I've been enjoying Biosphere as the soundtrack to my recent "concentrated work" spells. Knives by Biosphere I remember seeing their name on playlists of yester-year: axioms, bluemars1, and (still a going concern) soma.fm's drone zone. Bluemars lives on, at echoes of bluemars↩ | Continue reading
I recently became a maintainer of/committer to IkiWiki, the software that powers my site. I also took over maintenance of the Debian package. Last week I cut a new upstream point release, 3.20200202.4, and a corresponding Debian package upload, consisting only of a handful of low … | Continue reading
I started looking at aerc, a new Terminal mail client, in around 2019. At that time it was promising, but ultimately not ready yet for me, so I put it away and went back to neomutt which I have been using (in one form or another) all century. These days, I use neomutt as an IMAP … | Continue reading
How can I not have done one of these for Propaganda already? Propaganda/A Secret Wish is criminally underrated. There seem to be a zillion variants of each track, which keeps completionists busy. Of the variants of Jewel/Duel/etc., I'm fond of the 03:10, almost instrumental m … | Continue reading
I got a new work laptop this year: A Thinkpad X1 Carbon (Gen 11). It wasn't the one I wanted: I'd ordered an X1 Nano, which had a footprint very reminiscent to me of my beloved x40. Never mind! The Carbon is lovely. Despite ostensibly the same size as the T470s it's replacing, it … | Continue reading
I'm attending FOSDEM 2024. Perhaps I'll see you there! For the first time, I'm giving some talks, both in the Free Java Devroom (UB5.132) on Saturday 3rd. They are A beginner's guide to Backports Bespoke containers with Jlink and OpenShift | Continue reading
My to-read shelf This year, with respect to my ever-growing reading backlog, I'm going to try something new: when I acquire a new book, I'm going to try to read at least a few pages of it immediately. My theory is this will help me to have a better idea of what to expect when I … | Continue reading
Happy 2024! DAIS have continued their programme of posthumous Coil remasters and re-issues. Constant Shallowness Leads To Evil was remastered by Josh Bonati in 2021 and re-released in 2022 in a dizzying array of different packaging variants. The original releases in 2000 had bare … | Continue reading
My daughter Beatrice asked for me to print her a 3D printer. Bea's 3D printer Most of the model is from https://www.printables.com/model/355917-miniature-3d-printer-model-toy, and the unicorn is from https://www.printables.com/model/385926-unicorn. | Continue reading
I wanted to start using (neo)mutt's sidebar and I wanted a way of separating groups of mail folders in the list. To achieve that I interleaved a couple of fake "divider" folder names. It looks like this: Screenshot of neomutt with sidebar This was spurred on by an attempt … | Continue reading
In a previous blog post I described the use of virtual postings to track accidental personal/family expenses. I've always been uncomfortable with that, and in hledger 1yr I outlined a potential scheme for finally addressing the virtual posting problem. separate journals My outlin … | Continue reading