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I was recently listening to an episode of The Rest Is Science, specifically the episode The Evolution Of The Butthole. As always, Hannah and Michael put on a great show and I came away thinking about its contents.

In it, they asked how many holes does a straw…

As I mentioned in this post I set up Forgejo recently to move away from GitHub but one of the things that worried me was backups. I know I shouldn't blindly trust GitHub to not lose my data but it seems an unlikely situation so I've never done anything about…

[Joseph Cox at 404 Media]

Worth knowing if you think of Proton Mail as being a blanket security solution: in this case it was compelled to provide payment information for an account to the Swiss authorities, who then, via a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty, handed it over…

In 2024 I switched to Raycast from Alfred. I'd been a long time Alfred user but I was tempted by Raycast's shiny UI and better integration with things like Reminders. Turns out I never used the reminders integration or most of the other features Raycast has that are unique.

I…

[Michael Savage in the Guardian]

I hold three potentially-conflicting opinions about the BBC at once:

• The license fee is a regressive tax that is punitive for lower-income people and needs to be overhauled
• While it’s supposed to be independent and representative, its news coverage has sometimes fallen short…

Trafalgar Square is a special place. The architecture and views are breathtaking. The National Gallery, the church of St. Martins in the Fields, Canada House, and more, all surround the Square. From the right place you can look down Whitehall and see Big Ben.

In the heart of the Square…

[Corey Ford at Point C]

Another really good framework from Corey. Leading with vulnerability gives the people on your team permission to be vulnerable too.

“When leaders frame work as execution, they imply the answer is already known. When they frame it as learning, they acknowledge uncertainty…

This is my entry for this month’s IndieWeb Carnival on the topic “Museum memories”.

When I was 10 or so – maybe younger; childhood can be hazy – my grandparents took me to the National Museum of Flight in Scotland for a day. My memory starts as many…

I'm a fan of R.F. Kuang's books - but this is the first which I've found laugh-out-loud funny. What if your University advisor died and the only way to graduate was to descend into hell and bring him back?

In a terrible sort of way, I'm glad that Kuang had…