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Moonwalking to the toilet

Re-defining the IndieWeb – Focus on the philosophy, not on tools

IndieWeb Book Club August ’26

Weeknotes

The trouble with social media bans – To make a problem disappear, blindfold yourself

Lahm on German football’s identity crisis

RGB and my favourite type foundry

Celebrating midsummer – A photo essay

It is time to revive the humanities – Undoing costly misgivings and misplaced systemic priorities

Handwritten blog

Photographers who inspire me – We are what we consume

Your name in Landsat

John Ternus as next Apple CEO

Governments should enable and legislate technologies, not endorse them

Don’t forget we’re here forever – Part memoir, part reportage, wholly uncritical

Look to Hungary – Lessons for liberalism from Peter Magyar

At last, an Ofcom report worth smiling about

Where spirits dare – Witnessing a ‘spiritualist medium’ in action as a sceptic

Short-sighted governance strikes science (again)

A kind of endless, rather still, music

A kind of endless, rather still, music

Death Stranding 2 – What happens when you put Kojima before everything else

The Last Kingdom – A near-perfect early middle age television series

Collections and catalogues – The lasting power of museums

Bluesky feed for Statamic

The Unix philosophy

Betting on Bluesky – And how to set up your own PDS

IndieWeb Carnival Dec ’25 round-up

Setting up iCloud sync for BBEdit preferences

Working with the end in sight – Re-thinking my approach to note-making

The 2026 design update

Alan Dye leaves Apple for Meta

AI on the IndieWeb: the unwelcome & the desirable – Quixotic ideas or pertinent boundaries for a meaningful online experience?

IndieWeb Carnival Dec ’25

Illustrium Imagines

Dinners at Cambridge

Homebrew Website Club: Writing Edition

Revisiting ‘Atomic Habits’

Surely you’re joking, Mr Suleyman

The Vegetarian – An impressionist tragedy in three acts

An early modern book recommendation

Drehgriffel No. 1

Drehgriffel No. 1

Leaving Moleskine for Leuchtturm1917

A case for tolerating the uninteresting – Attention and popularity make for a chicken and egg situation

Small web discovery

The BBC must be protected

Chat GPT coaxed someone to die by suicide

The homepage quandary

Fascist cycles – Privileged groups and inequality: a match made in hell

In defence of Times New Roman – And why this website is (almost) set in it

The Witcher’s downfall

Excerpts from my feed reader #5

Second screen viewing and dumbed down scripts

The death of an argument – Why analogies are best used sparingly

Eram quod es, eris quod sum – An ancient antidote to ego

The Nobel Peace Prize

Excerpts from The Guardian interview with Nick Lowles

Britain ignores the hard-right at its own peril – The people are doing their bit, the Labour government is not

Do you remember the books you read?

The world is increasingly noisier – The paradox of choice and the generational descriptors that defy us

Excerpts from my feed reader #4

Looking beyond collective blogging – Writing has always been a lonely endeavour and there is no changing that

Gandhi and James Bond

Threads, paints and hex codes – Meditating on the colours in my life

Excerpts from my feed reader #3

Excerpts from my feed reader #2

Excerpts from my feed reader #1

Glimpses of Sawbridgeworth – Lessons from a photowalk

The Empusium – Incredibly vivid and utterly unforgettable

Artificial Unintelligence – We are so inured to using AI that we believe we need it

Good old online communities – Long gone but still necessary

What’s the point of the rule of thirds?

The White Lotus: Season 3 – Compelling, and only just misses the mark—Spoiler warning, text may be NSFW

Markdown is not for everything

The UK should be alarmed about Reform – Fascist change does not jump on society, it creeps up on it

UK librarians being asked to remove books