I mentioned on my last Weeknotes that I wouldn finish this next week, but against all odds, I ended up finishing the book on the very same day!

Persepolis Rising is the seventh book of The Expanse series by James S.A. Corey. And it continues the journey in a rather…

Around a month ago I switched this blog to Pure Blog, at the same time, I decided to simplify the design and give it a new lick of paint. Here's what it looked like:

It was okay. But I've done the box-shadow thing before, and I really wanted…

i'll spend my whole life looking for the next best thing
but when I finally find it, i’ll be too busy looking
for the next best thing

I had spent half of the day travelling and the other half looking at art. Whenever I am going anywhere, I like to…

The days are getting longer and brighter. The bite of the winter air is being replaced by a delicate breeze. It feels like Spring is here.

I have been trying to play my guitar every day, usually before I eat dinner. Over the last week, I have noticed that the…

Post-incident review

Yesterday I discovered that I had leaked 3,638 email addresses by uploading them to a public GitHub repository.

Here's what happened, how it happened, what I did about it, and what I'm doing to make sure it can't happen again.

TL;DR

This post will be long, so here's…

My blog has an offline mode that lets you view articles you have previously read on my website. This mode allows you to read something on my website even if you don’t have an internet connection. If the page you want to view has not been cached, you will see…

I dropped into a pub in central London and ordered two pints of draught beer. Obviously the price of everything is nuts these days - and doubly so in London - so I only winced a little bit when the cost came to about twelve quid. Shocking, obviously. But as…

By the summer of 1945, West Berlin had been reduced to rubble. Allied bombing, the Soviet ground assault and Hitler's insistence on Götterdämmerung had destroyed roughly a third of the city's buildings and left most of the rest damaged. There was no functioning government, no reliable electricity, no clean water…

I uploaded your email address to GitHub

Further to my discovery of the data leak earlier today, I spent most of the day trying to figure out what had happened. Finally, on a walk with Lucy after we knocked off, the lightbulb went off.

I didn't, did I? Surely not.

I am writing about a few paintings to help me build my description skills. My analyses are not formal or comprehensive. If nothing else, I hope that you enjoy the painting that I feature!

The warm colours in Monet’s The Church at Varengeville (1882) stood out to me the moment…