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Yesterday I was due for a medical checkup at work! They do this kind of thing yearly and it only takes like twenty minutes or so, but I had ignored the couple emails for people pending to take it, until they reached out directly on Teams.

I decided to stop…

A decade ago, I read Ayoade's first book. In my review, I said:

It's hard to know how to assess a book like this. It's far too clever for its own good - a…

Opened curtains —
Field of fog envelops
The autumn day.

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Foggy sky, look close
Only near trees visible:
Standing colour.

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Ebbing weather
Temporary heavy air
Winter approaches.

Link: Medium is launching a new note-taking app called TK, by David Pierce in The Verge

Medium is launching its new app, TK:

“The company is launching a new app, called TK, that combines note taking and journaling with something resembling a private social network. The app is meant…

I cut bot traffic to my site by over 80% with a simple trap.

Last month, my hobby website OpenBenches.org transferred more than 2.5TB of data to visitors. As much as I'd like to think the site is enormously popular, it looks like it is just AI bots endlessly crawling…

As a novelty camera enjoyer, I had to get my hands on a Jaffa Cake Jaffa cam. Just look at it.

For a penny short of seven english pounds you get the camera, the keyring,…

Just another day in Casa Quirk. 🤣