tredford01
tredford01
@tredford01@tomredford.eu

🇪🇺 🇧🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🌻🖖🏻 Interested in Europe, technology, creativity, cooking, knitting & Star Trek. All toots in a strictly personal capacity (he/him)

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  • Storytelling

    I was struck by two things I encountered online this week: a video about a bell foundry and an interview with a fashion designer. I suppose both subjects lend themselves to my interests in some vague way, but not very closely.

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  • We’ve had a surprising flurry of snow here today, lending a tangible note to this beautiful post. I think I’d half noticed the newly lingering daylight at the end of the work days last week and the little signals—the geese arriving in the garden behind my office, the start of the hay fever season—of our

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  • Nostalgia for a Possible Future

    Personal computing in the ’90s and early ’00s moved at a rapid pace. At least, that’s how I remember it. School curricula, not so much. Around 2003, I was being taught about the merits of dot-matrix printers, how to choose between a command line interface and graphical user interface, and the intricacies of network topologies.…

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  • Zurich a quite pretty at night!

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  • This felt temporary when I saw it in December

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  • Asian Water Monitor Lizard in Bangkok’s Lumpini Park. Parks here have a little more nature than I’m used to!

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  • Making My Site More Social

    As a bit of an experiment in decentralised social media, I’ve made some updates to my site so that I can use it for federated posts to Mastodon and Pixelfed. The idea is to find a way to ‘own’ my own data, especially photos. I’m broadly happy with how it is working, but a glitch…

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  • Photo Post – Rhubarb Galette

    First attempt at rhubarb galette. Slightly messy, but delicious!

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  • Some photos of the blossom in the Vrijbroekpark earlier this year. Posting as an experiment in photo sharing to Pixelfed and Mastodon.

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