V.H. Belvadi
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