Bloglog

The clock ticked past midnight half an hour ago. I’m not so much playing the “stay up late to avoid the arrival of tomorrow” game, as much as “trying to fit too much into today”. I’m bad at it. Why…

Last night I successfully sewed a button back onto a pair of pants.

If you’ve read more than 2 of my blog posts, you will know I yearn for a simpler time. A time pre-smartphone, where everything didn’t rely on my having a computer in my pocket — whilst also loving technology. There is no getting away from the feelings, but I have become to realise that if you are not paying attention, how ridiculous the pursuit of less can become. One of my favourite sub-Reddits is r/dumbphones, it is wonderful to see the phones people are still using and the ones available if you look hard enough.

Clutter into order using a systematic approach

Okay, so the guy actually wasn't creepy. But in the five to ten minutes that I was trying to figure out where to meet the guy and walked through an unlit par...

It's even worse than it appears..

I have a not-so-secret tumblr blog for my sketches, and I really like the archive view: So it triggered the idea that I could customise the tag page for my sketchbooks: For comparison, here's a...

I have decided (for the moment) to change the theme of this blog and to switch the background to a lighter one to improve readability. I am still using the A...

As of the recent events going on in the world, it is sometimes difficult for people to contain the flux of negative emotions that are within them, and a ...

A very good website by visual & verbal artist, Keenan.

Odes & Satires, and other matters of stuff & things.

Why do we confine ourselves to a handful of apps when the web is so gigantic?

Emily Badger, Ben Blatt, and Josh Katz, New York Times (via Clive Thompson):1 Sometime around 2009, American roads started to become deadlier for pedestrians, particularly at night. Fatalities have risen ever since, reversing the effects of decades of safety improvements. And it’s not clear why. What’s even more perplexing: Nothing resembling this pattern has occurred […]

anonymity, our internet selves, hermit crabs. as a kid, my parents used to get mad at me for using my nickname for my minecraft and roblox accounts. with...

Ryan Broderick, writing at Garbage Day about some goofball who had gone viral on TikTok and was getting piled-upon: I think most people are extremely weird and don’t know it. And the deranged content they were unawarely posting to their friends and families on Facebook 10 years ago, is now going on TikTok in the form of a video that features their face. When they post that content, it attracts other similar weirdos, but also a ton of attention from people who aren’t the same kind of weirdo.

I have a static website. This means that whenever I make a change to the site I need to “rebuild” each page. This involves taking the content of the page – for example, a blog post – and turning it into a full page, ready to be served to a reader. I built a custom tool to generate my site as an engineering challenge. I had – and have – a lot of fun tinkering with my site, even though the underlying source code is not as elegant as it could be.

Perhaps I have listened to too many bro-podcasts over the last few days, but I am led to believe that a massive fear of failure exists in people. I fail at so many things that perhaps I am desensitised to the whole experience, but there is absolutely nothing to fear from not getting the result you wanted. I should preface this with a warning about taking unneeded risks and not ruining things that make huge changes to your life — but outside this, fail hard and often.

I have a confession. I’m addicted to “Am I the Asshole” posts on Reddit and Facebook. It’s my guilty pleasure, my late-night obsession, my source of endless entertainment. I…

I spent a lot of time and energy in my life worrying about things I felt like I had to do for one reason or another. Either everyone else was doing the thing, or specific people were pressuring me to do the thing, or I never saw real examples or models of people who didn’t do the thing, etc. At some point I started to realize that, if I really challenged myself, I didn’t have to do some of the things I believed I had to in order to win at life (and I would include the idea of having to “win at life” on this list).

close female friendship is something that's hard for me to achieve. whenever i befriended a straight, cis-woman the recurring theme that got replayed over an...

How do you know you're looking at an old website? You may have found a page which has lots of interesting information, but how can you tell it's a modern and relevant result? Some websites don't contain dates in their URls. There may not be a © date or publication date shown on the page. […]

This is the 16th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Jamie …

...and it would be months before we’d meet again. then, we both didn’t know how much our lives would be altered by this seemingly innocuous moment. and the alteration continues even to this day.