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📯 Twenty books I enjoyed: Patrick O'Brian edition
Aug 26, 2026 · original
The wheel turns, the seasons change, and it's time for more books. But this one's a bit of a weird one. For the entirity of the last six months I've been reading one author and one author only: Patrick O'Brian. Let me explain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up. I've been vaguely aware for some time that despite my complete disdain for a number of neighbouring elements (viz: the British Empire, gender-segregation, military service, heights, any amount of water more than about three metres in depth) I greatly enjoy the occasional naval fiction story. In English literature, these take a few archetypical forms, none more romantic than Napoleonic naval fiction. Britain loves to be the bulwark against which the forces of tyranny throw themselves [1] , and if you gave me a nickel every time the Island Fortress of Albion ended up holding out against a continental foe of overwhelming power, we
🌲 Subdomains with Avahi
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Multicast DNS (or mDNS) is a protocol that allows devices on a local network to publish (and be referenced by) their own addresses (eg computername.local ) rather than forcing everyone to resort to IP addresses (eg 192.168.1.52 ). It's pretty cool because: It's easier to remember your computer is at computername.local than it is to remember it's at 192.168.1.52 . While it's possible to set up your router so that your computer is always at the same IP, it's still a little work. mDNS is implemented in OS X through Apple's Bonjour implementation, and (generally) in Linux through Avahi . When you do this, your device's URL will usually be devicename.local . If you're running a homeserver, you might have multiple services, each running on its own port. And if you've hung out on the web for a bit, you'll be wondering if there's any way to set up subdomains of your lovely mDNS-implemented local
📯 Five books I enjoyed, Spring/Summer 2025
Jan 2, 2026 · original
Gosh, it's been a whole six months and nothing on this blog except for "five books I enjoyed" posts. The winter was long and dark, I feel, and for a bit there it felt like doing anything outside of just existing and hitting the regular life commitments was a slog. We're well out of that, and I feel myself swinging back up - while I may not find myself inundated with energy, I do find myself with time to actually do things. I'm hoping the next few months, with a combination of both continuing sunshine and some changes to my life schedule, will give me a chance to put something else of substance up here. The last part of winter, and the first part of spring, were entirely taken up by my sudden desire to read The Lord of the Rings , inspired in no small part by this dumb song . Finishing that up, and feeling like a treat, I ended up running through a bunch of recent Hugo Award nominees to f
📯 Five books I enjoyed, Autumn/Winter 2025 edition
Jun 30, 2025 · original
It's the time once again to write about books I've read. The new book-tracking format I mentioned last time is doing me well - I have half a blog post in draft form about the process of building small CLI tools for just this kind of job - and making it really easy for me to review which books I've read, and which I want to talk about. The past six months have been a real dive into genre fiction, to the extent I haven't managed for a few years now, brought on by a few recommendations I've received recently. It's been nice. The Starless Sea - Erin Morgenstern. Sometimes an author just writes a book that's very clearly a love letter to books, and this is one of them. Morgenstern builds a fantasy world hidden just below ours, like Borges but more romantic, perhaps, full of factions and secret societies and masked balls. The world-building is wonderous, only enhanced by the fact that the main
📯 Omnifocus → Taskwarrior
Apr 27, 2025 · original
I started using OmniFocus at the start of my postgraduate, many many many years ago. Now I'm looking at perhaps switching operating systems in the future, and I want my project list to come with me. Which means finally switching task managers. TaskWarrior is what I'm currently looking at. It's a CLi-based, open source task management tool which portable to basically any operating system, and has a bunch of extensions. But exporting tasks and projects from one project, and importing them to another, is a big deal. Let's see how hard it can be. The big picture The good news is that OmniFocus has a good export system, and TaskWarrior has a good import system. OmniFocus exports to xml If you open OmniFocus, you can export your current database to file by selecting File Export : The location of the Export menu item in OmniFocus This will prompt you to save an .ofocus file somewhere on your co
📯 The garden: open for business
Mar 8, 2025 · original
Digital gardens have been on my mind for some time, but it's only recently that my own has really started to coalesce. So I thought I'd write about it a little. A digital garden, in essence, is a collection of linked pieces of writing. Maggie Appleton's useful summary of the term elaborates: A garden is a collection of evolving ideas that aren’t strictly organised by their publication date. They’re inherently exploratory – notes are linked through contextual associations. They aren’t refined or complete - notes are published as half-finished thoughts that will grow and evolve over time. They’re less rigid, less performative, and less perfect than the personal websites we’re used to seeing. It harkens back to the early days of the web when people had fewer notions of how websites “should be.” It’s an ethos that is both classically old and newly imagined. There's lots of different types of
📯 Five books I enjoyed, Winter/Spring 2024 edition
Dec 29, 2024 · original
Like a flash, it's the end of the year, and it's time for another of these run-downs. The last six months were charaterised by a number of quite chunky volumes, which means the list is a little less exclusive this time around. It also marks the first time I've got to use my new book logging framework, which I might have to write about some time. The Counte of Monte Christo - Alexandre Dumas . I have a dim childhood memory of, it seems, watching a TV film of this with my parents - mainly I remember Dantès being imprisoned, and taking years to escape, picking up skills along the way. Weirdly I don't remember much else, given how this takes up perhaps a quarter of the novel. Perhaps as a small child I wandered off after this, I have no idea. As I'm sure I've observed for other pre-20c books, this story really takes its time building up to the finale. I've heard the theory that these books d
📯 Five books I enjoyed, Summer/Autumn 2024 Edition
Sep 5, 2024 · original
This should have come out more than a month ago, but I sunk a lot of time in to redeveloping the site, and because my ability to use version control drops off a cliff past around 7pm (it seems), I never bothered to keep the activities of mucking about with the website proper and writing articles split. This marks the first of these posts since I decided to track my reading digitally [1] (as opposed to an analogue system). Previously I'd keep track of this through my personal notebook, making entries per book and then writing an index in the back of the notebook. This was fine, except that each time I finish a book (which is getting rarer now we've got a kid around to take up all my spare time) I'd be starting a new index. I really need to externalise the index into its own book, which seems like a lot of work. While a digital book catalogue doesn't feel nearly as romantic or tactile, I h
📯 Moving house
Jul 26, 2024 · original
A quick housekeeping note, more than anything: this blog is now shifted over to 11ty ! I used to use nanoc , a ruby-based SSG for the site, and I've been doing that since, well, it feels like forever. However recently it's been feeling a little long in the tooth, escpecially as I start thinking about building out the garden and running some pre- and post-processing tasks. Shifting everything to 11ty has been pretty time-consuming - it's been an evening and weekend activity for most of the last month or two - but if you're reading this it means I've now deployed it in place of my old install. Things are still broken - search, writing, probably other things I've just glossed over right now. But I want to ship this now, and then to try to rebuild bits as needed. As with everything, I'll be spending 80% of my effort on the last 20% of the site, working out how I can take the stupid hacks I m
📯 Street numbering in Istallia
May 5, 2024 · original
Dear R––, I know that at the end of our last Fall of Magic campaign, you told me (paraphrased): I would like to play this game again, but I don't know I'll be able to because I don't think it'll ever be as good as that game. I'm writing this because I want to tell you that - as long as you find a group of folk who're on the same wavelength as you - you'll play games as good as that. There's a few games that I come back to time after time. Some systems, like Apocalypse World and Dungeon World , came along right as I was entering that halcyon time back in University where you could be in three campaigns at once and not even sweat. I played them so much that their systems and mechanics are like second nature to me. I return to them because I want to tell a story, I want to author something for my friends, and my hands have formed calluses around these systems. I know how to turn the rules t

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