I noticed a few weeks ago that my kitchen Echo Show was constantly uploading data at about 1.5Mbps, which is not insignificant. I disconnected it from the wifi, and when reconnected it seemed to stop...
This article is nonsense, it was written by ChatGPT for the Chrizzle-Mizzle card in Don't Get Got YOU GOT GOT The origins of the term "Chrizzle-Mizzle" as a name for the Christmas period can...
Over on the hiyacar blog I've written up how and why we moved that blog away from Medium to Jekyll hosted on Netlify and using Cloudflare workers to proxy through the main domain. Go check...
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Play Tetris & Snake in your browser, at the same time. This is hard, really hard! Good luck A cool little macOS menubar app, Up Next, to show when/where your next meeting is. Space...
I have recently returned to using Firefox as my main browser. I had been a Chrome user for many years. I switched shortly after it launched because it seemed much faster (remember when V8 was...
The relationship between time, the sun and the earth seems simple, but it is far from that. The blog post, Earth and Sun from Bartosz Ciechanowski, goes deep in to this relationship complete with...
I listen to podcasts, a lot of podcasts. Over the last few years I’ve subscribed to a number of them that I listen to in the hours I’m travelling (after school dropoff, or commuting to/from...
A recent post from David Thompson, My favourite Git Commit, hit the top of Hacker News today and I thought I should jot down a few thoughts. When working on a small project alone, the...
This time: Flash, email, deep work & nuclear weapons Flash is responsible for the internet's most creative era 🔗 Flash may well be dead but it had a good run and was responsible for some...