: 🎵 I’ve been listening to a lot of Harry Chapin over the last couple of days. Just had …

: 🎵 If you like Americana/folk-rock/maybe a bit alt-country but all raw and close to the bone, Bill …

: 🎵 Younger son (12) did a thing. He’s very excited about it. linktr.ee/JoelGoody

: 🎵 “Montreal” by Mark Lettieri. Daaaaaaang. www.youtube.com/watch

: 🍿 Caught Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse over the weekend while it’s in a brief return to …

: Wow. iOS app store review approval eleven minutes after submission. I think that’s the …

: 🎵 Listening to Electric Six today and thinking that the lascivious announcement of each …

: Finished reading: Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke And Other Misfortunes by Eric LaRocca …

: Finished reading: Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree 📚 I was skeptical of a prequel, but I …

: Finished reading: Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree 📚 Everyone who recommended this was right.

: Finished reading: The Rain by Joseph A. Turkot 📚

: Finished reading: The Beast You Are: Stories by Paul Tremblay 📚

: Finished reading: This Cursed Light by Emily Thiede 📚

: Finished reading: Cave 13 by Jonathan Maberry 📚

: Finished reading: Long Past Midnight by Jonathan Maberry 📚 Pine Deep is my favourite of …

: Finished reading: The Maw by Taylor Zajonc 📚 Got a little silly towards the end, but still fun.

: Finished reading: Cackle by Rachel Harrison 📚

: Finished reading: Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman 📚

: Finished reading: Bad Dolls by Rachel Harrison 📚

: Finished reading: The Return by Rachel Harrison 📚

: Finished reading: Starter Villain by John Scalzi 📚

: Finished reading: Such Sharp Teeth by Rachel Harrison 📚 One of those books I started reading when I …

: Finished reading: Mister Magic by Kiersten White 📚

: Finished reading: All Souls Lost by Dan Moren 📚 Urban fantasy private investigator who deals with …

: Finished reading: Wayward by Chuck Wendig 📚 Took me a while to get through this massive novel, but …

: 🎵 Bruce Cockburn, “Wondering Where the Lions Are”. He is one of the best. …

: 🎵 Today is Pat Martino on repeat. musicthread.app/link/2WfH…

: YouTube’s “no ad blockers here” bit is getting more intrusive. There’s now a …

: Just spent an hour arguing (good-naturedly) about what we need to do to handle dates, times and …

: 🎵 New GUNSHIP album today 🎉 musicthread.app/link/2W4L…

: Finished reading: The Daughters of Izdihar by Hadeer Elsbai 📚

: Watching #guitar YouTubers with shelves of amps and pedals behind them, and racks of guitars. It all …

: 🎵 That Olivia Rodrigo album that came out last week 👍🏻 musicthread.app/link/2VQy…

: Instagram just served me an ad for a prosthetic leg. That’s not something I’ve ever …

: 29°C here over the weekend. 14°C today. Today is much more my comfort level.

: Finished reading: Treason of Hawks by Lila Bowen 📚

: Finished reading: Malice of Crows by Lila Bowen 📚

: Finished reading: Conspiracy of Ravens by Lila Bowen 📚

: Finished reading: Wake of Vultures by Lila Bowen 📚

: Younger, pianist son has discovered Rachmaninoff. Things have got a bit dramatic in our house this …

: Finished reading: This Vicious Grace by Emily Thiede 📚 Certainly has its issues, but I enjoyed …

: Finished reading: Inside Man by K. J. Parker 📚 Quite disappointing. I enjoyed Prosper’s Demon …

: It’s 2023 and I just fixed a table cell reuse bug.

: Finished reading: Prosper’s Demon by K. J. Parker 📚

: I get tired of following a link to something that sounds interesting and ending up with Medium …

: Finished reading: Witch King by Martha Wells 📚 I’ve read a few really good books so far this year. …

: It’s new notebook day at my desk!

: Finished reading: Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs 📚 No real surprises along the way, but …

: Falling rain heard through an open window is one of my favourite sounds. Calming and relaxing, and …

: Finished reading: Dead Moon by Peter Clines 📚 Not worrying too much about the plot holes, and I was …

: Finished reading: Terminus by Peter Clines 📚

: Finished reading: Maniac Menagerie by Iain Rob Wright 📚 Nice and quick read, in and out with lots of …

: Finished reading: Paradise-1 by David Wellington 📚 A bit long and repetitive in parts, but left me …

: Finished reading: Ogres by Adrian Tchaikovsky 📚 I should read more Adrian Tchaikovsky. I always …

: Finished reading: Nosferatu by Peter Cawdron 📚 The last holiday read to catch up on. A fair bit …

: Finished reading: Sister, Maiden, Monster by Lucy A. Snyder 📚 This was a wild ride. I loved it.

: Finished reading: We Need to Do Something by Max Booth Iii 📚

: Finished reading: Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice 📚

: Finished reading: Winter’s Gifts by Ben Aaronovitch 📚 I always love it when there’s …

: Finished reading: Death’s End by Cixin Liu 📚 Catching up on posting what I read on …

: Finished reading: The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu 📚

: Finished reading: The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu 📚 I don’t know why it took me so long to …

: I was getting my eyes checked and the optometrist gave me my first “…for your …

: Finished reading: Season of Skulls by Charles Stross 📚 The Laundry Files/New Management books remain …

: 🎵 Scary Pockets does With Or Without You. www.youtube.com/watch This is at least a thousand times …

: Finished reading: The Shadow Cabinet by Juno Dawson 📚 After the cliffhanger at the end of the first …

: Finished reading: The Battle Drum (The Final Strife, Book 2) by Saara El-Arifi 📚 I love this world. …

: 🎵 It’s a good music day today. New albums from the Foo Fighters and The Aces. Then I saw this, …

: 🎵 Well here’s a thing that I never would have considered. music.apple.com/gb/album/…

: I am chuffed to an irrational degree with the Solarized-themed keycap set that arrived yesterday.

: 🎵 The YouTube algorithm did good today and served me up some Joe Pass: www.youtube.com/watch

: Yesterday I spent an evening with guitars in a friend’s attic for the first time since I was a …

: Finished reading: No One Will Come Back For Us by Premee Mohamed 📚 A brilliant selection of short …

: Finished reading: The Sharp Edge of Yesterday by K. M. Herkes 📚 Flawed, sympathetic characters …

: How do they rise up? GNU Terry Pratchett

: 🎵 I’m only a light and occasional DAW user, and Ableton has been my choice for quite some …

: Finished reading: The Vessel by Adam Nevill 📚 A very lean but satisfying folk horror. Nevill is good …

: Finished reading: For the First Time, Again by Sylvain Neuvel 📚 Wrapping up the aliens-among-us …

: 📺 Over the weekend I watched a few episodes of the live-action Cowboy Bebop released the other year. …

: I was listening to a podcast with Cory Wong interviewing Nuno Bettencourt. Nuno kept talking about a …

: Some of the music I spent time with in April: musicthread.app/thread/2N…

: Finished reading: The Bone Shard War by Andrea Stewart 📚 A neat and satisfying third in the trilogy.

: 🎵 After a first run through I think I like the new boygenius record quite a lot. …

: Finished reading: The Law by Jim Butcher 📚

: Finished reading: Planetfall by Emma Newman 📚 Really interesting. Was not about what I expected it …

: 🎵 This morning I’m back on one of my absolute favourite albums ever: Audible Sigh from Bill …

: 🍿 Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves: For when you don’t need Great and Worthy Art but want …

: Finished reading: The Insatiable Volt Sisters by Rachel Eve Moulton 📚 They were wizards and …

: Finished reading: The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix 📚

: Ended up having to go to Ikea this morning. Unexpectedly for a Saturday morning on a bank holiday …

: 🎵 In an unexpected development, today I am mostly listening to Polyphia. Quite enjoying myself, too.

: Finished reading: The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix 📚 The …

: 🍿 John Wick Chapter 4 does its thing very well. The cast is great. The fight choreography and stunts …

: Finished reading: How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix 📚 I enjoyed this one quite a lot. …

: Finished reading: Hide by Kiersten White 📚 A fun ride, this one. Thought-provoking, too.

: 🎵 One disc in, and I’m not sure what to make of the new U2 record. Some of the versions of …

: Finished reading: Her Majesty’s Royal Coven (HMRC, Book 1) by Juno Dawson 📚

: Finished reading: The Power by Naomi Alderman 📚 Picked this up after seeing a trailer for the TV …

: 🎵 Let’s have some Covet: music.apple.com/gb/album/… 🎸

: Watching The Matrix with the boys. Everyone in it looks very young. 🎬🍿

: Finished reading: The Jaguar Path (The Songs of the Drowned, Book 2) by Anna Stephens 📚 These really …

: 🎵 A list of some of the music I listened to in February: musicthread.app/thread/2L… Not …

: Finished reading: Old Country by Matthew Query 📚 A bit of folk horror. Might have benefited from a …

: Finished reading: The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi 📚 Sets out to be a fun diversion, …

: Finished reading: Impostor Syndrome by Mishell Baker 📚 An eventful conclusion to the Arcadia Project …

: 🎵 In a totally unexpected development, I’ve found myself listening to The Bangles this …

: Finished reading: Phantom Pains by Mishell Baker 📚 A pretty affecting follow-up to Borderline. …

: Finished reading: Borderline by Mishell Baker 📚 I first heard of this book on a couple of podcasts …

: Finished reading: Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo 📚 A very enjoyable follow-up to Ninth House. Looking …

: Finished reading: Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo 📚 Yup. Great fun.

: Currently reading: Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo 📚 I’m about two-thirds through a re-read in …

: 🎵 Giving Måneskin a go. Turns out rock doesn’t sound bad in Italian.

: Finished reading: The Violence by Delilah S Dawson 📚 This is very, very good. Harrowing in places. …

: Finished reading: Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky 📚 Quite different to the previous two in …

: 📺 The Sandman is out today. The comics were a big deal for me as a teenager, so I’m really …

: I’ve not seen a red weather warning before 😮

: Amazon’s being weird again.

: Maybe it’s the baggage I carry from growing up in Northern Ireland, but plastering the Union Flag …

: Waiting outside the older boy’s swimming lesson and the coffee machine is broken 😩

: Grass cuttin’ time 🤧

: I realised today that my one trip to WWDC in person was ten years ago. That was a fun trip, but I’m …

: Well, it’s not wrong.

: 📺 Finally got to the first couple of episodes of Stranger Things S4 last night. I stayed up too late …

: I’ve been looking at email services to maybe get away from gmail, and I remembered how years …

: I spent £100 putting unleaded in the car today. That’s not much fun. Makes me even more glad …

: 🍿 The boys have selected Pacific Rim for this evening’s movie. Excellent choice 👍🏻

: 🍿 First cinema trip since before COVID. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness was… pretty …

: 🎵 I’ve put some Journey on for the afternoon. Which always makes me think of Scrubs, but there …

: 🎵 I don’t remember hearing this song covered before. I like this a lot: …

: The haggis is in the oven.

: 🎵 Yesterday evening, a friend introduced me to the music of Laurel Premo. This is gorgeous: …

: At 41 years old, when something is delivered and you look at the shipping box and say, “That’s a …

: That thing where you open the AWS console and the whole infrastructure is gone and you don’t …

: My son told me I’m playing my music too loud. Isn’t it supposed to be me telling him …

: 📺 Cowboy Bepop and Hellbound have both dropped on Netflix, Wheel of Time has hit Prime, and …

: 🎵 This afternoon I have taken a notion for Pocket Full of Kryptonite …

: YouTube has started recommending me videos on Dunning-Kruger. I’m a little concerned the …

: This morning I am listening to Regina Spektor singing No Surprises on repeat. www.youtube.com/watch

: If you ever hear me say the words, “It should just work,” please give me your most …

: I’m not usually all that cynical about signature instruments, and there are some crackers out …

: I am pleased by the new Dune trailer. youtu.be/8g18jFHCL…

: I don’t know why I’m only discovering Cory Wong now. Some of those live shows on YouTube …

: It was bound to happen. I just dipped a pen in my mug of tea instead of putting it in my pen mug.

: Back on the new Greta Van Fleet album this afternoon. That’s the stuff right there.

: Youngest told me today I should make videos for YouTube of me playing guitar. Parenting achievement …

: Met a man with a ferret standing outside a coffee shop this afternoon. We are in Yorkshire, after …

: When the embargo expires and all the guitarists on YouTube publish their video of the new Fender …

: It’s Friday and I have tea.

: YouTube just served up a reminder of why Nuno remains my favourite guitarist: www.youtube.com/watch

: Four people in this house, today, all either working or schooling from home. And at one point …

: Naming things remains hard.

: Pianist on YouTube records Piano Man to hit the opening line right at 9 o’clock on a Saturday 😂 …

: I took a notion for an egg and onion sandwich, so my lunch tasted of christenings, the evening party …

: I, a software guy needing to make holes in a brick wall, have been introduced to the concept of an …

: I admire my children’s ability to be at each other’s throats one minute and be best of …

: About to attempt to fill my own tooth. 🤞🏻It only has to last three weeks.

: And the snow turns to rain 😞

: I may have turned 40 not that long ago, but seeing snow falling outside still gets me giddy.

: Tree’s up.

: TIL that when the kids are “working on their YouTube” they don’t appreciate me …

: My brain is weird sometimes. I look at pictures like this one and my first thought is to wonder …

: It’s a great album. I’ve been listening to it all day. twitter.com/LarkinPoe…

: Tonight our big watch through the MCU with the boys reached Doctor Strange. I do enjoy that one, …

: This is cool: 7-colour e-ink display for a Raspberry Pi. I can think of a bunch of things to do with …

: This story on tor.com is right up my street. I loved it. And apparently there are more to come. …

: Listening to The Incomparable, thinking I should watch Aliens this weekend. It’s been a while.

: It has been a week.

: Nine: “I don’t wear shirts.”

: Every year the clocks going back scunders me for days.

: A spent (we thought) LR44 button cell sitting on our mantelpiece all by itself just exploded. Bang, …

: Caught a gap in the rain, yesterday.

: Definitely autumnal this morning.

: Saw a big old Irish Wolfhound lolloping about in Leeds this morning. Day: made.

: Blue sky.

: Ooh. This is niiiiiiice. twitter.com/LarkinPoe…

: Went outside for the first time in several days (having been at home with an isolating younger child …

: I’m sure weekends are shorter than they used to be.

: I’d forgotten just how much fun this is, the track and the video: Weapon of Choice

: The Pacific Rim soundtrack makes even this morning’s administrivia dramatic. …

: I hadn’t really thought of brass band RATM covers as something I need in my life, but then …

: Youngest: “I heard it from [brother], who heard it from [brother’s friend], who heard it …

: Craster Harbour, towards Dunstanburgh Castle made tiny by the phonecam.

: Watching our youngest (nearly nine) working in Roblox Studio is reminding me of my days noodling in …

: “Boss! Boss! I know how we can sell more window blinds!”

: I suppose Facebook does provide the opportunity for the racists to show themselves for what they …

: I must stop looking at Facebook. It always leaves me raging at some racist I thought I had respect …

: PJ is right. twitter.com/pauljhold…

: How do they rise up? twitter.com/terryandr…

: This is not a bug, but a memory use optimization.

: Stonegate Road, Leeds.

: Our children just Do Not Get spoiler etiquette.

: Looks like a solid list of Hugo finalists: conzealand.nz/about/exp… Genuinely includes some …

: Moon.

: For the days we’re in, “kick at the darkness ‘til it bleeds daylight.” …

: Marvelling at how, for our family, our friends and our neighbourhood, WhatsApp and Zoom have quickly …

: “Somewhere in the darkness, the gambler he broke even.”

: The time has come to introduce the eldest to KotOR.

: Remote working life: when, on a video call with your boss, you take a massive cramp in your thigh, …

: In the bakery this morning, I asked for a slice of Battenberg to have after my lunch. The lady …

: Happy National Self-Own Day, UK 😞

: Had a moment and bought the boys a cheap looper pedal. I don’t regret it yet.

: Roundhay Park in New Year’s Day.

: I have opinions on the Honours system. My opinions are conflicting and not completely internally …

: 🎧 When both boys have new guitars 😱

: I’ve been to the cinema twice this weekend. Of the two films I’ve seen, wouldn’t …

: Just a handful of days left in 2019, and I’m only now discovering John Mayer’s version …

: It’s a pair of winter-ready squirrels hanging out on our front fence.

: Having been shopping for my sons’ Christmas gifts, it seems that these days you can get a …

: Turns out that if I put a # character in a title, it confuses the crap out of Jekyll and mistitles …

: Tree’s up 🌲

: Campaign for it to be customary for the owner of the trees to come and rake the leaves that fall in …

: Thinking about how Have I Got News For You still sets the standard for empty-chairing a politician. …

: Modifying a hand-me-down UNNAMED BRAND hoover attachment to fit our slightly newer model. …

: I’ve been unable to #makevember for the last week and a half thanks to general busyness, but …

: Everybody loves new notebook day.

: Very much enjoyed listening to The Incomparable talking about one of my favourite movies, Edge of …

: Uncomfortable as I may feel about the occasion, the firework show in Roundhay Park doesn’t …

: I revisited yesterday’s #makevember determined to get the batteries inside the jar. Sadly, even …

: A string of cheap Aldi LED skull lights left over from Hallowe’en makes for a very light-weight …

: That’s a birthday cake!

: Shaun the Sheep: Farmageddon was fantastic. Laugh out loud the whole way through, with a pleasingly …

: All dressed up and ready to go for the indoor season.

: Having to open the hex editor is rarely a good start to the day.

: Huh. One of the “other Marks who occasionally (unintentionally?) use my email address” has signed up …

: Did iTunes break “Play Later”? It now seems to do the same as “Play Next” 😞

: I think it might be time to put the shorts away for the winter.

: Gee. Thanks, iTunes.

: “Use your administrator privileges to merge this pull request” Click.

: I recently learned of (can’t remember from where, sorry) Nick Cave’s Red Hand Files, an email …

: Email: “Your Hue Bridge has been reset to factory defaults and removed from your account.” No …

: 🎵 Getting round to giving the new Taylor Swift a listen. That is some poppy loveliness.

: Having a little “Good grief, Kid A was nineteen years ago” moment.

: Experiencing Worldcon FOMO 😞

: Just catching up that Automattic is buying Tumblr. That’s an interesting development.

: Kirkcudbrightshire.

: Five boys on holiday, aged eight to thirteen. The thirteen year-old loves D&D. They’re now all …

: 📚 Somtimes you finish reading a book and are left with the realisation that it was something really …

: Woo! My tipping-bucket rainfall gauge has arrive. Plans proceed..

: My day would be going a bit more smoothly if Xcode wasn’t so fond if its wee spinning …

: Today is a Regina Spektor and Ben Folds singing “Dear Theodosia” kind of day. …

: ❤️ the recently-added “Viewed” checkbox on files in Github’s pull request review …

: The pharmacy is air conditioned. I might just stay here ❄️

: Conversation discussing our (presumed) soon-to-be prime minister, discussing anything he might …

: I bought a fan. The fan didn’t work. I took it back to the shop. I now have a different fan, that …

: Just finished Stranger Things 3. Now I’m waiting for my eyes to stop leaking 🥺

: Hi to the mother who dropped her kids off to school with the instruction to “Dominate at …

: I can hear my son downstairs videoing himself playing his Grade 1 Rock Guitar songs. Not going to …

: One more sleep.

: I didn’t even know floating solar was a thing. twitter.com/MikeHudem…

: “Dad, back then was it a luxury to have windows?” “… Back when?” “When you were a kid.”

: Jeepers, it’s getting warm ☀️

: Big garlic is big.

: Three weeks without lifting a bow and nursing a sore back, I wasn’t expecting much today. I …

: If I remember the dates right, it’s three years today since we moved back to the UK from Toronto …

: That (mixed) feeling when weeks of work is represented by one short line in the release notes.

: Total agreement with this. Being interrupted, switching contexts… That’s working in a team. …

: Pool empty and lessons cancelled after someone… polluted the environment.

: I have yet to accidentally set anything on fire today. That’s an improvement on other days …

: Slightly tempted to shift my blog from Jekyll to Hugo just so that I don’t have to fiddle with …

: We could count the ways this is funny. twitter.com/iannmcdon…

: 📚 This evening I read Tade Thompson’s The Murders of Molly Southbourne. Wow. That really was …

: Jeremy’s been watching Logan’s Run again. twitter.com/Jeremy_Hu…

: Well, hello there, new Divine Comedy album. I didn’t know about you.

: I read this going, “Yup… Yup… Yup…” When programmers’ string opinions meet the Real World™. …

: All the websites that republish StackOverflow content surrounded by their own ads and clog up the …

: Sits in a little metal tube for an hour, sharing the air with 80 other people. Gets sick. ✅

: Contemplating those going for the Tory leadership. Rory Stewart seems to have a history of being …

: Leaving the house before 6 is much less painful when it’s daylight.

: Camping in Wensleydale over the weekend. Sadly this weather didn’t last.

: www.buzzfeednews.com/article/k…

: Chills. twitter.com/SirPatSte…

: Found this wee boyo crawling round my office this morning. I’ve no idea what it is.

: All go at the Selby Open.

: “Of course I’m going to go for it” are clearly the words of someone who grasps the …

: I have questions.

: 🎙️ I’m a bit late to the party, but I really enjoyed Tim Ferriss interviewing Neil Gaiman. …

: This looks like a great lineup. Sad I won’t be able to make it. twitter.com/NIDevConf…

: Older child turns 10 today. Is this what getting old feels like?

: 🎵 I wanted to listen to something different today to what I’ve had lately. I’ve ended up …

: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-n… I don’t know what to say. I only met Lyra in person once or …

: I don’t know what the birds round here are eating this year, but getting the car clean nearly took a …

: 🎬 It’s a shame The Silence is such a dull film. I quite enjoyed the novel it’s based on.

: I successfully spent a Scottish banknote in an English shop. I am invincible! I can do anything!

: Looking north up Gare Loch this evening. Great view of the mountains.

: Words to live by. twitter.com/tdierks/s…

: SF starting to get political. Mustn’t have read much SF before… twitter.com/WIRED/sta…

: Nice to see BBC News getting their troll on a wee bit. www.bbc.co.uk/news/news…

: MS OneNote is pretty good, but I really hurt for the lack of proper Markdown support 😞

: Days since I accidentally typed “:w” in a Slack window: 0.

: Woo! Swag! For when I need distracted from politics, stickers!

: Another from Fountains Abbey. It’s a very peaceful place. Until my children started shouting 😬

: As above, so below.

: We took a trip to Fountains Abbey this afternoon. It was much bigger than I expected, both the ruins …

: So, I take it you all have watched the new Stranger Things trailer?

: 📚 These should be worth watching out for. The Themis Files were an excellent trilogy, and the recent …

: A lone nail, spotted in the wild.

: I have just learned that orange Smarties are orange-flavoured. At 38, how did I not know this?

: Is Tory party internal shenanigans not what got us into this entire mess in the first place? …

: Every time we talk about moving (or do move) from one project management product to another, it …

: OH: “I don’t need to get washed. I got washed on Wednesday.” #parenting

: 📚 I love when Kindle pre-orders drop and new books appear in my hand! Today is Elizabeth …

: “Far-left”. Ha. twitter.com/GOP/statu…

: Oh no. It’s World Book Day next week.

: There’s a broken tile on our bathroom floor and, when someone stands on it, it sounds exactly like a …

: Sneaky spot for a geocache, down a wee entry in Whitby.

: Also, what is the point of butterfly? Every other stroke seems to have a use or purpose. Butterfly …

: I will never not chuckle at my son’s swimming instructor standing by the pool demonstrating the …

: Today was a cracking afternoon to start getting back into the swing of things for the outdoor …

: It was a pretty dreich afternoon at Eccup, but the geocaching was successful.

: It’s Whitby Abbey. No sign of any vampire, though.

: I’ve never seen it in action, but I have seen this roller parked in different places, so I think it …

: It’s not apparent from this picture just how busy Roundhay Park was yesterday afternoon. It was the …

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: Creepy dog robots are better at doors than I am. twitter.com/OnlyInBOS…

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: Too many pens inked. I should clean some out 😞

: 📚 This is interesting. Ararat was great fun. twitter.com/DEADLINE/…

: Everybody loves new notebook day.

: A chilly evening out.

:

: It was a little bit frosty this morning. Still is, seven hours later.

: Older son: “The book I’m reading is really old. It was published in 2003.” Me: 😶

: Not pictured: the doughnut the size of my whole hand.

: I do like the look of these, especially the Pelham Blue. twitter.com/cultpens/…

: Adds Doctor Who GIF to the pull request description 👍

: 🎬 Hard to express just how much I enjoyed Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. It looks incredible, …

: Wee problem with working remotely today: when I’ve lost my voice, the mic doesn’t pick me up …

: The first snow of the year started to fall.

: 😱 It’s just started snowing here.

: More Sagrada this evening. We quite like it, and it’s a very nicely produced game.

: The gas is off today, so I’m huddled round a candle for warmth 😃 I’d light the fire, but it runs on …

: An old satchel was in a box since a house-move or two ago. I found this in the bag 😁

: Since the gas was off at home, I spent the morning somewhere warmer. With a rather nice breakfast, …

: Dice from a new game: Sagrada.

: Over Kirkgate Market, Leeds.

: I can’t remember if I posted this. I meant to. The Mournes, from the centre of the maze at …

: One more from in and around Tollymore last week.

: Bye, Liverpool!

: A small splash of colour from Tollymore last Friday.

: The first bauble of 2019.

: Trassey Road, Newcastle.

: Whenever I read The Gruffalo, in my head Fox is voiced by James Mason. Just me?

: Responded to a Brexit post on Facebook. Why did I do that? I know better than to do that.

: Probably credibility-damaging observation: My niece is sitting here watching Frozen and Let it Go …

: Well-played to the Amazon delivery person who decided our black wheelie bin was both a sensible and …

: OH: “I’m about to make this experience as rich as Jeff Bezos.”

: I’m four episodes in to Netflix’s The Mist series. So far, not one likeable character, but balanced …

: According to Goodreads, my Year in Books was only one long. More of a Year in Book. Which …

: Good morning. Happy Monday, folks.

: Fletching my arrows the night before a competition. Is that typically organised for me?

: 🎵 This afternoon’s debugging has been brought to you by Apple Music’s Essential 90s Soft …

: Good job, Internet, keeping me free of Crimes of Grindelwald spoilers. Now I’ve seen it: 😮

: This sounds good to me. twitter.com/monzo/sta…

: That thing where you log out of App Store Connect and back in again and the build stalled in …

: A watched build is never processed…

: 📚 New Rivers of London, today. Yeooo!

: “Mrs May. “We handed you a pile of cold horse droppings on the understanding that you would change …

: Downside of working from home: spending lunch peeling the spuds to get the stew on for tonight. …

: /me declares RSS bankruptcy.