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A frankly damning look inside the systems meant to hold the NYPD to account, centred around a horrific tale of racial profiling within Brooklyn on Halloween. How this system exists in the …
My new PC is up and running and starting to be "just right" (we'll get to further details later, I promise), so one of the big "new" things I've got for the new year is a subscription to Adobe CC - …
There's isn't much to add to the above GIF, other than that I think it's a really cleverly designed and demonstrated concept. The idea of CMYK printing is nothing new to me; I've been interested in …
I get a fair amount of spam posted to theAdhocracy. For the most part, it's easy to spot and formulaic (though admittedly increasingly intelligent). Spam comments either thank me for helping solve a …
It's that odd time of year, the bit between Christmas and New Year where time doesn't really flow like you expect it to. No one knows what day of the week it is and everything seems to be …
An amalgamation of all the data you get fed at the end of a year. From Spotify Wrapped, to Google tracking, to my own beer journal, a look back over 2019 from a (mildly) data-centred viewpoint.
Notes from the 2020 Jamstack Conf. Some interesting dives in the Jamstack community and various applications of Jamstack technologies, with tweet threads as usual.
Nasal passages and jaws are narrowing, overbites are becoming more extreme, palates are rising, skulls are shrinking. The result is less face to fit everything into, meaning crowded dentition, …
Our trip to the Outer Hebrides a few years ago has made us incredibly wistful to return at some point, so this list of great food spots is …
So that previously mentioned discussion around the problems of having a "single identity online" led me to this brilliant dissection of the impact social media had on social identity. From the …
A lot of blame is heaped on the near-mythical "algorithm", but is that really just an easy scapegoat for actual societal issues?
A(n expectedly) brilliant article from Jeremy highlighting some of the absurdities underlying our current privacy nightmare called "behavioural advertising". Most …
The utterly bizarre tale of East Grinstead, a small town in Sussex that appears to be cosplaying as the fictional town of Twin Peaks. It …
We've been in Cumbria now for more than long enough to know we didn't bring anything rotten with us. Combine that with a brief period where most people we know are currently off work (including …
An interesting overview of the history of note-taking, specifically as it relates to the concept of a commonplace book and the myriad related forms, including the most recent idea of a …
I've been doing quite a bit of research into European accessibility legislation, so this write-up from Bogdan on the subtle differences in the WAD between Norway and the EU was very …
Need to self-host your front end away from the "modern" services like Netlify or Vercel? As both continue to get a little sketchier with time, it's definitely something I'm having to …
Somehow, I've been writing these little blurbs for an entire decade now. What better time to take a look back at how this site has evolved.
A comprehensive review of 2025, through the lens of the data I captured (or had captured about me).
When I first saw that Josh had written about using sprite sheets on the web, I thought: isn't that a little outdated? Wasn't it pretty much obsoleted by actual animation APIs? But there are some …