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All good things must come to an end, and today is that day for one of my projects, the 512kb Club.

I started the 512kb Club back in November 2020, so it's been around 5.5 years. It's become a drain and I'm ready to move on. As of today…

Music is quite nice I think, and I enjoy listening to it very much. However I must admit I didn’t actually start to support artists directly until I discovered Bandcamp.

Everything started when I got a great little videogame known as Hades for the Nintendo Switch! It came with a…

[Kate Blackwood in Cornell Chronicle]

The results of this study into corporate BS isn’t going to surprise anyone who’s spent much time in an office. The researchers generated meaningless corporate gobbledegook and tested how workers rated its business-savviness.

“Workers who were more susceptible to corporate BS rated their…

Last year I reviewed the Treedix USB Cable Tester - a handy device for testing the capabilities of all your USB cables. I noted that it had a few minor bugs and contacted the manufacturer to see if there was an update.

For some reason, lots of Chinese manufacturers don't…

I have been working on a few new features for Artemis, the calm web reader I maintain. You can read a summary of what’s new below.

Organise subscriptions with folders

You can now create folders in Artemis. This feature is designed to help you organise websites you follow into…

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…