, you get the AI meddling again. Because you ... social.rustgeek.me/2026/07/18/sider…

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AJ @rustgeek.me · 17/07/2026

Passed by The Church of St Martin in the Bullring

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AJ @rustgeek.me · 16/07/2026

Continuing to plumb the depths of my old music collection… #Navidrome

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AJ @rustgeek.me · 15/07/2026

Dumpster diving in my old USB Hard drives; a massive total of 1GB.. Sadly, there are no bitcoin recovery keys to find here!

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AJ @rustgeek.me · 10/07/2026

Lunchtime walk by the lakeside

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AJ @rustgeek.me · 09/07/2026

On the cessation of Longwave radio in the UK.

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AJ @rustgeek.me · 09/07/2026

JulyReply-ing: rustgeek.me/tag/julyr…

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AJ @rustgeek.me · 08/07/2026

Today in SWR shenanigans: Delayed due to trespassers

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AJ @rustgeek.me · 07/07/2026

A different kind of “Why I write” post. For practice, and as a public notebook

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AJ @rustgeek.me · 06/07/2026

Currently reading: In Pursuit by Osaretin Oswald Guobadia, Chukuka Chukuma 📚

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AJ @rustgeek.me · 06/07/2026

150 parking slots for school drop offs gone in 15mins… Thats a new record..

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AJ @rustgeek.me · 05/07/2026

When authors find their books in fhe wild. A moving piece from Elif Shafak

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AJ @rustgeek.me · 03/07/2026

A fitting final word from Warrior Queens and Quiet Revolutionaries by Kate Mosse 📚: "This, then, is it. The truth of a life, the quality of it, the value of it. Out of all these individual lives – some dazzling and brilliant, b... social.rustgeek.me/2026/07/03/a-fit…

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AJ @rustgeek.me · 02/07/2026

Today in SWR train shenanigans: Cancelled due to a tree blocking the railway…

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AJ @rustgeek.me · 01/07/2026

JUnited is a wrap, for this year at least

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AJ @rustgeek.me · 01/07/2026

Ethan Mollick on the continued (exponential) capability gains in AI: "What actually mattered was not the profession of the user, but their expertise. The more domain experience someone had, the more successful they were in... social.rustgeek.me/2026/07/01/ethan…

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AJ @rustgeek.me · 30/06/2026

Prof Al-Kalili’s Youtube series, Unbaffled is well worth a listen. More incoming.

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AJ @rustgeek.me · 29/06/2026

Currently reading: Warrior Queens and Quiet Revolutionaries by Kate Mosse 📚

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