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The last time I was in New York Which may well turn out to be my Last Time in New York, for both environmental and political reasons.

Way back in 2016, I migrated this site from its Publify Publify is the Rails based blogging engine that started out as Typo, which I ended up maintaining for a while before handing it off to Frédéric de Villamil, who is still on the current maintenance te…

When last we left off we had worked out how to grab all the mentions of this site that Webmentions.io knew about and now we want to write that out to the data/ directory in a format that’s easy to deal with in Hugo.

You might have noticed, if you’re a regular visitor that webmentions have started showing up on the site again.

I’ve been dealing with some enduring niggles in my literate Emacs configuration, and have just landed Commit dbc316b, and I thought I’d write about it here because it’s an example of what keeps me on Emacs more than thirty five years after I first started…

This is intended as a quick guide for anyone who comes on as a Friday night Song Swap guest, but anyone who’s thinking of using Zoom (or doing their own streams) to share music with folk might find it useful, so I’m making it public.

It’s common practice in music production that, when you’re layering your vocals with harmonies or doubles, you pan everything but the lead vocal around the stereo field.

I’m not quite sure where the time went these last couple of weeks, but here we are at another Sunday.

Another quiet week.

A bit of a mixed week, mood wise.

A quiet week.

Oops, missed a week; seems I didn’t have anything interesting to say, or I was too busy doing stuff to write about it.

Three weeks on the trot.

Small victory of the week: Actually got off my arse and did something about selling off my old Magic the Gathering cards.

Small victory of the week: I’m starting to get on top of the washing Tuesday Overwhelm had left us with a huge pile of washing to do, filling the sink, the draining board, and various work surfaces and I kept putting off tackling it because my brainweasels

Back when lockdown started, for all we were both classed as ‘critically vulnerable’, we did pretty well.

There’s a certain frustrating joy in fiddling with the details of a thing so as to improve the formatting of the new thing you’ve just added to your site, and discovering that a side effect of the change is that a couple of niggles that you’d not quite got

Twitter, eh?

Sometimes folk ask why there’s a Raspberry Pi in the rack case that holds my streaming rig and I admit that the primary reason is that I had one kicking about the place, and the rack unit that holds my M1 Mac Mini is designed to hold a couple of Pis in the

Back when I first started streaming on the internet, I used a Logitech webcam and some lights I had picked up for doing product photography and such for the Loafery and some audio gear I had because, well, recording stuff is just fascinating.