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This past Saturday my wife and I got to see Tom Scott perform his new album Anitya in full at the Auckland Civic Theatre.
Anitya is the first project Tom has released under his full name. Everything else before this — Home Brew, Average Rap…
Ever searched for a fix to a technical problem, only to get a 1,000 word essay on what the thing is? Yeah, me too.
You know the drill. You Google “how to fix a Git conflict”, and every result spends five paragraphs explaining what Git is.
Mate, I’m here…
Well this is a treat! It is rare to find a pop-science book which does such a good job of actually explaining the science, rather than just using it as a background for storytelling. The Battle of Beams doesn't go too deep into the mechanics and physics, but gives…
I'm trying to get better at leaving myself a log so I know what I was up to when I come back to a piece of work.
Whenever you do a thing and put it down unfinished, to return to later, you're sure you'll remember exactly what you…
President Trump reacts to condemnations of his recent pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao by claiming he doesn’t know who he is.
One of my ongoing efforts in building this site has been to embrace progressive enhancement and make it every bit as functional without JavaScript as it is with JavaScript. This has become much easier now that I've rebuilt the site using Laravel.
Whether you're disabling JavaScript for security or…
Many years ago, in another lifetime, I was presenting our team's work to a rather senior politician. Here's how I remember it:
"We want to provide value for money," I said, "so we propose that running five small pilots of [thing I still can't talk about]. We know there are…
I fall in to the YouTube or Reddit rabbit-holes sometimes. Not that they're all bad all the time: I love watching a good music video with my headphones in. (That track is slow to start but seriously: watch it all the way. I dare you not to…
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Missed my reading wrap-up for September and have been too busy to read as much as usual, so here’s a combined September/October wrap-up. Lots of litRPG, and James S. A. Corey’s Caliban’s War (The Expanse #2) was definitely a highlight!
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Writing at the intersection of technology, democracy, and society by Ben Werdmuller
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