After a couple of lazy months, I finally got back into the darkroom this morning.

I bought the UGREEN NAS as a way to store files and host Plex. That has evolved somewhat. I'm still…

Flowers fade into fall. Every day brings us closer to autumn. I walk around for a while, admiring details I have seen a hundred times and yet, each time, find something new to see, and then stand for a moment and watch as people wander in the park, or sit…

I Don’t Have a Smartphone…

…or, at least, I wish I didn’t.

"I don’t have a smartphone," is what I tell people and professionals nowadays. This allows me to cut the crap about companies insisting that I install their app or restaurants wishing that I scan a QR code to…

Sorry, I can't right now. I'm too busy vetting every goddamned company even remotely attached to every single piece of software and hardware I use or am thinking…

The seventeenth episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out:

In Episode 17, Mike interviews James, the author of "with words, wonder" (formerly James' Coffee Blog) about, among other things, identity and personal websites, writing on the web, communicating the potential of personal websites, and more.

I hope…

I spent several hours yesterday trying to get Wifi to remain up on the Framework after installing CachyOS. It was not easy. I had to drag Claude Code in to help. I'd have never been able to find and fix it, otherwise.

Flaky Wifi is a commonly-reported problem with the…

I am sitting with a cup of tea by my side as I have been on many mornings this month. This morning, my tea cup, instead of being precariously balanced on the arm of the chair, rests between the right arm of the chair and my right leg, keeping me…

Busy day ahead, all self-inflicted:

• Replace Fedora with CachyOS on the Framework using the Runbook I made yesterday
• Update Emacs to 31 everywhere (it's default on Cachy, but macOS and Fedora need work
• Process/Scan a roll of 35mm (test on both SilverFast/macOS and Vuescan/Linux)

UPDATE: That took WAY longer than…

The idol is a reflection. In Greek, from where we get the English word, we say that “I am staring at my idol in the mirror” («βλέπω το είδωλο μου στον καθρέπτη»). The idol is a representation: it consists in indirectness.

When we think of something as a false idol,…

Thamara and I are doing an art exchange where we each sent the other person an art-related object to analyse. Thamara sent me a copy of “Beneath the Great Wave: Hokusai & Hiroshige”, a book from the art exhibition of the same name being held at the Whitworth in Manchester,…