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Writing: 2020

  1. 2020

    A look back at what my year consisted of.

  2. w/e 2020-12-27

    Christmas, car, We Are Who We Are, Industry and Worzel Gummidge.

  3. w/e 2020-12-20

    Christmas tunes from The Just Joans and The Burning Hell, and my most popular Stack Overflow questions.

  4. w/e 2020-12-13

    Sylvan Esso, Cloudflare Web Analytics, Twin Peaks: The Return, and a robin.

  5. w/e 2020-12-06

    Mice again; Sparky the dog; Bookshop.org, Michel Faber’s The Book of Strange New Things, Stewart Lee and “Stewart Lee”, and The Good Lord Bird.

  6. w/e 2020-11-29

    Fog, stollen, DNA.

  7. w/e 2020-11-22

    All this continues; Gomorrah season two; 12 Puppies and Us, Saving Britain’s Pubs with Tom Kerridge, and The American Version Of The Office.

  8. w/e 2020-11-15

    The Burning Hell, Audio Science Review, and Twitter threads.

  9. w/e 2020-11-08

    Remember Sports, office view, NFL highlights, Gomorrah season one.

  10. w/e 2020-11-01

    More unpacking, Roadkill and Last Dance.

  11. w/e 2020-10-25

    The Flumps, more moving, mid-life crisis, Ghosts, and mice.

  12. w/e 2020-10-18

    Library Takeout by MicrOpaqu3, categories of books, blogs vs newsletters, Empire Falls and Skate Kitchen.

  13. Blogroll Keepers #6

    Everyday Commentary, Mat Segal, Monomythical, No Mercy / No Malice, Uni-Watch, and Urban Technology at University of Michigan.

  14. w/e 2020-10-11

    Deer and a bat; satisfying activities; mid90s; and The Tunnel.

  15. w/e 2020-10-04

    More unpacking, heating, city sizes, bird baths.

  16. w/e 2020-09-27

    All our stuff arrived from London and everything went fine.

  17. w/e 2020-09-20

    The Just Joans; Unreel; sorting out too much stuff; Left Bank by Agnès Poirier; Apple Watch faces; Strike: Lethal White; and Prodigal Son.

  18. w/e 2020-09-13

    End of the holiday, I Hate Suzie, TwinsthenewTrend, and blogging about blogging.

  19. w/e 2020-09-06

    Leanne Betasamosake Simpson; London; magazines and TV from the before times; Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein; and My Brilliant Friend season two.

  20. w/e 2020-08-30

    Driving across England; no Webmentions; The Plot Against America; and Watchmen.

  21. w/e 2020-08-23

    Fiona Apple; apples; gutters; addresses; Starship prompt; Nanny Gunter; and The New Pope.

  22. w/e 2020-08-16

    We’re staying in Herefordshire; imagining deleting everything; ugh, men; Perry Mason; and What We Do In the Shadows.

  23. w/e 2020-08-09

    Wildlife, running slower, Chernobyl, John Brunner’s The Sheep Look Up, and whether there’s as much play and making things as there used to be.

  24. w/e 2020-08-03

    Holidaying among “all this”; Alfred Döblin’s Berlin Alexanderplatz; and My Brilliant Friend season one.

  25. w/e 2020-07-26

    Indietracks, I May Destroy You and Enlightened.

  26. Comments are back

    I’ve turned commenting back on, plus some optional technical details.

  27. w/e 2020-07-19

    An Ethan Hein track, Strava, sheep and cows, and Reply Guys.

  28. w/e 2020-07-12

    BAD MOVES again; running 5K; Z Reviews; and Babylon Berlin season 3.

  29. w/e 2020-07-05

    Untenable by BAD MOVES, The Shepherdess, Quotebacks, macOS Catalina, and Gary Lutz.

  30. w/e 2020-06-28

    Chris Dorley-Brown’s lockdown photos; not staring; working in public or not; manually finishing videos; Sharp Objects; and The Trip to Greece.

  31. Blogroll Keepers #5

    Atlas Minor, Garbage Day, Live Laugh Blog, Perils of the Overworld, and Vittles.

  32. w/e 2020-06-21

    SIXTYEIGHT2OHFIVE; blackbirds; too scroll; master vs main; Pinboard; Succession; and Staged.

  33. w/e 2020-06-14

    The Long World War I; post-apocalyptic peoples; statues; season one of The Tunnel; delightful technology.

  34. What was it like?

    Looking at contemporary blog posts about SXSW 2000 to remember what blogging was like twenty years ago.

  35. w/e 2020-06-07

    More wildlife, moving websites, The Crown season three.

  36. w/e 2020-05-31

    Dazed birds, O.J.: Made in America, and a tweet.

  37. w/e 2020-05-24

    RAKTA + DEAFKIDS, a clean desktop, Westworld season three, Lonely Mountains: Downhill, screaming.

  38. w/e 2020-05-17

    Slaughter Beach, Dog; Westworld season two; and The Price of Everything.

  39. The Mystery of the $190

    Why did I receive $190 from Amazon Associates, all from a few days in February?

  40. w/e 2020-05-10

    Face masks, an online pharmacy, Homeland season eight, Westworld season one, and literally show me a healthy person.

  41. w/e 2020-05-03

    1995, a remote NFL Draft, Folk Horror Revival: Field Studies, Baghdad Central and Normal People.

  42. Tracking reading

    After Tom, Matt, Jeremy, etc thought about how to share data about reading books, here are some more thoughts.

  43. w/e 2020-04-26

    Some music, some internet, some gardening.

  44. w/e 2020-04-19

    Birthday video chats, iTunes, DEVS, lockdown.

  45. w/e 2020-04-12

    Time; blogs and newsletters; Pluralistic; exercise; Newsnight; fixing a bug.

  46. Weird Web Share API

    The Web Share API is very nice but it doesn’t behave quite as expected.

  47. w/e 2020-04-05

    Another week, apparently.

  48. What’s the muggiest mug?

    If you were to buy one new mug, the most muggy of mugs, what would it be?

  49. w/e 2020-03-29

    Bread, The Crown, not much else.

  50. w/e 2020-03-22

    Sociable isolation, ME REX, Randolph’s Leap, walking videos and all this.

  51. Buy on Bandcamp today

    Today, Friday 20th March, Bandcamp are waiving fees so more money goes to artists. Here’s some music there that I love.

  52. w/e 2020-03-15

    The School, working with PHP, fraudulent awards, cocooning, The Gold-Laden Sheep and the Sacred Mountain, and Bait.

  53. w/e 2020-03-08

    Isolation, some Twitter, Parasite, The Lighthouse, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Snowfall season three, and Doctor Who.

  54. Nothing or all

    On Craig Mod discussing writing about the benefits of automatically deleting tweets

  55. w/e 2020-03-01

    Mouse update, Yoga with Adriene, joining the local gym, Richard Yates by Tao Lin, and The Cordillera of Dreams.

  56. Blogroll Keepers #4

    More blogs and newsletters that are newish to me, that I like.

  57. w/e 2020-02-23

    mxmtoon, Better Oblivion Community Center, a mouse update, The Split, Good Omens.

  58. w/e 2020-02-16

    A hurt knee, videos for migraines, Agency, reading, Money Stuff on Zume, The Knick season two, and The Trial of Christine Keeler.

  59. w/e 2020-02-09

    Mice, social contact, Succession, and Wisting.

  60. w/e 2020-02-02

    A sign. Isolation. Herefordshire. The End of the F***ing World series one. A Patrick Mahomes run. Excellent TikTok dancers. Thanks for websites.

  61. w/e 2020-01-26

    Modern JavaScript, The Idiot by Elif Batuman, car support, and Ken Burns’ Country Music.

  62. w/e 2020-01-19

    Richard Dawson, Herefordshire Board Gamers, Little Women, Ad Astra.

  63. w/e 2020-01-12

    Still settling in to the new house; The Idiot and imagining futures; and Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle.

  64. w/e 2020-01-05

    We moved to Herefordshire.