Simon Lyall's Blog

For the Love of Trains: Celebrating 200 Years of British Railways by Paul Routledge A mix of rail history and stories of the author’s life and journeys.

As I have in previous years here is a quick analysis of the election vote and result.

The KLF: Chaos, Magic, and the Band Who Burned a Million Pounds by John Higgs Not a convention band biography but more an explanation on their influences and thinking.

The Man Who Knew the Way to the Moon by Todd Zwillich The story of John C.

Celebrating Calligraphy by Jenni Aldred Leaving Lórien by Stephen Vrettos When the Fellowship leave Lorien the is a ceremony Led by the 2 Highest authority people in the Realm Purposes A Farewell – G sings a song called “Farewell” A Transition Gifts Since…

Love and Power an Poetics of Tom Bombadil by Corey Olsen Tolkien does modern poetry and traditional forms Tom is heavily influenced by The Kalevala Similar Meter Similar Song Battles TomB Original Poem The History of TomB A series of Hostile Encounters.

Celebrating Middle-Earth on the Table-Top: An exploration of the Middle-Earth Strategy Battle Game by Tim Wraight History of the game First Released in 2001 Skirmish orientated Scenarios that called back to the Movies New releases as later moves released…

Fixing a misconfigured Kubernetes Cluster by Rob Kenefeck First big docker project was to separately build and test application, hardware and OS First k8s job was focused on making tech work, not the security model around it Still considers k8s in Austral…

Open source can have friends everywhere by Emma Davidson Large Business Benifit a lot from unpaid open source volenteers But when they burn out unmaintained open source becomes a risk 0.3% of the AUKUS Budget ($1b) would cover 15,000 Open Source software…

My degoogled life by Joshua Hesketh Part personal journey, part reflection, part advice Why?

Peak Text: AI and the Golden Age of Libraries and Archives by Keir Winesmith Finished “EGOT of GLAMs” with latest job Mapping Brisbane 1957 Tram network: based on older tracks, evolved into suburbs.