Morning Run: one of Cam Pegg’srun | Continue reading
Have been spending some time recently trying to wrap my head around the ActivityPub spec and I think I’m beginning to wrap my head around how it all fits together… might have to have a play wi… | Continue reading
For some unknown reason, I have had this stuck in my head for the last couple of days and don’t want to suffer alone any more.You’re welcome. | Continue reading
One of the many things I am grateful for is that [meatball Wednesdays at Sanpanino](https://www.sanpanino.com/location/sanpanino-west-village/) survived the pandemic.… | Continue reading
A worthwhile read by Dan McQuillan: We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it. I’ve played with ChatGPT a bit, and it’s kind of cool and interesting, albeit with a lot of obvious flaws, … | Continue reading
I’ve been playing with Raycast on my Mac and have quickly become a huge fan; it’s seamlessly replaced Magnet and LaunchBar (which are both fantastic pieces of software!) for me. | Continue reading
I missed this in the swirl of other stuff going last week, but Boeing has delivered the final 747 to roll off the production line. The flight path for the maiden flight of the last “Queen of t… | Continue reading
They weren’t both for me. 🙂… | Continue reading
Just enough snow overnight to make it pretty slick this morning. Another easy 20 mins focusing on breathing drills… definitely easier than last week, but my respiration and heart rates are still a w… | Continue reading
Ben asked “What’s the last book you read and loved?” — for me, Becky Chambers’ The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet is the most recent standout… given everything going on in the … | Continue reading
First 15 mins was concentrating on breathing and relaxing the shoulders, 2 mins of stretching and drills, then the second 15 mins was focused on foot strike and cadence.… | Continue reading
Similar to Wednesday's run… just 20 easy mins, concentrating on breathing and trying to find a decent stride rhythm. Felt a lot better, too—didn't feel like I was fighting myself as much.Also, n… | Continue reading
Filed under No shit, Sherlock—“Americans are increasingly disgruntled at work”.Of note: Workers who were in jobs that could be done remotely, but were forced to work on-site saw … | Continue reading
I would probably class myself as “metaverse skeptical”… I am not strongly anti-, but I don’t think that the visions coming out of the big tech companies are compelling enough in an… | Continue reading
Setting aside the center-aligned text (🤢), the shipping notification email I received just now leaves a lot to be desired in terms of how informative it is. | Continue reading
WTF’ingF? This is bonkers, in the best possible way. | Continue reading
Play with me. Now!: a photo by Cam Pegg | Continue reading
Kings County Spiced Whiskey, Fresh Lemon Juice, topped with Fever Tree Ginger Beer… | Continue reading
A few weeks back, I thought it would be a good idea to enter the lottery for a spot in the Brooklyn Half... and then I got in. So now I guess I need to start training again. Just a couple of slow mi… | Continue reading
Interesting comparison of ChatGPT and Claude, two generative “AI” assistants. Definite strengths and weaknesses to both; both appear to be fairly good at reasoning/logic, ChatGPT seems t… | Continue reading
Oh, shit. 😱Looks like I’m going to need to start running again. | Continue reading
Whoa! Loving these renders of unbuilt Frank Lloyd Wright buildings by Spanish architect David Romero… The Illinois is just 🤯. | Continue reading
Excited! Andor is still the high-water mark for non-original-trilogy Star Wars, but I’ve enjoyed the previous seasons of The Mandalorian and am keen to see what direction the story take… | Continue reading
I started reading WIRED after stumbling across it in my university library back in the mid 90s, and got myself a personal subscription—which I still have—as soon as I could afford it (th… | Continue reading
If you have a MasterClass subscription, I would highly recommend checking out Neil Gaiman talking about J.R.R. Tolkien—as fascinating as the subject matter is, it’s just as much Gaiman&r… | Continue reading
I used to live not far from this bridge, and also drove under it a half dozen times when I was in Melbourne a couple of weeks ago. | Continue reading
I’ve just started (re-)reading Nick Earls’ Brisbane Rewound Trilogy (Bachelor Kisses, Zigzag Street, Perfect Skin)… as a kid who grew up in Brisbane in the 80s, pretty much everywhere in… | Continue reading
Jetlagged AF. But in the upside, I used my 3am wake up to finish Becky Chambers’ The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet—I’ve only recently started reading her work, but have become a huge fan pretty&… | Continue reading
Also, while I was home, I went walking on grass with bare feet every day. Can’t remember the last time I did that. | Continue reading
Heading back Stateside after (a far too quick!) two weeks home in Australia and prepping myself for a larger-than-normal dose of the post-vacation blues… after being away for five years, it was hard… | Continue reading
Kicking Off NYE: a photo by Cam Pegg | Continue reading
Well, kind of… just walking around at Hanging Rock.… | Continue reading
Just acasual walk around Hanging Rock with the family. There was a medevac in progress while we were there, so we couldn’t actually climb up.… | Continue reading
First ride in nearly seven (!) years. Went out for a spin with Conrad and quickly found out that while one doesn’t forget how to ride a bike, one does lose riding fitness 😆. Bonus: we ran into Kelly… | Continue reading
Well Played, Qantas: a photo by Cam Pegg | Continue reading
Snagged an upgrade for the flight to Adelaide, so enjoying a pre-flight flat white in the Qantas Business Lounge. ☕️… | Continue reading
Went out for 9 holes with my Dad at his club this morning and hit probably the best golf shot I’ve ever played… this is the par-3 16th hole at Redland Bay Golf Club. And yes, I did make the putt.… | Continue reading
If you’ve ever organized to meet someone in the city in Brisbane, you know this spot.… | Continue reading
I have been in Australia for four days now. I have eaten Vegemite on toast for breakfast five times since getting here (if you count the “second breakfast” I had yesterday). | Continue reading
Shorncliffe Pier: a photo by Cam Pegg | Continue reading
BRB… heading home for the first time in nearly five years. | Continue reading
I’m really digging Molly White’s statement and answers for a hearing being run by the German Bundestag… probably the best summary of the web3/metaverse/crypto dumpster fire that I’… | Continue reading
Mission Impossible: Moonshine… only in theaters summer 2023. | Continue reading
Kottke posted Danny MacAskill’s latest this morning… three things:Yay! Kottke’s back!Danny MacAskill is a freak (in the best, most positive sense of the word)If ther… | Continue reading
Time for another browser-tab-clearing link dump.Map of the UniverseThis map shows a slice of our Universe. It was created from astronomical data taken night after night over a period of… | Continue reading