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Mad Max: Fury Road is a great movie.

Recently I visited China and spent a while in the north-eastern city of Anshan.

Related to my previous blog post, here are some of the interesting things I heard for the first time on the radio over the past couple of months.

The Taoist idea of Wu Wei (無為) has always seemed very ambiguous to me.

Westworld is a science-fiction film (1973) and TV series (2016-2022) that is based on the premise of a theme-park populated by AI robots role-playing the setting of the American “West”.

The term AI Alignment, like many new concepts associated with AI, is very broad and fuzzy.

When I was younger, I used to love following music developments.

I came across the 512kb club a long time ago, and it was very influential in helping me understand how websites work and the impact different kinds of assets or design choices can have on how pages load.

I’m calling the protocols discussed below “smallnet protocols”, but actually I don’t know the right name for them…

A quick look at some stats about gemini capsules.

Some notes on the year.

Clojure’s core async library recently added a namespace called ‘flow’.

I dreamed that it is night and I am lying in my bed (the foot of my bed was under the window, and outside the window there was a row of old walnut trees.

I use sourcehut pages for both my gemini and website.

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

I’ve had a go at making a two-player chess game for Gemini.

In response to Solerpunk’s 2024 OFFLine-FIRst SOftware CHallenge, I wrote a command line script for looking up flight ‘information’ offline.

Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water In 1967, Roland Barthes published his influential essay “The Death of the Author”.

My website (spool-five.com) has now been online for three years.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato

This is just a short post I’m leaving here for posterity.

It’s the beginning of a new year and I’ve dusted off an old smartwatch to help me with my new year’s goal of exercising and staying active more.

A post about my own personal 2022 - financial situation, GTD, and downtime.

One of my goals for 2023 is to use YouTube as little as possible.

I’ve just finished listening to the Homogenic episode of Bjork’s new podcast series Sonic Symbolism.1 Each episode of the podcast is a retrospective look at a Bjork album.

A week ago, I switched my life to being primarily ‘offline’.

Snow Crash - A book by Neal Stephenson, published in 1992.

Last week (28 July), the Irish government reached an agreement on targets for carbon reduction across multiple sectors.

Related to Idomdrottning’s post: Communism Against Earth Tug of war on the brink will lead to both falling over.

I’m writing this in response to the May 6th entry on Ran Prieur’s, always-lovely, blog:

I participated in this year’s global/national poetry writing month and I actually managed to write a poem a day!

Disclaimer - I am not really a practicing Christian, but I have always been interested in all kinds of religions.

One of the most noticeable things about Gemini is that it is text-based.

First, a disclaimer.

The recent Linus Tech Tips series on ‘gaming’ in Linux seems to have sparked a lot of controversy and discussion1.

This is a short followup to my previous post.

This post is written in response to the fascinating post by Solderpunk:

I talked with an old friend recently.

A short post to talk about my experience with OpenBSD.

I’ve been experiencing moments of melancholy and nostalgia over the past months.

Prior to teaching kids English, I had zero experience working with children.

Edit - 21/08/21 I’ve been using Roam V2 for about a month now.

I currently live in what you could maybe call a ‘suburb’ of Seoul.

Thoughts on Cruella (2021, Craig Gillespie) I watched this last weekend and thoroughly enjoyed it.

A note on Folding Beijing by Hao Jingfang (translated by Ken Liu)

Wed 2 Jun 23:18:06 KST 2021 Dear Gopherspace, I still haven’t gotten the hang of journaling.

The majority of ‘mainstream’ technology is awful.

Christina’s Five Questions for May 2020 This is my first time participating in this.

I’m fairly apolitical by nature.

In previous posts, I mentioned how I’ve started trying to learn a bit more about shell scripting in my free time.