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I’m working on a project that generates multiple .tar.gz archives, and I need to combine them into one final file.

I wrote a post for the Tailscale blog about a long-running series of corruption incidents, and how they eventually led us to find an SQLite bug that predates my entire programming career.

One of my favourite tiny details in this website is my non-breaking spaces.

Recently I’ve been tidying up the subtitles in my local media library.

At work, we use a standard Git workflow: develop on a feature branch, push to GitHub, and open a pull request to main.

I take a lot of photos, but I only keep a fraction.

Yesterday at work, a customer spotted a typo in our UI: “you can use the use the Tailscale CLI”.

One of my distinct memories of childhood is the “computer room”.

A few days ago, Misty posted something that caught my eye: Misty @misty@digipres.club Finding myself asking if there's ever been a wonkier official browser API than canPlayType 18 Jun 2026 at 17:52 The HTMLMediaElement.canPlayType API tells you how likely…

I was on the Lego website recently, and I enjoyed their animation on their age picker – rather than a plain text field, the numbers are made of Lego bricks that animate into view, accompanied by the sound of bricks snapping together: Recorded from identit…

A month ago, I wrote about my Playwright fixture for testing static websites in a browser.

The first iteration of my scrapbook of social media only had posts from public or semi-public social media sites – Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, and so on.

In my previous post, I explained how I use the FSEvents API to detect changed files on macOS.

When I’m working on this website, I want a local server with live reload.

I build a lot of static websites – including this site and all of my local media archives – and I want to test them.

This website is a static website, built with a static site generator I wrote myself.

If you’re doing HTTP in Python, you’re probably using one of three popular libraries: requests, httpx, or urllib3; I’ve used each of them at different times.

Is it just me, or are chain attacks on the rise?

Among the other fun news recently, two papers were published that suggest quantum computers capable of breaking classical public-key cryptography algorithms are much closer than previously believed.

Every spring, my council publish a new bin collection calendar.

While the rest of the tech world is a firehose of generative AI discourse, last week I was in a quieter, more human room.

I love public libraries, and they’re where I get about half the books I read.

I want my current computer to last for a decade.

During the COVID lockdowns, I spent long evenings at home on my own, and I amused myself by dressing up in extravagant and glamorous clothing.

I have some personal Git repos that I want to sync between my devices – my dotfiles, text expansion macros, terminal colour schemes, and so on.