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Writing: 2023

  1. f/e 2023-12-31

    Christmas, Fleishman is in Trouble, Only Murders in the Building season one, Doctor Who, and The Bear season one.

  2. w/e 2023-12-18

    A long weekend in London. The Spook School. ‘Women in Revolt!’ Past Lives

  3. w/e 2023-12-10

    Richard Yates’s Revolutionary Road, Saltburn, Andor season one, and Dark season one.

  4. w/e 2023-12-03

    Leaf mulch, Florist, a webmention, tattoo idea, A Paris Education, winter.

  5. w/e 2023-11-26

    Using Ruff; Aloners, and Decision to Leave.

  6. w/e 2023-11-20

    A weekend in Bristol.

  7. w/e 2023-11-13

    A long weekend in Edinburgh, Dream Scenario, Stewart Lee on pre-social-media TV, Dogs of Berlin, Shiva Baby, Paranoid Park, Romeo + Juliet, and The Meyerowitz Stories.

  8. 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.

  9. w/e 2023-11-05

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

  10. w/e 2023-10-29

    An Allo Darlin’ gig, London, Backblaze.

  11. w/e 2023-10-22

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

  12. w/e 2023-10-15

    Watch, Backblaze, Jeep Avenger, German, Ghosts.

  13. f/e 2023-10-08

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

  14. Turin, Ivrea and Nomaglio

    What I did on my holidays.

  15. w/e 2023-09-24

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

  16. w/e 2023-09-17

    Very little occurred.

  17. ‘Ghosts of My Life’ by Mark Fisher

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

  18. w/e 2023-09-10

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

  19. 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.

  20. w/e 2023-08-27

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

  21. w/e 2023-08-20

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

  22. w/e 2023-08-13

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

  23. w/e 2023-08-06

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

  24. w/e 2023-07-31

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

  25. w/e 2023-07-23

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

  26. w/e 2023-07-16

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

  27. w/e 2023-07-09

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

  28. 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.

  29. w/e 2023-06-25

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

  30. w/e 2023-06-18

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

  31. w/e 2023-06-11

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

  32. 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…

  33. w/e 2023-05-28

    A very quiet week of perfect weather and getting a few things done. Plus Perry Mason season two.

  34. w/e 2023-05-21

    Three days in London, Return to Seoul, One Fine Morning, and finding just the right calendar app.

  35. w/e 2023-05-14

    Visiting Essex, James Bachelder’s The Throwback Special, Eurovision, and Stewart Lee.

  36. w/e 2023-05-07

    Some shoegaze and Paste by Moin; I used ChatGPT to write some code; a squirrel-proof bird feeder; return to the gym; 1990s photos; No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood; Deep Work by Cal Newport; and Barry season three.

  37. w/e 2023-04-30

    Brains and weather, Bluesky etc, finding a USB hub, Barry seasons one and two, and Looking: The Movie.

  38. Blogroll Keepers #9

    More blogs and newsletters I’ve started following. Quite a bit of music and photography, plus several other things, like horse-drawn carriages.

  39. w/e 2023-04-23

    A trip to Bristol, Rye Lane, and two seasons of Looking.

  40. w/e 2023-04-16

    NTS’s Ambient Americana, a new bike trainer and a new bike, baffled at MacBook hubs and docks, and Tamara Shopsin’s Arbitrary Stupid Goal.

  41. w/e 2023-04-09

    Update problems, pressure washing problems, and I Hate Suzie Too.

  42. w/e 2023-04-02

    The Wire playlist for 2023, Derby, Liz, ponds, @samuelpepys on Twitter, The Night Agent, and Billions.

  43. w/e 2022-03-26

    Some Persian music, some coding stuff, The Gold, The Gold: The Inside Story, and Waco: American Apocalypse.

  44. w/e 2023-03-19

    A couple of birthday days in London, including Guys & Dolls, and The Last of Us season one.

  45. w/e 2023-02-12

    Two NTS shows, lots of to-dones, Mystery Road: Origin, Emily, and Heimito von Doderer’s The Demons.

  46. w/e 2023-03-05

    Rouvy etc, Julia season one, Corsage, and Godland.

  47. Enjoy playing the music

    Kirk Tuck thinking of photography as like being in a covers band.

  48. w/e 2023-02-26

    in|FLUX by Anna B Savage, frogspawn, Zwift vs Rouvy, The Banshees of Inisherin, We Own This City, and enough of Euphoria.

  49. w/e 2023-02-19

    Babylon Berlin season four, more failing at Zwift, Empire of Light, surround sound, Adult Mom.

  50. w/e 2023-02-12

    A strange bug, Look Mum No Hands! closing, a bike trainer, Tár, Narcos seasons one and two, Happy Valley season three, and The White Lotus seasons one and two.

  51. w/e 2023-02-05

    Twitter API, simple website hosting, Fight the Power, Our Flag Means Death.

  52. w/e 2023-01-29

    Prefab Sprout, anniversary, Outback Truckers, black-and-white photos, some ooh.directory tasks, insulating the loft hatch.

  53. w/e 2022-01-22

    Walks cross London, Aftersun, Plausible Analytics, and the “real” camera.

  54. w/e 2023-01-15

    Moin, sheep, the end of Tweetbot and Twitter, and two music documentaries.

  55. Blogroll Keepers #8

    Five blogs and four newsletters that I’ve been reading long enough that I’m given them permanent space in my feedreader and blogroll.

  56. w/e 2023-01-08

    Finishing The Last of Us Part II, watching China’s Van Goghs and The Nest.

  57. w/e 2023-01-01

    Re-launching Pepys’ Diary, setting up a Ko-fi page, The Other End of the Leash by Patricia B. McConnell, Ghosts and Detectorists specials, The Story of Film: An Odyssey, and His Dark Materials season three.