March

I think doing this daily photo thing makes months seem longer in retrospect, but it also makes any cool things we do seem smaller.

Charlotte and I went to see Architects' new album release show at the start of the month. It was at a very small (for them) venue and was a great atmosphere.

We also went to the opening of Helm's new show, which felt like a very civilised evening. I don't really like taking pictures in galleries but there was this super nice light behind the glasses at the bar, so I got something usable without other people's art in!

It was Tabitha's 12th birthday, my mum came to visit and we had Baked Alaska.

I was also a bit more active on Mastodon than usual. I can't figure out whether I'm worth following on there, but things are definitely happening!

links

  • Building links with LLMS is nothing to do with AI, don't panic. It's a cool idea about breaking up your content on personal sites.
  • A decent article echoing some of my thoughts on why it's important for people to have personal sites.
  • The Yamauchi No.10 Family Office site is a lot, in a good way, and it's a rare example of scrolljacking that I will tolerate.
  • I learned about the concept of a Webring from a new Mastodon friend. I like it but it does rather give you a lot to go through.
  • Simone's Computer is such a cool throwback. So much effort must have gone into this.
  • There's a lot going on in America at the moment, and none of it seems good. I read this article about Elon Musk and a Trumpworld Power Couple, which I hate as a concept. I really don't understand how he's getting away with all this. There's also this on more specifics of what he's been up to, but I think I'd have liked more detail. You might need a 12ft ladder to get into these. McSweeneys also has a helpful list of every gross thing Donald Trump has done in office. But since they're not using official channels to communicate any more, this probably goes even deeper than we'll ever know.
  • GQ's Insight into the Fight to Save American Selvedge Denim is a super interesting article on the modern trials of a very old denim business. Would be a shame for this all to vanish.
  • One of the School Dads was talking about Stoolball at a netball match. Never heard of this!
  • I started on a new mini-project at work that uses SolidJS. I like SolidJS.
  • Dan found this privacy-focussed VPN. I have my own setup here that works fine for when I need to seem like I'm home when I'm out, but I do like the idea of using something like this more regularly. I obviously don't do anything nefarious online that warrants hiding, but I do believe everyone's behaviour should default to private and I'm sick of these snooping companies trying to know as much about you as possible. Think I just sold it to myself.
  • I can't believe this picture of Pluto.
  • I'd love an Ooni spiral dough mixer. Whenever I make pizza I get cross at our mixer because the dough always climbs the hook. I'm not spending that on a mixer for one thing, but it's cool.
  • Ladybird is a brand new browser and rendering engine, uncoupled from big companies who feel like they're entitled to know everything about you just because they made some software. I ditched Chrome a while back because Google already knows enough about me and they broke adblockers, all whilst hand-waving that it was because they are incompatible with the new manifest version that they created. I'm now using Firefox which has inferior dev-tools, and apparently Mozilla are getting pretty bad.

music

youtube

we are in a constant battle with billionnaires who don't want us to own things, but rent them

That'll do for this month I think! Have a good one and I'll see you in May.

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