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…

I already share links every time I do week notes, but I still read quite a bit of things on my FreshRSS instance and thought I’d share some more thoughts on articles and things I found interesting today—maybe yesterday.

Just some musings here for you guys to enjoy, check out…

“Will the dog hunt?”

My sneakers squeaked on the concrete floor. Twenty entrepreneurs in black hoodies looked up at me, taking notes. This room had been a working garage once; now, we ceremonially opened the garage door to let in new cohorts of early-stage media startups with the potential to …

State of the Browser was electric. This is how I summarised my experience at the annual State of the Browser event in London in my notes. I like to capture moments as they happen, then write about them later. The note is the essence of a blog post; the starting…

My new year's resolution is to play more video games. Specifically co-operative games.

I hate playing competitively; it's rubbish to achieve victory at the expense of someone else. So I asked for recommendations and picked the cheapest thing that looked reasonable.

Unravel Two is a little gem! It's a…

Berthe Morisot’s Girl on a Divan, displayed in the National Gallery, London, caught my eye as soon as I saw it. The painting was the last one I saw in the Impressionist room in the Gallery, but despite having been on my feet for hours before I stood…

I am using Duolingo to learn a bit of German. I have been using the app for a while and enjoy the exercises. With that said, I am not a fan of Duolingo’s changing application icons on iOS.

I don’t like that an application can set its own home screen…

When I was building the search engine for my blog, one feature I wanted to implement was syntax highlighting within the search input field. I wanted special operators (i.e. has:noalt, which shows posts that contain one or more images without alt text) to have a different background colour indicating…

A security incident

This morning I received an email from someone whose unique johnnydecimal@example.com address has received a PayPal phishing email. My personal address received the same email.

The email is from no.con**star@ca**a.cl. Its subject is Please confirm your identity.

I am investigating. If you received this email,…

It's been 10 years since Tim Holman made GitHub corners, the little triangle with the waving Octocat you see on some open source projects, including many of mine.

When he made those it had been eight years since GitHub posted the ribbons on their blog. GitHub is synonymous with…