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  • August 24th, 2026

    Half The Playlist Away

    WordPress 7.1 was released last week. One of contributions to this release was the new playlist block. Here it is in action:

    This was a really fun project. I enjoyed working with my friend Jerry on the first version of the block, and we have a lot more updates coming in the next version.

    It was also really satisfying to with David who built the Waveform player library we used. David has been helpful and responsive to us thoughout this process and it’s great that this open source library is now available to anyone using WordPress.

    The song in the playlist above is a new one, written for anyone who has family a long way away.

  • August 13th, 2026

    New York Joke

    Why is Minnesota known as New York’s little sister?

    Because that’s where the Minneapolis

  • July 5th, 2026

    July 2026

    Music

    Books

    • You Don’t Have to Be Mad to Work Here – Benji Waterhouse
    • Sovereign – C.J. Sansom
    • Boundaries – Henry Cloud, John Townsend
    • Getting Real: Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson, Matthew Linderman
    • Sprint – Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, Braden Kowitz
    • The Loving Spirit – Daphne du Maurier (started 2021!)

    Screen

    • Little House On The Prairie (2026)
    • Ann Droid
    • Wuthering Heights (2026)
    • It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley
    • Michael (2026)

  • June 30th, 2026

    Garden Pump Track

    Over the last few years we’ve been working on a pump track in the garden. This was how it looked in April 2026. It’s already changed quite a bit since then!

  • June 17th, 2026

    A boring joke

    What do you call it when you have patiently listened to dull tales of burrowing South African warthogs?

    I bore Boer bore boar bore

  • June 5th, 2026

    June 2026

    Music

    Books

    Ways Of Attending – Iain McGilchrist
    The Rose Field – Philip Pullman
    The Kraken Wakes – John Wyndham
    Dark Fire – C.J. Sansom

  • May 8th, 2026

    April 2026

    Music

    Books

    Intermezzo -Sally Rooney
    Ayoade on Ayoade – Richard Ayoade
    The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas – John Boyne

    Screen

    The Other Bennet Sister

  • May 5th, 2026

    May 2026

    Music

    Books

    • Humble Pi – Matt Parker
    • High Voltage – Jeff Apter
    • The Amber Spyglass – Philip Pullman (again)
  • April 16th, 2026

    March 2026

    Music

    Books

    The Traitors Circle – Jonathan Freedland
    438 Days – Jonathan Franklin
    Mountains Of The Mind – Robert Macfarlane
    Trouble With Lichen – John Wyndham

    Screen

    Small Prophets Season 1
    Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
    Salem’s Lot
    Rental Family
    Black Mirror Season 3

  • March 16th, 2026

    Latin Joke

    What did Julius Caesar say when he saw the small undernourished pagans of Britain?

    Weeny weedy witchy!

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