Oracy - talk is cheap but group work is costly
For years, I have struggled with ‘group work’ in lessons. And, I’d admit that that was born out of a sense of control and desire to manage the behaviour in the classroom effectively. You can monitor…
Last Spring Shows
Beatrix first came to work with me at Circus Juventas when she was six days old. She went to her first spring shows when she was not quite 3 months old, and loved the lights. She attended open houses…
043 - sibling rivalry
over the years, I've found myself with a couple of sisters, whom I hold very dear to my heart. i think it's easy for people like us to forget what familial love actually feels like, how wonderful it…
3 Tanks Short of Oxygen
This guy on discord showed the server a wilderness video and extreme sport mash-up you'd usually find on smoking ads through the screen of a gym TV, mentioning how awesome it suddenly looked after…
Randoming on May 3, 2026 👋🏻⚰️🌤️🥤🎂
Thoughts without a pattern, again.
Week 18 Digest
I have finished moving!!!!!
Things to read this week: happy May
Every decision about a school is one that *someone* cared enough to make. I am always grateful for those who chose to ensure there are springtime flowers. I took a second outside of a policy meeting…
#wochenrueckblick KW 18 / 2026 – short
Kurze Arbeitswoche und kurze Hosen. Das fasst die Woche ganz gut zusammen. Viel gelaufen (heute in kurz!), etwas geschwommen, gut gegessen … ziemlich solide alles so. Deshalb short und knapp: …
My Mirror is Surely Alive
By Dorkface Rickens Ready or not, the future is here! This evening, I installed a new technology in my bathroom called a "mirror." I was excited to see what this could do, and skeptical of the claims…
🗓️ Primeiro trimestre de 2026 — Recap Mensal
Já são quatro meses sem fazer recapitulação mensal, os logs mensais foram abandonados. Finalmente voltei a fazer. Eu gosto muito desse formato. Ainda tenho vontade de fazer algumas mudanças na forma…
D7066
That’s crazy. 0,9% is crazy, I have no clue what I may have done incorrectly. But we will see, maybe things have changed overnight. Hope everything will work out.
The Second Half Has Different Rules
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Frank Sinatra, Donald Trump and My Partner
It's kind of embarrassing. Donald J. Trump was my business and character reference for my investigations firm, Union Associates, when, in the 1980s, I applied for government contracts. But Frank…
Weeknotes: April 27–May 2, 2026
Monday, April 27 The New Pornographers are playing El Club in Detroit. I last saw them in 2014 on the Brill Bruisers tour and I'm surprised how much better they sound tonight in a smaller venue with…
You Know What To Do. So Why Can't You Move?
You Know What To Do. So Why Can't You Move? Jwilde Sun, 05/03/2026 - 15:08
Hannah St Hotel, Southbank
MELBOURNE | Hannah St Hotel is the third hotel under the TFE banner, and the first in Melbourne. Tucked away in a wedge-shaped building next to the Kings Way overpass, the entrance to the $150…
Rhythm and Blooms
A Daily Intention to Pay Attention These days, chaos is proving to be the norm. I am learning to cultivate peace despite the chaos, or more accuratlely, to protect moments of peace for myself. I…
London Trivia: Festival spirit
Weekly nuggets of triviality posted every Sunday each with a short essay relating to the day in question along with 10 other pieces of useless information, read weekly or dip in and out
3 May 2026: smart heating, Apple’s new CEO, handheld C64 and ZX Spectrum, Drop7 and Bacon in Zane
I want more control over my smart heating. Which might sound odd when you learn I’ve got a Tado system, which provides granular control of each individual room. But you only get one schedule. And…
Temporary Resurface (18,2026)
Add smthing here
That Was The Week That Was — 3rd May 2026
Monday morning saw us head to Düsseldorf for Beyond Tellerrand, celebrating its fifteenth anniversary, for which I’d created all the graphic design. What makes this conference feel unlike any other…
Change Is Not Persuasion: These 3 Key Elements Are What Every Transformation Strategy Needs
In the final analysis, most would-be changemakers fail because they assume the righteousness of their cause will save them. It will not. Injustice, inequity and ineffectiveness can thrive for decades…
Lazy Reading for 2026/05/03
Several of these links were discovered via bubbles.town, including a min e-ink hardware trend you’ll notice below. The Utah teapot in tandem with the recent Unix V4 tape discovery. (via)…
Espresso Shots 5-3-26
Entertainment-pervading politics to Pixar's three-pitch rule, AI's Jevons Paradox, Game Theory's Prisoner's Dilemma, and swapping doomscrolling for comic books
[Journal] April 2025
(Now with the proper link!) University started for me again, which is kinda stressful... But also another proxy haul arrived, and Yunyun happened!
Saying No
I've been ill this past week, which has given me plenty of opportunity to lie down and stare at the ceiling. My prime time for overthinking. I find it hard to rest and it got me thinking about how…
26W18. The surprising Shokz OpenDots One
A few months into my new role, the biggest change has nothing to do with the job itself. It’s that i can’t listen to music while working. Even though most of my team works remotely, i work a few days…
2026 W18: Sleepy, drizzly
§ It is Sunday already? This week flew by in a sleepy, drizzly haze. My paternity leave is more than halfway over which makes me feel a bit panicky when I think too hard about it. I haven’t checked…
Sunday Asides #93
Sunday Asides #93 I’m really disappointed that the Voting Rights Act has been gutted thanks to those old fucktards in the Supreme Court. I put up a video by Jamelle Bouie a couple of days ago where…
Weekly Notes 18/2026
Week 18 summary - final boss conquered.
Delegating Complex Tasks
I might want to give this exponential training thing a whirl at some point. Something more immersive and hands-on, that avoids the micromanaging trap. via Stay Saasy The post Delegating Complex Tasks…
NPM Ruins My Saturday
The other day, someone from the bio analytics team at my work asked us if we, the IT team, ever talk about “non IT topics” at work, like what we did over the weekend. Well, here’s…
Rift · For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day. In 2026, the music is out of phase with the work.
Someone on the Phish Facebook group reposted a TikTok overdub. Vanessa Bayer and Paul Rudd at a lunch table, losing their minds to a song while their coworkers stare. The original was Fleetwood Mac.…
My Australian Driving Test Experience
After 20 years behind the wheel, securing my NSW licence became a whirlwind journey of unlearning old habits, surviving a grumpy examiner, and finally conquering the infamous "Roundabout of Doom."
Week Note Nº 18/2026
Personal notes for week 18 of 2026
Creative Progress Report - feelings (April 2026)
For once, I am working on something.
april 26 - may 03
2026/05/03: new weekly akira + new log entry
✤, do a loving act
i've started a new job a bit less than a month ago and already i have been times and times again reminded that kindness is often a choice people are not willing to make. after quitting the job i had…
The Future Org
Teams getting bigger, organisations getting smaller. What that asks of engineers and leaders.
Wk 18-26 – Weekly Note
Notes, thoughts and highlights from Week 18, 2026. The post Wk 18-26 – Weekly Note appeared first on aboutSG.
56 Hours
WIP. Coming Soon. The post 56 Hours appeared first on aboutSG.
Echo Base Dispatch #004 – Step Backs Aren’t Setbacks
This is a video series from my studio overlooking Lake Michigan. It’s where I slow down, listen, and make art that brings light into the world. This is Echo Base Dispatch—a brief transmission…
Status update, February - April 2026
Due to health reasons I did not have the energy to write individual status updates for February & March, so I’ll just combine them with the April update: In February I cleaned out my GitHub…
LitLinks
  by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig LitLinks are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 70,000 free…
Weekly Bookmarks
These are some things I’ve wandered across on the web this week. 🔖 Soundcamp / Reveil 2026 is the 40th year since the ecology park was set up on abandoned dockland. A free programme of walks, talks…
Show notes #1,257
Hello wonderful people inside of the internet and welcome to the end of another week on planet earth! This week i have been making some updates to my Fours page, with some fancy new graphics. I still…
Today's Living Without Oil-based Products (3/5/2026)
I tried to live for 24 hours without using oil-based products. It was ridiculously impossible Petrochemicals are the cheap, ubiquitous feedstocks for so much we consume: the raw materials for our…
Odds and Ends
Professional expertise on the psychology of the gambling addict had not kept Adam safe from becoming one...