: I keep putting minimalist Markdown in my Mastodon posts because I’m eternally optimistic that …
: The grandkids are playing around with my old Pentax ME film camera. It’s a great opportunity to …
: Stop comparing Mastodon and Threads/Bluesky. It's a category mistake. These things are not apples and apples. Mastodon is a grassroots alternative to the ugly silos of …
: I’m bookmarking this to return in twelve months and see how the fascist theocracy is coming along. …
: It was a bit of a weird joke in 2016, but WTF America? Again? My condolences. The fact it could even …
: I was a bit pissed off the other day when I looked up an old Twitter thread to find it had been …
: We arrived at our cabin to find a 2001 centenary dollar coin on the doormat. I can only assume the …
: Humidity control of a bathroom fan in Home Assistant I recently decided I wanted a Home Assistant automation to turn on the bathroom fan. I already had …
: Vietnamese restaurant in Balaclava, Melbourne. One wall is the remnants of an outside wall with the …
: Random dinosaur fossil found at Twin Reefs, Victoria. Appears to be a Pareidoliasaur.
: Cray-1 vs iPhone 13 I remember when the Cray-1 was the iconic supercomputer of the day but I’d heard that modern …
: I just spent way too much time tracking down the source of a bird call that’s been haunting me …
: There is nothing more annoying than half-hearing South Park from the next room.
: Gina Rinehart says renewable energy could use one-third of Australia’s prime agricultural land. Is …
: It’s a delightful morning and I’ve managed to get out the door for a walk for the second …
: Sigh. Just got my first Mastodon spam. It was really dumb spam, but I clicked on it because …
: I guess I’m not starting the bonfire any time soon…
: Seriously FaceBook? Putting a link to my blog article is “spam”? That’s kind of …
: Beeper is the Black Knight of chat clients – Apple keeps hacking off limbs but they’re …
: I’m collecting alternative names so I don’t have to say “X, formerly Twitter”. So far I’ve found: …
: Good grief. These guys are like some one-dimensional super-villain in a crappy B movie. …
: The five second time machine I was walking along the Warburton Trail the other day and I passed through a grove of pine trees. …
: Here’s an excellent video from @karpathy@sigmoid.social with some intriguing ways to think …
: Google Assistant seems to be doing a HAL 9000… Ever since Google’s started cutting back on that …
: I can’t seem to find Elon Musk’s Mastodon handle to follow. Please advise.
: Today's rabbit-hole - the IndieWeb and Micro.blog Over a week ago I read this article by Cory Doctorow and it sparked a cascade of neurons that have …
: Wow, that was a whole new rabbit-hole. I wanted to consolidate my identity, cross-post to Mastodon …
: Dance like nobody's watching, blog like nobody's reading I like to write and I’d like to get better at it, but if you think you have to come up with …
: Merlynston Primary School, 1942-43 My dad, Edgar (Ted) Slinger, found these photos and thought they would be of interest to anyone who …
: ❝And, in the end...❞ Yes, that’s us. Sometimes it feels like I’m still living in the seventies. Well... a bit. My adult …
: An Autumn day It’s Autumn and it’s a Friday. In Melbourne that can mean a dreary end to the week, but …
: In which I get teary over an archive of Byte magazine covers Sigh. I came across this archive of all the Byte magazine covers which some energetic soul has …
: Mount Buffalo Chalet, 1952 My Dad asked me to scan some photos taken when he was working as a maintenance carpenter at Mount …
: Kids Cant Use Computers and This Is Why Consumer Electronics Sucks I saw an article today called Kids Can’t Use Computers… And This Is Why It Should Worry You and it …