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  1. How to generate a subset of an emoji font using Python

    Making a much smaller font file of something like Noto Emoji, featuring only the emoji you need.

  2. w/e 2023-11-05

    Various German language learning things, website maintenance, Do Interesting, and movies: Sweetheart, Licorice Pizza, L’Innocent and Passages.

  3. w/e 2023-10-29

    An Allo Darlin’ gig, London, Backblaze.

  4. w/e 2023-10-22

    Mammoth Penguins, Fortitude Valley, work, The Mandalorian season one, and Kleo season one.

  5. w/e 2023-10-15

    Watch, Backblaze, Jeep Avenger, German, Ghosts.

  6. f/e 2023-10-08

    Going on holiday, Sensationalists, season four of Sex Education, and Middlemarch.

  7. Turin, Ivrea and Nomaglio

    What I did on my holidays.

  8. w/e 2023-09-24

    A dog; a passport; technical issues; Drops of God; Starstruck season three; and The Tragedy of Macbeth.

  9. w/e 2023-09-17

    Very little occurred.

  10. ‘Ghosts of My Life’ by Mark Fisher

    Several passages from the book noted in the hope they stick in my head longer.

  11. w/e 2023-09-10

    Essex then London, in a hot and humid week. Hornets. Afire and Official Competition.

  12. w/e 2023-09-03

    Migraines and head banging, hay baling and grass collecting, Sonos speakers and NTS, Heat, La Haine, Happening, How to Blow Up a Pipeline, and a log cabin.

  13. w/e 2023-08-27

    Salesforce by Lauren Bousfield, strimming recalculation, favicon-related coding, and The Chalet.

  14. w/e 2023-08-20

    Finishing scything, the gym, season one of Silo and Tetris.

  15. w/e 2023-08-13

    Work, a new iPad, scything, and the final season of Halt and Catch Fire.

  16. w/e 2023-08-06

    Stopping things posting on Twitter, Original Rockers by Richard King, and Halt and Catch Fire season three.

  17. w/e 2023-07-31

    A week in Essex, Walton pier, Lanny by Max Porter, Halt and Catch Fire seasons 1-2.

  18. w/e 2023-07-23

    Wireless headphones, frogs/toads, Slow Horses season two, and A Visit from the Goon Squad.

  19. w/e 2023-07-16

    caroline, second-hand books, Bridge of Spies, and season one of Shrinking.

  20. w/e 2023-07-09

    Cracking the Cryptic, Thomas Dolby’s The Speed of Sound, Beef and Colin from Accounts.

  21. w/e 2023-07-02

    More Glastonbury, ooh.directory emoji and award nomination, James Bridle’s Ways of Being, and season three of Ted Lasso.

  22. w/e 2023-06-25

    Some coding, two crosswords, Annika season one, The Diplomat season one, and Glastonbury on TV.

  23. w/e 2023-06-18

    A party here, a bit of scything, a tiny bit of computing, Rufus, birds.

  24. w/e 2023-06-11

    A thirty-year reunion, scything, and The Gallows Pole.

  25. w/e 2023-06-04

    Giving scything another go, a friend visiting, eBaying, blog birthdays, the end of Succession and Barry, season one of Poker Face, and season three of I Think You Should Leave…