Richard’s Blog

The current issue of Delayed Gratification looks back at January to March 2026, and includes an interview with Mark Lloyd, the CEO of The Rivers Trust.

I don’t often see rainbows as sharp as the main one here.

That's something I learned this year.

In a sense, each grey hair is a small victory of bodily self-sacrifice: a cell choosing to bow out rather than risk turning malignant. — How grey hair may be a sign of the body’s cancer defences, The Conversation, 5 November 2025.

The Code of the Woosters was published in 1938, and I got round to reading it last week.

I was at Breaking Breadboards the other night.

Complexity economics, which applies complex-systems ideas to economics, is a revolution-in-progress whose moment is about to come.

Unified Fractured One of the most interesting papers I’ve read in the last couple of years is Questioning Representational Optimism in Deep Learning: The Fractured Entangled Representation Hypothesis (2025).

A gas boiler puts out roughly the equivalent of 2.2 tonnes of greenhouse gas pollution every year.

I love it when two news from the same day collide.

"Oblivion of the Waves" by Anton Smit, side on Looking into the hollow head from behind I've seen the hollow-face illusion plenty of times in textbooks.

The UK university clearing process brings together all the features you don't want in a software project.

Odd lighting, and a cool bit of lens flare at the bottom of the photo.

Clearing out the family home, and there's a box of cigarette cards.

It's an app that looks like a social media client, but is driven by RSS.

I like playing same-screen co-operative video games, and today I learned there's a phrase for that: "couch cooperative".

Saxy This is fine Pirates?

"Adolescent" instantly felt right for describing certain ideas from the tech/crypto world.