Okay, here's 18 months worth of over-engineered foolishness. It's (mostly) brilliant* * any advice on the strapline is welcome / needed

Plundering

Balanced news reporting

After 6 weeks of super-busy weekends, I finally got time to relax with some code…

My son has set the house up with a Pi-Hole. It’s a raspberry pi running Ad blocking on the whole house’s network. We’re a few hours in and we’re seeing effects, as well as some teething problems.

"CAN I SUE MY BEEKEEPER NEIGHBOR?"

Programming isn't so much about conveying to machines instructions for how to do a thing. It's more about building clear mental models of the thing. That's the hard part. Writing the code and running it can be a tool to shape your own thinking.

The one thing to read today to put you in a bleak mood...

This is a great explanation of why products and services die…

If you use your Twitter identity to sign on to other websites, stop now.

Waving above the parapet to wish everyone a fantastic day... and to quietly mention that midtempo.net is Christmas-music-free and on gentle 'til 12. x