I think I’m a Quaker? It’s the best way I can describe my relationship to my faith. I say I ‘think’ I’m a Quaker because I’m not a member of any meeting. I’ve worshipped (sporadically) for the last few years in an online meeting organised by Woodbrooke, but even that isn’t a ‘real’ meeting. Technically,…
Sipping coffee and scrolling through my feed reader this morning, I stumbled across a link to A social filesystem on Piccalilli’s The Index. The inner workings of Bluesky, or more accurately, AT protocol, have always been quite opaque to me, but this post laid it out with excellent clarity. There’s a little more to it…
A colleague mentioned, the other day, the idea of being able to generate a complete website in just ten minutes. The reference was made in passing during a wider discussion on AI, and while it wasn’t the main focus of the conversation, it stuck with me.
I have a particular fondness for hopeful science fiction. The sort of thing that could be called solar punk. Part of that is probably the cosiness of it. How could anyone resist the charm of Becky Chambers’s tea monks, cycling from town to town, listening with care and attention, preparing salving brews?