JP’s a Dad now 😳

Atproto markup for HTML

A call to use trivial RDFa markup in our HTML to indicate which records produced the elements on our pages.

Slay the Spire 2: Atmosphere edition

I made a mod for Slay the Spire 2 that lets you publish your play data to your Atmosphere account & a website to show them off!

Mental Poker on atproto

I noodle about my pet atproto project for playing board & card games without a trusted 3rd party, and the foundations I'd need to make it a smooth and fun experience for people!

An every day 'Every Day Calendar'

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What awesomeness is this‽

This custom made, almost kilogram brass curio is infuriatingly WONDERFUL. I *will* break into it… eventually.

Leaving Meta & how to reach me

I'm leaving Instagram & Facebook. I want less corporation in my human connection; here's how to reach me! ☺️

Yule's Chocolates

I judge these Christmassy chocolates Not Quality Enough (most of the time)

Easy image minification

I wrote the `jpegli` CLI tool to quickly reduce the pixel- and byte-size of images for my blog, using JPEGli compression.

Sneakernet Archive

I have a vision for sharing and storing community artefacts (eg. photos, stories) that's super easy for people, but also technically excellent for long-term archival.

Alien Clay

'Alien Clay' by Adrian Tchaikovsky was an excellent read/listen! Compelling & full of thoughtful moments, I can't recommend it enough.

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Max barely features, but it's gloriously mad. Explosions and brutality galore, but a moving central plot that made me stay for the story.

Ballet de España ¡Qué emoción!

Flamenco and bolero and ballet and contemporary dance in a gloriously colourful thrill of a performance!

Your space on the Web

Friends! Are you unsure how to make your own space on the web? I'm offering time, money &experience to help you build your online garden, away from the ads and head-hacking of the social media giants.

git download-subpath

I made a git helper tool that lets you retrieve files from a subpath of git without downloading the whole of the (possibly huge) repo.

IndieSearch

I built a prototype for client-side, fully distributed search for the IndieWeb — check out the demo & a little explainer.

Guessing Vinyl Colours

I used my Nix Mini colorimeter & a bit of maths to estimate transparency for some adhesive vinyl I bought.

Easy appreciation

I've built a "clap" feature into my blog so you can show appreciation anonymously and easily, if you want.

ChefGPT

I asked ChatGPT to give me a recipe for the ingredients I had at home, cooked its suggestion blind and… was unsurprised. I still got a lot from it though!

Barb Jungr's music felt good!

I went to Barb Jungr's performance in London Bridge, and it was delightful!

Bookmarks With Omnivore

I created an importer that brings articles I've read & enjoyed in Omnivore into my blog as IndieWeb bookmarks!

Importing Tweets

More than a year after I closed my Twitter account, I've imported my tweets to my blog.

Conceptual Bandwidth

How the mental work a person does to import concepts demands communication style changes in large organisations.

A pre-wedding celebration

Yvette & I celebrated our upcoming wedding in Venezuela!

Back travelling

Why there's been such a big gap in posts, and our upcoming trip to Venezuela!

Mum

My Mum passed away; my brother & I wrote a few words to let our friends and family know.

Leith Hill Tower hike

A delightful Saturday walk out of London, from Ockley to Dorking.

An IndieWeb IPFS offer

An offer: I'll pin your static IPFS-based IndieWeb site on my homelab! Get in touch :)

Barbie

I went to see Barbie; it was superb!

Trusting randomness at a distance

How can people in different places trust the other's dice-rolls?

Trust and simple games

How can people play (board/card) games without a trusted third party, and without cheating?

A linkrot-free URL shortener

Using IPFS to build a trivial link shortener that doesn't hide & hoard the destination from the world.

Uncommon time-telling

The Human Era, International Fixed Calendar, and .beat time: Weird and wonderful ways of telling time that I adore.

Arc: a new browser

A new web-browser that really is helping me fall in love with the internet again.

Archiving Instagram posts

Archiving my Instagram account, and releasing the code that imported it to this Hugo-driven site.

Goodbye big-social

Why I'm leaving 'big' social media.

Interlude: Pack Post

Things got too exciting and busy for blog posts! Here's a pack-post interlude while we figure out how to slow down 😅

Embracing IndieWeb

Embracing the indieweb, an internet run by humans not corporations.

Buenos Aires: Eres Hermosa

Six wonderful days in Buenos Aires exploring live jazz, great food, cocktails and wonderful people.

Get on your trekking shoes!

Hiking in Patagonia — it's been incredible!

Argentinian Patagonia

Injured IT bands kept me from trekking in El Chaltén, but no complaints! From wild glaciers to windy peaks, Argentina is pure magic.

A Patagonian love story

Exciting times as we hike the W, and visit Torres del Paine.

Cartagena, ¡la fantástica!

Cartagena nos recibió con sus vibrantes calles, historia fascinante y rincones como Blue Apple Beach, donde sostenibilidad y comunidad van de la mano.

An aerial Pacific sunset

We saw a breathtaking Pacific sunset from 12,500m, where the horizon blazed ruby red and sky turned into an earth-sized rainbow. Unforgettable!

Cartagena soleada

Our trip starts with luxury we can't expect from the rest of it; everything is wonderful here — especially the Caribbean food! 🤤

¡Ya casi!

The feeling has hit, we're going to be off soon!

Preparations

I've just finished my ninth-last day at work before our sabbatical begins. And for the first time, our travels are starting to feel real.

The Fujifilm Repair Centre

I've been extremely impressed with Fujifilm's Service Centre!

Thoughts on Postcards

A love-postcard to postcards.

Communicating Slowly

Setting kind expectations in busy times: slow.fyi

The Beauty of Type

I created a font from a piece of art made for me by a friend.

Miriscience

Why I created the word "miriscience", and why it's been so important to me.

The Consuming Fire

My review of the book 'The Consuming Fire' by John Scalzi

Why you should pay attention to Ethereum

A brief explanation of cryptocurrencies and why they're useful I wrote for my non-techie friends.

What Makes a Good (Tech) Team Great

Communication, shared context, pride, and responsibility are key factors for Deliveroo's Engineering culture.

The Web’s Missing Communication Faculty

Credence: A new way to assess online information using the reputation and context of those who consume it.

The Raw Shark Texts

My review of the book 'The Raw Shark Texts' by Steven Hall

Make Good Art

My review of the book 'Make Good Art' by Neil Gaiman

Poor Yorick

My review of the book 'Poor Yorick' by Ryan North

Thoughts on Twitter as a Weapon

A short thought-piece on reports of a person paying to promote their complaint tweet.

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

My review of the book 'Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore' by Robin Sloan

Lost in a Good Book

My review of the book 'Lost in a Good Book' by Jasper Fforde

The Eyre Affair

My review of the book 'The Eyre Affair' by Jasper Fforde

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

My review of the book 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry' by Rachel Joyce

Einstein's Dreams

My review of the book 'Einstein's Dreams' by Alan Lightman

The Human Division

My review of the book 'The Human Division' by John Scalzi

Accelerando (Singularity)

My review of the book 'Accelerando (Singularity)' by Charles Stross

Intrusion

My review of the book 'Intrusion' by Ken MacLeod

2312

My review of the book '"2312"' by Kim Stanley Robinson

The Extra Mile

A short story of someone being unusually thoughtful.

REST and how to do it right

Pretty JSON in the terminal

Thoughts on storing passwords

Ruby and Jenkins

It's a Good Day for this film to Die Hard

mini_magic and Apache Passenger

Speakable web links

Consider Phlebas

My review of the book 'Consider Phlebas' by Iain M. Banks

Incidences

My review of the book 'Incidences' by Daniil Kharms

QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

My review of the book \"QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter\" by Richard P. Feynman

Ready Player One

My review of the book 'Ready Player One' by Ernest Cline

Crunch boxes

Sourcery

My review of the book 'Sourcery' by Terry Pratchett

Pottymouth

Blinkers

Thimblr

Project Prime, Completed!

Sweet idea

Project Prime

Playgrub Love

Podcasting your favourite tracks without copyright worries

It's been a while…

Reinterpretation (Chapter 1)

Unexpectedly popular photo

Geo Tumblr

Premium economy

In-Flight Frolics

Sayounara Japan

Connections

Silly photos

Fancy lobby

Night Buses Are Stupid (but actually really clever)

Women-only carriages

Umbrellas

Castle shrine

Hiroshima Today

ナンプレ

Stolen towels

Victory: Britain

National pride

Capsule hotel pics

[All!] Photos being uploaded

Japanese computers

Fuji-san

Late Posts

Quick Update

JK in the massage chair

English T-Shirts

A Long Day

Day 2

A Crazily Busy First Day!

Downhill slope

Ciccadas

6 Hour Sunset

Hostels Shmostels

He knows the score

12 Hour Flight Blues

Sunset at home

Facebook API Niggle

Japanese currency!

Preparation

It's Okay

get_iplayer - it rocks

Helix [Cy Densham]

Time flies

Hot weather pleasure

Hey Google

Bad Rounded Profile Pics!

SlyPIs out in the wild

Twitter links in Tumblr

How Developers' Minds Work

Short lived

bygone [Cy Densham]

Ruby-DLC on Github

Porting to Ruby

CampusBot

Where on the Web gets better!

Where on the Web screencast

Where on the Web

Processing and Ruby

Fire poi

Low-cost sensing with LEDs

Timelapse video

Video snippet ideas

Native ruby RAR

Trash files in Ruby

A Ruby gem I wrote that sends files to Operating System specific Trash/Recycle bins.