Writing: 2018
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‘Justified’ season three
We are still enjoying it. Lots of fun.
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‘The Sinner’
Season one. Lots of flashbacks and squinting.
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‘Roma’
By Alfonso Cuarón.
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‘The Heart is a Lonely Hunter’
I enjoyed Carson McCullers’ novel.
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Some movies
Widows, Disobedience and Sorry to Bother You.
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The Mace Wielder’s Regenerations
It’s nice to see a new regeneration of the Mace Wielder.
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Thomas’s hotels
On the BBC’s A Hotel for the Super Rich & Famous, the second season of Thomas Kochs’ Fancy Hotels.
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Marzipan mince pie recipe
At Christmas I often make some mince pies and I always use the same recipe because it seems to work. It has a lemony pastry and bonus marzipan.
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The People’s Front of Consumer Financial Protection
Moving two words in an agency name potentially costing industry $300 million.
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Knowing one thing in depth…
A quote by Mike Johnston.
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Search forms
What are the best, most accessible ways to make website search forms? I tried to find out. Here are some examples.
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Your letter transitions
On how odd post boxes, bank branches and public libraries will seem.
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IDLES
No weeknotes because I had a cold. But I listened to IDLES and they’re good.
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w/e 25 November 2018
An LRB letter, Portlandia season one, and Red Dead Redemption 2.
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w/e 18 November 2018
Fightmilk, Bad Moves and The Beths; Wagtail and Django; and ‘Wildlife’.
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w/e 11 November 2018
Art Brut; ‘Treme’; ‘The Bisexual’; and ‘Red Dead Redemption 2’.
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w/e 4 November 2018
Anthony Beevor’s ‘The Second World War’ and ‘Red Dead Redemption 2’.
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Lots of charts
I’ve added a couple of pages of bar charts to the site.
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w/e 28 October 2018
Anni Albers at Tate Modern; ‘No Offence’; ‘Vanity Fair’; ‘Cold War’; and Ask MetaFilter highlights.
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w/e 21 October 2018
Money Stuff and weeknotes.
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w/e 14 October 2018
‘Can You Feel It’ and some re-discovered house music; ‘A Star is Born’, ‘Phonogram: The Singles Club’; an acting class; ‘Killing Eve’; and Mark Kozelek at Union Chapel.
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w/e 7 October 2018
The internet; ‘Wired’ is 25; Phoebe Bridgers and Mark Kozelek; ‘Beast’ by Paul Kingsnorth; Salon Collective’s showcase; and Docker.
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w/e 30 September 2018
My first paid acting work; ‘17c’ at the Old Vic; ‘Trust’; and Mastodon compared to Twitter.
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w/e 23 September 2018
The Festival of Maintenance and ‘Lucky’.
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WorldSkills.org’s new website
A recent project I worked on launched recently… a new version of the WorldSkills website.
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w/e 16 September 2018
‘Clouds of Sils Maria’; W. G. Sebald’s ‘Austerlitz’; ordering an Apple Watch; and season four of ‘Silicon Valley’.
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w/e 9 September 2018
Corporationpop; more paper scanning; ‘Distant Voices, Still Lives’; ‘Leave No Trace’; and the sound of official American phone calls.
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w/e 2 September 2018
Holiday, ‘Halt and Catch Fire’ season one, ‘The Americans’ season five, the end of ‘Keeping Faith’, and ‘Familiar’ by J. Robert Lennon.
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w/e 26 August 2018
Document scanning, the Hobby Horse podcast, ‘Mildred Pierce’, Twitter, and slowing down.
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w/e 19 August 2018
Giving up on the Culture novels, ‘Mark Kermode’s Secrets of Cinema’, ‘Hang Ups’, more Mastodon, and a Co-op follow-up.
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Buying a washing machine from the Co-op
The good and mostly bad things that occurred during the process of buying a washing machine from the Co-op
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f/e 12 August 2018
‘Keeping Faith’, ‘The Five Billion Pound Super Sewer’, some Ask MetaFilter questions, and Twitter vs Mastodon.
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w/e 29 July 2018
‘Wolf Hall’ and realistic plays, ‘Brighton Rock’, Jenny Holzer, weeknotes.
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Facing the Other Way: The Story of 4AD by Martin Aston
My thoughts on the book about 4AD records, plus a 556 track playlist.
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w/e 22 July 2018
Nothing much to say this week, but here’s one thing that stuck in my mind. From Stewart Lee’s…
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w/e 15 July 2018
Play reading, ‘Optic Nerve’, a little Ask MeFi.
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w/e 8 July 2018
Ellsworth Kelly’s photographs; writing and filming a scene for my showreel; more Ask MeFi questions; and a happy video.
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f/e 1 July 2018
Irrepairability, Ask MetaFilter, and ‘Flowers’ season two.
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Total Perspective Vortex in D3.js
I made a sort of Total Perspective Vortex, from Hitchhiker’s Guide, using JavaScript.
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UK parliament demographics chart
I wondered how the ages of MPs and members of the House of Lords compared to the UK population so I made some charts.
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w/e 17 June 2018
A brief one this week because my MacBook’s keyboard has decided to pack in again…
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w/e 10 June 2018
People rediscovering Crazy Walls and Today’s Guardian; Half Man Half Biscuit; and finishing ‘Uncharted’ 1.
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How Soon is Now by Richard King
A few notes about, and quotes from, the book, plus a long Spotify playlist of tracks mentioned.
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w/e 3 June 2018
A new site for my work, and swimming lanes compared to shared space road designs.
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‘The Actor’s Art and Craft’ by William Esper and Damon DiMarco
My notes on the book that recounts a year’s worth of Esper teaching his variation of the Meisner acting technique.
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w/e 28 May 2018
David Byrne’s ‘How Music Works’, Ben Moor’s ‘Pronoun Trouble’, and ‘The Split’.
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w/e 20 May 2018
‘Uncharted’ 1; Elmore Leonard’s ‘Glitz’; Chamberlin, Powell and Bon; and ‘Silicon Valley’ season three.
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Invalidating items from Django’s cache
I poked around at Django’s per-site and per-view caching to work out why I couldn’t invalidate pages from the cache. I eventually worked out how to do it.
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f/e 13 May 2018
‘Fortitude’ season two, 1980s ‘Top of the Pops’, and reading Iain M. Banks’ ‘Consider Phlebas’.
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A kind of modern desperation
On whether writing weeknotes could help me get back into more frequent blogging again. (Answer: they didn’t, quite.)
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Exploring City of London Councillors data
I scraped data about the City of London’s councillors, and their interests and gifts, and made a site to browse and search it using Datasette.
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A nice picture
On liking images that are broken, Pure CSS Francine, and Afghan war rugs.
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Mike’s poetry and heart
Mike Johnston on The Online Photographer wrote a nice piece about the things he misses from the photography practices of his younger days, and much of it feels very similar to how I sometimes feel about the internet.
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Sara Renberg - ‘Night Sands’
I’m enjoying this album which possibly isn’t like That Dog. And I liked Leif Vollebekk too.
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Fortitude, Shetland and This Country
On season one of ‘Fortitude’, season four of ‘Shetland’, and ‘This Country’
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Describing events in code
Describing how I thought about writing code to catalogue 28 years of visits to cinemas, theatres, gigs, etc. and the decisions I made.
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28 years of events
I’ve catalogued 28 years of visits to cinemas, theatres, gigs, etc on my site. Here’s a summary of it all.
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Run out of metaphors
On Phoebe Bridgers’ album ‘Stranger in the Alps’ and comparing some of the lyrics to Mark Kozelek.
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w/e 25 March 2018
Martha, ‘Transparent’, ‘Call Me By Your Name’, and ‘Always Coming Home’.
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f/e 18 March 2018
Trying to combine two kinds of acting, and ‘Transparent’.
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Mini music genres: UK music press
Some songs that mention the ‘NME’, ‘Melody Maker’, etc.
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w/e 4 March 2018
Different levels of programming knowledge, and ‘Lady Bird’.
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w/e 25 February 2018
Museum in a Box, ‘The Shape of Water’, ‘Search Party’ and ‘Battlefield 1’.
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Save the Cat! by Blake Snyder
My notes on “The Last Book on Screenwriting That You’ll Ever Need”.
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w/e 18 February 2018
‘The Memory of Water’, ‘Red Star Over Russia’, The Story 2018, and quitting things.
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w/e 11 February 2018
More acting classes, part-way through another laborious personal project, season six of ‘Spiral’, and episode recaps.
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w/e 4 February 2018
‘Feud: Bette and Joan’, ‘What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?’, ‘Game of Thrones’ season seven, and Femi Temowo and Engines Orchestra.
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w/e 28 January 2018
‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’, ‘Moeder’ and line-learning.
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Domains for good
Is there something worthwhile we could do with expired domain names?
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f/e 21 Jan 2018
Two plays, season one of ‘Justified’, a new term of acting classes, and a “workshop”.
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The “stuff” we create
I’ve rewritten the site moving from Movable Type and PHP to Django. It’s taken months of work over several years.
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w/e 7 January 2018
‘Good Time’, ‘The Florida Project’, ‘Spiral’, ‘McMafia’ and nearly getting some code live.
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Hello RSS people
The RSS feeds might break when I change the site’s code soon.